We stocked up on groceries and various supplies at this Walmart in Scarborough, Maine. A group of…read moreus rented an Airbnb house in Pine Point about 8 miles (15-20 minutes driving) away. Our house had a fire pit and we needed a cooler for a fishing trip. Originally, we planned to go Dick's and a grocery store for what we needed. However, we saw this Walmart on the way to Dick's and stopped here instead. It proved to be a one-stop shop for everything we needed.
On a Thursday around 5:30-6:15pm, this Walmart was comfortably busy. We ended up buying nearly $300 worth of food, drink, and supplies for 8 adults. I believe part of our group returned the following day for more food, drink, and supplies like ingredients to cook the fish we caught, breakfast food (bacon, eggs, French toast) and things like paper towels. One of our important purchases here was a 48-quart red Igloo cooler ($24.88) which we used to transport water, beer, sandwiches, and the fish we caught.
We picked up a 3-hour fire log ($3.86) to help start our outdoor fire plus a couple boxes of firewood ($8.54 each). Some pieces of the firewood reminded us of "bad" pieces of construction wood (e.g., 2x4s) in the way they looked and were cut. This was my first time buying firewood at a Walmart. It burned pretty clean.
One of the guys in our group specifically wanted Cara Cara navel oranges and we were able to find them here for $4.74 a bag. Decent quality. The food that was average quality at best were things like the Walmart-brand glazed donuts and cookies (chocolate chip, M&M's). A dozen donuts was only $3.97 per box. A box of cookies was $5.87. Good prices, but only OK quality. That's one of the tradeoffs of shopping at Walmart.
Also, the selection wasn't great. A couple examples of items I couldn't find were Claussen sandwich pickles and Duke's Mayo. For the latter, I ended up going with a bottle of Kraft mayonnaise ($3.98). We got fresh-sliced meat at the deli: $15 worth of ham and $18.49 worth of black pepper turkey. A couple bags of sliced sourdough bread was $3.98 per bag. A bag of everything bagels, $3.74. Slices of cheese for our sandwiches, $6.49. Philly cream cheese for our bagels, $5.84.
We got lots of beer, soda, and bottled water. I noticed we were dinged with various "ME deposits" (Maine deposits?) for each pack of drinks. For example, we were dinged $1.20 for a 24-pack of Michelob Ultra ($21.27). I was dinged 5 cents for a single bottle of Diet Pepsi ($2.38) from one of the checkout lane fridges.
A bag of "Mega" Oreo cookies was $5.68. We got a bag of double-stuffed too ($5.98). I think most of us preferred the Mega Oreos, the Oreo variety with the most cream filling.
My favorite coffee creamer, Silk Almond Creamer Sweet and Creamy flavor, was only $4.90 here. That's roughly what I normally pay in Georgia and North Carolina, but on the low end of a non-sale price. Walmart generally does have the lowest prices around on most products.
Unlike where I live in the South, where there are free plastic bags at Walmart, Target, Publix, Kroger, Harris Teeter, etc., we had to pay for bags here. I assume it's a State of Maine thing. The "wide bags" were $1.48 each. We needed at least a few to haul everything back to the house. They were decent-quality bags, similar to tote bags. They were useful for our fishing trip to transport snacks. We got chips (e.g., Kettle Chips at $3.94 and $4.98 per bag). Dramamine ($4.32) was also useful for our fishing trip: https://www.yelp.com/biz/noreaster-deep-sea-fishing-kennebunkport.
Produce quality was fine (e.g., the aforementioned oranges, iceberg lettuce head for $1.98, bananas for $0.58 per pound, and a two-pack of beef tomatoes for $2.98).
Service was good. We had to ask for assistance to get one of the coolers since they were stacked high up, out of reach. We covered almost the entirety of this Walmart, from the deli to the sports & outdoors section.
