- I have the five things you should never buy at Walmart.
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Hi, I'm the YouTube deal guy
Matt Granite from mattsdailydeals.com
and these are five things you should absolutely
never buy at Walmart.
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The first thing I would not buy at Walmart
is gonna be very controversial for some of you.
Because it's something we all buy from Walmart,
and keep in mind, Walmart does have great products
and great deals, I'm not trying to slam them in any way.
It's just one thing, that you shouldn't buy from Walmart,
and that is a television, what?
All right, bear with me for a moment.
I can already imagine a lot of you
stirring in your seat over this one.
Walmart has phenomenal television pricing,
but a lot of the advertising tied to it
is somewhat unintentionally misleading,
and they don't have price match guarantees
on a lot of the television products.
So let's start first with this Samsung 75" TV.
Let's look at the model number
so we're comparing apples to apples.
Walmart very carefully includes
a list price of 15 hundred dollars
and a reduction down to $847.99.
This TV has never sold
for 15 hundred dollars ever!
If you were to go onto this page right now,
you'd be very excited that you're saving
so much money from Walmart,
which is not actually the case.
Let's take the exact same model number
and look at Best Buy.
Again, same model number,
just to show you, apples to apples.
The same television,
which is two dollars more from Best Buy,
has a price match guarantee.
So first things first,
you're going to get the Walmart price,
you just need to simply present that to them.
Second, Best Buy is including
a free Google Nest Mini 2nd Generation,
which is a $49 dollar value.
And Apple Music free for four months,
if you do wanna use that and you're a new subscriber.
Just on the Google Nest Mini alone,
you're getting a huge benefit,
but you're also protected by the price match guarantee
and you also note that
with the list price they give of $899,
you're really only saving $50 bucks on this television,
which is the current price which Walmart has not updated.
They also advertise this as a limited time offer,
this TV has been on sale at this price
since two weeks after Black Friday.
Now, with that being said,
on Black Friday and Cyber Monday,
there are great television deals,
and great laptops and unprecedented deals tied to Walmart,
which are restricted to those times of the year.
But for everyday purchases,
that's one of the five things I would not buy.
Next product, batteries.
Let's go to the battery section.
I should mention, if you belong to a warehouse club,
you're always going to get a better deal
on batteries from some place like Costco,
even Sams Club, Walmart's parent company.
If you look at the battery deal
that Walmart has for the Duracell double A batteries
with a guaranteed 10 years of life in the 16 pack,
you're paying 80 cents per battery,
$12.78 will get you 16 batteries.
But for roughly a dollar more,
if you use the subscribe and save from Amazon,
you're getting 24 batteries for $13.10
at 55 cents per battery.
Even if you revert to the one time purchase
at Amazon where you're paying $15.41
you're paying 64 cents per battery and not 80 cents.
Now some of you could say,
well this isn't a fair comparison,
what would the 16 pack have been on Amazon?
But they don't sell it right now,
just as Walmart doesn't sell the 24 pack.
My point being, you can actually get
more bang for your buck
assuming you're going to use more batteries,
in fact, if you were just simply
going to go for the most bang for your buck,
stores that have their own in house quality brands,
in the case of this AmazonBasics,
you can get batteries for as low as 45 cents
if you do use their brand
or 38 cents if you do use
subscribe and save for a battery.
Again, not saying AmazonBasics is as good as Duracell
and in my findings Duracell and Energizer really are tops.
But hey, this is something to keep in mind.
When you are comparing at unit cost,
Walmart, Target, Amazon, all sell different quantities
or products deliberately so you can't price compare,
that's how they compete.
But, with that being said,
when you are looking at that per unit price,
you're gonna find certain stores have a much lower price,
even if the quantity is different
and that's something to keep in mind.
Obviously you don't need
two thousand batteries at three cents each,
but when you are comparing something like 16 batteries
to 24 it's not as much of a stretch.
I also wanna remind you
that just because a lot of people
are buying something from a specific store,
doesn't make it the best purchase ever.
Which brings me to the 3rd product
of the top five things I would not buy at Walmart.
And groceries, Walmart is easily
the most aggressive grocery seller in the entire country.
And on top of that more people
buy groceries at Walmart than any other retailer.
But that doesn't actually mean it's a good purchase.
If you actually look at
the consumer satisfaction surveys and indexes,
Walmart usually places last.
In fact, if you look at this recent review
from Kiplinger just as an example.
Trader Joe's and ALDI's actually
brought in lower prices than Walmart on organic foods,
if you didn't know that Walmart
sold organic foods, they do,
but that doesn't actually mean
they are the best place to go
just because the price is lowest.
In my findings and you guys can leave me a comment,
the produce at Walmart,
while it is unbelievably well priced,
isn't always the freshest, isn't always the best,
and you can actually do better from different services.
And I've done full reviews of the meal boxes
and the comparison systems,
if you do subscribe to my channel.
That's the type of content
I'll continue to present you with.
Number four (bottles swooshing)
on my list,
doesn't my head look even more enlarged and annoying
(bottles swooshing)
when I do that?
Of the top things I would not buy at Walmart, vitamins.
And I know so many of you purchase vitamins
from big box stores including Walmart
and this is a really interesting study.
I want you to look at your screen right now
because if you are picking up store-brand supplements,
this is a study I didn't do but this is very interesting.
An investigation by the New York Attorney General's Office,
found that many of the store-brand herbal supplements
sold at Walmart as well as Target, Wallgreen's and GNC,
didn't contain any DNA from the plants listed on the label.
Walmart was the worst offender of the bunch,
with only 4% of the products testing positive
for the labeled ingredients, what?
Yeah, oh my goodness, that's just a waste a money.
That's like taking one of these and going bam.
Or just filling the bottle with air
and popping placebos, no difference.
So keep that in mind when you are buying
store-brand supplements and specific vitamins,
if they do carry a larger brand of course,
there may be a bit more merit in that.
Again, I'm not making any medical claims,
but that was an interesting study that I did not conduct.
And number five is an item
where if you've ever purchased furniture from Walmart,
you've likely seen that.
All right, now that's not to say
that every piece of furniture from Walmart is a no go,
but as whole, especially if you are shopping in the store,
a lot of those pieces of furniture
that are backed from all different companies,
that don't necessarily have
the quality of the larger brands,
lets face it, Walmart is not designed as a furniture store.
Per product and per price, if you actually do your research
and take into account quality and warranty,
you're going to do better at stores like Wayfair,
where there's constantly a sale
running tied to furniture, overstock,
even Ashley's furniture, Value City Furniture,
many of those brands compete directly with Walmart pricing.
But there is a substantial higher level of quality
tied to each product purchased.
And if you do happen to shop
for products tied to furniture on Amazon,
again, Amazon's a marketplace, just like Walmart,
I wouldn't go and buy every piece
of furniture from Walmart either,
but there are brands like Safavieh,
which is a very well priced brand,
I believe they're somewhere out of New York State
and they do a very good job with their furniture
at competitive pricing.
Again, buy from a brand, not from a store,
when it comes to furniture in most cases,
unless of course the store is Ashley's
or one of those other retailers.
Now I'd love to hear from you guys.
One of the ways that I get better at my job
is your insight and your comments.
If there's something that you think
is a great purchase at Walmart, lemme know.
In fact, if there's something where you don't agree with me,
'cause I'm sure many people
aren't going to agree with me on the TV's,
even though I quoted that price match guarantee,
I'd love to hear from you.
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is an absolute everyday of the year,
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