I was pretty surprised by how much less expensive everything is there. Even wine was cheaper at regular price than Safeway sale prices (by ~$.50/bottle) (vodka looked to be about the same price but Bel-Air has a sale going right now so they're cheaper than walmart).

Based on my big fat spreadsheet, it looks like Safeway consistently beats Walmart in produce costs. I noticed there was only one brand of most vegetables at Wal-Mart, which probably contributed to that, but the cost difference isn't that great (even overall, I think the cost difference would be wiped out by the cost of the gas to drive from Wal-Mart to safeway).

I was worried about doing the shopping at Wal-Mart, but with the exception of this one guy and his monster kid (monster as in uncontrolled and running around slamming in to **** while he goes "come on, son, stop, come on, stop" and does nothing about it) it was all good. They had a bigger selection of the items we normally buy (like on some things they had flavors I'd never even seen before at Bel-Air or Safeway) and since it's a Wal-Mart, everything else I would need for household cleaning, laundry, even socks and undershirts (Haines, son) is all there.

Money in the bank, shorty what ya drank?

 

Actually, yes :\ Wal-Mart is closer and with less stop and go driving Additionally, since they have all the stuff that Safeway doesn't (as mentioned above), I further save $$ by not having to drive to Wal-Mart or Target to pick up those extra items.