I been reading the ongoing pi****g match about who's store is cheaper. So I decided to give myself an afternoon project and compared prices between HyVee, Fareway and WalMart. All prices are pulled from online shopping at Ames stores and I created a list of 33 standard grocery items (actual found online from another site that did something similar). I found prices for name brand and store versions, where possible, and either used sale prices if all stores were running a sale or took the regular price to normalize between stores. Here are the results.
33 Items | HyVee Name Brand | Fareway Name Brand | Walmart Name Brand |
Total | $136.82 | $139.86 | $123.93 |
33 Items | HyVee Store Brand | Fareway Store Brand | Walmart Store Brand |
Total | $116.18 | $124.53 | $98.9 |
HyVee is a few dollars cheaper than Fareway.
But WalMart destroys both stores.