How it works
Shopping with Standard Healthcare is simple. Here is everything you need to know. Some of it is available if you ask.
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Your employer picks your plan
They did this last fall. You can change it for two weeks a year.
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Pay the cover charge at the door
Every visit. Even if you only came in to look around.
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Shop with confidence
Items are priced individually for you and your store. Prices are not shown at the register; ask, and the cashier may tell you, or wait 6 weeks or longer for your Explanation of Groceries.
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Check out
Items are consumed at checkout and cannot be returned.
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Two convenient checkout lanes
Please use the participating lane. The other cashier bills separately.
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Prior authorization for milk
For some items we need to give permission before you buy. Request it here.
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Your Explanation of Groceries arrives in six weeks
It shows the shelf price, your plan’s negotiated discount, and the benchmark we calculate. Preview yours.
Why the same bread costs different amounts
Every store negotiates every item with every plan, in private, for a year. Then everyone does it again. So the price of bread depends on your plan, your store, and your branch.
| Who is buying, and where | Price |
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| You, Main Street branch | Ask the cashier |
| You, Elm Street branch (same chain) | Ask the cashier. Different. |
| Your neighbor, Main Street branch | Ask the cashier. Also different. |
| You, the other lane | Billed separately |
Where your price comes from
Your price for milk is set by an agreement between your plan and the farm. Its terms are confidential. It was agreed before you were hired. You will learn your share of it on your Explanation of Groceries, 6 weeks or longer after you drank the milk.
Try our checkout
1 bread is in your basket. Its price is: available if you ask.