Save A Lot Experience

I’d never been to a Save A Lot until today.

I don’t think I’ll go back anytime soon. It may just be the location I went to, but the store was unorganized, unclean, and uninviting. Some of the lights flickered. It reminded me of the stock grocery store in every low budget horror film. I wondered to myself while shopping if this store was a physical manifestation of low self esteem as a retail outlet. Yeah, it was that bad.

Save A Lot has some manufacturer’s coupons on their website, so I went specifically looking for some of those things. I couldn’t find them.

I didn’t see any major savings at Save A Lot. Most of the off brand items are loaded with trans fat. I actually found lard for sale there. I hadn’t seen that for sale in years! I was a little skeered of the off brands to be honest, so I tried to stick with brand name items. In fact, after I’d seen a “breakfast pack” with raw bacon, raw sausage and hash browns bundled up, I was totally disgusted by the meat department. I mean, the hash brown potatoes were on top of the raw bacon. No thank you.

I picked up bread from a local distributor, chocolate milk from a local farm group, dish washing sponges, apples from a local packager, i.e. things I recognized from coming semi-regularly off a truck. If it weren’t for the 25% savings off the top with the store coupon, I would have turned around and just left. My cheapness trumped my pride, however, so I went through with it.

I feel bad posting this, because I know some loyal SAL shoppers. I can’t figure out why because I really didn’t see any savings there that weren’t in line with what you can find at Meijer or Kroger, or even WalMart, even without using coupons.

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