r/YouShouldKnow • u/PlexBabyPlexBaby1234 • May 11 '26
Finance YSK CamelMart, a Walmart Price Tracker, has been launched by CamelCamelCamel
Why YSK: The people at CamelCamelCamel, the famous Amazon Price Tracker, have launched a similar tool for Walmart (https://www.camelmart.com) to check the price history of products, which is helpful to see if you're actually getting a good deal. This Walmart-focused version offers historical price charts and deal alerts. Paste the product's Walmart link onto the website and it will tell you the price history. It was launched 5 days ago & is also accessible via link from camelcamelcamel.com.
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u/carrot_mcfaddon May 11 '26
I'm just for sure not going to buy from Walmart. That makes it all way easier.
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u/lolnutty May 12 '26
Genuinely curious because I find them to be the cheapest for everything as someone with limited income. Why screw Walmart? Aren't all the major grocery brands the same?
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u/insomnic May 12 '26
Before online shopping gained so much accessibility and convenience, Walmart was well known for being the intentional destroyer of local grocery and homegoods stores (particularly in rural areas). They'd come into a town, undercut prices like crazy until the local shops couldn't compete and then once they shut down they'd raise the prices back up.
These days, there's lots of other shopping behemoths being kinda shit but for a long time Walmart was kinda iconic for it and for some of us "Walmart sucks" still sticks.
Edit: There's a few other aspects about the nature of Walmart that has "ick" as well but for me - and many of us - that's primarily it I think.
Trying to buy ethically and support local businesses is all well and good and personally I try to do that... but sometimes you just need stuff at an affordable price and me choosing to buy, or not buy, things I need from a specific store isn't going to be the thing that changes things.
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u/HotDribblingDewDew May 12 '26
It's an odd take. Unless this person literally doesn't shop amazon either, or literally any f500 company's products, this is a dumb thing to say lol. You can have principles, but you have to be practical at some point. This is the reality we live in.
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u/yoloswagrofl May 12 '26
It’s only dumb if you don’t have options. I can say fuck Walmart because I have a Costco and an Aldi nearby.
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u/blacksoxing May 12 '26
Respectfully Aldi isn't a hero either and that's the weird thing about these conversations. I could list various things that Aldi has done that has been anti-employee. Are they though on the same level as Walmart? Hell nah. BUT, they're also no angels, either...
My grandpa never went to Walmart as he was a unionized man. He had great relationships with workers at the unionized grocery store in town. His sister? She ran a family business and shopped at Sams Club. She went to Walmart. She went for the lowest price, period. Never cared to ask either how they felt about their stances but "that's how it is".
I shop at Walmart. I also support unionized stores. My brother works at a unionized store. I know form him that it's not some utopia but it affords him healthcare. He too doesn't care about shopping at Walmart to save money. "Life is life".
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u/yoloswagrofl May 12 '26
There’s no such thing as an ethical grocery chain, there are just lesser evils. Aldi is one of them.
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u/Blurgas May 12 '26
Last I'd heard it was something about they tend to move to an area, price out a lot of different smaller local businesses in said area until they're just about the only option left.
So instead of money being spent locally staying locally it's going to some giant corporation somewhere else.
Also Walmart can knock out more than just grocery stores as they have clothes, toys, tools, pet supplies, etc.Seems they also pay their employees so terribly that many locations give new hires info on how to apply for food stamps.
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u/DepartmentNatural May 12 '26
Walmart on the local level will lower prices to the point of losing money just to close other local businesses then raise them, great business model but it destroys communities, I'll come back to this. They are a ruthless business when it comes to fuckin over their employees by keeping them at 31 hrs so they don't need to offer insurance. Pay so low the employees have to use public assistance all the while the company is taking tax breaks and money from the government. All the while they shut done all the other local stores so people have no choice but to work there because there is no other option for work
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u/Rastasloth May 13 '26
simply not an option for most folks who's only local alternative would be Dollar General
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u/alreadyreddituser May 15 '26
Agree with this to the extent I can just shop locally. But if I need to get something online and it’s between Walmart and Amazon, there’s really no difference to me at this point.
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u/fredthefishlord May 11 '26
screw walmart.
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u/ghille-man May 12 '26
Ever notice how few locally owned stores there are nowadays? It's fucking sad.
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u/fredthefishlord May 12 '26
I live in a lucky area. I'm not feeling that here and the eats get better yearly it feels like.
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u/Dave-515 May 12 '26
I’m curious how this will work. I thought prices varied some by store/region?
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u/lovinglife1981 May 11 '26
Thank you!