We shop at our Neighborhood Wal-Mart grocery store. (not a big Wal-mart but one focused on food instead.) Over the past few years, we have noticed prices go up up up on store brand and name brand items. We started buying the Sam’s Choice products because I refuse to buy a can of green beans for $1/can. That’s crazy. Of course, when other stuff is on sale, we buy the other stuff. We haven’t noticed a difference in quality. We buy the Great Value laundry detergent—smells great and seems to work just fine. We buy Great Value vinegar, sugar, canned veggies, and I don’t know what else. I haven’t noticed that seasonings have been replaced with GV stuff. Maybe it’s happened. I don’t know. If Wal-Mart is replacing name brand stuff with the GV stuff, it’s because they’re selling more GV stuff.
The prices at our Wal-Mart started going up when the gas prices skyrocketed. When the minimum wage increase went into effect, prices went up even more. The only products that we have seen decrease in price are milk and butter, and that varies. We watch sales a lot more than ever. The only people who’ve seen wage increases in the past 3 years are the folks on minimum wage, and a lot of good their wage increases did. They now pay more for food. And I’ve noticed that our Wal-Mart grocery has cut back on workers. Government mandated wages have a cost.
We shop at our Neighborhood Wal-Mart grocery store. (not a big Wal-mart but one focused on food instead.) Over the past few years, we have noticed prices go up up up on store brand and name brand items.
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I've noticed at the neighborhood Walmart that they sell their products for a higher price than the SuperCenter one, that is two miles away from the neighborhood store.
On one particular item that I have bought, it's 52-cents at one and 42-cents at the other. There's another product that I buy for $1... that is 90-cents at the bigger Walmart.
Now, that really suprised me when I found that out... hoo-boy!
And this is done consistently over a wider variety of products with the pricing difference varying, but always with the SuperCenter store being the cheaper place than the Neighborhood Walmart...