Posted on 11/18/2024 7:06:11 PM PST by 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.
Gas is up here a dime in raleigh. Got to get that 10% irregardless of who is coming into the house;-)
Making America Healthy Again is gonna cost some money. Demand for fresh produce will rise.
I don’t buy Walmart produce. Eww.
Grow my own or buy local (Mennonite).
At my Aldi, I have not ever seen Roma tomatoes above 99 cents a pound.
I buy them firm, and give them at least a week to ripen up.
They ain’t even in the same universe as home grown but they will do.
Yup. I pick them off from everything that comes with them and throw them away. And I used to love them back in the day.
Probably that it is almost winter. Our tomatoes have been $4/lb for many months, for the “good ones”. They have been pretty tasty, and I usually get 2 or 3 each week. Romas are about $2/lb. The cherry and grape tomatoes fluctuate alot, and come in odd size packages. Sometimes the “on the vine” (where 3 or 4 are still connected) are about $3/lb.
Ground beef has actually come down a little at my local WalMarts (Mid-South, USA). $3.39/lb. in a 5 lb. roll. That is the cheapy 73% lean stuff. 80% was $4.29 @ Aldi in a ~2 lb. pack.
At a local supermarket in suburban Baltimore, strawberries just went from $1.29 or so to $5.99. Is that a seasonal hike? Bananas went from $.59/lb to $.79/lb. Red bell peppers are now $2.99 EACH. Guess who’s growing bell peppers in her garden next summer? I had tons of zucchini, cucumbers, eggplants, and strawberries last summer, enough to supply half my street. So I’ll add bell peppers. Be darned if I’m gonna pay $2.99 EACH for a pepper!
Let em rot.
“About 90% of tomatoes in the last 20 years are not worth 5 cents a pound. They really messed them up.”
Totally! They’re all bred to be able to be picked green and ripen in storage so that they travel and keep well, but they’re flavorless.
I got the same response: India is having increases in tomato prices. There was nothing about America.
Florida tomatoes are the worst. Absolutely no flavor. Walmart did us all a favor.
Walmart’s Roma (plum) tomatoes went up from .98/lb about a month ago to $1.33/lb now. Southeast FL.
You sound like Biden/Harris. I do not believe the grocery stores are gouging the public.
I just purchased a half bushel basket of beautiful big slicers at the Amish farm stand for $10.
Sweet onions were $18 bushel for firsts, $9 for seconds.
Delicata Squash were $12 half bushel. Acorn Squash were $10 half bushel. Spaghetti Squash were $1 each.
Peppers were $8 per half bushel
Huge Blue Hubbard Squash were $5, and they were enormous. Neck Pumpkins $4
No 1 potatoes $15 for 50 lb.
Apples $6.50 per half bushel (many varieties)
It’s the end of the season and they harvested everything before the frost. Season’s over and prices will skyrocket.
I have an extra large Harvest Right Freeze Dryer and it will be very busy for a few weeks.
That’s in Pennsylvania.
Just stopped in for a few items yesterday. Increase of the few things I bought was between 10 and 20% from the last time I bought them a few months back.
Keep telling me inflation is under control. Lying sacks of crap
So you’re saying they are pride gouging? Not buying it...no pun intended. I can go to our grocery store and see tomato’s amoung other items priced all over the place and buy the ones I want. They have Starbucks too but I don’t drink overpriced shxt I make my own.
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