Kroger and Walmart hike the price of COVID-19 home tests
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Not only are home coronavirus test kits increasingly hard to find, they're also becoming more expensive.
Retailers Kroger and Walmart are raising prices on scarce over-the-counter rapid COVID-19 tests after both companies fulfilled pledges to offer Abbott Laboratories' kits to consumers at cost for 100 days, forgoing any profits during the initial sales period.
In 2021, Kroger, Walmart and Amazon agreed to sell the tests at cost or at a discount of up to 35% for three months in an effort to expand testing options for Americans. Without the retailer markups, the kits sold through select retail outlets and containing two tests cost consumers $14.
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