No, Walmart doesn’t broadly price match competitors in 2026. The retailer only matches its own listing, and only between a physical Florida store and Walmart.com. That’s a steep difference from the program many shoppers still remember, back when a full grocery receipt could earn cash back for every item a nearby competitor sold cheaper that…
A Charlotte shopper grabs two rotisserie chickens off the hot bar, sure the tax works the same as it does on a bag of frozen peas. It doesn’t. North Carolina taxes that same chicken differently depending on whether it comes hot off the bar or cold from the case, and that’s just one of the…
Meijer’s cranberry juice tied Ocean Spray in a national blind taste test. But Michiganders didn’t need a taste test to tell them what they already knew: The store brand can hold its own against household names. These are the Meijer products Michigan shoppers grab while everyone else reaches for the familiar label. Purple Cow Beats…
Publix has never laid off a single worker in nearly a century in business, recessions included. That’s only one of many examples of the things Floridians take for granted about Publix. 1. A Sub Born in Georgia Publix’s Chicken Tender Sub earned its nickname, the Pub Sub, from customers years before Publix ever put that…
Aldi just handed Georgia four new grocery stores it never had before. Brunswick, Gray, Valdosta, and Douglas are the towns getting their first look at the discount chain Aldi’s front door. Georgia isn’t getting the flashy debut treatment Aldi’s newest states are getting this year, but it’s still catching a share of the chain’s growth….
A ribbon drops outside a new grocery store in Virginia Beach at 7:40 a.m., cameras and curious bystanders both aimed at the doors. Twenty minutes later, those doors open on one of the first Lidl stores the United States has ever seen. Shoppers walk in curious about a name nobody recognizes. Many of them end…
Some Publix BOGO deals stick around all week. Others vanish faster than free samples at Costco on a Saturday afternoon. Georgia shoppers have an extra reason to celebrate BOGOs: Unlike at Publix stores in Florida, Georgians can buy just one BOGO item and receive the product for half price. That makes these nine rotating deals…
A cashier at a Publix near Ocala braces for the same argument at least twice a week. He never quite wins it. The shopper grabs a receipt, insists the store rang something up wrong, and drives off upset. These are the Publix myths in Florida that wouldn’t survive one look at Publix’s own policy pages….
Costco takes EBT for SNAP-eligible groceries at every U.S. warehouse, Florida stores included. That’s short for Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), the debit-style card that carries Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. That much is simple. The complicated part sits at the door, not the register. Costco only lets a paying member check out. And a…
Ask anyone who’s worked with customers, and they’ll tell you that they know behind-the-scenes things that you’d never guess are true. These are the things California fast food workers don’t offer up at the drive-thru window. 1. Why You Get Waved Forward A worker waving you into an empty parking spot at a California drive-thru…
