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Originally Posted by drofgnal
I'm with you on this. I worked in a grocery store when I was in high school and early college, bag boy, produce department, general stock boy. I'm very picky about those items as well. Plus my household is just my wife and I, so when I shop, I'm checking dates on things like break, milk, eggs, etc as I want to get dates that I know will last the time it takes us to use them. I don't want somebody grabbing items for me that are set to expire tomorrow. I'd be real leery particularly with Walmart delivery. I shop there for basic items and I've noticed the bin at checkout will have items in it that are refrigerated that aren't being put back right in stock right away. The items will sit there for hours. I bought salmon once from them, that was rancid. No thanks, I'll pick my own items.
Plus since the start of working at home, which is permanent for me now, I like another reason to just get out of the house! I can get about 4000 steps walking though a Walmart superstore, then another 1-2000 through the grocery store for about 5-6k total for the trip.
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Wal Mart is only good for pantry items. I do not buy fresh meat, vegetables or bakery from them. I once talked to a sales rep for a national company that provided vegetables to grocery stores. He told me that most grocery stores buy grade 2 while Wall World bought grade 6. Their meat is case ready not processed on site. Case ready meat can have oxygen, carbon dioxide and/or carbon monoxide in the packages. This keeps the meat red even if it is spoiled. No thank you. I prefer to buy from a store that uses an onsite butcher. I even prefer to grind my own hamburger so I can pick the cuts I want to use. Americas Test Kitchen bought ground beef from different stores and sent it to a lab for testing. DNA testing found that a package of ground beef can have beef from as many as 400 different steers.
Apache