Grocery prices up by leaps and bounds

[Beachguyj]

Loaf of bread that cheap can't be good

Walmart makes very good French and Italian bread. A one pound loaf is $1.50 and they will slice it for free at the deli counter. Some Walmarts already have them sliced. They are perfect for my morning toast.

 

[gsdx]

@GDX: $7.95 for a loaf of bread? Lordy, I can get it for 99cents a loaf in American $$.

You read it incorrectly:

4 litre bag of milk - $5.17
Loaf of bread - $2.79

Total - $7.96

 

[Beachguyj]

Bag of milk

 

[gsdx]

Bag of milk

Yes, a bag of milk:

We also have gay milk:

 

[cityboy-stl]

I know we've had this discussion before, but milk in a bag is just weird. Milk should be in a glass bottle.

 

[Beachguyj]

Homo Milk

 

[gsdx]

I know we've had this discussion before, but milk in a bag is just weird. Milk should be in a glass bottle.

I don't think it's sold in glass anymore. Hasn't been in many years, at least where I live.

 

[metta]

I don't think it's sold in glass anymore. Hasn't been in many years, at least where I live.

http://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/?title=plastic or glass?

 

[cityboy-stl]

http://www.oberweis.com/web/default.asp

I have a bottle of milk in my refrigerator right now. Yummy! And we can still get home delivery too.

 

[gsdx]

http://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/?title=plastic or glass?

That's an American business. I was talking about glass bottles in Canada.

 

[metta]

That's an American business. I was talking about glass bottles in Canada.

well...if Canada would take us over all ready (at least the west coast, NY, VT & MA)...that wouldn't be an issue...would it....

 

[gsdx]

well...if Canada would take us over all ready (at least the west coast, NY, VT & MA)...that wouldn't be an issue...would it....

We've given it thought, but it would cost to much to make it metric and to reprint all your books to stick in the U's and to change the ER's to RE's.

 

[Kulindahr]

Loaf of bread that cheap can't be good

Under a dollar a loaf, it's usually 80% or more air. Just to see if I could do it, I grabbed a cheap loaf off the "Buy $20, get one free" rack... took it home, and crushed it. Took four slices to make a lump the size of a golf ball.

Great deal for Aquafina...

The marketing firm that conceptualized bottled water must be drowning in cash...

A local news station here has been doing a series on ways to make food dollars go farther. One reporter tackled beverages. She said the average mark-up on bottled water was about 3000%.
I used to sell water filters with an under-the-sink in-line model for about $360. People who bought one and bought beverage-safe water bottles to refill from them discovered that the filter paid for itself in under nine months. The water even tastes better than a lot of bottled water.

I know we've had this discussion before, but milk in a bag is just weird. Milk should be in a glass bottle.

Glass?!

Glass can drop and break. I'm not near one where I am, but when I was at OSU there was a chain that had milk in bottles that looked like glass, but were darned close to indestructible.

They were great for setting up for bowling at parties.

 

[NineOfClubs]

A lot of the basic things I buy have gone up a lot.

In the last two years.

Soy milk: $1.00 to $1.50

A certain canned cat food: $ .50 to $ .70

Refried beans: $1.00 to $1.39

Many other examples....

 

[nafhoosier]

Gas prices are already at the $3.20/gal mark here.

Looks like $4.00/gal will hit by summer of 2011.

That piled on top of the surging food prices of bread, milk, butter, eggs. Stagflation. Sucks.

Double dip recession here we come!

 

[jizzeater]

Fuel prices have gone up mainly due to the intentional weakening of the U.S. dollar (to make our debt payments cheaper) -- and that translates into price increases for EVERYTHING...

Exactly, and they just keep printing money and spending more. There's a reason people are bitching about these things. This irresponsible policy has real consequences.

The worst thing is, we've only seen the beginning. If this economy ever does recover, inflation is going to explode.

"For most of the year food price inflation has really been pretty tame. But there are indications that inflation is going to be on the rise for the next six to nine months," says Ephraim Leibtag, senior economist at the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. "There's a bigger concern that with an improved economy that prices are going to rise even more."

No Inflation? Grocery Stores, Gas Prices Tell Different Story
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/No-Inflation-Grocery-Stores-cnbc-1559291069.html?x=0&.v=1

 

[The_Reaper]

I tried to find the video for it....But, it was comedian Jimmy Carr who said the following:

"They say that what we spend on groceries in 1 year in the western world, could feed the third world for the rest of their lives. Now, I don't know about you, but I can't help but think we're being overcharged for our groceries."

 

[metta]

Gas prices are already at the $3.20/gal mark here.

Looks like $4.00/gal will hit by summer of 2011.

That piled on top of the surging food prices of bread, milk, butter, eggs. Stagflation. Sucks.

Double dip recession here we come!

Honestly, I don't think that we ever left it. I think that we will actually probably hit bottom in 2011. I have seen a little progress in the area that I live in (for example: the 1250 new home development that was stalled just created a new partnership and is finally starting up again)...but I don't think that I have seen enough change to say that we have pulled out of it.

 

[evanrick]

Cheap Milk locally is 1.99-2.39 a gallon which is about $0.63 per liter. There are more expensive brands for 3.19-4.99 a gallon, but we sell $5 a gallon organic milk at my work which is about $1.32 a liter.

Bread is 3/$5 or $1.66
so your lookin to spend $4 american/canadian, which is about 2.94 euro.

gas is 2.88 a gallon where i live, which is $0.78 per liter.

 

[gsdx]

^In some big cities in the US, glass is still the norm because of the trash problem.

Except for the little plastic closure clip (same as those used to close bread bags), our milk bags (1 outer, 3 inner) are completely recyclable.