Stopping to price match was purely profit driven, nothing to do with customer experience. They are replacing all the cashiers with self-checkouts, soon Walmart will be close to fully automated with no cashiers at checkouts.
Walmart no longer matches competitor flyer prices - and it will cost you plenty!
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- carmaster
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- Jun 30, 2006
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- Sprite_TM
- Deal Addict
- Feb 28, 2006
- 4218 posts
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- Toronto
its been like this for more than half a year
vote with your wallet
dont shop there
vote with your wallet
dont shop there
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- kopokipi
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- Jul 22, 2009
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- Brampton
But lovest price guaranty, LOL
- kopokipi
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- Jul 22, 2009
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- Brampton
Oh common give him a break, I don't get it, why so many downvots, don't you want to save money I know I do and stopped shopping at Walmart.
- sunnysidesolutions
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- Oct 17, 2012
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Bro, if you have the free time to go through a stack of grocery flyers and figure out that Tropicana is $2 cheaper at another store, you probably have the free time to go to the other store to buy the juice.
- carmaster
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- Jun 30, 2006
- 21132 posts
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- Toronto
They don't care if you point out price gaps. They work at the store, they don't make the prices. If you find a cheaper price, speak with your wallet.
- Dhanushan
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- Jun 20, 2020
- 20144 posts
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- Toronto
This topic was already discussed when Walmart stopped their Ad Match program and another thread was not needed
Walmart Ad Match ending October 15, 2020
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- SenatorsFan
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- Oct 8, 2020
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- Ottawa
How is this thread not closed yet?
- Gibsons
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- death_hawk
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- Aug 22, 2006
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Walmart is nothing but a convenience store now.
I only buy there if it's 9PM and I can't think of another store that has it that's open.
Although oddly enough Amazon is a convenience store but for completely different reasons.
It's convenient to know that if I need something no matter how ridiculous Amazon probably has it.
This misspelling is hilarious because I can see them doing something like that.
"No no. Not *lowest*. Lovest! We love making you pay more!"
Nope. That's why I'm on the internet arguing with strangers. If I had anything better to do I'd probably be doing it.Do you not have anything else to do rather than argue with strangers on the internet
- M1K3Z0R
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- May 11, 2009
- 8554 posts
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- Trudostan
Boo hoo, just shop elsewhere. Vote with your wallet! I only PM online these days or just buy from the place with the lower price, in person PMs are too YMMV and a waste of time, particularly if you make a special trip just to PM.
I hate walmart, have not set foot in one in well over 10 years until 2019 when I went in to pick up a phone to churn on a GC promo. Everything about my local Walmart sucks, hate the store smell, the parking lot, the shit products, the shit associates, and all the local human riff-raff that seems to congregate there.
I hate walmart, have not set foot in one in well over 10 years until 2019 when I went in to pick up a phone to churn on a GC promo. Everything about my local Walmart sucks, hate the store smell, the parking lot, the shit products, the shit associates, and all the local human riff-raff that seems to congregate there.
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- Swerny
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- Oct 5, 2008
- 18179 posts
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Let the OP get hammered with downvotes instead for this dumb thread.
- stormy13
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- Feb 15, 2007
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- Pickering
This definitely didn't go as the OP planned. Then again only 3 posts in 7 years., likely won't see him/her again for another 3 years.
- GloryFades
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- GloryFades
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- Super_Chicken
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- Sep 4, 2005
- 4114 posts
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OP, you're about 3/4 year late to the party. Walmart stopped price matching in Oct 2020. I'm not sure what you were expecting trying to price match a product that late after their policy change.
I've just stopped shopping at Walmart to boycott the policy. If it bothers you that much, I suggest you do the same. I wish others did too.
Vote with your wallet.
I've just stopped shopping at Walmart to boycott the policy. If it bothers you that much, I suggest you do the same. I wish others did too.
Vote with your wallet.
- Tommy74
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- Jun 26, 2009
- 5427 posts
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- GTA
How many grams of sugar in that so called juice? People still buy this stuff?
- imoo2u
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- Dec 20, 2006
- 2279 posts
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Hardly step my feet inside Walmart store(s) since April 2020 as there is NO real deals included the rollbacks advertised..
Not worthy to spend monies at Walmart Canada as most stuffs are getting too pretty pricey esp groceries and food essentials.
Even worst, the nearest Walmart does not stock its inventories despite seeing its staff working around(or rather ,,, walking empty-handed)
Not worthy to spend monies at Walmart Canada as most stuffs are getting too pretty pricey esp groceries and food essentials.
Even worst, the nearest Walmart does not stock its inventories despite seeing its staff working around(or rather ,,, walking empty-handed)
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- MikeMontrealer
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The people who complained loudest about the change in policy are also the ones who say they never visit Walmarts, hate them, hate the people that work there, etc...
So, basically, they only deigned to go to Walmart to take advantage of a price match. That's probably exactly the clientele Walmart didn't want anymore. They've basically fired you.
So, basically, they only deigned to go to Walmart to take advantage of a price match. That's probably exactly the clientele Walmart didn't want anymore. They've basically fired you.
- SenatorsFan
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As a Walmart front-end associate, I couldn't agree more! Price-matching up here is the equivalent of extreme couponing in the United States. Even in the era of being digital, we still had customers bringing in their paper flyers with their markers, getting 6 of everything that was a lower-price elsewhere. It wasn't uncommon to spend 10+ minutes with 1 of those customers. They almost never had anything in their buggy that wasn't a price-match. I don't think price-matching was designed for customers to price-match every single item in their buggy. It was meant to get you in the door with the hope you'd buy other things at regular price, perhaps pick up some clothing and other things.MikeMontrealer wrote: ↑ The people who complained loudest about the change in policy are also the ones who say they never visit Walmarts, hate them, hate the people that work there, etc...
So, basically, they only deigned to go to Walmart to take advantage of a price match. That's probably exactly the clientele Walmart didn't want anymore. They've basically fired you.
We had some customers who would only price-match 1 thing despite full out knowing there was way more in their buggy they could have price-matched. Those customers were my favourite. Those customers decided to only price-match the highest priced item in their buggy like meat that would save them several dollars versus 10 cents.
As I said in the other price-matching thread, it took up a lot of time and led to customer-dissatisfaction through customers disputing our policy (aka trying to price-match bone-in chicken for boneless skinless chicken breast and medium ground beef for lean ground beef). Cashiers would say "No, you can't do that", customer would want to speak to a supervisor, it could take a few minutes for them to come over only to say "The cashier is right", then the customer wants to speak to a member of management who would say "Just do it." So you've now upset that customer with how much time you've wasted (even though they were wrong) not to mention every customer behind them upset. The customer who was wrong would called head office saying, "I had to wait 10-minutes for a decision on if I could price-match a particular item" then our store manager would call the customer to apologize and give them a $25 gift card. Then we'd have customers try and use digital flyers from stores on the other side of the country (because you input any postal code you want on Flipp) or using expired flyers hoping we were too dumb to realize they were using a screenshot.
Long story short, price-matching was more of a hassle than what it was worth. It was costing the company too much time and money, not to mention driving customers away. Due to the dissatisfaction, we were losing customers who were upset with our policy and customers who hated waiting in line behind customers who price-matched. You can't make everybody happy so the company obviously believed that discontinuing price-matching was the lesser of 2 evils.