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10/15/2012 10:59 AM
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I found an 8+ year old grocery store recipt on the weekend. Wow...
1st thing I noticed, my wife and I have hardly changed anything about our buying and eating habits.

The 2nd thing I noticed was the crazy incrases we have had in prices.

1 can Campbells Vegetable soup was listed as $0.89
We now pay $2.19 for the same can.

Fresh Haddock Fillets were $3.99lb. Now $7.99lb.

4 litres of Skim Milk was $4.59...now $7.59.

1 loaf of whole wheat bread was $.99...now $2.99.

Fresh Green Pepper was $1.99lb...now $3.99lb.

Canned tomato juice was $0.99 a can...now $2.29 a can.

Obviously there was waaaaay more on the recipt, but I just can't believe the inflation. I'm sure many people have had to stop buying items the are used to buying, and change their life styles a great deal. I have not gotten to that point yet, but I'm feeling the pinch. It sucks.

Changes are needed.
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10/15/2012 11:01 AM
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Thanks.
Are these big food price changes happening in your area?
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10/15/2012 11:12 AM
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 Quoting: Menosgada


Thanks.
Are these big food price changes happening in your area?
 Quoting: Wash


That, and many companies are cutting back on portion sizes of items, as well as, raising the prices!
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Thanks.
Are these big food price changes happening in your area?
 Quoting: Wash


Thanks for the double bump.

MacIntosh Apples (3lb bag) $2.99...now $4.99.

Here in Nova Scotia we had an excellant apple growing year. One of the best they ever had. So you tell me why I'm paying $2.00 more per 3lb bag of apples?
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 Quoting: Menosgada


Thanks.
Are these big food price changes happening in your area?
 Quoting: Wash


That, and many companies are cutting back on portion sizes of items, as well as, raising the prices!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1313288


I've noticed that size reduction here and there over the past few years. We are getting totally ripped off.
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10/15/2012 11:14 AM
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Great Post!!! Send to all the Federal Reserve apologists.
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10/15/2012 11:14 AM
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A few months back I found a receipt in my pickup truck from 1989.
The purchase was cantaloupe at .39 cents a pound.
I am not sure what is now but it a lot more than 39 cents.
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Thanks for the PIN.
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Thanks for the PIN.
 Quoting: Wash


I found it interesting, especially if you factor this thread in:

Thread: UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013
Pickle Suprise!
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10/15/2012 11:20 AM
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Thanks for the PIN.
 Quoting: Wash


I found it interesting, especially if you factor this thread in:

Thread: UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013
 Quoting: Hawk-02


Your right, that is a good coupling.
Looks like we can expect more of the same until half of us are relying on the Govt for hand outs or we're starving to death.
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10/15/2012 11:22 AM
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Inflation!
Your asses are doomed!
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10/15/2012 11:23 AM
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Perhaps we should complain about the constant debt created by world banks that create inflation like this.

Instead, let's bitch about the grocers and the food portion sizes.

If we all consciously made a decision to be better - we would be.
...See Iceland.
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10/15/2012 11:23 AM
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The Romans starting yelling out " LET US EAT THAT MEAT" to the dead and dying Gladiators at their circus shows. Wait till this is the cry of the masses. History really repeats for the asshole societies aka ...USA.xmas
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10/15/2012 11:24 AM
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Holy Crap OP.


I just bought some Campbells Vegetable soup for 99c at Target.
Although normally they're about $1.49/can.
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The Romans starting yelling out " LET US EAT THAT MEAT" to the dead and dying Gladiators at their circus shows. Wait till this is the cry of the masses. History really repeats for the asshole societies aka ...USA.xmas
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Yikes.
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10/15/2012 11:26 AM
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welcome in the reality of people of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece...who saw the prices doubling (and tripling) overnight when euro was introduced...

then prices raised by 10% year as the Euro value drops of the same percentage.

Then ask yourself how cannot people be bankrupted


Ah,,,and the salaries did not increased but even decreased overtime
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Re: I found an 8+ year old grocery store recipt on the weekend. Wow...
1st thing I noticed, my wife and I have hardly changed anything about our buying and eating habits.

The 2nd thing I noticed was the crazy incrases we have had in prices.

1 can Campbells Vegetable soup was listed as $0.89
We now pay $2.19 for the same can.

Fresh Haddock Fillets were $3.99lb. Now $7.99lb.

4 litres of Skim Milk was $4.59...now $7.59.

1 loaf of whole wheat bread was $.99...now $2.99.

Fresh Green Pepper was $1.99lb...now $3.99lb.

Canned tomato juice was $0.99 a can...now $2.29 a can.

Obviously there was waaaaay more on the recipt, but I just can't believe the inflation. I'm sure many people have had to stop buying items the are used to buying, and change their life styles a great deal. I have not gotten to that point yet, but I'm feeling the pinch. It sucks.

Changes are needed.
 Quoting: Wash


That's actually scary when you consider that your currency has appreciated 66 percent against the dollar since then. I wonder what we actually paid back then I don't have any receipts though.
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10/15/2012 11:27 AM
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Holy Crap OP.


I just bought some Campbells Vegetable soup for 99c at Target.
Although normally they're about $1.49/can.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25350443


Yes I thought the same. I can get organic gluten free soup for 2.99 a can. Sounds like circle k prices or something OP
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Holy Crap OP.


I just bought some Campbells Vegetable soup for 99c at Target.
Although normally they're about $1.49/can.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25350443


In the US your prices are much better than ours. I'm in Atlantic Canada, our prices are typically the highest in Canada for most items other than seafood.

If I lived close to the boarder I'd be shopping in the US all the time.
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Holy Crap OP.


I just bought some Campbells Vegetable soup for 99c at Target.
Although normally they're about $1.49/can.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25350443


In the US your prices are much better than ours. I'm in Atlantic Canada, our prices are typically the highest in Canada for most items other than seafood.

If I lived close to the boarder I'd be shopping in the US all the time.
 Quoting: Wash


Not to mention, our wages.saleries are typically some of the lowest in the country...figure that out.
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10/15/2012 11:33 AM
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 Quoting: Menosgada


Thanks.
Are these big food price changes happening in your area?
 Quoting: Wash


Thanks for the double bump.

MacIntosh Apples (3lb bag) $2.99...now $4.99.

Here in Nova Scotia we had an excellant apple growing year. One of the best they ever had. So you tell me why I'm paying $2.00 more per 3lb bag of apples?
 Quoting: Wash




Why? Really? You are asking that question? Because the growers are competing with cheap apples from Asia. Because the growers have to pay their own bills and they are sky rocketing... gas, taxes, their own food, etc. Growers are competing in an inflating economy.
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10/15/2012 11:35 AM
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Well, one good thing out of it. I'll lose a few lbs from being broke, lol.
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Inflation!
Your asses are doomed!
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Yup…it’s only a matter of time
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Re: I found an 8+ year old grocery store recipt on the weekend. Wow...
1st thing I noticed, my wife and I have hardly changed anything about our buying and eating habits.

The 2nd thing I noticed was the crazy incrases we have had in prices.

1 can Campbells Vegetable soup was listed as $0.89
We now pay $2.19 for the same can.

Fresh Haddock Fillets were $3.99lb. Now $7.99lb.

4 litres of Skim Milk was $4.59...now $7.59.

1 loaf of whole wheat bread was $.99...now $2.99.

Fresh Green Pepper was $1.99lb...now $3.99lb.

Canned tomato juice was $0.99 a can...now $2.29 a can.

Obviously there was waaaaay more on the recipt, but I just can't believe the inflation. I'm sure many people have had to stop buying items the are used to buying, and change their life styles a great deal. I have not gotten to that point yet, but I'm feeling the pinch. It sucks.

Changes are needed.
 Quoting: Wash



Ouch! Prices are hurting up there in canada it sounds like, I still pay about the same price you were paying 8 years ago for stuff.
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10/15/2012 11:38 AM
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Yes, I noticed the Campbell's soup price increase recently. It really is getting harder to afford going to the grocery. It's kinda depressing, but it's still gotta be done. verysad
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Re: I found an 8+ year old grocery store recipt on the weekend. Wow...
1st thing I noticed, my wife and I have hardly changed anything about our buying and eating habits.

The 2nd thing I noticed was the crazy incrases we have had in prices.

1 can Campbells Vegetable soup was listed as $0.89
We now pay $2.19 for the same can.

Fresh Haddock Fillets were $3.99lb. Now $7.99lb.

4 litres of Skim Milk was $4.59...now $7.59.

1 loaf of whole wheat bread was $.99...now $2.99.

Fresh Green Pepper was $1.99lb...now $3.99lb.

Canned tomato juice was $0.99 a can...now $2.29 a can.

Obviously there was waaaaay more on the recipt, but I just can't believe the inflation. I'm sure many people have had to stop buying items the are used to buying, and change their life styles a great deal. I have not gotten to that point yet, but I'm feeling the pinch. It sucks.

Changes are needed.
 Quoting: Wash


This is the corporate exploitation of the consumer expectation of inflation... not true inflation.

Because the inflation experienced is 'Top-Bottom' Inflation, i.e. via corporate dictatorship. It is not an honest to goodness 'Bottom-Up' consumer inflation due to higher overall demand, because we have not seen job growth and across the board higher wages effecting the consumer markets.

I noticed another trick they are using to 'manufacture' consumption, or turnover; i.e dating beer/soda bottles and cans with short term expirations. This means the product is artificially NON marketable because they put an expiration date on it; which forces artificial turnover. Artificial turnover is inflationary.

Last Edited by Intergalactic Diplomat on 10/15/2012 11:48 AM
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Inflation numbers are cooked. If we really knew the true number all the politicians would be out of work.


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