I found an 8+ year old grocery store recipt on the weekend. Wow... | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 2920706 United States 10/15/2012 11:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Funny thing is, I bet your paycheck in that time hasn't risen more than $1 an hour if you are hourly and weren't promoted in that time span, possibly lowered if you lsot a good paying job. Inflation only works if you raise the overall living wage with it. Otherwise, you're simply ruining the currency. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25314863 United States 10/15/2012 11:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1 can Campbells Vegetable soup was listed as $0.89 Quoting: Wash We now pay $2.19 for the same can. Canned tomato juice was $0.99 a can...now $2.29 a can. This is the real inflation. I am too poor to afford the other things. Soups and juices benefit from ever better and better harvesting, processing and packaging methods. And I am sure what I buy is all GMO, and left over ingredients from the premium products. Fuel costs, weather, labor issues, import/export trade can affect everything else on your list, but there is no reason staple canned foods should have the increases. NONE. Get ready for tunisia. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6406905 Canada 10/15/2012 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Grow your own herbs and stuff, you will save a crap load of money. Plus you control how it's grown. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24182677 Next year I'm going to be growing a herb that you pay $5 for 8oz. The seed itself is less than that and you get more! I actually have 2 vegetable gardens, one that has a large portion just for herbs. By this time of year though all I have left are Squash and Zucchni. |
Dr.DoomLittle User ID: 6231580 United States 10/15/2012 11:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Inflation numbers are cooked. If we really knew the true number all the politicians would be out of work. Quoting: YaRight [link to www.shadowstats.com] Inflation is corporate exploitation. The initiative of the dollar is Deflation, not Inflation. The reason is that the Federal Reserve charges interest on currency that doesn't exist in the money supply. Therefore, corporate profits depend on a well trained consumer; one that expects inflation. Be a good little sheep, and expect inflation. The dollar is a debt instrument, it represents a contract. The psychological expectation of Inflation allows the rise in prices when there is not a 'Bottom up' wage and job growth effect; it therefore creates and expands the profit for corporations. The Fed Reserve and the US Gov't collects their cut from taxation; all a burden (hidden corprate, banking, and government taxes) on the population. Last Edited by Intergalactic Diplomat on 10/15/2012 12:00 PM |
Kissplash User ID: 18998054 United States 10/15/2012 11:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This week I saved 37.75 on my first transaction. I spent 112.97 after all coupons. They gave me 10.00 in coupons to spend on anything else I wanted in the store. So I bought more. I also used 3 more coupons. That total came to 7.01 after coupons. I saved 12.85 with the coupons. My out of pocket for both transactions was only 119.98. I got milk, coffee, fruit, rice, chicken, sugar, flour, oatmeal, soups, crackers, nuts, tea, pudding, tp, and crackers. Oh and overstuffed raviolis that my teens just love. Yeah...prices nowadays are horrible! But if you plan carefully and use coupons with sales you can still eat and pay the bills. It takes awhile to get started but it does help and after a month or two you'll see that your total comes down a bit. LEARN HOW TO BE KIND OR BE LEFT BEHIND. OXOXO |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25314863 United States 10/15/2012 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Grow your own herbs and stuff, you will save a crap load of money. Plus you control how it's grown. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24182677 Next year I'm going to be growing a herb that you pay $5 for 8oz. The seed itself is less than that and you get more! it is a good idea. especially for herbs. but just like the gold standard. we should not be forced to go back to the stone age where everyone grows their own food to avoid government & finance corruption. weather, like last years drought, can make gardening miserable. plus there is the economy of scale that HEAVILY subsidized food industries get. Think about the Heinz company that pays little to no taxes. Large harvesters can process hundreds of acres vegetables per day. All that was subsidized by the tax payers, and the brilliant people who designed the equipment. They say the arab spring was started by a man in tunisia who immolated himself over food prices. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25483381 United States 10/15/2012 12:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well, we used to get 6 (red, orange, yellow) colored bell peppers for $3.49 a year ago at Costco. We went last night and paid $6.49. A year ago my Aunt who lives 125 miles from here pays $3.00 each for green bell peppers. I don't by the green ones so I don't know what they go for here. |
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CrazyMama73 User ID: 25543949 Canada 10/15/2012 12:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I care for 4 children, plus my 2. I find the only way I can cut costs is by having to travel to a few different places to get the cheapest deals and price match anything you can! Making everything home made takes a lot of time, but if you can even do one day a weekend, where you premake a whole bunch of meals and freeze them, you are better off cost wise and health wise too! Not sure if in NS you have an "Almost Perfect" store, but it is a store that sells pies and frozen things that may have some imperfections in the box, or cookies broken ect. You can still get a loaf of bread for .99 cents, other wise here the average loaf is at least $2.50 I had also recently came across an old receipt and I agree with you, things are just insanely over priced. What I used to get for $100 back then I now have to pay $200 for. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6406905 Canada 10/15/2012 12:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I care for 4 children, plus my 2. I find the only way I can cut costs is by having to travel to a few different places to get the cheapest deals and price match anything you can! Making everything home made takes a lot of time, but if you can even do one day a weekend, where you premake a whole bunch of meals and freeze them, you are better off cost wise and health wise too! Quoting: CrazyMama73 Not sure if in NS you have an "Almost Perfect" store, but it is a store that sells pies and frozen things that may have some imperfections in the box, or cookies broken ect. You can still get a loaf of bread for .99 cents, other wise here the average loaf is at least $2.50 I had also recently came across an old receipt and I agree with you, things are just insanely over priced. What I used to get for $100 back then I now have to pay $200 for. WE don't have an "Almost Perfect" store...too bad. SOunds like a great place. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6406905 Canada 10/15/2012 12:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I went yesterday and was in shock. I swear, some things that I buy have doubled in the past year alone. I didn't even have a cart full, mostly fruits, vegetables, some fresh shrimp, cereals, spices, rice, etc.. Quoting: N3m3s1s My tab was $286! Its crazy. I find meat the very worst. I can hardly afford Chicken, Beef or Pork. The prices have gone through the roof. |
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CrazyMama73 User ID: 25543949 Canada 10/15/2012 12:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I went yesterday and was in shock. I swear, some things that I buy have doubled in the past year alone. I didn't even have a cart full, mostly fruits, vegetables, some fresh shrimp, cereals, spices, rice, etc.. Quoting: N3m3s1s My tab was $286! Its crazy. I find meat the very worst. I can hardly afford Chicken, Beef or Pork. The prices have gone through the roof. Meat is really expensive. We normally will go through the section that has the meat on a reduced percentage, you can usually find it from 25% - 50% off, just because the expiry date is tomorrow!,. We just throw it in the freezer and it is fine. Also buying whole chickens when on sale and cutting them up yourself can save you a crap load! At the rate it is going though we are going to be left hunting squirrels and other lovely animals! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25314863 United States 10/15/2012 12:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And don't forget why these prices are rising. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24172289 Since 2001 $10.4 trillion in debt has been added between little Bush and black face Obama. .... What a fucking joke. Two wars, and epic entitlement state for non defense industries, like $90B for solyndra. In my region, we have one of the walmart heirs, who announced he would renovate a large public retail space. He backed out when he was not given tax money to do it. you heard that right, he was not asking for a tax free effort on his investment. he was insisting the government give poor peoples tax money to him for him to have the perrogative and ownership. He then withdrew. There is hundreds of trillions of dollars of money in the system, but 99% of people can not afford food. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6406905 Canada 10/15/2012 12:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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? Because you are paying for food travel costs. The Valley that these apples are coming from is an hour away. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 16693505 United States 10/15/2012 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1st thing I noticed, my wife and I have hardly changed anything about our buying and eating habits. Quoting: Wash 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. Ha Ha Ha Listen to this? I bought a box of Gortons Fish the other day for dinner for my husband and I and my mother. I opened the box and there were ONLY 5 FISH!!!! WTH!!! I had to STARVE THAT NIGHT!!!! Yet, I stilled paid 6 dollars for that STUPID BOX!!!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20674162 Canada 10/15/2012 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, your local grocer is RAPING you! if you shop at Jewel, Osco, Kroger,Albertsons, HEB, or any small type of chain you will notice this trend i commonly shop at Walmart or Target amd you tell me why at those big chains you DON'T see an increase like at the others? its sheer small time mom-pop greed! all stores get everything at the same price yet "grocery" stores chose to mark it up by 400% non-grocery stores like walmart only mark it up by 100% i can still get everything on your list exactly namebranded at your 8yr old prices at Walmart, Target, Meijer, Sams, Costco, |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20674162 Canada 10/15/2012 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, your local grocer is RAPING you! if you shop at Jewel, Osco, Kroger,Albertsons, HEB, or any small type of chain you will notice this trend i commonly shop at Walmart or Target amd you tell me why at those big chains you DON'T see an increase like at the others? its sheer small time mom-pop greed! all stores get everything at the same price yet "grocery" stores chose to mark it up by 400% non-grocery stores like walmart only mark it up by 100% i can still get everything on your list exactly namebranded at your 8yr old prices at Walmart, Target, Meijer, Sams, Costco, |
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CrazyMama73 User ID: 25543949 Canada 10/15/2012 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, your local grocer is RAPING you! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20674162 if you shop at Jewel, Osco, Kroger,Albertsons, HEB, or any small type of chain you will notice this trend i commonly shop at Walmart or Target amd you tell me why at those big chains you DON'T see an increase like at the others? its sheer small time mom-pop greed! all stores get everything at the same price yet "grocery" stores chose to mark it up by 400% non-grocery stores like walmart only mark it up by 100% i can still get everything on your list exactly namebranded at your 8yr old prices at Walmart, Target, Meijer, Sams, Costco, I find the prices in the states are considerably cheaper than here in Canada. The prices at Walmart are pretty much the same as the regular grocery stores as well as the Mom & Pop stores. |