TIL Walmart stores will no longer be price matching as of Oct 15, 2020 (includes website and grocery)
walmart.ca/en/help/products#pricingPosted Oct 15, 2020, 6:03 PM UTC
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Your app is great. Is there a way to sort your shopping list by merchant though? This would be super useful. For now I have to write it out I guess.
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Thanks, I'm glad you like it. If you sort your shopping list by distance it should sort by store.
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I will ! Thanks so much.
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All the more reason not to support this scumbag company! Please consider not shopping there ever again, any alternative is better.
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All the alternatives are already out of business. Sorry, you're a decade late. Zellers, Sears, target? All gone. Walmart won the war.
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Giant Tiger lol
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I've been to 2 Giant Tigers in Ottawa. The one in the market is a dingy basement of homeless people, and the one on Wellington feels like you might fall through the floor at any moment. I love them both.
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Nothing like that in the burb locations
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There's not a thing that Wal-mart sells that's not covered by Canadian Tire and Loblaws, which are both Canadian companies. And then there's Costco, which, although not Canadian, at least pays its employees a living wage...
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Got to the cashier with about $20 worth of ad matches only to find out yesterday was the last day for Ad Match.
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Yes. It’s rather disappointing. Walmart says that fewer people are price matching and they have lineup delays when it does happen
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they have lineup delays when it does happen
Price matches always struck me as more of a "customer service desk" sorta thing, for just that reason
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Second only to lotto. "Ding-da-ding, da-ding-da-ding-da, Winner - Gagnon" is the sound of being late for dinner.
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And the person ahead of you has week's worth of tickets to check.
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Absolutely agree with this. The waste of time for everyone else in the regularly lineup is incredible.
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And it's always the other customer who gets shit for it, which I... well okay I kinda get it, but it's still not fair. Like you're entitled to it, by all means dude claim it, sucks that the store's making you wait so long, sucks more that I have to also wait for that, but that isn't really your fault, you know?
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I've never met anyone who does this, so I can understand where Walmart is coming from on this.
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Show an app on your phone where you’ve already tagged the item. I wouldn’t do it for my whole bill, but 1 or 2 items, sure.
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Fuck walmart
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nods
Fair enough.
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Was just at Kanata Walmart. 100% self checkout. Admittedly i don't know if there used to be a process for price matching at self checkouts but I assume it would be difficult if there are no cashiers.
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When you are finished scanning your items at Self Checkout there is an option to Ad Match in the lower left hand corner to "Price match or Use coupon". This activates the siren above your checkout and an employee will help you out eventually.
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siren above your checkout
I don't think it's quite that dramatic, but I know exactly what you mean
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They have at least one person watching the self checkouts at all time to help people or if things need manual entry. You would just use the machine and flashes to let them know you need help and they would come check the ad and update the price. Same thing if you had a coupon.
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I've been stuck behind price match phone warriors. And I'm glad to hear this.
I don't mind the whole proce match concept, if people were organized and had items bookmarked, in order and match items set aside and ready sure, go to town.
But it's a shitshow waiting behind Shmoe McPennyPincher flipping through their phone going 'wait wait' like they're pulling up vacation photos from their exes Instagram.
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This is balls.
I get a lot of folks hate Walmart. I do too. And I get a lot of you are very busy and have places to be, and being behind a price matcher can be painful.
But I had some financial issues a year ago and price match at Walmart let me save on average $20 a grocery run if not more, shopping for just my partner and I. Walmart was by far the most lenient price matcher and that’s huge for folks who can’t afford to either eat the price difference, or drive around for deals.
This is a huge blow to folks who can’t afford to shop at Farm Boy or Loblaws.
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Luckily The Real Canadian Superstore still prices matches. Not to as many stores ,but with price matching and PC points I am quite happy.
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My app can help you save money on groceries in Ottawa. We compare prices and calculate which store your entire shopping list is cheapest at. We even split your list amongst your favourite stores so you can save the most whether in person or online. It's super easy and fast so it will save you time as well as money.
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have you stood behind someone who loved price matching everything? this is the best thing ever.
self-checkout makes it less of an issue, but the rare times i go into walmart, there's always someone holding up the line about something.
Or you just use FLIP and put the items you wish to price match in the back giving you time to make the changes.
I save an average of 40 dollars each grocery run.
i mean you could, but not everyone does.
Well, they could.
this is more about the people wanting to do the price matching not organizing their items correctly in their cart or on the belt.
Better than when it was coupons.
"Wait, it's in my purse!"
proceeds to rifle through purse for what feels like eternity, finds coupon and hands it to me.
"Ma'am, this coupon expired in 1998."
Like yeah, of course I read the fine print, and no I am not taking your American coupons. And when you rip them out of the newspaper and take half the newspaper with the coupon, yes it's annoying.
I don't miss retail at all.