a lot can be said about Walmart it's a
huge chain it has everything under one
roof and prices are not that high
compared to other stores but a lot can
be said against it as well rather than
joining the chorus of voices exposing
everything that's wrong with Walmart
we'll focus instead on food why food
because unlike any other cheap or
defective product you might buy their
food has the added disadvantage of
causing possible health problems so here
are 10 foods you should never buy at
Walmart if they think I'm paying $4 an
apple for a honey crisps they're out of
their minds coffee all this stuff coffee
maybe it isn't coffee at all almost on a
daily basis prices of goods tend to
change you'll definitely notice this if
you follow their ads in the printed
media and online but while the grocery
stores like Walmart will advertise the
slashed prices and discounts the other
items that get a temporary spike remain
hidden like a nasty surprise
in fact most likely you won't even know
you paid extra for the eggs because all
you're thinking about is how you got the
milk cheap and that's how the chain can
afford to cut prices while still making
a profit the few cents that come off one
item gets added to another item what has
this got to do with coffee you ask well
coffee in Walmart is one of those
consumer products that the retailer
seems to treat as a luxury item big
brands of coffee like Folgers almost
always sell for higher prices than in
other chains what if we told you that we
secretly replaced your coffee with
Folgers crystals so it seems it's the
store policy to always pile up the cents
and sometimes bucks on branded coffee
while they cut prices on overripe
bananas and fresh produce which is way
beyond its fresh days the bottom line is
that it pays to know your prices what's
the point in saving money on one item
only to pay more for another so if they
can get you in the store thinking you're
getting a deal on a few items chances
are you're buying the rest of the items
on your shopping list at the same time
baking ingredients holy
welcome to fjords backery Walmart like
many other stores likes to sell various
items under its own brand they're
usually cheaper than big brands and with
that price comes a downgrade in quality
because something has to give
now the problem here is that the store
puts itself in competition with all the
other more famous brands it puts on its
own shelves and how to convince the
customer to buy the Walmart branded
flour or sugar and not that other more
popular one you pile up the cents and
bucks on the price tag of that branded
product this is why you should avoid the
baking aisle at Walmart all the branded
baking ingredients like sugar flour salt
and even baking powder are more
expensive than in other grocery stores
but what if you're already in Walmart
and you need ingredients to bake that
pie or make that cake well your best
option is to buy the store branded
products and to buy them in bulk that
way you can really save some serious
money maybe that's their plan to get
consumers to buy the Walmart brand
instead of the name brands can I try
these on before I buy them peanut butter
peanut butter fingers for the ones who
find it delicious and can't possibly
think of their life without it peanut
butter is a staple of every pantry so
why shouldn't you buy it from Walmart it
has less to do with the quality as the
price tag branded peanut butter is good
everywhere but some retailers sell it at
higher prices than others this applies
to Walmart's way the store that managed
to stay in business when Walmart opened
down on the highway for some reason
Walmart considers peanut butter one of
those luxury consumer products that
should be sold at a higher markup maybe
it's because of its popularity when
consumers like a product and clamor over
it this is a good sign for the retailer
to add a few cents to the price tag
still customers buy it then the price
goes up a little more it's not a big
price hike that you as a customer would
notice but it still adds up when looking
at your grocery bill even chains known
for their higher prices like Target sell
peanut butter for less so to save
yourself a bit of cash
every week take peanut butter off your
grocery list when you head to Walmart
again knowing your prices makes all the
difference when deciding what's a good
deal and what's not it's a pretty damn
good deal broth makes soup stew is a
favorite dish for many it doesn't
typically trigger allergic reactions
like peanut butter and is a tasty staple
dish no matter the season or weather
conditions soup is another all whether
or all-season food if it's snowing
outside a hot bowl of broth will warm
your core and get you all cozy when it's
too hot and you don't feel like eating
but still have to a small bowl of stew
will set you right many soup and stew
recipes have one thing in common and
that's broth so what's wrong with
Walmart broth lack of options is one
good reason to look elsewhere you don't
get organic varieties vegan options or
different flavors this limited list
doesn't inspire much of an appetite to
use broth as much as you should you
can't have tomato soup all the time poor
guy it looks like a bowl of tomato soup
or feast on mushroom chicken broth every
time you crave a bowl of the stuff other
grocery chains offer a wide variety of
options when it comes to broth stocks
this is especially true of the branded
broth slight Kroger in addition walmart
sells it at higher prices it's not clear
why maybe it's the price you have to pay
to shop at a popular retail chain maybe
it's one of those items that offset some
of the other low prices but is it really
worth it do you take Visa Visa hasn't
existed for 500 years maple syrup you
one sample small-batch Amazonian maple
syrup don't immediately jump in and say
that maple syrup is inherently expensive
and that you don't care about the price
you just love the stuff so much you
would pay any asking price for it and
it's true real maple syrup seems as
expensive as gold sometimes the good
stuff can turn a bland and tasteless
pancake into a real meal that melts in
your mouth
and ignites fireworks in your brain
so why wouldn't you give out your
firstborn for a bottle of original maple
syrup from Walmart well for one thing
the prices in cash dollars and customers
babies are not a recognized currency at
Walmart or anywhere else secondly not
only does Walmart sell maple syrup at a
high markup but some have complained
that the stuff doesn't taste as good as
what the competitors are selling this
claim would be fairly easy to verify
yourself so the next time you need to
buy a bottle of maple syrup head over to
Costco the maple syrup not only sells at
almost half the price it also tastes
better now you can explore other chains
and find out which one has the best
maple syrup it's a well worth it quest
extra sweet and tasty but well worth it
indeed it worth it great value pizza
dear Pizza time Pizza is not the
healthiest of foods we know it's
delicious and you can't get enough of it
but it is still an unhealthy food choice
but if pizza is unhealthy wait till you
hear about Walmart's
great value Pizza debt it's a concoction
made in the deepest dungeons of the
grocery chain and being part of a
healthy diet is the least of its
concerns even a small slice of the thing
has more calories than you'd want to
consume sure moral imperative to eat and
enjoy a few tests well one slice of
pizza dia has one thousand seven hundred
and seventy milligrams of sodium that's
more than 70% of the recommended daily
intake of sodium and that's just for one
slice by the time you finish gobbling up
the whole package your heart may be
about to explode while your vital organs
are on CodeRed and we still haven't
talked about the calorie count yet one
slice will pump three hundred and eighty
calories into your system and we know
what you're thinking the thing only
costs seven dollars it's cheap and
combines two of your favorite foods
Pizza and quesadillas it also comes in
various flavors Mexican carne asada or
chicken enchilada so why should you say
no to this cheap deliciousness well just
remember those crazy sodium and calories
and ask yourself if it's worth
sacrificing your health for no that's
not what we ordered we ordered a
fat-free crust with extra cheese low
cost pork you want the perfect pork you
got to get yourself a slow cooker now
here's something that sells for less at
Walmart than in other stores we're
talking about low cost pork when you as
a customer pay less for a product this
means someone else needs to shoulder
that loss it can be the store in the
price juggling game we already talked
about or it could be someone else but in
the case of low cost pork it is always
low cost I have to make sure the bacon
is worth taken that means prices don't
change there it is always cheap no
matter the day of the week or the time
of the day and it can't be that Walmart
is selling at a loss here well it turns
out that the farmers are the ones who
have to carry the burden of this price
cut since Walmart is the retail giant it
is with control over a huge chunk of the
market it can lay its own terms on the
pork producers not only does Walmart set
the prices it buys the pork at but it
also sets the quantity now you might say
why don't those farmers sell to someone
else the thing is there's no one else
willing to buy the same quantities
Walmart buys so as a farmer you either
sell to Walmart or you don't sell it all
and since Walmart wants to keep the
customers happy with low cost pork the
farmers end up footing that bill you'll
never look at pork the same way again
seafood well everything you get that
become a seafood
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seafood is less healthy than it used to
be blame it on ocean pollution and the
dumping of industrial wastes and the
oceans of particular interest is the
high level of mercury in fish and other
types of seafood even fish oil isn't
safe anymore this applies to farmed fish
as well only fell in the finest farm
raised salmon in the county that's all
wild salmon is considered healthier than
salmon grown in farms Walmart has always
had a problem with its fresh produce and
meat sections they're understaffed and
the quality of the products are not
always up to snuff now to be fair
Walmart has done a great deal to improve
the quality of the products and the
prices but the
still more that needs to be done to
bring the chain up to the same level as
the competition it seems the fish that
sells at Walmart has higher
concentrations of mercury than at other
chains it might have to do with the
seafood suppliers and the chain
contracts but whatever the reason you
should shop for seafood somewhere else
until Walmart addresses this crucial
problem houston we have a problem
ground beef what's the beef here exactly
when it comes to food cheap is something
you should probably avoid at all costs
the real problem here is that the
Walmart ground beef isn't really that
cheap the beef you get at Walmart is not
of the best quality if you care about
your health and what you put in your
body you'd want to steer clear from
ground beef with added hormones
antibiotics and other animal by-products
you know a buy the finest cuts of beef
needless to say the cattle that provide
the meat weren't raised in the
healthiest of conditions and since
ground beef is just small bits of beef
there's no guarantee that you won't find
high concentrations of fat and soft
tissues in the ground beef so you might
think you're getting a good deal here
but in actuality you're not that's a
better deal than Sinatra cuts vitamins
it's the only way I can get him to take
his vitamins vitamins are of dubious
benefit ask any health expert and most
would confirm this statement rather than
having a vitamin pill you do yourself
and your health a whole lot more by
increasing your intake of vegetables and
fruits fresh veggies and fruit are
generally less expensive than a bottle
of packaged vitamin capsules that
doesn't mean that bottled vitamins are
totally useless
sometimes you need certain vitamins that
you can't get naturally from food so
what's wrong with vitamins in Walmart my
vitamins the point is avoid these
vitamins and supplements and turn your
shopping cart to the fresh produce
section for a healthy dose of fruits and
veggies you don't think vegetables can
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