This caught fire and people with Walmart accounts logging purchases have tried this out themselves...so much so that Walmart has caught onto it and has disabled the ability to "reorder". Instead, when the account holder tries to reorder, they are getting an "all items sold out" message.
Either way it's a win. People catch on and Walmart's online sales decrease because people are unable to reorder their product, and we get to see in real time actual inflation affecting our purchasing power.
People who are shit with money. Paying whatever the current price for something at the grocery is just a waste of money. You can easily save 1/3 - 1/2 by waiting until things are on sale. And a lot of things are fairly consistently on sale or at least predictably (the Sweet Baby Rays reliably goes on sale for 99 cents here around Memorial Day and July 4th, but some people won't buy a dozen and instead run out in March and pay $2.28 for it). Plus what happens if the sauce plant catches fire or has a recall (I'm noticing a lot of both events lately)? You're hooped, but I've still got sauce stocked.
Those same $4.48 Fritos dude re-bought are 2 for $6 at Meier this week on sale and Meier has an even worse regular price of $4.89.
This caught fire and people with Walmart accounts logging purchases have tried this out themselves...so much so that Walmart has caught onto it and has disabled the ability to "reorder". Instead, when the account holder tries to reorder, they are getting an "all items sold out" message.
Either way it's a win. People catch on and Walmart's online sales decrease because people are unable to reorder their product, and we get to see in real time actual inflation affecting our purchasing power.
I personally despise Walmart.
As a side note: there are an amazing amount of people who do this - reorder the same food items over and over.
I have always looked at those reorder item[s] buttons thinking, "who does that?"
Moms. Moms order virtually the same basic items and staples over and over and over…
People who are shit with money. Paying whatever the current price for something at the grocery is just a waste of money. You can easily save 1/3 - 1/2 by waiting until things are on sale. And a lot of things are fairly consistently on sale or at least predictably (the Sweet Baby Rays reliably goes on sale for 99 cents here around Memorial Day and July 4th, but some people won't buy a dozen and instead run out in March and pay $2.28 for it). Plus what happens if the sauce plant catches fire or has a recall (I'm noticing a lot of both events lately)? You're hooped, but I've still got sauce stocked.
Those same $4.48 Fritos dude re-bought are 2 for $6 at Meier this week on sale and Meier has an even worse regular price of $4.89.