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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2421707" data-attributes="member: 31094">Huzzah!  We rock!  Of course, I'm transplanted from Northern Virginia, but that's ok, I like it here!   I agree.  This is why I primarily shop at Walmart when I can bring myself to tough the crowds.  My preference is Walmart > Target > Hy-vee.  Walmart is by far the cheapest in Cedar Rapids, and their selection is the best; their produce is even better than anywhere else that I've found, except for farmers markets of course.  Target has an ok selection, not great, but is a little more expensive.  Hy-vee is the most expensive that I've found in the area.  I have a $50 per week grocery budget.  At Walmart, that amount will get me substantially more groceries than at Hy-Vee, ergo I shop at Walmart. I do agree that putting up with the inconveniences at Walmart make it tiresome.  Yesterday I went in around 8 pm.  I brought 5 12-packs of cans to put in the recycle machines.  I LOVE the recycle machines - sure, they stink, but they're oh so convenient, when they're working.  There were several people waiting to put cans in - why they don't install a new can machine, I'll never know, since 75% of the people who bring in recyclables are bringing in cans, but I digress - and my turn was next.  One lady had a cartful of cans and was using one machine, so I went to the other one.  "Bin full, contact store personnel."  Great.  A Walmart employee showed up to empty the glass bin, I told him about the can bin.  "Oh .. ok .. I'll be back."  Twenty minutes later he hadn't returned, and the other lady was STILL shoving cans in the other machine.  Finally she finished - no sign of the Walmart employee - and I went to use her machine.  "Out of ticket paper, contact store."  %&#*%&%&@!!!!!  I just pushed my cart aside and abandoned it.  Coulda used that $3 too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  It's "your".   Ordinarily I would agree with you, but the Hy-Vee near my house is hopeless when it comes to selection.  I was trying to find canned red peppers - the hot kind - for a Thai recipie I was trying.  I looked and looked - nothing.  I looked in the produce section - not even any FRESH hot peppers, no jalapenos, no serranos, nothing.  I asked an "assistant manager" and he led me down the canned vegetable aisle, and handed me a jar of sweet red peppers.  Um.  Thanks.  I said "hot peppers," nimrod!  Bleh.  I only got to H-V if it's one or two things to pick up on the way home.</blockquote>

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