Walmart+ Membership

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I wonder if it worth it to get a membership card? Do anyone have one?

It depends on the benefits of the membership.

In the UK, we have a loyalty scheme card that is free to use in most supermarkets and which makes certain products lower in price. In which case that is definitely worth joining.

It sounds like Amazon Prime in which membership allows unlimited "free" deliveries.
That was how I got my groceries during the Pandemic. I ordered a case of SPAM and other food to eat so I didn't have to go anywhere. That can be very useful if you can't handle going out shopping in the crowds.

You may want to see if you can get local reviews to find out whether the service works well where you live.

"Loyalty cards" in the UK have been criticised on the grounds that the shop makes considerably more money out of them than the customer does. I strongly sympathise with that view, but if an individual can dodge the obvious downside (they can build a profile on your buying habits and use it to target you with junk mail and spam), it might be worth doing from that individual's perspective, though from a social perspective I can see how it could make the rich richer and (ultimately) the poor poorer. The customers might also be incentivised to stick with the same store instead of shopping around, and that may interfere with this competition thing that's said to drive prices down.

Loyalty cards in the UK used to give you points that you could trade for money off your shopping.

In some supermarkets, the system has changed now so that certain prices are marked as 'Nectar price' for example (in Sainsbury's), which requires a Nectar card to get the lower price.

It forces you to have a card really, unless you want to pay more for your shopping. They tend to scatter the 'Nectar price' items into different departments, so it is difficult to avoid them.

And also you get nectar points if you buy things on ebay.

One year my daughter saved all her points all year and we got all out Christmas booze and stuff.

I’m thinking about getting the Walmart +.You get free Paramount streaming , gas discounts, free shipping on all items ,and it’s half off if you are low income.First month is free.I have Paramount so I'm switching right before that subscription renews.

I Googled Walmart+ and Walmart said
Annual plan is $98 (only $8.17/month) after trial

Amazon is $139 a year. I thought about dropping it but the delivery service has been amazing.

No wasted shopping trips to find the store is out of stock despite what they say on the Internet.

I assume the OP meant what they wrote for the title of this thread.

Walmart+ Membership

First I’ve heard of this. Not sure if it’s available in Canada.

But the answer as to whether it’s worth it or not depends on whether you use their services enough to make it worth the cost To You. If you already pay for services that it includes and you’ll save money having a membership then it’s worth it. If you don’t and paying for a membership will waste money Or encourage you to spend more money unnecessarily on things you don’t need simply because you can get free delivery, then it’s not worth it.

My mom has Amazon prime. I think she buys enough to save on shipping costs. I rarely buy on Amazon, so I just spend $35 to get free shipping or pay for the cheapest shipping option and the total amount I pay for shipping in a year is less than a prime membership costs. Our cases are different - and so is yours. Do the math and see if Walmart+ is worth it for you or it isn’t.

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Amazon seems to do an excellent job of delivering big heavy stuff that might break.
If you are weak like me it can be a big hassle to deal with heavy stuff.
I've taken DIY furniture out of the car one piece at a time!
It is very convenient to have it delivered to your door.

Home delivery services can be very good value for money, particularly for disabled people who have trouble getting out of the house for whichever reason.

I gather there's a trick you might want to try. Presumably this only works if the loyalty cards are free or cost a negligible amount - you get two, and by flipping from one card to the other every so often you may be able to trick the store into thinking you've stopped shopping there. They offer deserters much better deals than loyal customers. I'd have thought that the store's software would notice both cards were held by the same customer, but if so, I suppose you could give a false name for one of them. Giving a false address too would be better, but they tend to mail the discount vouchers, so that might not be possible unless you have a friend who doesn't do loyalty cards and doesn't mind you giving their address. Of course they'll target you and your friend for marketing crap, so your friend might need to be a lot more tolerant towards junk mail than I am.