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VespiWalsh t1_iw9ct4z wrote

Reply to comment by alquix in Gotta love Giant Eagle. What a sale.... by kniki217

As a long time Pittsburgh resident, me and my friends/family made up a game to play in Walmart, it is called "Guess How Much This Shit Costs At Giant Eagle". I suggest you give it a try next time you are at Wallyworld. Giant Eagle will tax the shit out of you if you don't take advantage of the sales. When I was in college just about everything at GE would be marked up a good 30-50%, haven't stepped foot in once in almost 6 years. Hell, for example, Walmart sold this cheese at the deli, Hoffman's Super Sharp Cheddar, at the time it was 6.xx a pound at the time, at Giant Eagle it was almost 13 dollars a pound. Do not shop at GE, unless you want to avoid the riffraff and long lines at Walmart, which can be done easily now by utilizing curbside pickup and home delivery.

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Freed_lab_rat t1_iw9nh5s wrote

Cheese prices at GE are particularly egregious, to the point where I just won't fucking buy it there. I'll buy cheese at Aldi.

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time-lord t1_iwa022s wrote

The most egregious part is that Walmart has faster checkout than GE does. The self checkout that GE use are just bad.

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ProfessorChaos5049 t1_iwbqbvr wrote

Gotta use Scan-and-Go (if you're store has it). Shopping at GE for me and the wife is a breeze.

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wschus63 t1_iwcgme6 wrote

I'm constantly amazed that almost nobody uses it. The one by me has like 50 scanners, and I only ever see one or two other people using them, tops.

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McJumpington t1_iw9qsdh wrote

I thought only my dad called it wallyworld :) . What really pisses me off is almost all lunch meat at GE is $10 a pound or up.

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VespiWalsh t1_iw9ve1k wrote

It is highway robbery the prices GE gets away with charging people. They are almost as bad as landlords.

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Rivarle t1_iwbxq6l wrote

Hey, just a quick plug: Giant Eagle is Union; Walmart is a parasite. I'll stick with slightly expensive GE.

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VespiWalsh t1_iwcloyf wrote

Last time I checked only certain Giant Eagle stores were union. I'm very sure unions don't impact the prices much there compared to the price gouging. Either way, you can be pro union and still wish to save money, especially when you are on a fixed income.

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Rivarle t1_iwcoupk wrote

Any idea what stores those might be? All I'm finding is that GE employees are represented by UFCW (there is some sort of story about it in the non-union Post-Gazette paper: https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2021/07/26/Giant-Eagle-UFCW-Local-1776-ratify-new-four-year-contract/stories/202107260085It's easy to nitpick Giant Eagle, but I'm not trying to race to the Walton's bottom line.

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VespiWalsh t1_iwct3es wrote

Considering how they are using union busting techniques, I wouldn't call them pro-union. Also that article says 35 stores renewed their contracts, GE has 480 stores, so what about the other 445 stores? Also they start people off at 10 dollars an hour, that is a poverty wage for a union. Just because a company uses a union, doesn't automatically mean that company is pro-worker. Good luck getting a full time position there. Anyway after searching online for 15 minutes for a list, there isn't one that is easily accessible, and that is about all the time I am willing to contribute to this part of the conversation. As much as I hate to say it, workers are probably better off at Walmart, where they at least have advancement opportunities.

Also why does it matter if they have unions? They have clearly demonstrated they are anti-consumer with their price gouging. They don't give a fuck about workers or consumers, only their bottom line. I'll stick to a pragmatic approach, I don't have time to think about higher ideals when it comes to securing food because I need to survive. I'll stick to fighting the injustices that don't require me to starve to have integrity.

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