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herbie @ Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:19 am

stratos stratos:

Dang and I thought a dozen eggs was expensive. Last I looked it was $4.99 a dozen last time I bought eggs it was $1.19. That was less than a year ago.

That's what I sold our farm eggs for 32 years ago, $2 a dozen.

DrCaleb @ Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:35 am

Strutz @ Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:18 pm

Tricks Tricks:

Don't worry, all the big grocers (with their record profits last year) will pikachu face when suddenly they have substantially more theft.

Shoplifting is already way up and it's sometimes surprises me that there isn't much reported in the news even on a local level. Probably because there is so much of it.

Last week, a big grocery store close to where I work had someone attempt to drive out a fully loaded shopping cart of stuff out the "in" door with someone waiting and holding it open. I heard from someone who witnessed it that several people (staff and customers) stopped him and he bolted. Apparently they have lots of attempts, some successful some not, same as another store in that strip mall. We have our issues as well and very recently lost several products to a big dude with a big bag. Regular and random lifting is not uncommon just very annoying.

herbie @ Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:03 pm

They took away all their no name house bread today so that Blunderbread 'on sale' for $3.99 looked like a bargoon next to the Dumpsters bread for $5.29
Time to fuck the 'shop local' and head to WalNutz

DrCaleb @ Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:13 pm

Make your own bread. Its just flour and water.

Strutz @ Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:32 pm

herbie herbie:

I did a shop today at Safeway and bought a loaf of Dempsters Multigrain bread on sale for $3.99 and according to the receipt I "saved" $0.80. It just happens to be the one we've been buying lately and like until we decide to move on to another.

herbie @ Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:54 pm

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Make your own bread. Its just flour and water.

Oh yeah. I'm sure that's how gov't calculates food inflation - using the same shopping list your grandmother used in 1932. Milk, bread, eggs, Red River cereal..
that's how they get 7% yearly inflation when grocery stores are raising prices on modern groceries by $1 a week.

Look Ma you can make your own flatbread and sausages, grow the veggies in your garden in Feb and make paninis in the new George Foreman grill we got you for Christmas! Maybe splurge on some butter that costs what your Model T did....

DrCaleb @ Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:13 am

herbie herbie:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Make your own bread. Its just flour and water.

Yes, that is exactly how it is calculated.