I noticed that too

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... of Lorraine Swiss cheese (delicious, but a li'l stinky) in Tucson that I could find. This was several years
ago and I had seen "WalMart steaks" then.
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For WalMart, they were expensive -- priced more like premium organic beef than a "money-saver".
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The people in those commercials don't strike me as being people who would be all-that-familiar with 5-star
restaurants. They seem much more like gourmands (like me) than gourmets with sensitive palates -- and I
get an underlying component of "that steak didn't suck".
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The commercials wouldn't convince me to pay the extra price (if its relative price is as it was in my contact
with it) but I bet they're effective at getting the "stereotypical" WalMart shopper to buy it and "identify with
the 1%".
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And, when I saw them, you could see the beef -- it wasn't totally obscured by the black packaging. I've
seen a lot of store brands using black in their packaging (glass blttle/jars of salsa, for example) -- I think
it just "looks" higher-quality.
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AJ's (a regional truly gourmet supermarket here in Tucson) has ribeye steaks in their meat department for
$45/lb. Friends of mine (who have since split up and moved because of massive cc debt) used to buy it and
invited me over for dinner once. He was an excellent cook, but I've had better, more tender steaks at a
normal price.
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The image-makers play such an ENORMOUS role in our society.
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I absolutely hate to shop at Wal-Mart grocery stores. If I'm looking for something no longer stocked I'll just ask the manager. So far they have been able to order whatever I want.

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... so I would have to ask him to order me a 10-20 lb BLOCK of cheese (a couple of stores
had it locally, but they all discontinued it because it wasn't a very big seller at all -- though
the people who like it... LOVE it).
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When I could get it, I'd only use 1/4-1/2 pound a month on sandwiches or in a casserole
(or in one of my favorite dishes -- Chicken Cordon Bleu... I add sliced stuffed green olives
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I don't know if all grocers do this, but I've had no problem locally. My local grocer is able to get even stuff that I've had to go to boutique grocery stores to find. They also can get stuff that grocery stores used to carry, but don't anymore.

All relevant.

MFM what are you doing outside the Forum? Kudos for making so much sense.

Dee Oh Double Gee agrees

I have bought some hamburger meat there it was ok.

I whether buy my meat from HEB.

meat is meat. Its not like Walmart raises the cows that get turned into the beef they sell. The people in the commercial say that the steaks tasted great, well that's just a commentary on the person who cooked it.

Wal-mart buys beef from large scale meat packing plants. My local grocery store buys primal cuts and butchers them on-site. So even if the beef is the same source, how it gets to you is different. My local grocery store also buys branded cuts of beef, which means you can research that particular brand and find out a bit more about where the beef comes from, how it is selected, etc. I can also request something different if they don't have what I like. In other words, if their packaged steaks are thin and I want 2" thick steaks, I can ask them to cut them for me from the primal and I can even choose what end of the primal I want. With Wal-Mart you get whatever packing plant happens to be selling the cheapest and it's already individually packaged for consumption when the store gets it. With unbranded meat, the USDA grades it and you gets whatever you gets. Wal-Mart inevitably uses the lowest grade of beef (although lately they have been stocking higher grades at some stores), while branded beef is often choice or that brand may have their own method for grading beef which insures tender cuts.

Really??? I turn the channel.........I've seen it....and I gag. Really, I gag out loud. Is that GOL?? I HATE MALL-WORT.