Walmart leads pricing survey with Target on its tail

All retailers are taking price increases where they can these days, especially in food, but the pace of increases at Walmart has slowed, and its price gap relative to most competitors has widened, according to the most recent pricing survey conducted by Credit Suisse. The firm looks at prices monthly on a basket of 60 comparable items in such categories as health and beauty, food and household products at seven mass-channel retailers in the Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago markets. The findings of the survey are never in doubt with Walmart offering the lowest prices, but what is interesting is