The names on the outside are different, but most grocery stores are owned by the same companies — yet CTV News shopped around and found they charge significantly different prices for the same items.

A profit driven company will always sell a product for as much as they can. Costs doesn’t factor into price at all.

Not true. They will price their inventory in a way that maximizes profit for all of it. Sometimes that means individual products being sold for cheaper.

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Or not being sold directly to customers, but to discount retailers.

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