If you look at the chart below, there are only two instances of a competitor having a lower price than Wal-Mart's, including sale prices. The milk and cereal at Xpect Discounts were cheaper, and that was it. I've put the lowest prices in purple.
| Wal-Mart | Stop & Shop | Shop Rite | Xpect | |
| Diet Pepsi, two 2-Liter Bottles | $2.50 | $3.00 | $3.10 | $2.68 |
| Skim Milk, 2 Gallons | $6.50 | $7.18 | $6.98 | $5.56 |
| Red Rose Tea, 100 ct | $3.12 | $3.29 | $3.39 | NA |
| Ramen cups, 4 | $1.12 | $2.68 | $1.36 | NA |
| Campbells Chunky Soup, 4 | $6.00 | $10.00 | $7.56 | $6.00 |
| Spagettios w meatballs, 2 | $2.00 | $2.66 | $2.00 | $2.36 |
| Hunts Tomato Sause, 8 oz, 2 | $0.98 | $1.34 | $1.00 | $0.98 |
| Thomas' plain bagels, 2 | $4.00 | $7.98 | $7.98 | $7.98 |
| Bread, Freihofers Country White | $2.24 | $2.50 | $3.59 | $3.36 |
| Cabot Sharp Chedder, 2 lbs | $7.78 | $9.49 | $11.96 | NA |
| Tostitos, 13 oz, 2 bags | $6.56 | $7.98 | $7.98 | $7.36 |
| Sugar, 5 lbs (cheapest) | $2.34 | $2.69 | $2.79 | $2.99 |
| Flour, 5 lbs (cheapest) | $1.78 | $2.50 | $1.79 | $1.88 |
| Special K Fruit & Yogurt 12.8 oz | $3.00 | $3.69 | $3.79 | $2.50 |
| Kleenex 200 count, 3 boxes | $4.26 | $6.00 | $4.98 | $4.38 |
| Scott or Bounty P. Towels, mega, choose-a-size, 6 | $5.97 | $5.99 | $8.99 | $11.34 |
| TOTAL | $60.15 | $78.97 | $79.24 | NA |
Shop Rite has a reputation for great sales (I know many Shelton shoppers have been driving to the Derby Shop Rite), but so far I'm not seeing it. Many of the items on my list were advertised at sales prices, but when I added everything up, they were in the same ball park as Stop & Shop. In comparison, when I did this in 1995 (using a much longer grocery list), Shaws was about 10% cheaper than Stop & Shop.
Xpect Discounts did not have some of the items on my list, but I included the prices for the ones they did have. When I excluded the items not carried by Xpect and totaled everything up, Wal-Mart came out at $48.13, Xpect $59.37, Stop & Shop $63.51, and Shop Rite $62.53.
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