Holy Inflation..

[4dsc]

I haven't been to the supermarket lately but yesterday's trip was an eye opener to say the least.. I see my favorite steaks are up $10/lb. Unbelievable.. I also see boneless chicken breasts were $4.29/lb.. Milk and ice cream are up too.. And they say there's little or no inflation in the US?? What's wrong with this picture...

[bahrbearian]

1. All the Plastic Crap at Wal-Mart is getting Cheaper.

[Jane Austin]

8. Um, what are you doing at WalMart? :)

n/t

[bahrbearian]

14. As Seen on T.V....I shop at the Piggly Wiggly.

[Jane Austin]

21. A Ha! :)

I am chastened.

[Andy_Stephenson]

22. The Pig!

you must be in the south somewhere. That is definately a southern thing.

[bahrbearian]

25. Seattle Washington . Has one left, the one by me closed a

few years ago .

[Warpy]

2. The numbers are obviously being Enronned

The market basket of grocery store items no longer contains $3.00 bread or high priced dairy products or anything but dried beans, it seems. Those, at least, have not shown much inflation.

There is a growing disconnect between everyone who shops for food and sees what prices are doing and the soothing voices of Bush liars telling them that there is no inflation.

Pretty soon, who knows? they won't believe a thing the Bush gang tells them on any subject.

[stewert]

3. Add Gas Too.........

Gas was $1.80 a gallon for regular unleaded here in Peoria last week, now it's $1.93. That's
a 13 cent jump in a week.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. I noticed that too! A Dove Soap six-pack used to be six dollars and....

now it's $7.25!

:wtf: happened???

[Jane Austin]

9. And now you know why the Family Dollar Stores are

doing so well these days.

Also Costco. Sales up 10% last month.

WalMart up only 4+%.

[Digit]

5. Maola milk 1 gal $4.89

It is not like having the option to forgo food for God's sake!
The store brand was just alittle under this price.
Just wait until the exorbitant gas prices the truckers pay get added to the prices!
We can't expect the truckers to absorb this.
......and then they give tax breaks to the wealthy.
Can you last another four years? I know I can't.

[Jane Austin]

10. I think the trucking prices may already be showing up

in these rising prices.

We have a mail-order and dot.com dog-themed business, and we get the pass-thru from our shippers almost immediately.

[indepat]

6. Romaine lettuce was up 20% and cheese singles up 25% just since

my last visit to the store and these were increases in the everyday, not sale prices.

[quinnox]

7. If there is an Albertsons in the area

try them out, they usually have great prices that are lower as long as you get their preferred card.

[Syncronaut Seven]

11. Albertsons is also union

and they treat their employees fairly well.

[wryter2000]

17. That may change

Albertsons recently helped out Safeway in their efforts to Walmart their employees' jobs in SoCal. So did Kroger. We'll have to see how things go for employees at Albertsons as contracts run out.

I wish Costco would open stores where you could get a quart of milk and a half-pint of sour cream. In the meantime, we have to make a more concerted effort to buy things at Costco whenever possible.

On edit: Albertsons has also instituted some of those self-check stations. They're designed to eliminate checker jobs.

[Spinzonner]

19. I refuse to use the self-check stations

even when it would be quicker and I am easily able to understand them and do so.

The extra few pennies they might save and I have some doubts how efficiently shoppers can use them) seem more likely to go to the bottom line and management bonuses than to prices.

[Tansy_Gold]

20. I refuse to use self-check because they make me use their

freakin' plastic bags.

I started taking my own cloth bags to the grocery store about six years ago. I shop at Fry's, a division of Kroger.

Fry's gives 5 cents off your grocery bill for each bag you bring. So we've saved anywhere from 30 to 50 cents each time we shop. I made ten bags myself, from 5 yards of heavy twill cotton fabric that cost $2/yard. The whole process took about four hours. Six years later, after being used each and every week without fail, they are in good enough shape that I expect them to last at least another five years, maybe longer!

The self-check-and-bag line won't let me use my bags, so I won't use their machines. I've saved money and avoided hundreds of non-biodegradable plastic bags over the past years, and I'm not about to stop now.

[Renew Deal]

12. No-Carb Craze

All the no-carb madness is taking a toll on the meat market.

[moondust]

16. Yes, however,

beef exports are supposed to be down something like 80% this year due to the mad cow thing. One would think the huge loss of demand would drive down prices for U.S. beef wherever it is sold. ??

[Skittles]

24. gawd, that no-carb fad SHIT really pisses me off

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Malva Zebrina]

13. three weeks ago I men tioned this to a woman who was in the parking lot

of the supermarket after we both spent a lot of money there buying food.


At the time I just wondered if I was slipping into the mode of the limited money and no chance to make any more,everything is too expensive, senior mindset.

[Deja Q]

15. Holy mish! If steaks are up that price, maybe somebody's

Keeping quiet about mad cow disease... ? :shrug:

I'm glad ground turkey and tuna are the same price... so sooneth I speak, I wonder...

[Andy_Stephenson]

23. Tuna...full of wholesome

mercury.

[Malva Zebrina]

28. so they say

and they tell you to take fish oil capsules if you have high cholesterol numbers. ONly thing is, we do not know how much mercury is in those capsules either. You can get filtered capsules, but they are quite expensive.

I have tuna packets in the cupboard that have been there for at least a year. I do not like the idea that the thing may be and probably is, full of mercury so it stays there for "emergencies" like when the power goes out in a winter storm for a day or two and we eat sandwiches. Even then, we ate egg salad instead of the Tunafish.



I also love Salmon,and other types of fish, like codfish and Halibut, and we here get it so fresh and so cheap--and sadly, also , we hear to not eat it very much because it is also full of mercury.

What are we to do?

I have fifty pounds of Maine shrimp in the freezer because I purposefully went to the docks to buy it and to support the local fishermen--as far as I know, it is not all filled up with mercury.

We had it today in a Jambalaya

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

18. they don't count

food and gasoline in figuring inflation because they are 'volitile'.

[ThomWV]

26. You Haven't Seen Anything Yet

The price of natural gas has doubled in the last year. Natural gas is used to make fertilizer and fertilizer is used to make feed for meat producing animals and to enable the level of production we see in our vegetables. Now is the time that extremely expensive fertilizer is being applied and it is really going to start showing up in prices at the market this summer.

[Kellanved]

27. I noticed;

even with a 1.20:1.00 Dollar/Euro rate shopping was extremely expensive, when compared to local supermarkets.
Considering that the tax is lower, labor supposedly cheaper, gas is cheaper and that many production enhancing things are allowed in the US, but forbidden in the EU (GM, hormones, some antibiotics), I found that rather strange :shrug:. (I paid €13 for a kg tenderloin last weekend)

[Arugula Latte]

29. $20 bag of cherries

I was in the store the other day and grabbed a bag of cherries. I was so excited to see fresh cherries I didn't check the price; I just wanted them. When the cashier rang it up it was $20 -- that's 10 dollars a friggin' pound! I know it is early in the cherry season, but, come on. I had them put it back, needless to say.

Everything else is more expensive. I remember when I could get kitty litter for $2 for a 20 lb. bag just a year or two ago -- now I'm lucky if I can find it for $4.