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Default "$200 a month on groceries for a family of 4 is impossible"


"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
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>>> It isn't cost conscious to buy non-food items at a grocery store, unless
>>> it is a place like WalMart, Costco or Super
>>> Target, because those items are higher priced at a supermarket than they
>>> are at places like KMart or the
>>> like. I buy food at the supermarket and non-food items at KMart (hate
>>> the huge WalMart stores...too large
>>> for my cane use, and disabled parking spots are too far away and usually
>>> full).
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>>> N.

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>> Fortunately, that's not true of the WalMarts where I am. I hardly ever
>> shop at KMart simply because it's in a really bad area of town and there
>> are a lot of purse thefts, etc., going on there.

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> Our last K Mart just closed. There may still be some in this state but
> not near here. Heading out to Walmart now. Not looking forward to it.
> My friend who used to live near it said it that the parking lot was
> riddled with drug dealers. We haven't seen that but the inside of the
> store is pretty bad. At least the mad "Turban Broomer" wasn't there the
> last couple of times we were in.


They actually cleaned up the KMart Store here with a nice remodel,
unfortunately the location is in the worst part of town, high crime etc., so
who needs it. Sounds like your WalMart is like out KMart.

Cheri
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