Sure, Black Friday 2022 is a time to pick up all the splurge-worthy purchases, from outdoor patio furniture for next year to rowing machines to help complete your home gym.

But, it’s equally as important to think about the essentials you use every day (or nearly everything) during the largest shopping holiday of the year. Think baby diapers, batteries, and house cleaning products, among others.

To figure out where Amazon falls on the price spectrum, I picked 25 essentials a household of two might need at any given time. I looked at items my wife and I have around our house that we buy regularly to keep our home up and running. I came up with a list of these items, and then things got tricky.  essentials shirt

Some brands and quantities aren’t sold across all three stores. Looking up “toilet paper” on Amazon will give you dozens of pages of results. You’ll see Scott, Charmin, and the Whole Foods 365 brand toilet paper in varying sizes. Do this same experiment for Walmart and Kroger and you might find that one store carries Scott but not Charmin and vice versa, and each store also has its own brand of toilet paper. If all three have the same brand of toilet paper, the quantities might be different between each store.

I tried to find the same items with the same quantities across each store’s website to make this as fair as possible. There was one instance (Colgate toothpaste) for one store (Kroger) where I had to add the price of two packs together to make the quantities equal for all three stores. Otherwise, I found each item in each online store. (A caveat: I looked up all these prices on the same day in November, but it’s possible that they will fluctuate over time.)

Amazon, Walmart, and Kroger lead the online grocery market in the US, according to Statista. Walmart represents nearly 28% of grocery e-commerce sales, Amazon has about 21% and Kroger has about 10%. Kroger has also proposed

a merger with grocery chain Albertsons,

There were plenty of items that were cheaper on Amazon and Walmart, and the two tied for the lowest price of an item eight times. Kroger, by comparison, was only the cheapest option for four items, but Kroger maintained competitive prices for almost every other item. Where Kroger was the most expensive option for a given item, it wasn’t significantly more expensive — and ultimately saved you when you added it all up.

I didn’t include the cost of membership programs above because you don’t need one to order these items from the three online stores. However, these memberships do offer fast shipping, and if you’re going to buy all your items from one online store, it might save you money on shipping over time. essentials clothing brand

If we include the cost of Amazon Prime, Walmart Plus, and Kroger Boost, Kroger stays the cheapest, but Walmart takes second place and Amazon becomes the most expensive option.

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