Posted on 11/13/2024 7:03:55 AM PST by dangus
I went to the grocery store yesterday and found roast beef for $6/lb. Two weeks ago, it was $16. Heck, when I started working in a deli in 1991, it was $8. Milk for $3.19/gallon? Sharp cheddar cheese for $3.78/pound? Cream cheese for $2.26/half pound? Butter for $2.98/pound? Chicken breast for $1.99?
I've been going to Aldi's lately, so I don't know exactly how to compare to before my days of shopping Safeway online since the grocery stores shut down for the pandemic, but these prices seem pre-pandemic to me. My sister reports that where she's from, so much of everything is on 2-for-1 sales.
Have other people noticed a sudden collapse of prices?
Yes here as well, bread, milk, eggs, Box of breakfast cereal and pooh goes a C note!!
But now is the time when the prices should be coming downs because they are running specials for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Buy in bulk, do the final touches yourself and things become cheaper.
To put something on sale the store has to have permission from the distributor. Which generally comes through corporate.
The only time the store "owns" product is if it is damaged by the store. At that point the store must pay the distributor for the damaged product and then may sell it, if it still is within the code, for whatever they can get to offset damages.
Not here but it is coming up to TG!
Partly the packers, partly the price of grain and partly that pigs are harvested at nine months and beef at about two years.
Which is basically using technology to make your supplier your banker.
Sounds like a complicated and sophisticated version of Consignment Sales
Flour (rye,white), beans, rice, sugar, coffee, spices, etc...I buy in bulk. I make all my own breads, pasta, stews, soups, etc...
Four chickens roam my back yard and now I don't need pest control or insecticide, getting two dozen eggs twice a week. I only feed them purchased feed in the winter months.
I have always kept a few bee hives.
Garden crops that produce year round produce. (Radishes, Kohlrabi, lettuce, cabbages, fruit trees, and dehydrated summer veggies which over-supply and then go away, sweet potatoes which can easily exceed 500 pounds in a small plot, storing easily in the garage.
Wine is cheaper to buy than produce (Carlo Rossi Jugs).
It is.
All brought to you by computers. No way this could have been done prior.
There are ups and downs for everybody in SBT but for the most part more up for everyone. Stores are now willing to put new products on the shelf because their investment is lower.
Distributors are less likely to try to off load damaged or low quality product because it will bite them in the butt very hard.
Raise what you can, buy in bulk what you can't and make what you can.
I do brew up mead occasionally but only when I have an over abundance of honey and some fruit that looks really good.
Even though it is just me and my wife, our Sams Plus membership is a net gain. Partly because my heart meds are cheaper (cash price) there with a plus membership than through insurance. It would be a net gain even if I bought nothing but my heart meds there. But we do gain from other products also.
My best latest discovery is my Fuku Asian Persimmon trees. The persimmons are not astringent, and store better than apples. They taste somewhere between apple, carrot, and honey. No pests like peaches, apples, cherries, get unless you spray pesticides four times a year.
Amazon pharmacy is beyond fantastic. No bulls#$$ either. I also buy a few things from Mumbai, India. It just takes a month to get to your door, so buy accordingly.
Nope.
NO. Bidenflation still rampant.
Lord willing, the creek don't rise and my neighbor does not call me to say, "Want another deer?" we should be through with the canning for this year.
Well, Publix just started their Thanksgiving turkey sale at 49 cents per pound. Tomorrow I’ll picking up two of them.
Not really gone down yet. Some, yes, even gas prices have come down some. That was for the election, I believe, in order to try to keep the DemoKKKrats in power.
Aldi is a good place to shop on a budget. They are limited assortment stores so if you can live with what they have it is a good place to shop
buy and stock up on the loss leaders.
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