I was inspired by Laura D to go check out Reams for grocery shopping. So today I headed over there for my weekly Monday afternoon grocery shopping trip instead of the super wally world, which I have grocery shopped at for years. So the general consensus was that that most of their food is a little more expensive then wal-mart, and their non-food items are quite a bit more expensive, don't even think about buying diapers there, 7.99 for 20 size 6 diapers, no thanx. BUT their produce department totally makes up for it, yes I was in fruit and veggie heaven. They have great produce and its very inexpensive, much cheaper then walmart. Here are some items I bought today and the prices
Large Avocados: $.69 each
All variety of apples: $.69 per pound
Blackberry's & Blueberry's: 2 for $3 (the small cartons)
Green bell peppers: 3 for a buck
and my personal favorite
2 lb bags of carrots for $.89 (that's cheaper then the bulk carrots at costco that I get for my juicing)
So the savings in the produce department definitely made up for the bit of extra money paid for non-produce items, so it evens out. But reams won me over for the following other reasons:
-The person at the checkout stand actually asked me how I was doing and was very friendly, weird I know.
-I didn't wait in line for a zillion years at the checkout stand
-I didn't have to walk a mile to and from my car
-If I forget something I don't have to walk a mile to the other side of the store
-I am supporting a local business instead of a huge cooperation
-Their meat and produce is higher quality and tastes better
-I felt like I was in Mayberry mingling amongest the county folk
-The people that work their actually are knowledgeable about their products and can answer your questions
Side story on this: I was at wal-mart a couple months ago to buy a car seat. I had some questions about some of the car seats ie... safety ratings, benefits of this one versus that one etc... so I started asking the girl working in the baby department, she cuts me off mid sentence and blurts out "I don't know anything" that's it, who says that? ok I said is the manager available to talk to, yes she said. So the manager comes out and I proceed to ask her my questions, she couldn't answer anything for me, the baby department manager knew nothing about any of the car seats.
I've been sucked in by wal-mart in the past due to its low prices and the fact that they have almost everything, but now that I know I can get out of Reams for the same price and have a much better experience, I will be going there from now on.
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I agree on the Wally World comments. I did find it amusing that you even thought that a Wal-Mart employee would know anything about anything. They don't keep their prices low by hiring intelligent people and paying them more than minimum wage. I think we will have to try the Reams now too (you had me at avocado).
lol.... I know I was thinking it would be a long shot for this girl to know anything but I thought I'd take the chance, just maby, but no
Those produce prices our outrageous. I'm jealous. I forget how much cheaper food is in Utah.
John and I used to live real close to Reams in Springville so we were frequent customers. We still went to Walmart for many items though.
In Minnesota, all Walmarts are ghetto. Seriously. We don't shop there. Target is my new found love! It's like Mormon churches in Utah, there's one on every corner.
Yaaay! I'm so glad you liked it! I know, I often find myself in produce heaven over there as well! I need to go pick up more blueberries...
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