"MajorOz" wrote in message
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On Sep 25, 4:40 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"Ann" wrote in message

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"JoeSpareBedroom" expounded:

Tell me something, Bill: If you buy a box of cereal for $3.00 at WM,
and a
friend points out that the same exact box of cereal costs $2.69 at the
grocery store all the time, without a sale going on, what would you
say?

If that were true, I'd buy it at the grocery store. In our case one
kind we buy is cheaper at Market Basket, the other at Walmart. So we
buy it where it's cheapest.

Let's extend this: If your local newspaper took a big shopping list to
WM
and two grocery stores, and found that both grocery stores were
significantly cheaper than WM for the exact same list of items, what
would
be your reaction to that?

Duh.

Yes. Duh. And yet here, people continue to shop there, even when the
local
paper does these sample shops which prove that WM is more expensive.

How does the paper compare WM's generics to the other stores?

cheers

oz


I haven't seen them do that. But in this particular market, the results
would probably be the same as for name brand products. The reasons go
deep....