The Grocery Inflation Thread
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Things I bought last week...4 chuck roasts at $3.49/lb, 10lb chicken leg quarters for either $3.90 or $4.90 (I'm old, I forget), Jimmy Dean sausage $5/2lb. Store brand drinking water $1.99/24pk. Ground chuck $2.99/lb. 12oz Cokes $2.99/12 pack. Kroger brand complete buttermilk pancake mix $1.50 box. Yellow onions $1.99/3lbs. Bell peppers 3/$1. Eggs (large) $1.59 dozen.
I bought some other things, too, but that's what I remember as bargains go. I shopped three stores to get those prices, but that's normal for me.
BTW, the wife and I picked snap beans yesterday and between us and her mom, we put up 30 jars (1.5pt jars). I'll pick again Thursday and should do close to the same. I've already gotten a few squash and cucumber, but that stuff is still in the early stage. First two rows of field peas are blooming, and I have four more rows of peas stagger planted behind them. My corn is a huge disappointment this year and if I make fifty ears, I'll call it good. I normally do over 200.
I built two more small raised beds this spring (5x6) and they have butterbeans about 6" tall. I also have an experimental bucket planting with 17 buckets planted in rattlesnake pole beans.
I don't do Amazon, too costly, at least in my world. I grocery shop when I need to go to town, combining it with another trip, and I grocery shop like a fiend.
The garden does cost me in terms of diesel, seed, fertilizer (about 50lbs) and time, but I do put up quite a bit. I could cut the cost if I went to all heirlooms and saved the seed, along with using more mulch and stomp (barnyard) fertilizer.
That's what some common items cost me when compared to Cats and what I'm trying to do to keep the food bill down. If I had any sense, I'd get me a couple of settin' hens and a couple of young barrows, and have planted a half-acre of field corn. But Lordy, that's hard work.
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My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
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Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
@jon-nyc said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
@jon-nyc said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
Well, I can’t say what it cost last time, but I remember refusing to buy Progresso for $3.00 last year because I could normally find it for $1.50-$2.00…
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@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
@taiwan_girl said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
All I can say is that it looks and smells about the same, before and after it’s put to its intended use.
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@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
@taiwan_girl said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
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That's because it is a loss leader.
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@89th said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
The Costco (big) hot dog plus soda combo for $1.50 hasn’t changed since 1985.
Along that line, a full bird rotisserie chicken seems to have been holding the line at $4.99 for a long time as well at Costco.
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Costco:
- dozen of butter croissants, from $4.99 to $5.99
- mixed green salad 1 lb. box, from $3.99 to $4.49
McDonald's:
- ice cream sundae, from $1.25 to $1.99;
- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
@Axtremus said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
p- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
They've been doing that for about a decade now.
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@Axtremus said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
p- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
They've been doing that for about a decade now.
@Aqua-Letifer said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Axtremus said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
p- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
They've been doing that for about a decade now.
Don't go to the dollar store, either. It was always a risky name for a store, lol
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@Aqua-Letifer said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Axtremus said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
p- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
They've been doing that for about a decade now.
Don't go to the dollar store, either. It was always a risky name for a store, lol
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Vox article on Costco’s $4.99 rotisserie chicken
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23207301/costco-rotisserie-chicken-poultry-farming-inflation
Speaks of Costco setting up its own supply (vertical integration) for this “loss leader” product that has been selling for $4.99 each for the last 11+ years, the “big chicken” industry trend, and associated environmental and societal impacts.
