A few years ago I was buying Winchester 223 White Box ammo for a friend who liked it so much that he didn't bother reloading. I was traveling through a couple of states on a semi-regular basis and every time I was near a Wal-Mart I would stop in and pick up some for him.
I noticed a disparity of two to three dollars per box depending on the location of the store, I questioned a manager about it and was told that each store can sets its own price on items since the managers have a better idea of what the market will bear locally. I suspect that the Corporate office has some guidelines on this but it does make a lot of sense.
drover
Several years back I priced some electronics stuff at two different Walmart stores around 35 +/- miles apart. The difference in price of identical items at one location was enough for me to ask a department manager why and was told the same thing,
For around a couple of years or longer now one of the above mentioned Walmart stores has been pricing their store brand milk at anywhere from as low as .89 cents to a high of $1.48 a gallon. The reason being a discount grocery chain opened a new store in the same town and from day one has kept their milk prices super cheap and most likely at a loss in order to draw customers.
The same store brand milk at the other Walmart mentioned above has been and still is 'everyday' priced at two to three times more.
