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It's actually not THAT high. I actually did the math on this and recorded prices in every place I shopped for groceries. It's pretty hard to do in practice because you think stores sell the same thing, but they don't. You wouldn't believe how many different sizes of Bounty paper towels there are. Not just the number of rolls, but the square feet per roll. Almost every store is different and I'm sure that's by design. They don't want you to be able to compare prices.

From the stores I recorded (Publixs, Food Lion, Lowes Food, Dollar General, Ingles, CVS, and Target) only CVS was just outrageously more expensive. All the other stores you have to group into tiers because it's impossible to determine who's actually the most expensive. Publixs, Lowes, and Ingles fall into a mid-high tier. Ingles is actually more expensive in a lot of areas and Publix still manages to beat them on selection. Like Publix stocks Jelly Babies and Jammy Dodgers and I don't know of any other American grocery chain that does that. Food Lion and Dollar General fall into the mid-low tier. That's the cheapest of the "regular" stores. You can go cheaper if your willing to bulk shop at like Costcos or take your chances finding what you want at the bargin grocery stores like Aldis.