I had a junior high school teacher who couldn't even speak proper English as her native language. She axed me a question. They have ghetto trash teaching in public schools and it could only have gotten worse since the '70s.
Any time someone says to me "Lemme axe you a question" I say "OK, hatchet away."
Walmart pricing is skewed due to their product size and packaging. Take shit paper! We buy twelve double roll packs from our local market for six bucks. WM doesn't sell that size package but an eight pack or twentyfour pack. I can quickly check the per roll price in my head but most cannot!
Water, the sell spring water that is a 3-1/2 quart bottle for MORE than a buck when I can buy a gallon of the same product for 89 cents!
Their pros at the falling prices bait and switch. The price ain't falling, the volume of the product does!
Indeed it is....at Sam's Club too.
If you don't do some math in your head you can over pay for certain items, and they bank on that. They figure most folks think it is automatically a great deal in bulk when often it is not. For example, they do it with items that might be bought together, coffee might be a good buy but you get ripped on sugar.
Walmart and Sam's are sister companies, but many times the same product is way cheaper at one or the other. People think they are getting a deal because it is Sam's when the item is way cheaper at Walmart.
You also have to be careful shopping from one walmart to another on the same items. For example, Huggies baby wipes are $12 for a case of 11 packs (72 per pack) at our large walmart store. Across town at the walmart grocery store, the same wipes come in a case of 9 packs (the same wipes at 72 per pack) for the same $12 per case.
For the record, I buy as little as possible at walmart...I hate going near the place....but the sad fact is some things you just have to buy there, because we have limited other avenues to shop in our area without driving 40-60 miles.
My dad called them a "necessary evil."