GL Discussion Group -- What is with these high grocery prices???

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Topic: What is with these high grocery prices???

Topic Posted by: Stella
Date Posted: Mon Sep 15 15:58:27 2008
Additional Comments: I was at the grocery yesterday and stopped at the deli counter. I asked for 1/2# of ham...the kid said he went a little over...I told him no problem. The little tag said it was $5.68..I told him I didn't want a pound...he said I know...it's $8.99 a #! For ham!!! The porterhouse steak wasn't that much a pound. And walnuts!!$9.00 a #. What gives? What's going on in your neighborhood?

Posted by: P
Date posted: Wed Sep 17 11:53:41 2008
Message:
Fuel costs effect about everything. Time for a change. Something's gotta give.

Posted by: yukonflu
Date posted: Tue Sep 16 12:28:07 2008
Message:
I am afraid I don't pay a lot of attention to prices. I am of the theory if I want it I buy it. Which is why I am not rich I guess.
My Hubby is the price watcher and does most of the shopping for food for us. I could hardly walk Sunday so he went to the store for a couple of things and brought back more than we need as usual.
With gas back to four dollars a gallon and the stock market in the condition it was yesterday who knows where all of this will end.

Posted by: suziQ
Date posted: Mon Sep 15 17:30:26 2008
Message:

Food prices are going up because:

a) Regulations and corporate taxing is being passed on to customers

b) some nitwit decided to use a food product (corn) to make fuel, so half our corn crop is now going into someone's gas tank. Corn products are in just about every food we eat; it's used as feed for cattle and pigs and chickens, high fructose corn syrup is used in pancake syrup, anything remotely sweet, corn meal, corn on the cob, Green Giant Niblets, you name it. This bio fuel can be made with ANY plant material. So why don't they use kudzu?

c) The cost of fuel to run tractors, threshers, combines - and then to transport products to manufacturing plants and then to stores.

What do we do? Buy things on sale. Get your meat in bulk at places like Costco and Sams club, rewrap and freeze. Cold cut prices are still good at Walmart because they buy in bulk. You can still get Land O'Lakes cheese for under 6 bucks a pound - at least I could earlier this week. Cut coupons, shop where they are at LEAST doubled and combine them with store sales. Buy cheaper cuts of meat, go back to canned veggies or buy them at local farmer's markets.

Today's stock market activity is a scary thing and I think we're all going to have to rethink how we spend our money.