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In this case you are usually paying more for the privilege of grocery shopping in a safer neighborhood around people with whom you feel more comfortable. That
by danans 4y ago
In this case you are usually paying more for the privilege of grocery shopping in a safer neighborhood around people with whom you feel more comfortable. That sort of pricing discrimination exists for a lot of other stuff, for example gasoline.
Most big grocery stores chains would have socioeconomically modeled and geographically analyzed their customer bases, and are aware of how much people are willing to pay for this sort of convenience.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI usually pay more to shop at Target rather than Wal Mart precisely because being in Wal Mart is miserable for about a dozen different reasons. I swear, they've even done something to the lighting in their stores in the last few years to make it worse. It's weirdly grey and dingy. I don't remember them being like that even 15 years ago, and it's not just one location, it's like some memo came down from corporate instructing them to make their stores feel as much like being in a county free-clinic waiting room as possible.
- HWR_14 4y agoIt's because Walmart isn't trying to compete with Target as a "browse around" store. They are trying to compete with Amazon, only it's self-warehouse work as well as self-checkout. At least according to https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/business/walmart-store-redesign/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/business/walmart-store-redesi...
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThey do in fact purposefully keep their stores dingier then what the average big box store is. To reassure value shoppers that a minimum percentage of the purchase price is going towards the facilities, thus making it self-evident that they are getting the best possible deal. Whereas a better maintained store by definition cannot offer a lower price and still be profitable.