Here Is How Wal Mart Is Squeezing Every Last Ounce Of Decaffeinated Inflation

Some interesting insights on how even Wal-Mart is doing its best to mask inflation by penny pinching here, there and soon, everywhere. Below is an example of 20% inflation in the span of a few weeks, which will most certainly not be captured in government statistics of food inflation. Additionally, with cotton just opening 470 ticks higher and 30 away from limit up, we hope readers took our advice from a month ago.

Courtesy of Survival Blog

Carlos in the U.P. wrote: "I noted with interest that the Wal-Mart I shop at had cleared the shelves of "Great Value" brand coffee in 39 oz cans for about 2 weeks. Today the new can appeared, with the following differences: 1.) Can is now 33.9 oz, down from 39 oz. Also conspicuously missing is the conversion of 2lb, 7oz therefore no comparison in pounds is easily made. 2.) Price for this smaller can is up from $9.88 to $10.48, by my rustic math an approximate 20% increase! 3.) Contents of can are no longer 'Premium Columbian' Decaffeinated. Now labeled '100% Classic Decaf'"

Unfortunately, we were unable to recreate a similar product SKU on Walmart's online catalog, although having seen comparable price masking gimmicks at local stores and for far more egregious inflation adjustments, we are confident this is not an isolated ploy to pass on surging input prices. We invite readers to share comparable stories of under the radar price pass throughs to the sheeple slaughterhouse (before and after pictures are welcome). We will compile all the responses and maybe even start a Zero Hedge inflation Crowdsourced Price Index, a/k/a a real CPI.

h/t Kyle

Comments

[Waterfallsparkles]

I still think that Food will go up higher in price than Gold.  Stocking up on non perishables will be a great investment.  Never hurts to stock up.  I also think that if you buy right now you will get ahead of the higher prices comming in the next few months.  So, I believe that you are buying today at 20% lower than the prices will be in a few months.

So, now is a great time to load up your pantry.

Don't forget to load up on a couple years worth of cotton underware and cotton socks.  You will be glad you did.

[Hook Line and S...]

My woman cost me more too. Service is down, quality as well.

[Buck Johnson]

Thank you for pointing this out, I've known since last year that Walmart has been playing games with inflation.  For one my favorite brand name of gravy that came in a Heinz glass container had the same price but was smaller in size.  Then I started to notice that on the shelves and in the freezers and almost everywhere in the food area, Great Value was taking up more and more spaces over brand named items I remember buying.  They even have Great Value sausages and biscuit breakfast sandwiches that a few months ago they didn't have.  Great Value used to be in small sections and almost hard to find, not anymore.  And then I come to find out that even the Great Value items are shrinking in price. 

It's real easy for Walmart to do this since they control the Great Value brand.  But trying to get a brand name company to go along without making news is alot harder.  Some will go along, but most won't.  They will do the old time and true technique of raising prices and then the store having to raise prices.  But Walmart doesn't want to do the in your face method.  And that is the reason for the Great Value brand taking up more and more shelf and freezer space.  They have more control from the start and to the finish.  So if they decided to tweek a little bit and keep or raise the price, many people won't know or care.  These items aren't great value, they are desinged as a way for Walmart to keep their customers and hide the inflation without tipping the customers off.

[shawnlee]

That's some pretty fancy milk you're buying there, cowboy. I've been paying 1.99 at Kroger for a while now with a rare change to the upside on occasion.

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