Walmart, Sam's Club to lower prices on hundreds of 'summer favorites' to ease costs for consumers

Walmart and Sam's Club are lowering prices on products like beef, snacks and grilling essentials as part of an effort to reduce costs on summer staples, the retailer and buyer's club announced.

The retail behemoths, both owned by Walmart Inc. of Bentonville, Arkansas, announced Monday that the companies would offer discounted prices nationwide on groceries, household essentials, outdoor living, toys and apparel. Products to be discounted at Walmart include ground beef, corn on the cob, paper plates and Coca-Cola and Pepsi products.

Walmart has 12 stores on Long Island, including in Commack, Valley Stream, Farmingdale and Riverhead, according to the retailer's online store tracker. Sam's Club has a dozen locations statewide with one Long Island location, in Medford.

"Customers count on Walmart to deliver the value they need every day, and summer is no exception," Julie Barber, executive vice president and chief merchant for Walmart U.S., said in a statement.

Sam's Club is lowering prices "on more than 250 items across road trip snacks, grilling essentials, and summer entertaining favorites," the company announced in a release.

Products to be discounted at the wholesale club include chicken wings, hot dogs, ground beef and ribs, the company announced.

For both companies, sale prices will be available to in-store shoppers as well as online through Walmart.com and SamsClub.com and through the brands' respective mobile apps.

Earlier this year, Stop & Shop announced it has lowered prices on thousands of products between 5% and 35% at 150 supermarket locations, including all 46 of its stores on Long Island in a bid to alleviate cost pressures on consumers. 

Roger Wheeler, president of the chain, Long Island's largest grocer, told Newsday in May the grocer's prices had been hurting Stop & Shop's competitiveness in the market. 

"People are hurting,” Wheeler said then, pointing to "higher gas prices, affordability challenges [and] reductions in government benefits."

Costco, too, cut prices at its warehouse clubs on Long Island and nationwide during its fiscal third quarter, discounting the price of eggs and beef, as well as chicken wings, chocolate almonds and golf balls under its in-house Kirkland Signature brand.

Discounts for Walmart locations nationwide include:

• 1 pound of 73% ground beef roll ($5.94, was $6.74)
• Fresh sweet corn on the cob (25 cents each, was 68 cents)
• 2¼-pound bags of fresh red cherries ($5.63, was $11.18)
• 24-packs of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar ($9.97, was $14.97)
• 24-packs of Diet Pepsi, Dr Pepper and Diet Mountain Dew ($9.97, was $13.97)

At Sam's Clubs, discounted "Member's Mark" brand products include:

• Bone-in chicken wings ($2a/pound, was $2.88/pound)
• Beef hot dogs ($10.86, was $12.96)
• 88/12 ground beef ($5.97/pound, was $6.17/pound)
• Whole bone-in pork back ribs ($3.18/pound, was $3.48/pound)