{"id":519366,"date":"2010-04-07T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004245"},"modified":"2010-04-07T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:13:48","slug":"watch-out-for-drugstore-price-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519366","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out For Drugstore Price Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/040710-003-cvs-vs-wegmans-prices-thumb-652x384-39038.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>I was at a Rite-Aid a couple of weeks back and went to pick up some cheap dish detergent, and the bottles that I remembered being less than $1.50 were all in the $3-4 range. I left and found sanely-priced soap at another store a few blocks away. Our reader Stan just wrote in with a similar example, where he caught his local CVS charging him three times as much as a nearby competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Stan writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Caught this while shopping at CVS yesterday. Apparently, a &#8220;Jumbo&#8221; styptic pencil costs $4.89 @ CVS. Stopped at Wegman&#8217;s down the street and the exact same item (same brand\/packaging) cost $1.49. When I returned the styptic pencil to CVS, the sales clerk told me that &#8220;items at CVS are more expensive than at other stores&#8221; but agreed that the over 3x difference was a bit exorbitant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a Rite-Aid a couple of weeks back and went to pick up some cheap dish detergent, and the bottles that I remembered being less than $1.50 were all in the $3-4 range. I left and found sanely-priced soap at another store a few blocks away. Our reader Stan just wrote in with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}