A Safeway spokeswoman asked us for the data underlying our Star grocery survey. The survey contained an error that artificially inflated Safeway’s total by $9.70, and was missing some footnotes that indicated two instances in which products on our grocery list came in larger — and more expensive — packages at Safeway the store didn’t offer the smaller packages.
Rather than conduct that conversation in private, I figured we should post the data we collected and allow anyone to look at it, along with the Safeway representatives. We had planned to do that originally but ran out of space to run the prices of individual items with sale prices included.
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