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re: TulaneLSU's guide to purchasing at Sam's Club versus Walmart
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:32 pm to TulaneLSU
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:32 pm to TulaneLSU
BANANAS
Sam’s: 3 lbs Chaquita bananas for $1.41, or 2.94 cents per ounce
Walmart: 1 lb Chaquita bananas for 58 cents, or 3.63 cents per ounce
Verdict: Toss-up
If you have never read Rich Cohen’s The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King, you will never understand New Orleans. It is an expertly told tale of the central role New Orleans played in taming the jungles of Central America and transforming America from an apple nation into a banana republic. How are bananas grown across an sea and then sold here for less than three cents per ounce? Read the story. I say bananas are a toss-up because whenever I buy bananas in bulk from Sam’s at least a few of them over-ripen before I finish them.
STRAWBERRIES
Sam’s: 32 oz strawberries for $3.98, or 12.44 cents per ounce
Walmart: 16 oz strawberries for $2.24, or 14 cents per ounce
Verdict: Sam’s
Today, Sam’s wins. However, in the past, I have often gotten strawberries cheaper per ounce at Walmart. I have also found that Sam’s gets a higher quality fruit product than Walmart. This trend goes for strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. I find raspberries, quality wise, to be a wash. On the whole, Sam’s has excellent fruit.
CHERUB TOMATOES
Sam’s: 32 oz cherub tomatoes for $4.98, or 15.56 cents per ounce
Walmart: 10 oz cherub tomatoes for $2.98, or 29.8 cents per ounce
Verdict: Sam’s
The mozzarella was 87% cheaper at Sam’s, but the second place winner for today’s largest discount is Sam’s with an astounding 91.5% cheaper cherub tomato package. While these tomatoes make decent snacking food, I like throwing a full two pound package into a backing plate while adding a light cheese like feta or fresh mozzarella, spices, olive oil and pasta. I mix them and then set in a 350 oven for 45 minutes. It makes for a very nice baked dish similar to baked ziti.
CAULIFLOWER
Sam’s: $3.74 for a cauliflower head
Walmart: $3.24 for a cauliflower head
Verdict: Sam’s
Another head scratcher if you are just looking at price, which is what most people do, if they look at all. But the cauliflower underscores the absolute importance of something I have been telling you, my dear friends, for years. If you are going shopping for anything, whether it is groceries or pizzas or jewelry or mulch, you must, you absolutely must carry a scale with you. Scales even the field between purchaser and buyer. In today’s world, where corporations are not held to the same laws as individuals, and big companies can blatantly steal from individuals, we must protect ourselves. There is no greater defense to injustice in today’s world than carrying a Bible, a Book of Common Prayer, and a scale.
Take today’s cauliflower.
Sam’s cauliflower weighed 60.6 ounces, or 6.17 cents per ounce.
Walmart’s cauliflower weighed 24.64 ounces, or 13.15 cents per ounce.
Yes, Walmart’s cauliflower ends up costing 113% more than Sam’s. But you would not know that without weighing them. And it is clear Sam’s nor Walmart expects you to be a scale warrior. Sam’s does not even offer scales and Walmart keeps its cauliflower far from its scales, likely hoping you do not weigh it since its weight will not affect its price, as it is packaged with a base, non-weight dependant price.
ARTICHOKE HEARTS
Sam’s: 33.5 oz Members Mark artichoke hearts for $7.34, or 21.91 cents per ounce
Walmart: 13.75 oz Great Value artichoke heart quarters for $2.42, or 17.6 cents per ounce
Walmart: 12 oz Vigo marinated artichoke heart quarters for $2.62, 26.2 cents per ounce
Verdict: Walmart
Although the Sam’s product is bottled rather than canned, and you get whole hearts rather than quarters, I do not find an appreciable difference between the taste or function of either. Thus, Walmart, which sells a smaller package at a lower cost per ounce, is the winner. Keep in mind, these are wet weights, which includes the liquid, which, like people who do not remain with Jesus (St. John 15:6), is thrown away.
AVOCADOS
Sam’s: Five avocados for $3.93, or 78.6 cents per avocado
Walmart: 68 cents per avocado
Verdict: Walmart
Avocados are a difficulty product to buy, especially in bulk. I find that individual avocados are preferable. Walmart makes this one an easy decision because not only can you buy them individually, they are also cheaper. As for weights randomly, one Walmart avocado was 8.2 ounces (12.1 cents per ounce). One Sam’s avocado was 9.3 ounces (11.8 cents per ounce). It is worth the extra 0.3 cents per ounce to buy avocados individually.
ROMAINE LETTUCE
Sam’s: Six Romaine lettuce hearts for $3.98, or 66.3 cents per head
Walmart: Three Romaine lettuce hearts for $3.44, or $1.15 per head
Verdict: Sam’s
Walmart nearly went undefeated in the vegetable department against Sam’s, but Sam’s is saved from the shutout by the Romaine. Sam’s is deserving of compliments here, as the Romaine package is listed as 32 oz. My trusty scale, however, showed a total weight of 43 ounces! Sam’s produce department needs to teach Sam’s seafood how to weigh products.
Sam’s: 3 lbs Chaquita bananas for $1.41, or 2.94 cents per ounce
Walmart: 1 lb Chaquita bananas for 58 cents, or 3.63 cents per ounce
Verdict: Toss-up
If you have never read Rich Cohen’s The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King, you will never understand New Orleans. It is an expertly told tale of the central role New Orleans played in taming the jungles of Central America and transforming America from an apple nation into a banana republic. How are bananas grown across an sea and then sold here for less than three cents per ounce? Read the story. I say bananas are a toss-up because whenever I buy bananas in bulk from Sam’s at least a few of them over-ripen before I finish them.
STRAWBERRIES
Sam’s: 32 oz strawberries for $3.98, or 12.44 cents per ounce
Walmart: 16 oz strawberries for $2.24, or 14 cents per ounce
Verdict: Sam’s
Today, Sam’s wins. However, in the past, I have often gotten strawberries cheaper per ounce at Walmart. I have also found that Sam’s gets a higher quality fruit product than Walmart. This trend goes for strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. I find raspberries, quality wise, to be a wash. On the whole, Sam’s has excellent fruit.
CHERUB TOMATOES
Sam’s: 32 oz cherub tomatoes for $4.98, or 15.56 cents per ounce
Walmart: 10 oz cherub tomatoes for $2.98, or 29.8 cents per ounce
Verdict: Sam’s
The mozzarella was 87% cheaper at Sam’s, but the second place winner for today’s largest discount is Sam’s with an astounding 91.5% cheaper cherub tomato package. While these tomatoes make decent snacking food, I like throwing a full two pound package into a backing plate while adding a light cheese like feta or fresh mozzarella, spices, olive oil and pasta. I mix them and then set in a 350 oven for 45 minutes. It makes for a very nice baked dish similar to baked ziti.
CAULIFLOWER
Sam’s: $3.74 for a cauliflower head
Walmart: $3.24 for a cauliflower head
Verdict: Sam’s
Another head scratcher if you are just looking at price, which is what most people do, if they look at all. But the cauliflower underscores the absolute importance of something I have been telling you, my dear friends, for years. If you are going shopping for anything, whether it is groceries or pizzas or jewelry or mulch, you must, you absolutely must carry a scale with you. Scales even the field between purchaser and buyer. In today’s world, where corporations are not held to the same laws as individuals, and big companies can blatantly steal from individuals, we must protect ourselves. There is no greater defense to injustice in today’s world than carrying a Bible, a Book of Common Prayer, and a scale.
Take today’s cauliflower.
Sam’s cauliflower weighed 60.6 ounces, or 6.17 cents per ounce.
Walmart’s cauliflower weighed 24.64 ounces, or 13.15 cents per ounce.
Yes, Walmart’s cauliflower ends up costing 113% more than Sam’s. But you would not know that without weighing them. And it is clear Sam’s nor Walmart expects you to be a scale warrior. Sam’s does not even offer scales and Walmart keeps its cauliflower far from its scales, likely hoping you do not weigh it since its weight will not affect its price, as it is packaged with a base, non-weight dependant price.
ARTICHOKE HEARTS
Sam’s: 33.5 oz Members Mark artichoke hearts for $7.34, or 21.91 cents per ounce
Walmart: 13.75 oz Great Value artichoke heart quarters for $2.42, or 17.6 cents per ounce
Walmart: 12 oz Vigo marinated artichoke heart quarters for $2.62, 26.2 cents per ounce
Verdict: Walmart
Although the Sam’s product is bottled rather than canned, and you get whole hearts rather than quarters, I do not find an appreciable difference between the taste or function of either. Thus, Walmart, which sells a smaller package at a lower cost per ounce, is the winner. Keep in mind, these are wet weights, which includes the liquid, which, like people who do not remain with Jesus (St. John 15:6), is thrown away.
AVOCADOS
Sam’s: Five avocados for $3.93, or 78.6 cents per avocado
Walmart: 68 cents per avocado
Verdict: Walmart
Avocados are a difficulty product to buy, especially in bulk. I find that individual avocados are preferable. Walmart makes this one an easy decision because not only can you buy them individually, they are also cheaper. As for weights randomly, one Walmart avocado was 8.2 ounces (12.1 cents per ounce). One Sam’s avocado was 9.3 ounces (11.8 cents per ounce). It is worth the extra 0.3 cents per ounce to buy avocados individually.
ROMAINE LETTUCE
Sam’s: Six Romaine lettuce hearts for $3.98, or 66.3 cents per head
Walmart: Three Romaine lettuce hearts for $3.44, or $1.15 per head
Verdict: Sam’s
Walmart nearly went undefeated in the vegetable department against Sam’s, but Sam’s is saved from the shutout by the Romaine. Sam’s is deserving of compliments here, as the Romaine package is listed as 32 oz. My trusty scale, however, showed a total weight of 43 ounces! Sam’s produce department needs to teach Sam’s seafood how to weigh products.
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 2:53 pm
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Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:32 pm to TulaneLSU
SALSA
76 oz Pace chunky salsa for $7.32, or 9.63 cents per ounce
24 oz of Pace salsa for $3.48, or 14.5 cents per ounce
70 oz of Great Value picante salsa for $5.98, or 8.54 cents per ounce
Verdict: Walmart
I was happy to see that Woman, Infants, and Children are able to use WIC vouchers to get salsa. Mother always told me that salsa is healthy. While we were driving to Sam’s, NPR broadcast a story about the connection between dollar stores and food deserts. The rationale for limiting dollar stores in certain neighborhoods, at least one proponent argued, was that dollar stores kill local groceries and lead to bad health. Thus, it is government’s duty to step in and stop the dollar stores, as a matter of public health. If that is the role of government, to step in for public health, why do we not require food stamps to be used only for healthy foods, as we do WIC? Regardless of your beliefs about food stamps and WIC, I think we can all agree it is way past time to ban the sale of alcohol in America. It is the most destructive of all drugs. And Big Alcohol keeps forcing it down the public’s throat.
I prefer Walmart’s salsa because it is better than Pace and Walmart has a much greater selection of salsas. I counted 32 salsa choices, whereas Sam’s had two.
BREAST OF CHICKEN
Sam’s: One pound of Members Mark chicken breast for $2.68, or 16.75 cents per ounce
Walmart: One pound of nameless chicken breast for $2.97, or 18.56 cents per ounce
Walmart: One pound of Sanderson Farms chicken breast for $3.97, or 24.81 cents per ounce
Verdict: Neither
The chicken at Sam’s and Walmart is terrible. While you pay a low price, you will find the precooked weight is greatly inflated, as the chicken sold are pumped with fluids. I challenge anyone here to do a precook and postcook weight. Free range chicken is the way to go. It tastes better, it is not injected with fluid filler, and the chickens have at least a somewhat humane existence.
93/7 HAMBURGER MEAT
Sam’s: $4.78 per pound
Walmart: $6.64 per pound
Verdict: Sam’s
Sam’s beef is usually much better quality than Walmart. I think the hamburger meats are on par with each other, but Sam’s has both a better price per pound and better packaging, with convenient one to 1.25 pound packages. These come in quite handy. Just yesterday I found a package of Sam’s 93/7 meat from 2020 that was frozen solid in the back of the freezer. The vacuum seal protected it well from freezer burn, which I am not convinced the bigger, more thinly covered Walmart package would have.
Some people love fatty burgers, even as fatty as 80/20. As for me and my house, we only eat lean. Why pay for fat that is going to clog your arteries and does not taste as good as the powerful muscle?
GINGER ALE
Sam’s: 24 twelve oz cans for $12.62, or 52.58 cents per can
Walmart: 24 twelve oz cans for $12.38, or 51.58 cents per can
Verdict: Walmart
Walmart walks away with drinks, and it is not just Canada Dry. It is Coke Zero, Mountain Dew, all of them. Sam’s is one of the most expensive places to buy drinks other than Great Value bottled water. Moreover, Walmart has a greater variety of drinks, including its Great Value line of carbonated beverages.
Most of you know I do not often drink carbonated beverages, eschewing those sugar and chemical enriched drinks for the fine purity of a glass of New Orleans Sewage and Water Board tap water. But from time to time, I have been known to have a two liter or two of DDT, or as most call it, Diet Dr. Thunder, the finest carbonated drink on Earth. It really is a road trip special of mine, so if you ever see someone on the road chugging a two liter of DDT while driving, do flag me and hopefully we can arrange to meet each other at the next gas station exit, so long as it is not a Buc-ee’s. I was disappointed to see that the DDT price has increased from 72 cents two years ago to $1.42.
Good friends, thank you for joining me in another journey. May you shop wisely and thriftly, and use that extra money to help those in need, perhaps those who have recently been released from prison, as our society often rejects them. Perhaps you know a widow or an orphan who could use financial assistance. We save money not so that we can hoard it where the moth destroys. No! We save so that we can be generous to those who need it.
And now, I will enjoy a fresh bottle of DDT with some smoked GV oysters on GV Cantina tortilla chips. May all of your days be filled with the joy and love of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus!
Faith, Hope, and Love,
TulaneLSU
P.S. I will try this new ICEE cereal for my dessert.
If you kept score, Sam's Club won this battle, going 10-6-3 against Walmart.
76 oz Pace chunky salsa for $7.32, or 9.63 cents per ounce
24 oz of Pace salsa for $3.48, or 14.5 cents per ounce
70 oz of Great Value picante salsa for $5.98, or 8.54 cents per ounce
Verdict: Walmart
I was happy to see that Woman, Infants, and Children are able to use WIC vouchers to get salsa. Mother always told me that salsa is healthy. While we were driving to Sam’s, NPR broadcast a story about the connection between dollar stores and food deserts. The rationale for limiting dollar stores in certain neighborhoods, at least one proponent argued, was that dollar stores kill local groceries and lead to bad health. Thus, it is government’s duty to step in and stop the dollar stores, as a matter of public health. If that is the role of government, to step in for public health, why do we not require food stamps to be used only for healthy foods, as we do WIC? Regardless of your beliefs about food stamps and WIC, I think we can all agree it is way past time to ban the sale of alcohol in America. It is the most destructive of all drugs. And Big Alcohol keeps forcing it down the public’s throat.
I prefer Walmart’s salsa because it is better than Pace and Walmart has a much greater selection of salsas. I counted 32 salsa choices, whereas Sam’s had two.
BREAST OF CHICKEN
Sam’s: One pound of Members Mark chicken breast for $2.68, or 16.75 cents per ounce
Walmart: One pound of nameless chicken breast for $2.97, or 18.56 cents per ounce
Walmart: One pound of Sanderson Farms chicken breast for $3.97, or 24.81 cents per ounce
Verdict: Neither
The chicken at Sam’s and Walmart is terrible. While you pay a low price, you will find the precooked weight is greatly inflated, as the chicken sold are pumped with fluids. I challenge anyone here to do a precook and postcook weight. Free range chicken is the way to go. It tastes better, it is not injected with fluid filler, and the chickens have at least a somewhat humane existence.
93/7 HAMBURGER MEAT
Sam’s: $4.78 per pound
Walmart: $6.64 per pound
Verdict: Sam’s
Sam’s beef is usually much better quality than Walmart. I think the hamburger meats are on par with each other, but Sam’s has both a better price per pound and better packaging, with convenient one to 1.25 pound packages. These come in quite handy. Just yesterday I found a package of Sam’s 93/7 meat from 2020 that was frozen solid in the back of the freezer. The vacuum seal protected it well from freezer burn, which I am not convinced the bigger, more thinly covered Walmart package would have.
Some people love fatty burgers, even as fatty as 80/20. As for me and my house, we only eat lean. Why pay for fat that is going to clog your arteries and does not taste as good as the powerful muscle?
GINGER ALE
Sam’s: 24 twelve oz cans for $12.62, or 52.58 cents per can
Walmart: 24 twelve oz cans for $12.38, or 51.58 cents per can
Verdict: Walmart
Walmart walks away with drinks, and it is not just Canada Dry. It is Coke Zero, Mountain Dew, all of them. Sam’s is one of the most expensive places to buy drinks other than Great Value bottled water. Moreover, Walmart has a greater variety of drinks, including its Great Value line of carbonated beverages.
Most of you know I do not often drink carbonated beverages, eschewing those sugar and chemical enriched drinks for the fine purity of a glass of New Orleans Sewage and Water Board tap water. But from time to time, I have been known to have a two liter or two of DDT, or as most call it, Diet Dr. Thunder, the finest carbonated drink on Earth. It really is a road trip special of mine, so if you ever see someone on the road chugging a two liter of DDT while driving, do flag me and hopefully we can arrange to meet each other at the next gas station exit, so long as it is not a Buc-ee’s. I was disappointed to see that the DDT price has increased from 72 cents two years ago to $1.42.
Good friends, thank you for joining me in another journey. May you shop wisely and thriftly, and use that extra money to help those in need, perhaps those who have recently been released from prison, as our society often rejects them. Perhaps you know a widow or an orphan who could use financial assistance. We save money not so that we can hoard it where the moth destroys. No! We save so that we can be generous to those who need it.
And now, I will enjoy a fresh bottle of DDT with some smoked GV oysters on GV Cantina tortilla chips. May all of your days be filled with the joy and love of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus!
Faith, Hope, and Love,
TulaneLSU
P.S. I will try this new ICEE cereal for my dessert.
If you kept score, Sam's Club won this battle, going 10-6-3 against Walmart.
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 5:03 pm to TulaneLSU
Dearly beloved,
I implore you to make the switch from Romaine to Spinach for greater health benefits.
I Remain, Very Sincerely Yours,
Juice
I implore you to make the switch from Romaine to Spinach for greater health benefits.
I Remain, Very Sincerely Yours,
Juice
Posted on 6/14/23 at 7:34 am to TulaneLSU
quote:
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Friend, I rarely find value in your inane rambling, but I whole-heartedly agree that this book should be required reading for New Orleanians
Posted on 6/17/23 at 7:18 am to TulaneLSU
Out of everyone who posts on the OT, my vote for person most likely to have someone chained up in their shed against their will unequivocally goes to TulaneLSU, with mother as the most unlikely ride or die to grace this green earth.
Or maybe it's mother chained up in the basement. Regardless, someone is in chains, and is probably forced to edit all his posts for spelling and grammatical errors, along with the occasional in-out, in-out.
Or maybe it's mother chained up in the basement. Regardless, someone is in chains, and is probably forced to edit all his posts for spelling and grammatical errors, along with the occasional in-out, in-out.
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