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bucolic_frolic

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3. Walmart prices have been marching upward for several months

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 10:34 AM

Jan 2022

as I've posted several times. Not uncommon to see 12-20% on foodstuffs. WW flour $3.52 to $4.12 to $4.38. Baking powder $1.84 to $1.92. Laptops all up $10 or $20 last week. Walmart will be fine. Customers, not so much.

It's so bad they removed the price check scanners in the store. The prices on the shelves cannot keep up with what's rung at the register. I stopped arguing. I get clipped once and buy next time elsewhere.

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Pandemic Profiteering, Plain and Simple': Walmart and Kroger Hike Prices for Covid Tests [View all] douglas9 Jan 2022 OP

I have never seen a testing kit for $14 Miguelito Loveless Jan 2022 #1

Hubster paid $14.99 for a test.. luvs2sing Jan 2022 #2

No Kroger's in my area Miguelito Loveless Jan 2022 #4

Walmart prices have been marching upward for several months bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #3

A little over a year ago, I could save a money at Walmart. luvs2sing Jan 2022 #9

I'm with you bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #10

'Pandemic Profiteering' WHITT Jan 2022 #5

Yes... and no this isn't a fair report JT45242 Jan 2022 #6

Walmart and Kroger are raising prices for BinaxNOW rapid Covid-19 tests after the expiration of a de douglas9 Jan 2022 #7

Kroger in my town never lowered the cost from $24 a box. Period. nt DURHAM D Jan 2022 #14

CVS $26 for a two pack ! Go after them too! essaynnc Jan 2022 #8

For profit health care. It's the game, not the players. Midnight Writer Jan 2022 #11

How much profit constitutes profiteering? sl8 Jan 2022 #12

They're not hiking the prices from what I can tell. PTWB Jan 2022 #13

FFS These should have been free to begin with leftstreet Jan 2022 #15