Viral TikTok video claims Walmart grocery
prices have skyrocketed
Fox 5 Atlanta,
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Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/29/2024 7:41:54 AM
ATLANTA - A recent TikTok video has gone viral, showing a user’s surprising experience with Walmart's grocery prices. The user explained in his video that he tried to use the "Reorder All" button for an order he placed two years ago, which originally cost $126.67. To his shock, the same order would now cost $414.39.
The video has garnered around one million views, with most comments expressing similar astonishment at the apparent price increase. However, one TikTok user pointed out that some of the items in the original order were discontinued, leading to falsely inflated prices.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 6/29/2024 7:51:10 AM (No. 1745738)
Transitory™ inflation, you see.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 6/29/2024 7:58:01 AM (No. 1745745)
Not sure what Walmart is obscuring. If discontinued items were simply not refilled, then the second order was incomplete, and the effective price rise was even higher than reported. If discontinued items were substituted (with higher price items) then the second order filling indeed represents the inflation which is happening, where it is by unit shrinkage, price increase, or product substitution. Personal experience suggests the fed numbers are unrealistically low.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/29/2024 8:00:56 AM (No. 1745748)
When a Big Mac meal costs $18, you have lost America. The Mules and the Merchan like judges are the only hope the 'Rats have.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/29/2024 8:21:13 AM (No. 1745770)
It's not wrong. Wally World has joined the campaign to create enormous profits out of America's democrat problem.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/29/2024 8:24:16 AM (No. 1745774)
I don't think we have had 300+% inflation (414/126). But it is bad - really bad, and government figures are BS - can we trust it ever again? However, I am also suspicious about letting the 'Re-order All' software blindly fill my order. It gives Walmart a sneaky way to substitute more expensive items.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 6/29/2024 8:48:33 AM (No. 1745789)
I've done this many times with my HEB cart. I just went and re-ordered a cart from 09/19, 20 items, $136.80. Now? $191.56. A 40% increase! The dog food alone is 29% higher, and the same load of bread is 60% higher!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 6/29/2024 8:50:43 AM (No. 1745792)
*loaf of bread
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/29/2024 8:53:36 AM (No. 1745794)
I went to a wholesale place where I usually buy meat yesterday.
2 months ago I paid $ 7.95 for New York whole loin.
Yesterday the price was $10.98.
I am down to eating Pork and Chicken I cannot afford beef.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 6/29/2024 8:59:10 AM (No. 1745801)
#8, beef has gotten SO high, and I believe that one, especially, is very intentional.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 6/29/2024 9:05:07 AM (No. 1745813)
Wal Mart’s prices have indeed increased, however our locally owned stores cost twice as much as WM.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/29/2024 9:17:55 AM (No. 1745825)
I don't pay attention to most prices but one I do, as it is very hard to find - caffeine free Diet Coke. Not many months ago a six pack was $3.98 at Walmart. About two months ago price was $4.98. Just bought a couple of weeks ago and price is now $5.81. And that is when you can find it on the shelf.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Howard Adams 6/29/2024 9:27:17 AM (No. 1745841)
I see multiple reasons.
Restrictions on natural gas impact fertilizer production, energy production//electriciy, etc.
Disasters/fires/explosions at feed lots, poultry farms/ meat processing plants in the laat 3+ years.
Chinese have bought farm land and taken it out of production. Some states have legislated against that.
Bureaucrats have shut down small family farms arbitrarily calling them wet lands. Hopefully SCOTUS helped us on that one yesterday.
Please recall Sundance's articles at Conservative Treehouse about Trump vs Big Ag.
Death by 1000 cuts. I could go on.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 6/29/2024 10:08:35 AM (No. 1745883)
TIK TOK- the land of fantasy. We shop at WM and there is NO WAY the price increases described in the article has occurred ( on the products we purchase ).
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/29/2024 10:22:38 AM (No. 1745900)
Plus, they've decreased their selections. Less name brands, more store brands.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/29/2024 10:35:07 AM (No. 1745915)
We should believe everything we see on TikTok (/s).
Maybe the problem is with the 'ReOrder All' button, and they need to create a new order themselves rather than letting Walmart place their order. The price of laziness. If an item is too expensive, perhaps they should not order it!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/29/2024 11:08:48 AM (No. 1745970)
Golly. You mean that when 7 trillion dollars is dumped in the economy prices go up? Why is the air free and gold expensive? One is plentiful and the other is not. Plentiful money gets it towards being free.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/29/2024 12:24:27 PM (No. 1746030)
Of course it depends on the items. If it included meat, eggs or some other items that have shot up more than average it could be 3x. Its 100% Brandon's fault, not Walmart's.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/29/2024 12:38:32 PM (No. 1746038)
When is the last time any of you bought a gallon of paint.-----------WOW
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/29/2024 1:42:36 PM (No. 1746075)
Dog food and bird seed have skyrocketed.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/29/2024 1:54:07 PM (No. 1746083)
Walmart's prices have indeed gone up..... but they are still WAY less expensive than the other stores and supermarkets near me. Automotive parts have REALLY gone up in price, and Automotive PAINT is Stupid Expensive.
I used to put the HairSniffer "I DID THAT" stickers on gas pumps. Now I put them next to, and pointing to, the prices on meat at the supermarket. I have never been 'called' on doing this, but if I ever am, I am going to tell them that it is a reminder that the HairSniffer's policies, his War on Energy and War on Food, are the reasons for the high prices, not the producer, wholesaler, or retailer.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/29/2024 2:03:37 PM (No. 1746089)
We understand that many of Wal Mart's higher costs are due to transportation, higher wages, retail theft, more secure packaging, etc. but when a single bag of chips goes from $3.29 to $5.49, something else is at work here. Locally grown or manufactured products like baked goods, vegetables, eggs and milk are also highly inflated.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 6/29/2024 2:08:20 PM (No. 1746092)
Walmart substitutes the unavailable ordered items with the same product in another brand unless you edit the order to “do not replace” the items you ordered. That can sometimes cause a significant difference in your total cost.
My guess is that he allowed substitutions, & the discontinued and/or unavailable items were substituted with other name brand items. Plus the natural price changes have occurred due to inflation.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
sunnyday 6/29/2024 2:08:43 PM (No. 1746093)
It's called gouging.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/29/2024 6:00:22 PM (No. 1746185)
"Claims"...
People who say that this isn't so in general must not buy their own groceries, (or are paid propagandists for the Democrats).
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/29/2024 10:33:14 PM (No. 1746292)
#16. The air used to be free. Now when you go to a service station you have to pay for air. I loved mixed nuts which cost around $ 14 a pound. A 7 ounce bacon wrapped filet mignon is $ 22. Another 4 years of Bidennomics and I'll down to rice and beans.
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