Shopping for Baby Rudy

This weekend has been a big adventure. Yesterday I went to nearest Walmart - a 25 mile drive - to see if there was some baby stuff to add to the registry, which I did online. I wasn't able to find a place in the store to add items to my registry. I was walking around looking for a registry desk or the product scanner gun that every one was telling me about...nothing. In my travels I did notice that Walmart has a new grocery store inside, right across from to the baby area. So I got side tracked.

Walmart grocery prices are amazing. Walmart has one side of a refrigerated isle stocked with only ice cream! I had to splurge and get the Blue Bunny Peanut Butter Panic ice cream for Daddy because he's a peanut butter man. Don't get me wrong, I've seen one-stop-shop Walmarts across the world - the one in Shanghai is probably the size of the NYC Macy's - just not one so close to home. And by close I mean 25 miles away. While grocery shopping I found eggs from veggie fed chickens and some organic products and no preservative meats all for great prices. I found out that occationally grocery shopping at Walmart can help with our baby budget, but what about my baby registry? Where can I add items???

I found a manager who explained the situation. Basically Walmart recently went through a remodel, (adding the grocery store that I've been raving about) and in doing so they took out the registry scanners. Strike One! They have a new really cool scanner system but it's not hooked up yet. No ETA either. Strike Two! So how do you add items in the store? Walmart has a computer setup in the electronics department for you to login to walmart.com, find your items add them. Strike Three! I drove 25 minutes to have the option to do what I had been doing at home. If only Walmart.com had indicated that the "local" Walmart I chose didn't have the normal registry process in the store.

This trip was certainly a learning experience. I discovered the Walmart grocery store but after about a 2 hour roundtrip drive (15-20 miles/hour traffic on my return at 12 noon), Rudy and I were exhausted. We decided that when Rudy's born, he's staying at home (not alone) while I do the baby shopping at Target, BabiesRUs, and Walmart -all about 25 miles away from home. This is how my mommy friends do it. Now I know why.