If I only want 2-3 choices for any category, I’ll go to Aldi’s to buy everything.
If I want that particular Asian style chicken dinner or 50 choices of soda, I will go to the main grocery store.
If I want 10 choices of soda and 4 of spaghetti sauce types, I go to Walmart.
But I can currently choose my range of selection, as well as the product I want. The retailers with fewer choices have lower average prices because of reduced inventory costs. In short, choice costs.
But when the government comes in and says “you can only have 5 types of soda, all approved by the state”, that’s not even socialism, it is communism.
When we were stationed in late 70s in Finthen, Germany and lived in Mainz we used to go shopping all the time at Aldi’s. We have a Aldi’s here, which is only a little over 2 miles from me. For some reason I don’t care for it