Since there is so much meat and produce involved in preparing for Thanksgiving, I have some suggestions to make it as painless and quick as possible to get all your deals in one spot at Walmart.
For your produce and meat do this:
- Grab all your store ads
- Make a list of what you need to buy ( celery, sweet potatoes, onions etc.)
- Lay all the ads out in front of you
- Compare prices at each store. I just looked at my ads today and all 3 major stores in my area have pretty much the same produce and meat listed. But I can see right away who has the cheapest sweet potatoes/yams (for example)… if you are in Houston, it looks like Randalls.
- Now, make your price match list.
It might look like this:
This doubles as both my shopping list and my price match list. Now I just go shopping, grab everything I need in one place and get the lowest price.When I get to the checkout, I first put all my non-price match items on first. Those get checked out and bagged. Then when I get to the price match items, I pull my list out so I can remember the prices. As the cashier is about to ring it up I just simply say, ” I would like to price match those sweet potatoes to Randalls for 6lbs for $1, or $.17 a pound.” Then the next item I say, ” I want to price match that to Kroger for $3.99 each” and so on. It is really easy!
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This is the way I go about it too Paul, except, I do my price matches FIRST as there is no way I would ever remember at the end as things are being bagged! I keep all my “price match items” in the front of the cart and when I get to the register I put them up first and say to the cashier, “I have all my price match items up first.” I consult my list as we go and while I carry the ads with me, according to WalMart policy, you are not required to show them the ad price. When all those items are done I say “Thank you so much for helping with that!” and they always say no problem!
I always wondered how to do the produce since its a certain amount per pound. Can they automatically change the price per pound at the register or do you have to weigh the produce and figure out how much it would come out to?