The food chain, from farmers on down to the grocery store/restaurant is quite energy intensive. As oil prices climb, food has to climb with it.
Drill baby drill!
More “hope and change” setting in. Fundamental Transformation can be a real biatch when your going from capitalism to communism.
some restaurants give discounts.
From what I hear anything related to corn will see skyrocketing prices after the New Year because of ethanol mandates.
Some don’t change the menu, they change the portion sizes.
For most people considered middle class (low bracket white collar or blue collar), their disposable income has slipped by about 20%. Yet the ones who voted for Obama still support him.
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oh that crazy Glenn Beck...
of course, how many times does he have to be right before they stop calling him crazy? oh yea, never happen. he’s not a progressive so he must be slammed at every turn
how about we take a page from Reagan’s playbook... not Ron, Nancy... and tell these ass hats in washdc ‘no!’... we won’t continue playing your suicidal socialist games
just say no ... to progressives and progressive ideology
Rush yesterday talked about the dramatic increase in peanut butter. Planters (Kraft) going up 40%. Jif (Smuckers) going up 30%. Peter Pan (Con Agra) going up 20%. Don’t know what Skippy is doing.
The food prices are OUT OF CONTROL!
If there was a Republican in the White House this would be FRONT PAGE NEWS. Day in and day out we’d be reminded that prices for a loaf of bread, a pound of butter, and pound of coffee have basically doubled in the past year.
Peanut butter is about to go through the roof folks, as the crop has been basically destroyed by the heat wave down south all year.
I feel like the world is on the brink of collapse.
I haven’t had coffee for months now it looks like peanut butter is the next to go.
noticed at the local supermarket the other day that my customary 20oz loaf of (coughSaraLee errhemm)bread is now a ‘new! convenient 16 oz size!’ - robbed of 6 slices for the same price. Not a happy camper.
Good thing the government removed food and energy from inflation calculations. Otherwise Pres. Obama might lose!
Had a grocery gift card from my employer last Christmas. Just stocked up on rice and peanut butter. If I get one this Christmas, I’ll do the same.
Times ARE tough; I’d usually use it for hard liquor...
Print more money, that will fix the problem.
I quit coffee three months ago for health reasons but I have a ‘boatload’ stored because I knew damn well rising fuel costs were going to cause the price to skyrocket.
Though I can’t drink it, coffee(along with liquor) will be a great bartering item if the economy really tanks.
I am the one who purchases the groceries in my house. I don’t know what they include in their basket of food products, but the price of the groceries we buy has gone up far more than 5%. Milk is up 35% from last year at this time. The bread we used to buy is up 42%, so we are now going to a bakery outlet store and buying their cheap wheat bread for .95 cents a loaf instead of the bread we prefer that is now $4.59 per loaf.
Cheap cuts of beef and pork are also up at least 35% and some cuts even more. Sale prices for Thanksgiving turkey’s so far have been 99 cents per pound this year, last year I paid between 23 and 26 cents per pound for all the turkey’s I bought for the holidays.
Last summer I often picked up fresh corn on sale for 6 ears for $1, this summer the best price I saw for corn was 4 for $1 and it wasn’t very often I could even find it at that price. Other veggies and fruits have also shown similar increases.
Many food products also come in smaller packages now, or at least the number of ounces is mpw less than it was previously. Many pasta’s now come in 12 oz. packages instead of 16 oz., mayonaise jars are now 30 ounces instead of 32 ounces, etc., yet they are charging the same or a higher price for them now. No one can tell me that food prices are up only 5% or less!
Yeah, food’s rising. Tell me bout it...shesh....higher than a hawks nest.
I just went to the store this morning ( actually 2 different ones to hit the sales ) and spent way over 100 bucks , used ***a lot*** of coupons and went to put stuff away and I said to myself WTF did I get ?
Good think the hubby dont go because he’d die right there in the isle of total shock. He dont believe me how much food has risen, even in just 6 months to a year.
Good thing for coupons I tell ya. I saved almost 60 bucks today with them. Would have saved even mmore but some of the things I wanted/needed and had coupons for, were out of stock.