I avoid these, as well. I only shop at Walmart if I need something that can be obtained there and nowhere else.
But I consider my not shopping at Walmart in a different class than not using US Airways or American Airlines if I can help it. The latter is due to bad experiences I had with the company’s product or service. The former is because I don’t like Walmart’s business practices, not because of any experience I had with buying anything at Walmart.
I feel like you can include almost every PC manufacturer here. The only real “high quality” off-the-shelf computers I’ve ever encountered are Apples and ThinkPads.
Every other brands…argh. Dell’s the only major brand I’ve used without complaint, but I’ve heard enough complaints from friends to assume I got lucky.
So the problem here is with the entire Windows brand and not a certain engineering program?
Add me to the folks who avoid Hartz products as much as possible. They own a couple other companies at well [L&M Animal Farms] that I won’t use.
The last time I bought new PC, I did a little asking around. Apparently all of the major brands have bad reputations. I bought a Dell (well, a cheap Alienware, but that doesn’t qualify it as “not Dell”), and it’s fine.
Honestly, the worst part about buying a new computer nowadays is that the people who are most qualified to give you advice are the least helpful. They just tell you over and over to build your own, no matter how often you tell them that you don’t want to.
Chef Boyardee, good! Franco-American, bad!
And I love Mt Olive dill spears for the munchies.
I’ll jump on the Mt. Olive hate bandwagon. They’re limp and flavorless. Claussen or Vlasic are far superior, and I think they’re only marginally more expensive. Totally worth it.
That said, I like Chock Full O’ Nuts coffee.
I never thought Hershey’s chocolate was all that bad (it’s not great, but it’s not that bad), but yeah, that off-brand or no-name Easter and Christmas chocolate is just freaking DISGUSTING.
I’ve become very loyal to Nike shoes. They fit right, and more importantly, * they last.* I’ve had one pair of Reeboks, and they fell apart in about six months. This was normal wear, not extreme hiking or marathon running…just walking every day for exercise, and basic wear. The seams came apart and the soles peeled apart. They literally fell apart. I’ll never buy Reeboks again.
Franco-American’s Spaghettios is my No. 1 go-to junk food. But I think they’ve recently discontinued the Franco-American name. The cans now say Campbell’s Spaghettios.
the easter candy made by Palmer - blech - talk about waxy and oily tasting
Lane Bryant clothes are horrible. The buttons fall off, zippers break, and some of the fabrics tear too easily. And this is after a few washings, not years of wear.
Agreed. And Avenue is just as bad or even worse. It’s just cheap garbage.
Actually, I just realized that they are owned by the same company. No wonder they’re both crap.
You can find it at the fancier HEB’s. It is shelved with the Franks and other hot wing sauces, not with the Tex-mex stuff.
I’m interested to know where people are from that see Texas Pete’s on tables at Mexican food restaurants. That seems really weird; it just isn’t a Mexican flavor, it is more of hot wing type sauce. Here in Texas you’ll find the house made salsas on the table in dippers. If there is a bottle of something (rare) it will be Cholula.
No shit. This happened with my Sony home theater receiver and my Sony DVD changer. I avoid Sony now.
I love Texas Pete’s hot sauce. Overseas military bases have this on the table at the DFAC (dining facility). A definite improvement over Tabasco.
Fancier = Central Market?
Dfw doesn’t have HEBS. I’ll check central and if they don’t have it, I’ll get one next time I’m in Austin.
Thanks!
Torrid (a plus sized women’s clothing store) I bought a few shirts and most of them fell apart during the washing/drying. Threads were loose, shirts shrunk, and they are expensive! $40-50 bucks for a shirt. No thank you.
There’s a plus sized women’s clothing catalog called Woman Within (used to be Lane Bryant catalog, IIRC). I love the selection of clothes from Only Necessities…until I see them in person. The line is very inexpensive, and the clothes will pill horrendously, or just plain look cheap in real life. They look great in the catalog, and sometimes they look good right out of the package. But wash those clothes once or twice, and you will find out why they are so inexpensive.
Personally, I’m a Cafe Bustelo gal-- I wait for it to go on sale for $2/brick and buy 2-3. Dark roast, great for espresso, makes good coffee with little effort.
This has made me thankful that I’ve inherited my Pyrex-- I do a lot of cooking, so exploding glass cookware is a scary thought.
T-shirts from Old Navy and Target have gotten incredibly cheap these days. Where, aside from craft stores, can I find good heavy cotton t-shirts?
Try LL Bean or Eddie Bauer. I love LL Bean’s policy of taking stuff back if it isn’t exactly what you want. I do wish they had some retail shops though. And I love their tees.
You can also try hitting up a t-shirt store - the ones where the put the logo on while you wait. The shirts are usually really nice and cheap - and you don’t *have *to put a stupid saying on it.
They do have some retail stores.