Posted on 07/13/2015 9:39:15 PM PDT by thomasryan
In my family to accept EBT help was blasphemy. I grew up in a large poor Irish Catholic family in an Irish neighborhood going to Catholic school like all the other kids. We all learned and were raised to enjoy the American dream.
Sometimes I bring it up with my brothers and sisters about the highlight of my life during that time was to rake poppop’s yard clear his driveway from snow or clear the leaves out of his rainspouts was having a ham sandwich with chips and a real soda.
In our life Sunday had a roast but other days were either hotdogs mixed with cream of mushroom and green beans spaghetti with little meat or something similar to hamb helper with noodles or rice.
God has blessed me so tremendously. When I retired at 46 my mom was on my case big time stating I could do this that and whatever. She hated it when I kept saying, “but mom I don’t need to work again, I can live quite good on what I got.”
Prior to illegals and white chumps being addicted to video games jobs for me as a youngster were a dime a dozen. I was blessed to be a factory union worker on the graveyard shift even as I still went to high school. As a side job part time I give locals honest AC residential AC service here in Texas. I hate to say it but people here in Texas are friendlier than wherever
When I call them back the next day as a follow up call it’s great when they always say, It’s working great.” I guess 40 yrs experience accounts for something”
If the supermarkets paid ALL their employees a living wage, their troubles would be over.
I agree with you that there are still bargains but some foods are getting out of reach for those on a budget. Sweet potatoes, bananas, and eggs for example are getting scary expensive.
Store corporate headquarters usually in other states determine store stocking and inventory policies rather than relying on local managers who know their customers habits and the communities and allowing them to maximize on that aspect. Corp wants every store to be a Yuppie store or heavy ethnic. BTW I have not once in my life seen anyone buy Chitlings but darned every store carries them.
Then they try to sell things like crock pots, skillets, coffee makers, etc which are about 20% higher than a big box store. I kid you not one store I know has about 1200 square feet devoted to bottled water. In say California, Florida, etc that may wise but East Tennessee? The biggest loss in sales likely comes from computerized inventory that isn't verified. Meaning simply the computer shows 100 items of Brand X beans and none are on the shelf. Computer stats show no one is buying brand X beans so brand X is discontinued. Yeah I can see why profits are low.
Too many stores are trying to sell everything instead of Groceries. That works if you're Walmart {even though their food section is now pathetic} and have a one stop store. Not even Krogers can do that and I went in one a couple months ago that tried to be a department store. The two really don't mix. Even with Walmart I don't buy the majority of my food there I go to a grocery store because I do not like Great Value Brand food products.
I see what you did there. ;)
While raising our two children we had a vegetable garden every year and we raised our own beef cattle. We also heated our house with wood heat, so we also had to harvest trees for firewood every year. After both or children were gone, we got away from all of that.
Last year we started up a small vegetable garden again and my wonderful bride brought out all of her old canning supplies. We are loving it all, all over again.
This year we put in the garden again....we are already harvesting some things...I AM LOVING IT!! I have already began planning for next years garden and it will be at least twice the size of our present garden.
Both of our grown children have their own places and they each have their own gardens.
We raise chickens for eggs and ducks and geese for fun....although they can be eaten if need be.
I have landscaped almost every square foot of our 5 acres...it’s a hobby, so I don’t think we will raise cattle again. However, because of our apple trees, we always have plenty of deer around, should that become necessary. ;>)
For anyone who bothers to learn the basics, raising a small vegetable garden is easy....it will save you some money and your food will be better for you...and tastier. I can’t speak for canning, other than to say that my wife makes it look easy. She makes killer pickles and her spicy canned tomatoes are to die for. I use the canned tomatoes to make my soup for lunch....sometimes I simply dump the tomatoes into a bowl and eat it cold.
I wonder how much of this inflation is due to the food stamp factor.
Any and all reasons can no doubt be traced to Fedzilla
Um, ... Which Cite - Sight - Site?
Bottled water is probably high profit margin stuff.
Can anything be planted now in the Midwest? Is there enough time to grow anything? I’m wondering about even something small indoors. Like the tomato plants, lol.
Syte
I went into a newer Asian/Middle Eastern super market last year here in my town. They had a mess full of imported goat heads. I thought, "Are all these goat heads going to actually get sold?" Thank goodness I haven't seen any at the local Wal-Mart...yet.
And the government is intentionally killing off the California produce growing industry so they can serve UN Agenda 21 and promote food importation from outside the USA. What could go wrong? LOL.
I go to WINCO here in AZ. Great prices.
Any of you “old timer” Freepers remember “Victory Gardens”?
If you have the ability and the wherewithal, grow a garden to help offset some of these obviously high food prices.
There are consequences to the government printing money. The value of the currency declines and the cost of items needed to survive such as food and medical care skyrocket. If it wasn’t for the fracking energy boom we’d be paying $5.00 per gallon of gas.
There are consequences to the environmental policies that take land out of production. The government caused California disaster will do permanent damage to our nation’s food supply and result in more imported food.
The government mandated burning of corn for auto fuel has distorted the grain markets.
The U.S. Government still pays landowners not to grow in the face of escalating prices.
The skyrocketing price of food is a perfect issue for the opposition party to be using everyday. Instead, the GOP leadership remains silent and allows the left to set the political agenda.
“If the supermarkets paid ALL their employees a living wage, their troubles would be over.”
What exactly is a ‘living wage’?
If you are alive, your wage is livable. If you don’t like your job you should find a new one.
I can’t back up this up, but I thought I read it was more like 3 to 4 cents per ITEM.
Prices rising, contents shrinking.
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