Carolyn J. Braden • 3 Minute Read
You Won’t Believe These Finds Are from the New Walmart
In 2025, Walmart announced it was remodeling 650 stores and now that we are in Q3 of the year, I am seeing some positive results. After I spent an evening browsing and shopping a Fort Myers Beach, Florida Walmart store in August 2025, I saw a new Walmart and it excited me. Read on to learn about the new store designs and see some of the cool tech-centered features the store had to enhance my shopping.
Want a quick peek inside what I love at Walmart right now? Check out my Walmart Shop here and shop my loves as seen in this article!
Instant cameras and film at Walmart
Before I show and tell all about my Walmart finds, I want to tell you why I shop Walmart, which starts where most price-conscious shoppers like me start….with their wallet!
Octopus Beach Towel Hanger at Walmart
Walmart’s Affordability and Value
First and foremost, Walmart has always been affordable for all budgets. Now, they aren’t always the lead in low prices, as I always do a lot of comparison shopping before making many purchases, but Walmart does compete in the low-price race. I like using their app to look up prices, which is an easy way to determine affordability and value as a customer.
These web chairs give me vintage vibes
I also use my Walmart+ subscription to get many items sent to me or be delivered to my home (or other’s homes) for free. I also love the pickup…how cool is it you can park, tell the store where you are and the color of your car and they bring you items you ordered to your car!
I love the one piece romper at Walmart
Walmart+ has been an easy way to save money on gas, we received a Paramount+ subscription complimentary with it (we loved watching the new Frasier!), there are travel deals, auto care (free road hazard!) discounts and more. With Walmart+, you can also add a credit card to your app and scan and pay in-store without waiting in lines. You can do this with a Sam’s Club membership too, as we have a Sam’s Club membership.
Read about our Sam’s Club loves (Sam’s Club is a division of the Walmart brand) here in my article or below in my peek inside the club 1-minute video via our YouTube channel @carolynjbraden.
Now, that you understand all about the value Walmart can bring to your life, here are my Walmart finds (and new tech approaches to shopping the store) that I think you’ll love at prices you’ll love too!
A store display that is interactive at a new Walmart designed store
Stylish or Designer-Inspired Collections (like those from Drew Barrymore or Paris Hilton)
One thing I noticed in recent Walmart visits was the amount of quality collaborations have increased. From Paris Hilton, to Drew Barrymore and the Pioneer Woman, they definitely have a lot of exclusive to Walmart lines.
Budget friendly tees at Walmart
Summer 2025 even brought on a “Hot Girl Summer” collab with Megan Thee Stallion…go girl go! I have several items from the Pioneer Woman line, which I use in my kitchen and love, especially these cute vintage looking drinking glasses, which are best sellers.
The mannequins give Walmart a department store vibe
Paris Hilton’s pink cookware is a fun addition to any home kitchen. Beautiful by Drew Barrymore is truly that…beautiful! Her product designers helped her create kitchen items, home décor and more that you’d actually want to show off in your home. The Beautiful microwave alone is stunning with its sleek design and gold handle.
My summer 2025 Walmart Beauty Box
Seasonal Trends and Fresh Product Lines
I love makeup and love my Walmart Beauty Box subscription. They fill the box with items that are new to the market or are highly rated, with some being full sized and some being deluxe sample sized. At $6.98 a quarter (it is sent 4 times a year with the changing of the seasons), plus tax, it’s worth trying if you are beauty lover. You can cancel at any time.
I love the heart hands and coffee filter looking bowl
Walmart’s Better Homes and Gardens home décor collection always hits seasonal trends and gets them right. I can find many unique and quality products in the BH&G collections. I wrote an entire article about their egg chairs because they survived a Cat 4/5 hurricane, Hurricane Ian, that hit our Sanibel Island home in 2022. Read about it here. I’m currently scouting this double papasan chair by BH&G at Walmart that looks oh so comfy.
The cutest My Texas Home collab at Walmart
Store Redesigns or Enhanced Tech Features
In the new look of the Fort Myers Beach Walmart, I saw department store inspired displays to show me, as the customer, how to put together looks using Walmart furniture and décor finds. They had several throughout the store with QR codes. I found this beautiful dining table and seagrass chairs by their collab with My Texas House using the QR code in the store.
The QR codes make shopping in the store fun and interactive with the Walmart app
When you use your phone to scan the QR code, you can find everything in the app on display and some more things you may like that fit the aesthetic of the display. You can buy right in the app, or save items so you can think about the items when you get home or you can easily find them to purchase in the store using the store map.
I adore this boho and casual Walmart home decor
I noticed the store having a better flow than the average Walmart. The store shelves were tall, but not too tall. It was super clean and I had access to all the aisles. In some of the older store designs, the beauty section is separated by tall shelves, is secluded and feels very small. This was not the case in the new store design.
I love a good basket for home storage and organization
Blend of Home Décor (With Other Categories Like Fashion or Lifestyle)
I saw home décor that was very trendy, and some items that were classic. Storage baskets will always be a staple in my home! I loved seeing the mannequins (another department store vibe) adorned with trending clothing, the $6.98 prices of the graphic tees are great for funny tee shirt lovers in your home (like my husband) and the octopus beach towel hanger actually hangs in my laundry room for air drying my delicates. The web chairs brought back memories of my grandma’s outdoor chairs.
I love the pet friendly home pillows!
While I looked at home décor (I loved the heart hands figure, the Together pillow, and the Reserved for the Dog pillow!) at Walmart, my husband found the tech aisle. We love their Bose SoundLink Micro and use it as a sound machine at night. We also love their huge selection of instant cameras…I wrote this article all about my love of instant photos.
We love the Bose speakers
So, if you haven’t been into your local Walmart in a long while or shopped the app, it’s time to take another look. If you don’t like quality products or saving money, then you can bypass anything I’ve written, lol!
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Carolyn J. Braden is the owner of Carolyn’s Blooming Creations is a regular contributor and editor for CBC. She has been featured in numerous media publications such as InStyle Magazine, on HGTV, on Bustle.com, and more. She is the author of the books Georgia McMasters in Amethyst Lake Cemetery, How To Be Yourself: 3 Ways To Help You Being You, and the illustrator for the children’s book Bridging Connections. She is a former classroom teacher that now dedicates her life to educating others on how to live their most healthy, creative and happy life. Learn more about her visiting our About Us page.