Then you go to the grocery stores and there's clearly tiers vs it actually being some competitive race to the bottom price. E.g. for a given item, I will tend to see 3 "classes" of price on it among grocery stores. Theres the cheapest grocers in town who flat out have it at the lowest price every single time. But then most of the grocery stores actually circle around the next tier up, where its another couple dollar markup thrown on that same item. Lastly there is a "money is no object" tier where its another couple dollars higher still. Given item could vary by $5-10 among local stores sometimes. The delta is absurd. No other market works like this with this much delta between local stores I've seen for the same product. I'm talking either name brand snacks, same label dairy producer jug of milk, the cosmic crisp apples when they reach our local area at the same time, etc, like the same exact item not just comparable classes.