It's a rare person who has any business criticizing anyone for shopping at Walmart

[Doremus]

53. Two thoughts. First, Walmart does NOT always have the lowest prices.

#1 - WalMart oftentimes does NOT have the lowest prices. In fact, in our area, they came in with artificially lower prices to hurt the Target store that had been in our community for many years. Target closed 2 years later. With no more competition, Walmart's prices have gone up up up.

#2 - In general, consistently buying the "cheapest" of anything gets you a guaranteed trip back to the store in a few weeks or months to replace the object when it prematurely breaks/tears/wears out. In Walmart's specific case, the reason some of their items are priced so inexpensively is because they are actually made differently than the regular, normally-priced item from the same manufacturer. My hubby & I bought a Briggs & Stratton lawn mower from them one year because the price, $99, was too cheap to pass up. It didn't even last one season. The mechanic at the shop said the warranty didn't cover the broken plastic part in the carburetor that B&G replaced to make it cheaper at WM's request. Long story short, we ended up taping a sign to the mower warning folks to not buy them, and wheeling the mower into WM's garden dept. Lesson learned.