A pricing survey from Consumer Reports revealed that prescription drug prices can vary by as much as 10 times between pharmacies, even within the same city. Consumers looking for the cheapest pharmacy are better off shopping in the pharmacy departments at big-box and grocery stores than at the big-name pharmacy chains. In our survey of prescription drug prices, Walmart undercuts the major drugstores by a wide margin. You can use Affordablemeds.org prescription cards at Walmart and Sam’s pharmacies.

People wonder why the drug prices are different at different pharmacies. There are a couple of reasons. One is that the markups are different for different pharmacies. The second is that generic drugs are manufactured by different manufacturers who price them differently. The cost that a pharmacy pays for a generic drug depends on the manufacturer from whom the pharmacy buys the drug.