Commissary Price Change Pilot Coming March 1: Officials

Thanks for alerting us TSgt Joe C. that "variable pricing" Pilot is a "key piece of a larger congressional mandate that the commissary system move from relying strictly on $1 billion in annual taxpayer funding to cover all of its operation costs to a model where it turns a profit and pays for some of its own overhead.
Currently, the stores sell goods at cost plus a 5-percent surcharge, which covers store construction and maintenance. The variable pricing system passed by Congress last year instead allows officials to raise and lower prices at will, so long as shoppers continue to see a specific savings of between 17.6 percent and 44.2 percent, depending on region, over off-base grocery stores.
The pilot program will test the variable pricing system at 10 commissaries nationwide, said Chris Burns, executive director for business transformation at the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), during a call with reporters Monday.
Prices of between 1,000 and 1,400 items in those 10 stores will be examined against prices off base and raised or lowered accordingly, Burns said."
I miss the days when the commissary was areal bargain [1980s to 1990s]

this will be Most interesting... have to see which way things are gong to go...

There are no easy answers !!!!