Posted on 11/22/2022 2:22:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
Fast food joints seem to be ripping off big time.
“cut all the corporatism-fascism” by not allowing themselves to be extorted by BLM and the Climate Idiots.
One thing they could cut waaaay back on is the elaborate and wasteful packaging.
And pass the savings on to the customer.
Aldi’s does this
Same
That was brilliant!! :)
I would consider that the inflation number is what is artificially low.
Thanks to Brandon my family is having squirrel with acorn soup along with baked possum for Thanksgiving dinner.
My first accounting teacher used to say:
A business should be run like a one story cat house - no f’n over head.
“lower your overhead”
Some of the old-timers used the word “nut” instead of “overhead”.
“I need to make my nut” to stay in business.
You could have had a lot of fun with that.
;-)
A loaf of bread for less than a dollar? What kind of bread, is the question.
I stopped buying “store” bread - because they were clearly using the cheapest flour they could find. Forget trying to spread peanut butter on it without it disintegrating, or even soft butter. The last straw for me, a slice of store bought bread broke completely in half - under its own weight. LOL.
A 5 pound bag of good bread flour retails for about $5, and makes about 10 loaves of good french bread.
Bon Appetit went woke and hard left.
Thanks for posting this reality of business in America not communist country with one option if your are lucky.
“Every purchase is a reverse valuation: you value the product more than your money, and the seller values your money more than the product. If the product costs more than you value it, you don’t buy it, and the seller decides either to keep the product or offer it at a lower price.”
In America, no store nor any corporation has a gun aimed at your private parts forcing you to buy anything.
If their price is too high, just don’t buy it. Just buy something else or do without the item.
Each Monday our smaller version of a bigger chain grocery store has a Monday Sale on a lot of their brand of canned goods. So my wife puts a buy on my list and an estimate of how many cans of each item to buy. So we, have been loading up on good store brands and sometimes brand name products.
Our last two monthly Costco orders with a 2 hour delivery time after last item is ordered online, has been high in items where there were shortages during the Covid B$.
We are going to one of our son’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. He got tired of only 1 turkey and being frozen B$. He ordered a pre sliced ham.
There are no fresh cranberries for my specialty, and I just bought a couple of cans of cranberries.
I paid $2.23 a can but I just looked on amazon and the same is $3.00 a can.
Gibberish. No one needs to dine out at all, when they can cook cheaply at home. If you want “extra guac” buy an avocado and make your own. Corporations charge what the traffic will bear. It’s called free market economics, and no one is forcing people to buy anything from them.
I love farmers markets, but you have to be discriminating. Some produce, like late season hard squash tend to be bargains. Others like local honey, not so much. So no they are not reliably cut rate prices, but then again, you get really good fresh locally produced goods that have been ripened on the vine, not in a warehouse somewhere between here and california.
Have you priced avocados recently?
And You’re leaving the lead shot in the Squirrel to make it a heavier meal.🤪
“. But many people seem to have begrudgingly accepted the price hikes, allowing the companies to continue to make record profits. According to the Times piece, James Quincey, Coca-Cola’s CEO, said ...”
And guess who those pockets full congress-people are.
I bought some at Walmart last week for 68 cents each. I just checked the current price online - 58 cents now.
Avocado prices do tend to vary more than apples (which have gone way up recently) and bananas (pretty stable).
It is far easier that they think to figure this out. We have all been lied to and the cost of inflation is much higher than what we have been told. If they use flawed Biden data all of their results will be wrong. Check any item you want at the grocery store and see if it matches the OFFICIAL rate of inflation. Then check the price of fuel, or about anything else you want. None of it matches what Biden is telling us. Maybe they need to look harder at the real reason that the cost of dining doesn’t match.
Here’s something I’ve noticed at the local Walmart...store brand products selling for the same as name brand (in the same quantity. Not a lot of this is happening, but I would think it might slow slow consumption of the store brand products. Also, I am seeing shelf pricing differing from the checkout price. They are probably slow on getting shelf prices updated, but it is certainly consumer deception. Sometimes this has happened weeks in a row. Looks like possibly a store manager problem or maybe it is being deliberately done.
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