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| - This is my 4th Smiths in 7 years. If you read that a certain way you might think the first 3 were bad, but actually all 4 are awesome, I've just moved 3 times and had to find a new one to shop at each time. This is the latest and it is the oldest of the four I think, but still kept clean and organized.
So, why smiths? Well for one thing it consistently has the lowest prices in town on just about everything and with some of the amazing sales they have each week it's pretty much a no brainer. I shop the sales and save money with smiths. At least once a month they have a sale that involves buying 5 or 10 items from a group and saving additional money which is something other stores have tried to do but just failed in comparison.
For example, Albertsons had the buy 10 and save 5 dollar sale the week after Smiths' ended and they had Vitamin water for 1.25 each or 75 cents after the 10 items are bought. Smiths had them 99 cents or 49 cents after you buy 10. That means you can buy a case of Vitamin water for under 12 dollars, and anyone reading this who drinks it will know just how cheap that is. Also Albertsons is just overpriced on many things in comparison, even their sale prices. I regularly see Fritos chips at Smiths for 1.67 a bag, and a few days ago I was at Albertsons (I like their chicken wings) and they had the same bags on "EXTREME" deal 3 for 7. That's 2.34 a bag, and apparently an "extreme" deal. Plus you had to buy 3 bags, where at smiths I can just buy one without getting charged extra.
That brings me to Vons. As a vendor, I'll admit Vons have the absolute cleanest stores in town, but I guess that translates into higher prices because they are up there. I'd be willing to put money on 90% of their items being considerably higher then smiths on a regular basis. Also alot of their sales are, not scams, but I don't know what to call it. Their tags for example on their deli sandwiches say in big bold numbers, 2.49. Under that in small black lettering it says "Must buy two or more". Otherwise you refer to the little black price to the left (3.49). I normally don't eat 2 sandwiches for lunch, maybe alot of people do, I dunno. But unlike me, most people aren't going to take the time to discern all the signs to figure out what your going to pay. It's not just sandwiches either, ALOT of their sale items are this exact same way, if you want a sale price you gotta buy more then you want/need.
Why not walmart? They are supposedly cheaper then anywhere right? Well thats technically not true. Many items at smiths are cheaper then wal mart on a regular basis and their sale items are almost guaranteed to be cheaper. You can definitely save money by shopping smart at smiths then just buying everything at wal mart. I honestly try to avoid wal mart because I don't like it's business practices, they ways it lets them offer cheaper prices on a regular basis. I was in the back one time and one of their employees was drinking an energy drink and was throwing it out in the recieving area. One of the managers back their told them to put in the vendors area to get credit for a damaged can. Anything that is found opened and taken/eaten/drank, or damaged is just placed in a vendor section for credit (because pepsi is responsible if a wal mart customer steals a bottle of pepsi while t
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