Walmart just raised its price tonight on tomatoes. From $1.98 /lb to $3.54 /lb.

[4Runner]

This is in Tampa, Florida. I just came back from the superstore in my neighborhood. Making hay while the sun shines. The grocery markets are going to take pricing through the stratosphere and fleece everyone until Trump gets in on January 20. So what else could possibly motivate such a rise in prices at this particular moment, to this extreme extent? This is an absolute disgrace.

[Jane Long]

Ours have stayed the same price, for months ...

Organic tomatoes ... $2.98/lb.

[devere]

Shop somewhere else. I just bought tomatoes for 99 cents a pound from a farmer’s market.

[jra]

It’s November.

[The Duke]

All I ask is that there be free market competition among the purveyors of tomatos (and everything else).

[Responsibility2nd]

Have you considered it’s not Walmarts fault?

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/why-have-the-price-of-tomatoes-0GhkzDu1QN6JbAkR1.8EHg

[bankwalker]

Produce prices are local and seasonal.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The grocery markets are going to take pricing through the stratosphere and fleece everyone until Trump gets in on January 20.

Welcome to the new normal in America. We thought we could have huge deficits forever, with no consequences.

Inflation always happens in countries and empires with high debt. It's why Louis XVI was sent to the guillotine. France had high debt and high inflation.

Trump has his work cut out for him.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Really?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...I asked perplexity “why have tomatoes shot up in price” and got a long explanation for the India.

[milagro]

At our local Walmart, a pound of bacon is a little over $6.00.
At another large grocery store, it’s $3.98.

[milagro]

BTW, same brand.

[Revel]

About 90% of tomatoes in the last 20 years are not worth 5 cents a pound. They really messed them up.

[Persevero]

Well, it is November

[Eccl 10:2]

Why would you think that “The grocery markets are going to take pricing through the stratosphere and fleece everyone until Trump gets in on January 20.”???

Do you believe the grocery markets are mad that Trump won, and are out to punish their customers?

And what would Trump do to stop it? Institute price controls?

[piasa]

I am in Florida and just got some for 98 cents a pound.

Maybe you were comparing to organic tomatos which are often 2 to4 times higher.

[piasa]

What makes you think grocery stores like inflation more than you do?

They don’t like it.

Our local one just closed its doors. It is a tough business. They are hurting from inflation, too.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's called the law of supply and demand.

[EvilCapitalist]

They also just raised the price of a 2lb. block of cheese from $7.34 to $8.24. This was on Friday in PA.

[4Runner]

I don’t remember the last time I saw tomatoes for $.98/lb. They are usually $1.98 /lb which is high enough. That is the price at both Publix and Walmart.

Anyway it sounds like you are calling me a liar. I’m not lying. I bought the last package of Sunset tomatoes which were priced at $1.98 per pound. That brand sells tomatoes grown both in the USA (Kentucky) and Mexico for that price. All the other tomatoes (NOT organic) including loose ones, were priced at $3.54 /lb.