Between November and March, did Salmon prices skyrocket?

[Deja Q]

In Nov., I got 3lbs of yummy salmon for $8.50.

Yesterday I got 3lbs of yummy salmon for $12.50.

:wow:

Salmon is a fish healthy in essential vitamins (particularly B12), but the price floored me.

[katmondoo]

1. Florida Salmon has coloring added

Why are they doing this? Combined with the high mercury content of salmon I am now afreaid to eat it.

[Deja Q]

5. Mercury? In just salmon or ALL fish?

I'll eat fish 2~4 times a week.

We're all going to die of something anyway, but I blame the government for not making and enforcing just laws to protect its citizens from corporate abuse.

By the time corporate execs realize that there's more to life than money, they'll hopefully be as dead as the rest of us from mercury poisoning, arsenic in the water, pollution in the air, amongst numerous other man-made-maladies. They have the power therefore they have the responsibility. We can't leave Earth for another planet.

[BornaDem]

2. The price of everything at the supermarket has skyrocketed...

My guess is because of oil prices since nearly everything we buy comes by truck. For instance, a package of the cheapest paper plates you can buy (100) has been .98 where I shop for ages. Now it is $ 1.29. Almost everything is more expensive and most items by about 30% increase. The way oil prices are headed, we are in for a lot more of these increases.

[Deja Q]

3. Everything else (to date) is generally the same price.

Apart from clementines...

I recall when gas got up to $2.19 last year. Prices did not go back down once gas prices had. I assumed that the season has ended for salmon (cnad clemtines)

But peak oil, aye...

[BornaDem]

7. Wish I shopped where you do. You're right about prices not...

having followed a straight line with gasoline at its height last summer but that's when they started up and where I shop (Army Commissary) nearly everything is now up about 30% since this time last year. My husband keeps joking about how strong he's getting when he can carry $ 120 in groceries from car to kitchen in two trips.

[Deja Q]

8. Yee-ouch!!

30% nationwide? In one year? You'd think the net cost per consumer per item would be by only a few cents, a quarter at most. If this is peak oil at work (tohugh it could be as much the Iraqi resistence destroying pipelines in definace of the US occupation there.)

[BornaDem]

9. Since I don't shop in regular grocery stores...

I have no idea how much or how little prices are up. I just assumed they were up. The military commissaries enter into long term contracts to buy products from various sources, add their costs to the items and "supposedly" sell to their customers at whatever it costs them + 8% (I think that is the correct %, but I would not swear to it without checking my last grocery tape.) At any rate, once a source enters into the contract, they must keep supplying the product at that price no matter what market prices do. It very well may be that since they took such a bath in the last contract because of rising fuel prices, they have all overbid for the current one and it has been accepted by the Gov't. My only price comparisons with regular grocery stores comes in fresh vegetables from SuperWalmarts. Since all that is seasonal and depends on the weather how much crop is available, etc., it makes for no comparison. Sorry if I was in error and the only product that has risen in regular supermarkets is salmon.

[Wickerman]

4. Could it coincide witht he new Subway sandwich?

The new Salmon one? Maybe they bought up the market? Takes a whole lot of fish to supply a national chain. Even if they actually use little of it per actual supposed salmon piece. :scared:

[frictionlessO]

6. I've stopped eating salmon, its all farm raised and dyed meat.

The taste and texture quality of salmon has decreased so much over the last 8 years or so.

Thats here in Buffalo though.... if I could find a grocery store with real wild salmon they'd have a devoted customer.

[mark414]

10. well if you ever move to milwaukee...

you'll have to come visit me at work

i work in the meat department at a grocery store here...and ALL our salmon is wild caught from alaska...in fact almost all our fish are wild caught, and that which is farm raised is the best farm raised you'll find (no dyes, no antibiotics, none of that shit)...same with our beef/chicken/etc...organic, all natural, good stuff..

[frictionlessO]

12. I just may take you up on that!! and kudos to your buyers

for considering quality over quantity.

Consider yourselves very lucky!

[mark414]

11. 3 lbs for $12.50???

that's ridiculously CHEAP

the store i work at, it's $12.95 a POUND

but then again, it's all fresh, wild caught stuff...

[roguevalley]

13. subway gets our salmon. I wish you could see a real salmon run.

you could walk across the streams and rivers on their backs.