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Quoted: Well, 10% are buying soda, but who knows how much they drink?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEmeLpCqTYUAlso people in states with bottle deposits buy water and dump it for the $0.05 per bottle. People work hard being thieves. Quoted: Quoted: 2022 the Feds spent $119 Billion on food stamps. 10% of that went to sugary drinks, almost all of it soda pop. The soda companies are being heavily subsidized by tax dollars. Well, 10% are buying soda, but who knows how much they drink? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEmeLpCqTYUAlso people in states with bottle deposits buy water and dump it for the $0.05 per bottle. People work hard being thieves. "Pop Train" not exactly what I had in mind when I heard that.  Crap like this has been going on for decades. LOL at the "TV News Team" finding out about it just now. Back when I was a poor college student I worked at a Stop'N'Rob store. This was when they still had paper books for 'food stamps' for all you Gen Z'ers. Buying legit items, then reselling them for cigs/beer/drugs/whatever was common and done right in front of you. In some cases they just paid cash for the stamp book and didn't bother with the intermediate step. Probably still done today with the digital cards unless the stores can legally request ID. Just scan it, punch in some PIN # and away you go. Crooks being crooks. Who knew? 
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Quoted: LIES we are told inflation is back to 3% it amuses me greatly when leftist fucks spout the official number but i bring up real expenses like utilities, food, fuel, taxes, rent/housing which are all up double digits That is 3% per week Gotta read the fine print. |
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Quoted: My Kroger Stock has been doing well lately: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/310106/Screenshot_20240309-132432_Samsung_Inter-3154572.JPG Kroger and Albertsons will be interesting to watch if the merger falls through. |
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Quoted: What do you do with five dozen eggs?!? We routinely toss out half a dozen because we didn't eat all of them.before they expired Quoted: Quoted: I agree but there are deals to be had. You just have to shop around. 5 dozen eggs from Costco is $9.99 I just got choice New York steaks $5/pound and pork spare ribs $0.97/pound from Vons. Vons has chicken breast pretty regularly for $1.47/pound. What do you do with five dozen eggs?!? We routinely toss out half a dozen because we didn't eat all of them.before they expired  Eggs from the store are good for 3-4 weeks. One three-egg French omelet every morning (I've been trying to perfect my technique Jacques Pepin style, lately  ) will clear that carton out in 10 days. Less if you live with other people. 
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Quoted: Care to share your secret cut-rate shopping location in NE Ohio that doesn't include the food bank? Quoted: Quoted: The grocery whiners are just not willing to break out of their normal patterns of doing things. We see this, ad_nauseam. Care to share your secret cut-rate shopping location in NE Ohio that doesn't include the food bank? Comparison Beef Chuck Pot Roast prices around town - a cheap cut of meat. Earlier in the thread someone was complaining about the high price of cheap beef. Amish Butcher - $5.49/lb Costco - $5.99/lb Aldis - $5.99/lb Walmart - $7.47/lb Giant Eagle - $8.29/lb (marked down to $5.49 because it is expiring in two days) These stores are all close to each other. Costco is a drive to the city, but still fairly close. Someone was complaining about a $4.56 4-lb bag of sugar. Walmart - $3.24 Aldis - $3.09 Just got to shop around. If you're stupid and pay top dollar, I can't help that. Yes, there is inflation, but the sky is not falling. |
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Quoted: It's no secret. Comparison Beef Chuck Pot Roast prices around town - a cheap cut of meat. Earlier in the thread someone was complaining about the high price of cheap beef. Amish Butcher - $5.49/lb Costco - $5.99/lb Aldis - $5.99/lb Walmart - $7.47/lb Giant Eagle - $8.29/lb (marked down to $5.49 because it is expiring in two days) These stores are all close to each other. Costco is a drive to the city, but still fairly close. Someone was complaining about a $4.56 4-lb bag of sugar. Walmart - $3.24 Aldis - $3.09 Just got to shop around. If you're stupid and pay top dollar, I can't help that. Yes, there is inflation, but the sky is not falling. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The grocery whiners are just not willing to break out of their normal patterns of doing things. We see this, ad_nauseam. Care to share your secret cut-rate shopping location in NE Ohio that doesn't include the food bank? Comparison Beef Chuck Pot Roast prices around town - a cheap cut of meat. Earlier in the thread someone was complaining about the high price of cheap beef. Amish Butcher - $5.49/lb Costco - $5.99/lb Aldis - $5.99/lb Walmart - $7.47/lb Giant Eagle - $8.29/lb (marked down to $5.49 because it is expiring in two days) These stores are all close to each other. Costco is a drive to the city, but still fairly close. Someone was complaining about a $4.56 4-lb bag of sugar. Walmart - $3.24 Aldis - $3.09 Just got to shop around. If you're stupid and pay top dollar, I can't help that. Yes, there is inflation, but the sky is not falling. |
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Quoted: Make friends with someone who owns chickens or get your own. I get very high quality pasture raised local eggs from my co-worker for $2 per dozen. But meat direct from the farmer, especially beef. Buy a deep freeze and split the cow with friends and family. Doing just these 2 things have allowed me to weather much of King Biden’s inflation mess as far as food prices. I see you over there in KY. I have my own chickens, and the butcher i use is all locally grown i can see his shop from my porch. I've saved a ton of money. |
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Quoted: I am convinced Kroger is using inflation to drive up grocery prices. You know something is wrong when I can order the same dry foods shipped to my house from Costco or Amazon for a lot less. Of course they are. This is pure profit taking and they're about to become a near monopoly on grocery chains. |
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Quoted: Of course they are. This is pure profit taking and they're about to become a near monopoly on grocery chains. Quoted: Quoted: I am convinced Kroger is using inflation to drive up grocery prices. You know something is wrong when I can order the same dry foods shipped to my house from Costco or Amazon for a lot less. Of course they are. This is pure profit taking and they're about to become a near monopoly on grocery chains. FTC suing to stop the merger will likely cause it to fall apart. Biggest issue I have seen lately is coupons aren’t as frequent or as discounted as before. |
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Quoted: Cheaper. But that's not reality anymore. Stop buying processed foods. Quoted: Quoted: And what were those prices a year ago? 2 years ago? Attached File I cooked one last week in the crockpot I had vacuum sealed and frozen. Had green beans and riced cauliflower with it. Recognizing food prices are up significantly isn’t just for heavily processed foods. |
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Quoted: FTC suing to stop the merger will likely cause it to fall apart. Biggest issue I have seen lately is coupons aren’t as frequent or as discounted as before. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I am convinced Kroger is using inflation to drive up grocery prices. You know something is wrong when I can order the same dry foods shipped to my house from Costco or Amazon for a lot less. Of course they are. This is pure profit taking and they're about to become a near monopoly on grocery chains. FTC suing to stop the merger will likely cause it to fall apart. Biggest issue I have seen lately is coupons aren’t as frequent or as discounted as before. Stock market seems to think otherwise |
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Quoted: It's no secret. Comparison Beef Chuck Pot Roast prices around town - a cheap cut of meat. Earlier in the thread someone was complaining about the high price of cheap beef. Amish Butcher - $5.49/lb Costco - $5.99/lb Aldis - $5.99/lb Walmart - $7.47/lb Giant Eagle - $8.29/lb (marked down to $5.49 because it is expiring in two days) These stores are all close to each other. Costco is a drive to the city, but still fairly close. Someone was complaining about a $4.56 4-lb bag of sugar. Walmart - $3.24 Aldis - $3.09 Just got to shop around. If you're stupid and pay top dollar, I can't help that. Yes, there is inflation, but the sky is not falling. So instead of going to the store and going "I'm in the mood for...(x) this week" and paying whatever that costs, I'm super flexible. And a lot of times (like last weekend) I come home with USDA Prime New York Strips for $6/lb, because it was 2 days until sell-by date (I vac seal them as soon as I get home, and toss 'em in the chest freezer). So I'll buy stuff like that, too. Sometimes it's on sale because it's just not a popular cut, and sometimes it's on sale because they're just not selling them fast enough. My local H-E-B has bone-in split chicken breasts on sale right now, for $0.97/lb. That's...seriously cheap, inflation or not. And I have a gazillion ways to turn that into something delicious, so why the hell not? Stock up. Have vac sealer and freezer, will buy all day long. The other things that helps a ton (and it's 10x healthier to boot) - we really don't buy pre-packaged foods, or convenience foods, as a rule. THAT stuff is what has skyrocketed in price, more than anything else. And we've been largely shielded from that, because we just don't buy that stuff anyway. We basically just shop the outside ring of the grocery store, with a side-quest down a middle aisle or two for spices, cooking oils/fats, and stuff like that. If I could describe how we eat these days, it'd be "Mostly meat - Beef, Pork, Poultry, Fish/Seafood, made culinarily interesting and tasty with whatever I need from the dairy and produce sections to make this awesome. Meat is the star of the show". I sort of look at what proteins are on sale, figure out what dishes I'm going to turn those into, and then grab whatever else I need. We don't even buy bread. If any of us (me, wife or the 16 year old) has a hankering for a loaf (or burger buns, or...) we bake one. If we don't have time, or otherwise can't be bothered (which is usually the case - we're lucky to bake once a month)...we don't. It's not like you need baked goods to survive. Hell, you're arguably better off health-wise without them anyway.  But when we do, it's ZOMG delicious, because...it's fresh baked bread! Who doesn't love that?! And a loaf of basic-bitch white bread is like $1 worth of ingredients - it's fuck-all. And it's infinitely better than even the the "good" shit in the bread aisle, anyway. Ditto for tortillas, if we're feeling tacos. I have a tortilla press, and masa harina in the pantry. And you know what? They taste fucking awesome, because they're about 10 minutes old. And I'm really good at it, besides. Pasta? I have a pasta roller. Fresh pasta kicks ass, anyway. Flour and eggs are cheap. It's a bit of a chore, so I don't do it all that often (which also works as a clever hack to keep me from eating too much of it - ditto for the bread and the tortillas, know what I mean? There's a method to the madness  ). Salad dressing? It takes 5 minutes to make a vinaigrette out of whatever I always in my pantry anyway. And it's better than store-bought anyway. Mayo? Maybe 7 minutes, including the time it takes for me to wash my immersion blender off and put it away. And it's better than store bought, anyway. There's no denying that inflation has jacked food prices through the roof. It 100% has. But if folks are up for it (you're admittedly screwed if you hate cooking), there's A LOT you can do to mitigate the hell out of it. JMHO, anyway. Addendum: It would take me 6 months to go through a 4lb bag of sugar, price be damned. Honestly, it might even be more like 8 months. |
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Quoted: LIES we are told inflation is back to 3% it amuses me greatly when leftist fucks spout the official number but i bring up real expenses like utilities, food, fuel, taxes, rent/housing which are all up double digits You misunderstand. That 3% is just the rate of increase. Prices simply aren't increasing as rapidly as they were. But they aren't decreasing. |
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Oh, sorry. You weren't supposed to notice those. But give it a couple of more years. You'll stop noticing. Eventually. Attached File |
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Quoted: You were the one who used chuck roast as the benchmark. 8% inflation annually over 4 years. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3778_jpeg-3154992.JPG I cooked one last week in the crockpot I had vacuum sealed and frozen. Had green beans and riced cauliflower with it. Recognizing food prices are up significantly isn't just for heavily processed foods. |
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Not food, but the price of Charmin toilet paper jumped again. A couple of weeks ago it was $26 for a 30 pack at Costco. Yesterday it was $30. Glad I bought 360 rolls last spring when it was on sale for $19 a 30 pack. Delays feeling the cost increase and allows for restocking during sales. |
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Quoted: Good to know I can go out TODAY and buy chuck roast at pre-lockdown prices, at three different stores. Quoted: Quoted: You were the one who used chuck roast as the benchmark. 8% inflation annually over 4 years. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3778_jpeg-3154992.JPG I cooked one last week in the crockpot I had vacuum sealed and frozen. Had green beans and riced cauliflower with it. Recognizing food prices are up significantly isn't just for heavily processed foods. I just bought four big ones (~14 lbs) for $60 today. Vacuum sealed each and tossed in my deep freezer. Not my usual go-to price for the stuff, but with all the texas fires killing cattle, I figured it might be the cheapest I'll see in awhile at $4.77/lb. Was tempted to ask for a chuck roll like the video someone posted earlier. Maybe I still will. |
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Quoted: LIES we are told inflation is back to 3% it amuses me greatly when leftist fucks spout the official number but i bring up real expenses like utilities, food, fuel, taxes, rent/housing which are all up double digits People who state that inflation is "back to normal" and using that as a bellwether for economic health are ignoring (intentionally or unintentionally) what inflation did for the past 36 months. And this is why Biden pushes shrinkflation and price gouging - most Americans are too stupid to understand this simple concept. |
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Quoted: I just bought four big ones (~14 lbs) for $60 today. Vacuum sealed each and tossed in my deep freezer. Not my usual go-to price for the stuff, but with all the texas fires killing cattle, I figured it might be the cheapest I'll see in awhile at $4.77/lb. Was tempted to ask for a chuck roll like the video someone posted earlier. Maybe I still will. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You were the one who used chuck roast as the benchmark. 8% inflation annually over 4 years. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3778_jpeg-3154992.JPG I cooked one last week in the crockpot I had vacuum sealed and frozen. Had green beans and riced cauliflower with it. Recognizing food prices are up significantly isn't just for heavily processed foods. I just bought four big ones (~14 lbs) for $60 today. Vacuum sealed each and tossed in my deep freezer. Not my usual go-to price for the stuff, but with all the texas fires killing cattle, I figured it might be the cheapest I'll see in awhile at $4.77/lb. Was tempted to ask for a chuck roll like the video someone posted earlier. Maybe I still will. I grabbed 3 corned beef packages. 2.99/lb this week. |
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Quoted: I see more people buying the sales, which is mainly junk food. Guess what that's going to do? Unhealthy people = higher insurance premiums and doctor visits. Round and round we go. |
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Quoted: I'm aware of that. My question is what the hell did you do with five dozen eggs?? Quoted: Quoted: You just go by the date? Float test them. I've had perfectly fine eggs a month after "expiration" I'm aware of that. My question is what the hell did you do with five dozen eggs?? |
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Quoted: That's a lot of eggs in a day. If I have a bunch of hard boiled ones in the fridge I will snack on 4 or so a day. Tasty. Add some mustard and hot sauce. Quoted: Quoted: 5 dozen eggs will last me 7 days, at most.  That's a lot of eggs in a day. If I have a bunch of hard boiled ones in the fridge I will snack on 4 or so a day. Tasty. Add some mustard and hot sauce. Wife has 3, son has 3, daughter has 2, and other daughter and I probably have 3-4/day on average. |
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And native-born employment has never recovered about pre-covid high. New jobs going to immigrants. Attached File |