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Supermarket prices
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That is a good thing
Agree, my wife and I tend to buy quality food items however by not buying all the junk food and snacks I’m willing to almost think it’s not any more expensive.
The garbage that most Americans put in their mouth as I think about it, an entire aisle of a supermarket is dedicated to garbage food that gives you cancer and heart disease. Let’s throw in diabetes while we’re at it.
And now it’s $6.50 for not even a pound of junk
That’s easy to do when buying food considering approximately 70% of the nation is overweight.
A little cutting back will lower healthcare costs
This isn't food, if someone is willing to pay that for the junk, well, the prices will stay.
Everything between the perimeter isles are junk.
Sue and I are fortunate with the standard of living we earned fair and square. That said, we don't have unlimited financial resources.
But if we wanted to, aside from property taxes, utilities, and insurance, I suspect we could reduce our expenditures by 50%. If everyone boycotted the Doritos brand they would be forced to adjust their prices or go out of business. Their choice. People have no idea the power an organized consumer community has.
Scott
But if we wanted to, aside from property taxes, utilities, and insurance, I suspect we could reduce our expenditures by 50%. If everyone boycotted the Doritos brand they would be forced to adjust their prices or go out of business. Their choice. People have no idea the power an organized consumer community has.
Scott
We shop at TJ's too, but the problem I have is you can't find a COO for 99% of their products. We bought some pre-seasoned Santa Maria style beef recently. We took one bite and stopped. There is absolutely no way that meat was what they claimed it to be. Sue and I are still unsure what we swallowed. We took it back for a refund. The clerk told us several people had already returned whatever it was.
Scott
I also have a problem with this. If I can't see where it's made, it stays on the shelf, and not just with food.
Even better party size recently downsized to 12 ounces, not long ago party size was 16 ounces and as a kid a bag of chips was 16 ounces and that was the normal size.
I've been buying mostly heb and sometimes kroger brand chips for years. They taste the same to me and sometimes have a better flavor type than the name brand and cost half or less for the same or greater quantity. Brand name snacks are all margin.
Safeway in Kodiak AK. Close thread.
True 'mystery meat'.
Meaning that store is particularly expensive?
47 years ago I shared a house with 2 other guys.
One guy bought nothing but expensive, airy processed foods in boxes. Zippo for your money. Bag after bag of garbage.
The other guy and I bought raw materials (meat, eggs, cheese, veggies) and cooked. Our grocery bags were dense.
Care to guess which ones of us were in shape and sexy?
CLUE: It wasn't the garbage eater.
There are so many examples of extremely bad food products out there, it isn't funny.
You can tell at a glance what's in people's shopping carts and it usually matches their disgusting physiques.
It was weird that Albertsons officially took over Safeway. In Colorado All Albertsons dissapeared a decade ago. I thought they had gone bankrupt.
Everything expensive at Safeway
Everything expensive in Kodiak
Particularly lethal combo
Everything expensive in Kodiak
Particularly lethal combo
I pretty sure groceries in Canada are now cheaper than the US? 2% Milk here at the No Frills store is $4.20 US per US gal.
It seems our market is divided into the cheaper chain stores where the same items are 20-25% even 1/3 less, than a mid or upper grade grocery store chain. Both chains often are owned by the same company, but I guess its their way of not getting their monopoly broken up while still charging what the market can bear for customers who don't bother to price shop.
Traditionally groceries are more expensive here than the US but since 2020 it seems the US has gone up a lot and we haven't increased prices nearly as much.
It seems our market is divided into the cheaper chain stores where the same items are 20-25% even 1/3 less, than a mid or upper grade grocery store chain. Both chains often are owned by the same company, but I guess its their way of not getting their monopoly broken up while still charging what the market can bear for customers who don't bother to price shop.
Traditionally groceries are more expensive here than the US but since 2020 it seems the US has gone up a lot and we haven't increased prices nearly as much.
Patman
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On a lot of items you are correct, when I go into a Walmart or a grocery store in the US I see many items that are the same price or even slightly higher, but in US dollars. So when you convert to CDN it ends up being a lot more in the US than Canada. But I still think Walmart has one gallon jugs of milk for about $3 US, at least in the location I visit in Niagara Falls NY.
Albertsons left Florida about 10 years ago. They were nice stores.
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