Really? Is that for all items?
So far that I've found, and we've been here 3 1/2 years.
I'm even including the grocery store, and I'm paying a 2.5% sales tax on food in Virginia. My grocery bill is still less than when we lived in Dover, and I'm shopping I the same store, Food Lion, as I did there.
I have to go to Maryland to go to WalMart, but the prices are lower than in WalMart in DE, even with MD's 5% sales tax added on.
What most people fail to realize is that Delaware may not have a sales tax you pay at the register and see on your receipt is that DE has a hidden sales tax called the gross receipts tax and it hits supermarkets and retailers particularly hard. Those are high volume, thus high dollar, businesses.............and because the tax is based on the GROSS, not NET, it gets passed on to the consumers.
I was absolutely shocked the first time I went into Food Lion here to buy groceries. Pantry staple items I was used to paying $1.50 for in Dover I was buying here for 89 cents.......that is a major difference. Prices have gone up, but I'm still only paying $1.09.