I'm so glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with advising information that empowers you to make better financial decisions in your life.

In today's episode, well, other than a relative of mine who eats out every meal of every day

all year long, all the rest of us buy groceries.

So how do you really find the best price?

How do you get savings?

Everybody says save the best price.

But what's the real scoop? I have actual,

empirical, objective data on where the cheapest and most expensive prices are. And also something

we all don't have to do, but I certainly have an extreme passion for travel.

I have an update for you on travel credit cards and what I recommend.

I have a little bit of a tweak on what I'm recommending to you.

So the largest grocery store in the United States is Walmart.

Far and away, Walmart sells a massive percent of groceries in the United States.

And their prices are actually lower than most anywhere you can buy groceries.

Consumer reports did extensive research on where groceries are the cheapest

and where they're the most expensive in comparison to Walmart,

which they used as a baseline because Walmart is

generally cheaper than others. And so I wanted to tell you what consumer reports found.

It's no surprise to me because of my obsession, but two companies sell groceries not just a little cheaper than Walmart,

but much, much, much cheaper than Walmart.

And they are BJ's Wholesale Club, the regional warehouse club chain and Costco,

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