Every week I am faced with the same ordeal — grocery shopping.  Over the last couple of months the grocery prices have noticeably gone up.   I have been a loyal customer to Publix, our local supermarket chain, for as long as I lived here, which is over 16 years.  These stores are practically everywhere in Florida, they have their own line of organic foods and the bagger will even help bring and load groceries into the car…  Despite all these wonderful services, our escalating food bill made me look for alternatives.

So for the past couple of weeks I have been doing my grocery shopping at Wal-Mart.  I did notice a smaller grocery bill, but I haven’t been able to really compare apples to apples to find out the actual difference.  So on October 27 I decided to do just that.  I did my regular grocery shopping at Wal-Mart and since I had to go to Publix to pick up couple of other things, I checked out their prices for the same groceries I bought at Wal-Mart.
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