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jmen24 · 03-08-2010, 10:57 AM

My wife has to do price checks every week at all the other grocery stores in her stores area for the dairy products only. Includes a Walmart, a Shaw's and a Hannaford. All chains do this by the way and if you get recognized you get tossed out.

The reason that type of milk was more money is that is not one of Walmart's "commodity" items, those are the items that are cheaper than other stores, but like Shaw's and Hannaford, they offset those lower priced items with higher priced "non-commodity" items. Whole milk gallons, eggs, stick margerine, white or wheat bread, standard American Cheese, etc are considered commodity items.

03-08-2010, 10:57 AM	#7
jmen24 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,139 Thanks: 223 Thanked 319 Times in 181 Posts	How they claim that they are cheaper. My wife has to do price checks every week at all the other grocery stores in her stores area for the dairy products only. Includes a Walmart, a Shaw's and a Hannaford. All chains do this by the way and if you get recognized you get tossed out. The reason that type of milk was more money is that is not one of Walmart's "commodity" items, those are the items that are cheaper than other stores, but like Shaw's and Hannaford, they offset those lower priced items with higher priced "non-commodity" items. Whole milk gallons, eggs, stick margerine, white or wheat bread, standard American Cheese, etc are considered commodity items.