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I shop repeatedly online with walmart as well as in store, I buy the same items, and will go into the recent order list and just click away. What I didnt notice right away was that the price of all the items that i normally purchase increased to up to 3 times the amount. The items that were added that were not in my frequently ordered list were the normal price. Example.. Hawaiian punch gallon.. 1.68 in store and normally online prior to noticing, they charged me 4.74 a gallon each. I paid 30.00 for 4 ocean spray cranberry juice. plus additional items were well above the normal price. They said they were not price gouging.. well what do you call it? I say taking advantage of your customer!
I bought Great Value Drink Mix from Walmart.com for $4.28. The next day I bought the same in a Walmart store for $1.98.
They will not simply refund the difference (the sensible thing) with an email or phone call, I have to take the stuff I bought online to a store to return it for a refund. Then I'll have to re-buy the items from the store. I have better ways to spend my time.
I was told that Walmart no longer guarantees that their online prices will match or be better that the price in their stores! Check pricing before placing an order. Buy at your own risk!
I found the same thing with my orders from Walmart.com. For about three months the online prices matched my local Walmart. Then when I started to reorder the prices went sky high. Up $1.00 on both the cereals I buy. Up $1.50 on 12 oz Tuna. Some items were up even more. A 40 oz. peanut butter was up over $2.00 a jar. This is bait and switch pricing if ever I've seen it.
I know grocery pricing well. For 38 years I owned three good size supermarkets. I did my own price maintenance and constantly checked my competitors to remain competitive. So now that I am no longer in the business, I enjoy shopping multiple stores checking prices and getting the best bargains I can. Its a matter of pride for me.
This is the worst case of PRICE GOUGING I've ever seen!
I had the same thing happen to me. The sad thing is I have friends who are disabled like myself and unable to get to the local walmart due to being wheelchair bound. We were all so relieved at being able to shop somewhere we could actually afford on our fixed incomes. Anyone who thinks Walmart has a right to charge whatever they want should have to live like the ones of us who have to count our pennies just to get by every month. For the person who said no one held a gun to your head...I hope you find out what it's like to live like the rest of us. Then you won't be so quick to open your mouth and spout garbage that is insulting someone with a valid concern.
Yes the same thing happened to me.
One item was priced 250% higher one month later (but if I used a DIFFERENT computer they didn't recognize, the online prices matched those in store). ALL my items that I had ordered listed repeat-order prices that were 15% to 250% higher!
This IS price gouging because they are charging different prices to different people, discriminating AGAINST THEIR REPEAT (read "loyal") CUSTOMERS. Not only that but if you order online, now, and pickup in store you will be paying those higher prices too.
This brought them a stock jump recently.
Watch your prices! Try clearing all Walmart "cookies" if you know how, and COMPLAIN.
What REALLY doesn't make sense about it is that it cost them LESS to sell online, mail order, which is WHY we are losing so VERY MANY brick-and-mortar stores now (which were overbuilt even before the Internet wave).
My local supermarket and Target now have great pricing. Walmart now expects you to buy 2 of things instead of 1, not only have they raised prices on everything, they have the price gouging on line. I got on chat asked the person why they are punishing shut ins and he said I could go to the store. I asked him what part of no transportation did he not understand. Its so bad that when I wanted closet lights for my cupboards, they were $17 and I got them at Target for $9.95. I hope those gold diggers called Walmart go out of business. Why would they thing I would be so stupid to buy anything from them anymore. I even wrote to corporate office and of course, got no reply.
Walmart is selling an ACME chair Cost $849, Wayfair has the same chair for 50%, coming in a little over $300 less, am I missing something, why is Walmart taking advantage of the consumers Overstock or Wayfair.com same chair, same make.
Walmart here on North park dr. just repriced the white bolillos from 5 for a dollar to 6 prebaged for $1.90 leaving the rye bolillos 5 for a dollar and they are not fully baked like other Walmarts leaving such has parcially baked, this is the worst Neighborhood Walmart ever seen replacing brand name products with cheaper brand that probibly do not sell at Super Walmart, I understand this neighborhood will buy whatever that's the sad part too.
Same here. All my normal items were priced outrageously! Like INSANE prices. I couldn't believe my eyes. Walmart lost a customer because they are allowing it to happen this way. Greedy corporate America! It never ends, even the ones you trust are rolling over. Sad.
Walmart is one of the greediest corporations in this country. Not at all what Sam had in mind as he's rolling in his grave seeing how they destroyed his idea.
It's hurricane season. I put this generator cord in my cart. The next day, it shows out of stock..but when you click on it you can purchase for twice the price. wtf walmart!
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I believe Walmart is price gouging. For example the laundry soap I normally buy went from $18 to over $30. After price checking, potting soil to start my vegetables is twice the price of other stores and triple what it was. Several items that I normally buy has tripled in prices. It's ridiculous. Check other stores before shopping at Walmart.
WHY are you increasing prices 25-50% ?!? Why would a multi billion dollar corporation who makes BILLIONS in profits screw their consumers like this? A $5.00 increase on a $20.00 product? Could you possibly be any greedier? Walmart has put so many people out of business and now they're gouging the [censored] out of their consumers. I hope people will wake up and realize what a scam Walmart has become.
Watch the toilet paper prices for the "Great Value" brand. A six roll pack went up by $1.54 in one weeks time. This is ridiculous!
OMG I thought I was the only one who noticed. Every item I buy again- you know the next week or month goes up in price. I don't take it quietly I complain every item at the lower of the page they ask if you have comments.. Boy do I ! I was so mad by the end of the last shopping for usual household items it was $500. what!? I told them I was going back and deleting items. I deleted $250. ! BS they get richer an we get poorer!
Walmart, Hawkesbury, Ontario
price gouging and blatant rise in prices for no good reason. Now it is getting to a point that I am having an issue buying groceries for my family.
Head of lettuce...$5.00
Hellman's mayonaise...$6.97
Becel margarine...$6.97
Who is going to put these people in jail for elder financial abuse. Enough is Enough.
A typical small grocery order to keep us alive goes up from $40.00 to $70.00
Someone must expose these crooks and put them out of business before someone gets real angry.
I suggest organizing people to picket in front of their store. Suggest options for people to shop at other stores until these stores wake up, or get out of town.
I hear you! Backstory: I use a certain kind of instant Colombian coffee that is not the easiest to find. Even my local Lantinx bodega, where I was originally introduced to it, carries the brand but rarely the size and type I use. I was so happy to find that Walmart carried it, and in the larger size, so I’ve been ordering it online for years. On October 7, I ordered two jars for under $9.96 for both. I wanted to get extra for the holidays so I went to Walmart.com to order one or two jars. I was shocked that the same jar was now $19.36 (odd price) from a third party seller; 2 jars add up to $38.72… vs $9.96, nearly four times the price. Of course I did not order it. I can’t imagine that supply is so low, or particularly, demand is so high for this product that it would “justify” this increase.
They want us to be safe from bug bites and cheaching malaria 🦟 but when you go to buy off spray to keep🦟 away it is way too high to buy price gouging I call it Walmart in new Tazewell tn is way too high on all the products you can't hardly afford the must have product's
In Englewood Florida the WalMart is gouging on many items. I'll indicate just one, water. Sam's Choice online $18.88 for a case of 28. In the store, it is still 5.28 for the same. Many items are 3 plus times more expensive online. This taking advantage of people who need the service that they so proudly advertise is available.
Fix it or close...