Posted on 03/18/2010 5:09:09 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
A real sign of hyperinfation can be found in products on the shelf here and there in retail establishments. For example, let's take saline solution nose spray. At Wal-Mart, about two years ago, a 3 oz. bottle was 94 cents. Then, it jumped within the past year to $1.94. Yesterday, while looking at the same bottle, the price was $2.98. And, that's just for a little salt in water! Don't come back at me by saying that's just one item. A LOT of things are beginning to jump up in price. Leave your own examples here via commentary.
It's not what they were doing, but what they were NOT doing to it: Refrigerating it properly and it wilted...................
Kroger is a strongly union shop and promoted Barack Obama by allowing him to visit stores to promote himself
It seems to fluctuate. A few months ago, milk was $3.25-$3.50 around here. Right now, it's $2.25-$2.50 at the same locations.
I prefer the $1.19 house brand personally.
My wife got some tolerable sandwich bread at Sav-A-Lot for $.99 last week. I've asked her not to do that again unless the Meijer stuff will bust the budget. 20 cents is worth the better (IMHO) flavor and texture.
Sorry - I shop at WalMart for most of my grocery items, including saline solution. The same size bottle of Equate brand is $2.00 and has been for as long as I can remember.
Groceries have also stayed more or less where they were 6 months ago.
I see no signs of hyperinflation there.
We have a couple of grocery stores around. King Soopers, where daughter works, but would wipe me out in a heart beat if I shopped there regularly. Not to mention the store where she works has as much customer traffic as Walmart, it seems. The Safeway is even more expensive. But their staff seems to be disgruntled much of the time.
And, we know Walmart’s peak hours and how to avoid the crowds there, for the most part. But if I hit two or three stores, I would be putting double/triple the walking on concrete floors, standing in lines on my back. I wouldn’t get back up for days.
Oh yeah, we have a Target. They have the puppy food we have been using recently in the larger bag. Too bad, Walmart is losing a sale by not having the larger puppy food.
I just hate that they keep moving my stuff around after I finally know where it is? ;0)
I mean, where do you find the Marshmallow Fluff? Jams and jellies, candy or baking aisle?
The people who work in the stores don’t even know.
.........Some things no longer smell the same as they used to.................
crap, applebutter
Yeah, that too. I get so frustrated when I go to where I know something to be and it isn’t there. Now that I am getting older it has two effects. One, I am left wondering why I am in that aisle because I have forgotten why I went there. And then I am left mumbling to myself about where did such and such go.
What I really miss is my favorite aftershave and bacon.......................
Yes, Kroger is a highly union shop. I can understand why one might not want to shop there for that reason. If you wouldn’t mind, kindly post some links of the Obama-Kroger connection, so I can make up my own mind.
In my area, though, back in the 1950’s the Kroger company purchased a huge parcel of land to build a store. As their local business prospered, they’ve steadily pushed development of that ground in a rational, stable manner. The shopping space Kroger vacated upon expansion has been filled by discount and department stores. Also, the local Kroger management here tends to give back to the our community in visible ways, such as some cash for community festivals and the like. I’d characterize them as being a good neighbor.
This is not to say my local Wal-Mart is a bad neighbor. But Wal-Mart has a tendency to leave its old stores scattered about with no rhyme or reason, and little hope of productive use after. In my area, Kroger has a 50+ year track record of being a good corporate neighbor, so I’m inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
My domestics Yingling and Shiner are holding steady ~ $5.49 to $5.99 for a six pack in bottles.
mine too...
Yingling 8.99 12pk bottles, +or- $.50 for last couple of years. I just got a case for $14.00 last week.
My parents have been to GFS and seem to like it. We’ve got a few local grocers but not one of them ever seems to have eveything you need so you have to go to a few different places. Why is it so hard to find a place that sells quality cold cuts and cheese??? I miss my NJ Boars Head.
Dollar General - Palmolive Oxy Dish Soap. 10 oz bottle used to be $1.00. It’s now $1.35.
My yardstick is eating lunch out. Partly because I eat more-or-less the same things, at more-or-less the same type places. Furthermore, I'm eating out less and less to save money, so I'm more sensitive to fluctuations in price.
It used to be that a non-fast-food "cheap lunch" - think Mexican, or Sandwiches, or Chinese - would be about 5 bucks. Sometimes a tip, sometimes not, depending on where we went. $25-30 a week was a good budget.
Now, it's hard to find a non-fast-food lunch for that same five bucks. It's usually now between 8 and 10, with a tip bringing it to $12 not being uncommon. $50, minimum, would be the budget (if I ate out every day, which I don't anymore. Once about every other week is what I'm now doing, since I took a 10% paycut....)
So, restaurant prices in this neck of the woods have about doubled.
In the Walmart I visit, the price is similar, and yes, it’s the same size. And that’s just one item. Lots of price jumps. I also notice a lot of empty shelves—they’re not stocking as many items lately, and those items they stock aren’t always brand names. That’s fine in some cases, but in others, the no-brand items taste like cardboard. Canned no-brand fruit and olives tend to have more liquid and less fruit or olives. And yet they cost more than brand names did just a few months ago.
Tomatoes at Wal-Mart are $2.78 a pound, they say because of the big freeze in Florida. So...tell me why they were at $1.98 a pound before the big freeze.
How can bananas be grown in Hondorus, picked, packed, shipped, unpacked and reshipped and still make a profit at $0.59 a pound.
One of my duties at my current job is to do price changes, and they are all over the place, but more prices are going up than down. Of course, gas prices are going up again, so that will make the cost of everything on the shelves go up.
In this neck of the woods, at least, Target is cheapest on most products. And believe me, when I was going through diapers 2 cases at a clip....I knew prices everywhere to the penny. :-)
I buy nearly all dry goods at Target, and some groceries, as well. Selection isn't nearly as good as the grocery store, but if they have what I want, why not?
Add that to the fact that I'm on their mailing list and they send me coupons (that I use, mostly) every couple of weeks, and I save a bundle.
I don't work for them, or own their stock, or anything. Just sayin' that they might be worth a look for you....
I’ll drink to that!
Yuengling is anti-union, too, which only makes it taste better to me.
“After management threatened to shut down the factory and close shop if workers kept union representation, Yuengling employees filed for union decertification in 2006. As a result, Yuengling did not renew a contract with Teamsters Local 830 of Philadelphia in March 2006. In response, the trade union began boycotting Yuengling products.”
If you haven’t tried Shiner Bock ~ and you can find it ~ give that a shot, too.
The $45 Emergency Menu for 4 to 6 has risen in price to over $70.46.
That is inflation across a wide spectrum http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm
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