</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I know that each Walmart sets its own prices, so that can be the differance </font>
Bentonville (Home office) sets all prices. If a competitor has it cheaper, the store is to match that price. )</font>
OK...... Bentonville sets the prices for each store and there is a difference between the price at one store and the price at another store. It isn't on everything, but it is on some things. I know because my wife has told me about seeing something at one Walmart and not having it in the size or color that she wanted and that another store had the same merchandise and it was either higher or lower than the store that she first saw it at. She once asked the store manager if he would match the price of the lower Walmart store and promptly go a stern NO! They price the products based on the socioeconomic situation of the area that the store is located. It might not be that way where you live, but that is the way it is in MA where we shop... Recently I purchased a few thousand tulip bulbs for 5 cents a package at one Walmart and I saw that another Walmart about 30 miles away also had the same situation... Fall bulbs that were not sold and sitting on the shelf in the middle of the winter. I attempted to purchase these also, and the store manager said that they would throw them away before he would sell them for 5 cents a package. He even went as far as saying that he didn't believe that I got them that cheaply. I pulled out the sales slip and showed it to him. His reply was that "there is something wrong". A lot of how a store runs is up to the managers. They have the power to fix a problem and they have the ability to cut the lossess. Some are just too lazy to care and do the least that they can do to get by. It happens in every industry, not just Walmart...
