![]() ![]() “Walmart’s consolidation of the grocery market has led to people paying higher prices across the board,” says Stacy Mitchell, co-executive director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), an advocacy group challenging consolidation of corporations. Then the big box stores, their dominance established and their competitors wiped out, raise prices, the grocers say. Since suppliers lose money by giving such low prices to stores like Walmart, they increase the prices they charge to other stores, a phenomenon economists have called the “ waterbed effect.” The higher-priced stores struggle, lose customers and go out of business. And the rise of Walmart contributes to the demise of those independent stores, the grocers say. In an era of runaway inflation, who doesn’t want the lowest prices they can get? But during the pandemic, it meant consumers living in lower-income areas far from big box stores weren’t able to get the groceries they needed. Walmart’s leverage may seem like a good deal for consumers like me. Read More: I Tried to Live Off Women-Owned Businesses. ![]() It’s not just groceries independent pharmacies, book stores, auto parts stores, and other types of retailers are also struggling on an uneven playing field, they say. The pandemic highlighted just how unfairly Walmart can wield its power, the small businesses are telling regulators, because it was able to demand that suppliers stock its shelves when competitors weren’t able to get the same products for weeks or months. ![]() The law also says retailers can’t try and bully suppliers into giving those discounts.īut because Walmart and dollar stores are so huge, representing a big part of a supplier’s business, they’re able to extract deals and low prices from suppliers, according to Small Business Rising and the Main Street Competition Coalition, two groups of independent business owners making their case in Congressional hearings and television ads. If you like our service, the best way to support us is to use following banner when you shop on ’s a law on the books-1936’s Robinson-Patman Act-that essentially says suppliers in any industry can’t give lower prices and special deals to big chain stores if it costs the same to serve them as other stores. You are always welcome to send us an email for any suggestions. Or you can download our free and green windows app to handle lots of watch items easily plus some advanced features. By default we watch the price only for 1 month and your email address will be gone from our system, unless you told us to watch it for longer time. In “ Quick Watch” page, you can provide us an email address and an item page Url. It’s still super easy to use our free service. However, if you have your own Amazon AWS key you can download our app and watch the price for Amazon by yourself. So we can no longer provide that service for Amazon sites now. It’s probably because we saved too much for our users, Amazon stop that policy and they stop providing API for us to get price. One of our client is a popular site in the USA with reviews of Amazon products. We helped tons of buyers saving lots of money. We used to be called “Price Watch For Amazon” when Amazon still have Post Order Price Guarantee policy. Firefox Plugin and Chrome Plugin are also available! Welcome to Walmart Price Watch! Great news: A simplified version is available on Microsoft Store now.
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