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Walmart Thanksgiving Prices Way Down???

To hear Walmart tell it, food prices for Thanksgiving are way down.

Every year Walmart posts a shopping list of common groceries that one would buy to prepare a full Thanksgiving meal for a large family. For 2025, they are touting a dinner for 10 will cost less than $4 a person, for turkey, cranberry sauce, and all the fixings.

Last year, the price was close to $7 a person. Wow, are we living in a world of grocery prices crashing all of a sudden?

Not quite.

*MOUSE PRINT:

Here is Walmart’s grocery list for their 2024 and 2025 Thanksgiving dinner side by side.

Walmart Thanksgiving Dinner
Shopping List

Walmart Thanksgiving price chart

For 2025, Walmart dropped a net total of six items from their shopping list, including a number of fresh vegetables, and a large southern pecan pie. In their press release FAQ section, they clue you in to the little trick they pulled.

*MOUSE PRINT:

Walmart Thanksgiving FAQ

Of course, most people don’t design their Thanksgiving dinner around Walmart’s suggested menu, so your costs are likely to be much higher.

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Florida’s Natural Sued Over Made in USA Claims

Florida's Natural containerA New York consumer recently sued Florida’s Natural, the maker of their namesake orange juice, after she learned that some of the juice was not actually from Florida. [See complaint.]

*MOUSE PRINT:

Florida's Natural juice sources

In fact, some of it was from Mexico and Brazil, but the cartons give the impression that it is a made in America product.

Made in America?

The company explains on their website (but not on the package) that the crop of Florida oranges has been declining so they had to seek out other sources, including foreign concentrates. The front of containers discloses that the juice not only comes from Florida, but also from “the world’s premier citrus-growing regions.” Oddly, the container pictured in the lawsuit is missing that disclosure.

Florida's natural front labels

When we covered this change back in 2022, the front of the carton explicitly mentioned Mexico.

The consumer’s lawyer claims that shoppers are being misled, that the company engaged in deceptive practices, and thus the plaintiffs are entitled to monetary damages.

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Delta Trips Up Legitimate Passenger Not Allowed to Check-In Overseas

Herb and Deb WeisbaumVeteran consumer reporter Herb Weisbaum, known as the ConsumerMan, recently was coming back from a vacation in London with his wife when they had difficulty checking in for the Delta flight home.

The check-in kiosk at Heathrow airport asked him to swipe the credit card with which he purchased the tickets. Being a cautious international traveler, Herb left most of his credit cards at home including the one used to buy the tickets.

A Delta supervisor said she could not issue boarding passes without his card to help prevent credit card fraud. Having a passport was not good enough. He was given several options, one worse than the next:

  • Buy two new tickets for about $6,000,
  • Somehow get a picture of the card used to purchase the tickets, or
  • Have someone go to his hometown airport in Seattle with his card.

    • Herb decided to call his next door neighbor at 3 a.m. Seattle time, give him instructions on how to get into his house, and have him text a picture of the credit card to London.

    Why in the world were passengers like my friend not explicitly told they needed to fly with the credit card that was used to purchase the tickets? A Delta spokesperson pointed to a link on the Delta website:

    *MOUSE PRINT:

    “To safeguard against credit/debit card fraud, the purchaser may have to show us the credit/debit card along with a valid photo ID. The time varies based on the billing address of the credit/debit card or the country of travel. If the purchaser is not traveling, they can show us their credit/debit card and ID at an airport ticket counter or another ticket office location, whichever is most convenient.”

    Poking around online, MrConsumer found complaints dating back as many as 14 years about Delta’s surprise policy.

    One would hope by now the airline would have figured out how to better communicate this unexpected and potentially costly policy to customers. What do you think?

    You can read Herb’s full story here.

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