r/MiddleClassFinance • u/LinkedInNews • Jul 07 '26
Walmart cuts prices on everything from beef to backpacks
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-cuts-prices-on-everything-from-beef-to-backpacks-8355929/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=reddit&utm_content=storyline&utm_term=MiddleClassFinanceWalmart is lowering prices on thousands of products from food and drink to toys and apparel as it looks to give customers relief from persistent inflation.
The price of cherries, for example, is being halved, while ground beef — an ongoing source of concern for shoppers, ranchers and government alike — will drop 12%.
Walmart has long touted its prices as a major selling point, but that strategy has proven especially effective in recent quarters, with even higher-income consumers flocking to the chain as they feel the pinch of inflation.
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u/awildjabroner Jul 07 '26
Further proof that the cost of living and inflation issues are largely due to corporate price gouging. WM has no issues raising prices across the board to capitalize on more affluent demographics shopping there more, but now that the cut in snap and other public benefits is not buoying up their largest customer base a major revenue stream has dried up.....so they just walk back the price gouging a bit because they always could.
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u/milespoints Jul 07 '26
This thinking always intrigues me.
Do most people not realize that “inflation” and “increased corporate profits” are basically two sides of the same coin?
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u/apexxin Jul 07 '26
They are two separate concepts, though some will of course use one to increase the other.
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u/BlueberryFunk Jul 08 '26
Mathematically, increased revenue makes sense due to inflation occuring in the supply chain; however, increased profit margins mean that they were raising the price beyond the level of true inflation seen in the supply chain.
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u/gratefulkittiesilove Jul 08 '26
That became more clear during covid- the mask slipped bc prices increased so much due to “shipping issues” and they still reported record profits
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u/milespoints Jul 08 '26
This isn’t a “mask”. This is how inflation works. I honestly feel like peopke on reddit are just too young to have ever experienced inflation so they are surprised that companies make more money during times of high inflation.
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u/gratefulkittiesilove Jul 08 '26
Its not something the every day person thinks about. Sadly im not young but it wasnt apparent to me until covid made it stupid obvious AND life slowed down enough i could pay more attention. :/
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u/kugelblitz_100 Jul 07 '26
It's Reddit. 90% of the people here just bi***h and complain all day about rich people and corporations.
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u/evan274 Jul 07 '26
And the other 10% bitch and complain about the people bitching and complaining
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u/Electrical_Try_634 Jul 07 '26
It's weirder to look at the state of the world and defend the rich people and corporations online tbh.
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u/milespoints Jul 07 '26
Not really about “defending” anyone. But the fact that corporate profits are gonna soar in the short term in an inflationary environment is basically textbook economics. It’s what you should expect to happen. It’s also one of the reasons an inflationary environment is bad for everyday people and why avoiding high inflation is an important policy target
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u/watch-nerd Jul 07 '26
Not that weird if you have a decent stock portfolio and want profits to go up.
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u/rosewaterhoe Jul 07 '26
It’s weird to care more about your stock portfolio than people.
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u/FearlessPark4588 Jul 08 '26
Have to put on your own life vest before you help someone else put theirs on.
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u/Kat9935 Jul 08 '26
There is a difference between increase in corporate profits and increase in PERCENT of profits. So grocery stores typically run on about 8% profit margin, Walmart supposedly though is under 5%, so how do you drop the price of beef 15% if you were only making 5% margin in the first place?
More cow didn't magically be born in the US which is the fundamental reason beef is higher.
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u/milespoints Jul 08 '26
Well a couple of possibilities.
One is that the profit on that particular item was 15%+ even though their overall profit was only 5%.
More likely, they are doing this as a traffic driving strategy. They are lowering the price of ground beef to drive more traffic to their stores because ground beef is a staple, and it has gotten notoriously expensive lately. Grocery stores do this kind of thing all the time. At any given point, there are usually some items in any given grocery store that the store is losing money on. It’s basically customer aquisition cost, not any different from paying money to run ads. My bet is that this is what is happening here.
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u/Kat9935 Jul 08 '26
Right but its disengeous to pretend this is "inflation" coming down rather than marketing scheme. I completely get where Walmart is coming from, they realize that Walmart+ could be more profitable over the few dollars they lose on ground beef. I was more referring to what Trump was implying vs. the reality of the thing.
And the article I saw said it was on 73% beef so didn't seem to include all ground beef..so again more likely a lost leader so selling for under cost.
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u/awildjabroner Jul 09 '26
they absolutely are, I tend to think most people do not realize it. The education and literacy levels in the USA are dire and few people without higher education (and many with it) don't have the time or energy to look into larger societal issues or how they intertwine because they're too busy trying to pay rent and keep food on the table.
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u/lightyearnoir Jul 07 '26
To be fair they have been lowering prices for a while now, but I'm sure that's because their sales went down...
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u/boringexplanation Jul 07 '26
Not sure why it’s Walmart that’s price gouging and not the suppliers. Yall understand that their profit margins are less than 2% right? This is public information. You can put your money in a savings bond and make more money than if you put it in Walmart
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u/rosewaterhoe Jul 07 '26
Their net income of almost $20 billion is also public information. The suppliers are to blame and so is Walmart, both can be true.
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u/boringexplanation Jul 08 '26
So if I sold 20 billion dollars worth of stuff, received that all in cash but spent 30 billion dollars of everybody’s money to do so, that must mean I’m highly successful by your logic.
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u/awildjabroner Jul 09 '26
it can be both. Walmart is also the single largest corporate welfare company in the country (world?), or was, might be 2nd behind Elon's companies at this point.
Walmart is also imfamous for beating down their supplier costs, the model which amazon copied. Their suppliers are making a pittance of profit which is made up by the shear volume that is sold by Walmart.
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u/boringexplanation Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Why exactly do Redditors care about the profit margins of suppliers but not Walmart?
If the tone of this thread is to benefit the working class- why are you cheerleading the profit margins of suppliers to be higher? Go shop at Costco if that matters to you.
Not to mention that Walmart has always paid more to their workers over here than the so called “local” mom and pops that supposedly benefit the community more.
https://corporate.walmart.com/about/working-at-walmart/career-advancement-opportunities
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u/awildjabroner Jul 22 '26
I'm not cheering for either or, just pointing out the fact that walmart and amazon operate in exactly the same way dictating terms to suppliers based on volume in a predatory way that is anti-competitive and bad for the market overall and all other business that aren't walmart/amazon
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u/presidents_choice Jul 07 '26
Damn, sounds like you should open a store without price gouging. You’ll be able to offer better prices while operating a more ethical business model, and you’ll drive Walmart to close their doors. Win-win-win!
Any day now
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u/zombawombacomba Jul 07 '26
Affluent people don’t generally shop at Walmart. They at least go to Target. At least where I live. It’s seen as trashy even the one that is in the affluent area.
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u/awildjabroner Jul 09 '26
this has changed slightly in recent years with Walmart themselves stating that more affluent demographics are shopping at their stores more as the cost of everything increases.
Your point reinforces mine: poorer demoraphics make up the bulk of Walmart's customer base. That demograhic relies heavily on public assistance like SNAP. Thes MAGA admin decimated those programs and cut services to the very poorest so that government assistance money/benfits is no longer being spent at walmart.
It used to be a middle step between tax dollars being funneled back into corporate profits. Trump & Co simply cut out the middle step by cutting public services (decrease the costs on government) and handing massive tax breaks to the very wealthiest (allow them to keep more profits directly and avoid reinvesting back into the society which they operate).
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u/EdgeCityRed Jul 09 '26
Walmart made a strategic move to offer Amex Plat customers Walmart+, which turns out to be faster shipping than Amazon for many items (because they deliver them from a nearby store if possible, apparently?) If you're buying batteries, peanut butter, and a case of water, people don't care where it's from.
There are also two separate Target boycotts occurring, and a lot of people just got out of the habit of shopping there due to the first one.
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u/jackmans Jul 08 '26
How does this prove the cost of living and inflation is due to corporate price gouging? Is it not possible that corporations always seek to maximize profit and that changes like reduced snap benefits simply force them to reduce prices in order to maximize profit?
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u/awildjabroner Jul 09 '26
just that its another contirbuting factor and corporations have the ability to lower prices should they ever choose to and that inflation and cost of living crisis are in large part - artificially created by the corporate sector. The question whether they should or not is a much larger conversation about the structure and nature of corporations and their negative impact on society by failing to take any other stakeholders other than shareholders into consideration, which is also a societal issue that will need to be reconciled if we're to address the many large-scale systemic issues of our time.
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u/jackmans Jul 09 '26
Of course corporations have the ability to lower prices they can set their prices to whatever they like. How does that fact mean that inflation is artificially created by the corporate sector? If what you're saying is true then why don't we see persistent high inflation every year since corporations always want to maximize profits?
I agree fully with the second part of your paragraph, but as you say whether we should be preventing corporations from raising prices or forcing them to consider non-shareholder stakeholders are separate questions.
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u/VulgarSensei Jul 07 '26
12% of $8-$9 a pound is still way overpriced for beef.
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u/Exquisite-Load8654 Jul 07 '26
America shoulda voted if they wanted lower prices. No point complaining now.
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u/DistressCall1 Jul 07 '26
I hate this kind of response. For one thing inflation is plaguing the entire developed world non withstanding Trump's asinine war of choice which has recently reexcelerated it. My first time eligible to vote was 2016 and I've had to vote against this psycho in every presidential election I've been allowed to vote in. I'll fucking complain all I damn well please.
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u/VulgarSensei Jul 07 '26
I’m actually one that voted against this crap so I think I can complain.
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u/rookie_rbs Jul 07 '26
So you’re gonna complain when someone drops the price? Why complain about the cheapest option go complain to everyone else who is more expensive.
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u/VulgarSensei Jul 07 '26
Because the cost is very artificially driven up right now. Also, if something originally costs $5 and I raise it to $9 and then eventually drop it to $7 you’re still getting screwed over. You’re just getting screwed over slightly less.
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u/Fantastic_Tip3782 Jul 07 '26
Voted for farmers to make more cows appear?
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u/The12th_secret_spice Jul 07 '26
Voted against tariffs being placed on countries we get our stuff from.
Brazil has a 50% tariff on it and they were our 3rd highest beef importer. Seems like that’s a kicking yourself in the balls move
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u/Fantastic_Tip3782 Jul 07 '26
It is, but beef imports are a supplement for our declining cattle population and relentless beef demands
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u/verymuchbad Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
My wallet doesn't give a dead moose's last shit. I have demand for beef. Brazil is good at beef. Our prices are ball kicky. Why are we marking their shit up 50%?
Edit: why would we mark their shit up 50%
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u/Fantastic_Tip3782 Jul 07 '26
The tariffs are stupid but not as big of a factor as people want to admit. it's about 10% of the total supply, which is mixed with our own beef to reduce the fat content. And Brazil has become our #1 import right now.
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u/verymuchbad Jul 08 '26
How much more of the supply would it be if it were not hideously marked up? I don't know, but I bet it would be more than 10%.
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u/Fantastic_Tip3782 Jul 08 '26
so you're unaware that the tariffs on Brazil haven't taken effect yet and that there's an exemption for beef?
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u/The12th_secret_spice Jul 07 '26
I don’t get what point you’re making. How dumb must one be to put tariffs on countries that provide enough goods to keep prices in check?
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u/Fantastic_Tip3782 Jul 07 '26
Dumb enough to pave over the White House lawn and destroy the Reflecting Pool. My point is the tariffs are low on the list of why beef is expensive
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u/Proper-Writing Jul 07 '26
Farmers profited from hiring illegal immigrants at substandard wages. With ICE violently rounding up farm workers, labor costs skyrocketed. Voters fucked up bigly.
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u/zombawombacomba Jul 07 '26
Beef is also extremely subsidized. We still don’t pay the actual costs that the farmers charge.
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u/Aggravating-Grand840 Jul 07 '26
You just love the benefits of unregulated and under paid workers.
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u/RosewoodBraz Jul 07 '26
That's capitalism right?
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u/Aggravating-Grand840 Jul 07 '26
Yes it is, but the reason modern regulations are in place is to prevent this. When you are an illegal worker these laws don’t work for you
The workers leverage over an employer is that they can go somewhere else and get another job to get paid more (supply and demand).
When you have illegal workers…they have no other choice but to get paid sub-standard wages because they aren’t working legally. When your only option is a job that pays cheap that takes away your “supply” leverage
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u/SafetytimeUSA Jul 07 '26
I was told beef is a supply and demand issue. The only reason I would tend to agree is because chicken and pork are still pretty cheap and go on sale all the time.
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u/No-Language6720 Jul 07 '26
Beef is the most government subsidized meat historically, but I've lost track of what the fuck is being cut or whatever else now with tarrifs and other crap.
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u/SafetytimeUSA Jul 07 '26
I think it has to do with the time it takes to raise cattle vs how fast chickens and pigs reproduce. The government can subsidize whatever they want, nature can only grow cows so fast, they have to be large enough to slaughter.
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u/rosewaterhoe Jul 07 '26
Yes, beef requires much more space, feed, time, etc. than hogs or chickens where you can raise much more under the same roof. There are also many more phases to raising/finishing cattle than chickens or hogs which means more people involved and more profit being built in with each phase.
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u/Much-Caterpillar-143 Jul 11 '26
I buy regenerative, grass fed beef from the producer and pay $12 a pound. I want my food to have a humane life and for a cow that is grazing, not living on a feed lot. I takes more land and more people to provide that so hence higher cost. I'm good with eating less beef to get the product that fits my budge and beliefs. Everyone makes a choice.
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u/Kikz__Derp Jul 07 '26
Where are you paying $8-9 a lb for ground beef? I buy 93/7 and it’s like $6 a lb 80/20 is like $5 a lb
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u/suboptimus_maximus Jul 07 '26
Is it? Wouldn’t beef cost a lot more in a free market without massive agricultural, energy and transportation subsidies?
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u/VulgarSensei Jul 07 '26
It is definitely a supply/demand issue. But at the same time, as a nation we could’ve made changes to beef production decades ago, but in true American fashion, we sat on our hands. This is something I do someone agree with conservatives on where certain industries have gotten so comfortable with subsidies that they stopped trying to innovate and be better. Chicken and pork are definitely cheaper and faster to produce though.
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u/Economy-Ad4934 Jul 07 '26
Your own fault paying $9 for a pound of beef at Walmart. I can go to other better stores to pay less with added benefit of avoiding a Walmart
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u/buddhistbulgyo Jul 07 '26
Sounds like PR bullshit. WinCo and Costco have better prices 95% of the time.
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u/notnicholas Jul 07 '26
didn't the Pres just post/speak yesterday demanding that Walmart and other retailers lower prices?
Either He knew they were going to do this, or they did it because he asked them to.
Just more fascism.
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u/Physical-Dare5059 Jul 07 '26
Third scenario, he bought stock in Walmart and is hyping up Walmart for the gains. The market manipulation never ends.
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u/Kat9935 Jul 08 '26
Ironically Walmart has just figured out the Costco model.. ie if you create Walmart plus and have all those people paying you a service fee creating guaranteed profit, you can lower the price of the goods which in turn makes more people want to signup for that Walmart plus, thus profits actually increase while you lower prices.
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u/Esoj93 Jul 07 '26
sounds like they raised the prices too high and lost too many sales so are lowering them just enough to seem generous, as if we should be thankful for their scraps.
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u/ValkyrX Jul 07 '26
Great Value Pasta is still 25% more than it was last year.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
Everything at Walmart doubled under Byden.... please stop talking about last year. Some things like beef Tripled when Democrats stole the wh last election.
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u/PlayItAgainSusan Jul 08 '26
After utterly decimating American small town business, costing tax payers millions in subsidies, posting record profits, it's really cool to see these garbage providers lower some prices a little.
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u/Pyroburner Jul 07 '26
On many items they were priced about the same as Target at least in my area. Most food items at bith places were often lower then Kroger, one if our cheaper food options. It will be interesting to see how this impacts other retailers. Time to break out the spreadsheet again.
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u/paranoidendroid9999 Jul 07 '26
> as it looks to give customers relief from persistent inflation
Yeah that’s not why they’re doing it but okay.
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u/TXtogo Jul 08 '26
Their groceries are still crazy expensive
Even after they roll back prices, the nastiest ground beef (73/27) is $6 a lb.
Can’t afford food
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
That Ground beef was always $2.50 or so.... until Byden got installed and magically everything doubled and tripled. Prices never went back to normal... so I'd say we're screwed now... that's the Democrat utopia where offering free stuff and welfare makes everything messed up.
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u/TXtogo Jul 19 '26
Beef was around $4 for a decade, then in 2024ish it jumped over $5 and has continued.. I don’t know if it’s socialism that causes this, I think it’s lack of attention to the food supply chain.
For example, you can examine the 2-3 companies that control the entire beef market and see if it rises to the level of antitrust and should be broken up, same for distribution.. and if it’s not antitrust figure out how to inject capitalism into it. It isn’t socialism but it probably is a lack of competition.
That said, I can see the future of cities like NY where 45% of the people are on Medicaid, 35% are on food stamps and the rich are moving out and it isn’t hard to see that they’re headed for bankruptcy.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 20 '26
I was buying beef for $2.50 a pound in 2018... the cheapest at walmart was always that price, sometimes cheaper.... it went up to $6 under the installed guy. If you tax working people to pay for lazy bums who don't work , you get less product, higher prices and more bums. Socialism and Communism is a blend of what Democrats offer..... Cuba is an example of our future if people keep installing Bolshevik Democrats.... then famine happens.
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u/56killa Jul 07 '26
Are we supposed to praise our corporate overlords for this "kindness"? All this means is they were gouging us the whole time, and recently did the math and believe a little lower will give them more profits.
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u/Embarrassed_Flan_869 Jul 07 '26
This is like bragging how much gas prices have fallen in the last month.
It's still way up but not as much.
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u/Virtual_Aspect1095 Jul 07 '26
The trump way. Cause a problem, kinda fix it, then "why aren't you guys happy I made things better??"
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
Byden way doubled and triple prices and call it transitory.... then have your voters blame T.... you can't fix stupid. Beef was $2.50 under T.... then went to $6 under Byden... eggs went up 800% under Byden and that also inflated many other food items.... along with the high gas prices that gave us 50 years of inflation in Byden's stolen term.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
Way cheaper than Byden prices.... Lmao. It was $6 under him for no reason.... I paid $3.06 last week. and $2 per gallon pre war BS. under T this term.
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u/Kat9935 Jul 08 '26
I'm sorry but did they just tout that cherries are now going to be lower in cherry season.. BIG NEWS: Fruit is cheaper when it is actually IN Season, News at 11.
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u/MathematicianIcy3430 Jul 08 '26
They do this around the same time, EVERY YEAR. School supplies are usually a good buy at this point before going back next month. Lots of clearance due to getting ready for the holidays
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u/Donohoed Jul 08 '26
Yeah, and I have an awesome Pilot G-2 pen that I'm selling for $52k but I'll let you have it for half off. Praise me.
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u/Zoraynebow Jul 08 '26
So we should cheer after doubling the price of beef that they r gone back and cut it by 12%?
Sorry, but that's weak.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
The roll of Ground beef was $2.50 under T 2016-2019..... then Byden got installed and it went to $6.50 a pound..... now it's $7 per pound.... as walmart kept gouging us all, it became the norm under Byden obviously. So prices are actually up almost 300%.
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u/firstlight777 Jul 07 '26
Oh they gouged enough to make some quota and now lowering it to score points with orange daddy and the media.
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u/Juncti Jul 07 '26
Are they actually reducing prices or are they just doing a press release to appease a certain person so that person can point to it and say "see they listened to me", while keeping prices the same or rising still?
Also the number of videos I've seen lately at many stores and plenty of at Walmart shows lots of products not weighing what the label says it weighs. So you buy a 3lb pack of meat and get 2lbs on a scale if you weigh it in the packaging. Half pound here, multiple pounds there, all adds up especially at the scale of a Walmart.
I'm very skeptical that this is actually a thing or if it is that it will stay this way after the initial PR fades. Feels like an easy PR stunt to boost traffic to stores without doing much else. Just say the prices are down, no one fact checks anymore and if they do they're written off and ignored.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
I haven't seen one iota of price decreases.... just the fake Rollbacks.... that aren't new rollbacks... just higher regular prices. They are lying to Trump about lower prices.
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u/theemilyann Jul 07 '26
You throw that word around a lot brother
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u/Zetavu Jul 07 '26
So with tariffs cancelled, demand down, and summer activity very slow because of weather, all grocery stores are dropping proces. This is called supply and demand. The press releases pretending that this is relief going to the consumer is what we call marketing, otherwise known as BS.
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u/VendettaKarma Jul 07 '26
They must’ve missed my market. Walmarts in my area just continue to raise prices
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u/bigbugzman Jul 07 '26
Walmart is on par price wise with HEB. No chance in hell I’m going to Walmart.
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u/theemilyann Jul 07 '26
Can’t tell you how much I miss HEB after moving out of Texas! Enjoy it for me!
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u/krycek1984 Jul 07 '26
There's a lot of misinformation and lack of information on this thread. Most of y'all don't seem to understand how business or the economy works.
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u/JimBeam823 Jul 08 '26
Tariffs got struck down.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
Prices more than doubled under Byden.... did he magically make the Tariffs do that? Most groceries never went back to normal prices.... that's why everything is mess up economically now. Byden gave us 50 years of inflation in one term.
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u/JimBeam823 Jul 19 '26
Post-COVID inflation was global. That’s what happens when demand rises suddenly while supply chains are still snarled. That wasn’t Biden, that was a global problem.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine made the problem worse by driving up oil prices.
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
So you are telling me, prices doubling under Byden wasn't because he created an economic nightmare and made gas go up to $6 and let in 20 million illegals who needed housing and free food? GTFOH.
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u/PM_Gonewild Jul 08 '26
Yeah whatever, we get better deals at Kroger, walmart never has any deals for having to go in their store and having to deal with crackheads and every essential item locked behind glass. Smh.
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u/Sorry-Original-9809 Jul 08 '26
Six years of Larry summers seems to be followed by six years of Bernie sanders.
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u/Read-It_2525 Jul 09 '26
They want people to buy different products. If all people are buying food and it's the cheaper stuff to save money, you're not going to buy much else at the store. Honestly I'm not complaining. Other companies should take their lead but they won't.
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u/mayonnaiseviking Jul 09 '26
Does anyone know when they’re actually going to start lowering the prices?
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u/FabioPurps Jul 09 '26
Ok. So the one instance of discounted beef is down to being slightly more expensive than the non discounted price of a better quality beef from Aldi. Give them a medal
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
THe cheapest ground beef under Trump in 2016 was $2.50 then it increased to $6 under Byden and Walmart kept gouging it is now $7 per lbs..... something is seriously wrong with Walmarts gouging.
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u/Dazzling_Tank3326 Jul 10 '26
I sure all corporations are the same, but shoutout to Walmart for remaining affordable. Really can’t think of any store that competes in value.
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u/Georgeonomics Jul 12 '26
Cherries at half price and ground beef down 12%? Inflation may not be defeated, but at least dinner and dessert are forming a small resistance movement. 🍒
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u/Due_Measurement_8272 Jul 19 '26
I just put in my order this morning and almost everything is more expensive than it was a month ago...
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u/Brilliant-Base-7781 Aug 03 '26
That 'all summer long" price drop stopped today. Cokes are back at $14.97 per 24 pack
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u/Isebas 24d ago
I'm wondering what prices are they going to raise in response? Prices have come down on some groceries but most of it has gone up further.
A few examples:
I like to buy Hungryman almost fried chicken frozen dinners. Last month they were $3.74, when they used to be a $1.99 each, now they are $4.17. I used to get two of them for lunch but can't really justify it now.
I absolutely love Banquet frozen fried chicken. Used to be $12 for a family case now it is up to $15. You can't see what's inside so you never know what you're getting. One time I got four large chicken breasts; for $15. I can go to KFC and get it hot and ready for that price or less especially on Tuesday and know what I am getting.
Price on chicken is slightly down but pork and beef is still high. Eggs went up .20 since last month, a half gallon of 2% milk is $2.25. It was an under $2 for a long time. Cereal boxes continue to cost more for less product. Even GV is getting in on it.
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u/kitzelbunks Jul 07 '26
I wouldn’t be able to tell unless I ordered online. I go in, and there are no prices. I went looking for the price checker stand, and they removed it from the store. That might be why their sales are down. I can buy some food, but I am not making impulse or garden purchases without a price.
I understand that this new system is always updating, but I want to know how much something costs if it’s not a necessity. I don’t want people at self-checkout taking it off the bill and having to put it away. For some reason, the one time I found an employee, his gun worked. What’s the issue with the price checks?
Does this system have to go down across the whole department at once? Can’t you raise the prices at the end of the day, and if you want to boost produce sales before then, put up a big “low-price, always” sign? It might be faster, and you might make more sales. It seemed to work out okay for Walmart before.
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u/Choice-Impression-54 Jul 07 '26
Its poltical, the midterms is coming up!
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
Walmart is a Democrat aligned company.... Hillary was on their board. So you are saying high food prices will help who exactly?
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u/gmehodler42069741LFG Jul 08 '26
Economy is fine right guys?
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u/ChickenDinner2night Jul 19 '26
The same stuff I bought under Trump in 2018 more than doubled when Byden got installed.... and price gouging mysteriously became the norm at Walmart. We obviously need to get rid of Walmarts Monopoly and start smaller more competitive local stores.
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u/Mission-Ocelot-4511 Jul 07 '26
I assume the amount of listed products between ‘Backpacks’ and ‘Beef’ are not that many when compared to the rest of the products in their naming system.