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She lost her job but we still watch for sales. We get e-coupons for some stores. Who cares how many bottles of laundry detergent we have. BTW we have not bought laundry detergent in over 2 years. I have a recipe for corn pudding from my mother in law. When she gave it to me, the recipe called for a 16 oz can of canned corn. The can size is now 13 oz. My wife was opening two cans of tuna to make sandwiches for our lunch this last week. I asked if someone else was coming for lunch?
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She showed me how much water was in each can and how little tuna. I could not believe how things have changed in food packaging and the price increase. Speaking of tuna, Chicken of the Sea used to always come in 7 oz. Around , they went to 5 oz. Of course, the price is about the same if not a little higher. I read the ingredients on a package of some beef rice vegetable mix. What the heck is beef powder? PW Thank you for that information.
PG is correct Yuck! No wonder I read the ingredients on the packages before we purchase them. I remember when a hot dog was fifteen cents. Funny, the hot dog is pretty much the same but now costs a couple of dollars. The value of the dollar is dropping. Money in the bank will lose its value. The faster the dollar loses its value, the faster my stored food increases in value. I, too, notice this more and more. Going on for several yrs now, it has been as you describe, only getting more so as time goes on.
I suspect they are doing it bit by bit, thinking we are all to stupid to realise. BUT do your homework, and buy smart. Is rolls really enough? Check out the cost of a T-Bone sometime at Safeway. COUNT on higher prices. Browse Bulk Spices on Amazon. Good idea but be sure to buy a quality brand and can use it inside a year as spices do degrade in time. The budget spices are cheap because they use inferior product, kinda like paint, you get what you pay for…. Boy, we could ride on this all day and night.
Finished this past winter. The prices have been going up and up and lately the jumps make you stop in your tracks. Walmart sells it for. I complain to the manager, sometimes, he now goes down another aisle if he sees us! I especially like to get em when one of the big badges is standing there too! When I asked him about all of the items they used to carry and now do not he explained that they use Plan a Grams now. This means the whole company now stocks the shelves according to the national averages so to speak. It does not take into consideration the local market but the national market.
I just told him I do not prefer Walmart but the Plan a Grams are sending me there more often. I quit trying to help our local store manager be reasonable and stock things we would buy. In fact, I quit buying locally altogether for their failure to stock items I am interested in. Now, I shop whenever I am out of district at another job site! At least you told him!
Problem is that in a big store like Wally World the local people have no power to make any changes and the decision makers would not listen to him or her anyway. What I think is the problem with the current business model is the idea that a company is more worried about satisfying the stock holders then it is the customers. Once a company goes public and issues stock it is all about stock prices. The customer is not important, the quality of the product is not important,only the stock price is important and anything that makes stock prices go up is all they worry about.
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But in truth it lowers the quality of service the customer gets. The same thing applies to lowering the quality of ingredients or the size of the package. But in truth in the end customers go looking someplace else to spend their money. I have very little allegiance to any company or product any more because they have no interest in giving value or turning out a good product. I also noticed that prices went up when they were done. I have to go to Wally World to get the bigger share of my stuff. Also, they installed robot checkers and carry-around self-checking scanners for customers while reducing human-checkout to 3 lines at 5 stations, even when busy.
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This is at a very busy smaller store in a super-affluent neighborhood in Portland Oregon. You asked if they are facing a credit crisis?
I doubt it, but the bottom line has to be fulfilled some how. Have you asked yourself where ALL your food comes from lately? Americans are so trained that their stores are always full of food that the shelves will never be empty. Most of your food products comes from foreign countries, along with what American farmers still produce. Read a posting by a dairy farmer where they are being passed up by this business.
They are going with the mega businesses for their milk production. Are the here legally? AC MOST of the huge dairies and huge chicken and beef packing plants have illegals working, I personally cant stomach that BS, these producers should be shut down but government inspectors are paid to look the other way in the name of keeping the lines moving.
These illegals often run on stolen SS info from long dead people, or even just those un lucky and unaware that their info was stolen. After dropping a few green backs, OK a lot of green backs in Costco. Here is what I noticed. It pertains to this discussion of hidden inflation which the consumer does not notice in their rush to pick up the product and be on there way. NRP, sorry your tp believe it is Charmin is the same price, if you consider the prices, the big C was on sale July purchased the C over the K, because the price sale was the same but the paper allotment was greater with the C.
When a half gallon of ice cream looks like a quart with a few extra scoops, you know they are cheating you. Return to Book Page. Preview — Food Inflation by I Plantain. The value of the dollar is falling. What is this doing to food prices? Food prices are rising at a rate faster than the official inflation rate CPI , squeezing the finances of many American families in the Great Recession or long slow recovery if you prefer!
Gardening Just Makes Sense describes the roots of food inflation and why growing your own fresh The value of the dollar is falling. Gardening Just Makes Sense describes the roots of food inflation and why growing your own fresh fruits and vegetables can make you healthier, wealthier and wiser! What is causing food price inflation? Increased costs transportation, healthcare, regulation Monetary policies quantitative easing and other programs Crop and production failures What can the average person do to combat food price inflation?
Food Inflation: Gardening Just Makes Sense
People can buy food and save it for future use OR learn how to produce food for a future less dependent on big agribusiness and food trucked in from thousands of miles away. Backyard family gardening can be a fruitful and enriching activity for the entire family that will give you healthy, locally grown food. A family garden can be a way to serve your family organic, GMO free food. Kindle Edition , 35 pages.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Food Inflation , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Alternatively, it may make sense to restructure the mortgage and any other loans by remortgaging. Ingram says buy-to-let landlords should be especially mindful of the future cost of their debts in a scenario where house prices and rents may cease to increase year on year and may even fall. Stock market investors should also take particular care to avoid companies with excessive debts in a deflationary environment. For as demand falls so will their profits, leaving them vulnerable to banks calling in loans or refusing to increase them.
Kay Ingram from independent financial adviser LEBC, says falling prices and lower interest rates mean that investors who are interested in income are likely to find fixed-interest investments, corporate bonds and gilts are more attractive than cash. Singapore-based investment guru Jim Rogers says only stable bonds and cash will do well in deflation.
Food Price Inflation Hidden in Packaging
Government bonds are usually okay. The wider economy Opinion is split among economists as to the causes of this deflation and its implications for the economy. Winners and losers The most immediate implication of continued deflation is that it makes an interest rate rise less likely — in the short term this is good news for borrowers, but not for savers. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded. Loading comments… Trouble loading?