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This is what Jim Stone has to say about Walmart:
ALERT (but not yet red alert) Wal Mart has MAJORLY jacked prices up on select food items in Mex.
How about crappy low grade ground beef for $5 a pound. CHECK. Lots of other items went up HUGE. I just got the high grade stuff at HEB for $1.50 a pound (fabulous stuff) last week. Down in Centro, as checked THIS week it is even cheaper. What gives with Wal Mart??
Heb's "better than Wal Mart by a lot" stuff went up to about $2.55 a pound at around the time I picked up that really nice stuff cheap. That is a lot higher than the locals or the old price by percentage points but not a full on doubling.
I checked the other stuff too. Everything from Mayo to Ramen to peanut butter to (you name it and chances are you're right) went up by 40 percent across the board, and there's no reason for it, everyone else is selling things for what they used to. How about $2 for a regular size box of mac and cheese? You can now do that to yourself at Wal Mart. I can get my usual generic crap at HEB for 60 cents still but at Wal Mart even that is $1.50 Bag of beans at HEB? 50 cents. Same bag of beans at Wal Mart? 70 cents, and Wal Mart used to be cheaper than HEB. Bag of pancake mix at Wal Mart? $2.00. Same bag at HEB? $1.50. Simiar quality different brand at Bara? $1. Conclusion:
There's no substance to it, Wal Mart Corporate is playing games and jacking prices to hit an agenda, not because they have to. That said, at least in Mex ALL store chains, Ley, HEB, Soriana, Wal Mart, Mercado Mexicano, Chedraui, Aurrerra - ALL OF THEM have ALL items stacked to the rafters and to the back, there are ZERO shortages in Mexico and I can tell you why: Because Obrador is not an enemy of the people, and those who stole the election in the United States ARE. Just last week LEY had 43 inch 4K big screens for $250. Still a nope because I won't spend donations on that, but I did notice. All stores have 20 brands of toilet paper in 4 varieties each too. 10 brands of cat litter. Wal Mart had higher prices on appliances than I have ever seen but others are still cheap. There's no shortages on anything AT ALL.
So if you are seeing such developments in the United States or elsewhere it is all by design - all because someone wants it - NO ONE can tell me Mexico can be stocked far better than the U.S. if someone is not playing games. The shortages are BUNK.
That said, Wal Mart spooked me today and I will definitely be keeping an eye on this. If others start raising prices I will throw a red flag, but for now it looks like Wal Mart is being a corporate smart alec (or should I say robot) with prices, no one else has followed suit or should I instead say orders?