It’s not based on resort area .
Their price point for food is based on how much competition is around them.
If you are looking rural verses resort area you won’t see a difference . If you look rural verses average large city you will notice a difference .
On some items price difference can be as much as 20%
This is on food (not regular store merchandise)
This does not include things like eggs and dairy products since those prices are based mostly on local dairy laws.
If you live in a suburb and you have multiple Walmarts around you and you check around you can find that certain ones will be much cheaper than others .
You are generalizing from your own area again.
Three Walmarts here; identical pricing. Some differences in floor space and inventory. There is another Walmart about 40 miles away in another state where the prices are very slightly different, but they have more local produce.
Also, large cities in this part of the country are nothing like large cities in your part, in terms of grocery pricing, demographics, and just about anything else.
I have no idea what would constitute your idea of “an average large city.” The largest “city” (actually a town) in my county has a year round population of 4,500. The entire county has a population of under 40,000. Within a 100 mile radius of me the largest population center might have 100,000.
I don’t buy all that much food in WalMart and so have no basis to compare from area to area, and what food I do bu there it is only in one WM and it is not in the one in my own county as that is twice the distance from the one that is in the next state.