iceberg lettuce is $1.49 here and celery is $1.18.... that is at Walmart. Seems like prices are going up pretty quickly. And I haven't had a raise in 5 yrs!

 

Butter is up 10% for the year
Paid 6.99 for some Horizon Organic butter (4 sticks)
I normally don't buy organic but I was at some hippy/Whole Earth type store and that is all they had....
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm

 

twinki's......terrible, shrank down to about two 3rds of what they were :headshake:

 

I saw that at the bread store...

 

7lb cans of Peter Pan peanut butter went from 7.69 to 13.98 in less than a week at Wally World

 

Where we work, we buy a lot of food. I am seeing across the board foodstuff increases in the 3.5 to 5.5% range since the start of the year.

A major food wholesaler to us released their 2015 projection and they are projecting a solid 6.5% increase for 2015.

They are pretty accurate from my experience

 

I've also noticed a major jump since last time I went grocery shopping a few weeks back. Nearly everything seems to have gotten higher in a short amount of time. The one that stood out the most to me was the Prima Della sliced meat I always buy near the deli counter at Walmart (hey, small town, not a lot of options for groceries)- It was $3 for 10 ounces of ham, chicken or turkey, now it's $5 for ham and I think $6 for chicken!

 

A gallon of Tropicana orange juice is $8 here. Mind you I live in Florida!!! I'd hate to see what it cost outside the Orange state.

 

I am seeing price increasing in just about every item I buy. I shop mostly at Walmart, Samsclub, and a local grocery store. Store brand butter has gone from $3 lb earlier this year to $4. I believe that's a 25% increase.

I think the increasing here is generally at least 10% on everything. Not seeing that in any stats but inflation is much higher than "they" are saying.

It's going to be worse by January so I'm stocking up what I can on shorter term storage as the budget can afford. Yesterday we followed a tip and bought meat on Tuesday, greatly reduced and perfectly good.

 

Most things, can't site specific examples other than lots of products being put in smaller containers at the same price.

 

I went to a local "farmers market" about a week ago, and there was some guy there selling boneless chicken breasts for $14.99 a pound and ribeye steaks for $29.00 a pound. I passed on 'em. I remember when mayonnaise was a buck-89 a jar, and now it's almost five bucks!

 

Everything is going up but my pension. Old Roy is lookin better every day. Thanks to my "hobbies" of fishing and hunting, I have plenty of trout and venison to supplement the stuff at the market. I was floored at the thought of paying $12 for a pound of rainbow trout. I just look at the meat prices in amazement... can't remember when I last bought a steak. We are about to get some chickens so I guess we have the eggs and meat covered. Now, where's that little piggy for the bacon? I think all of the pig’s have gone to Washington to line their own pockets and redistribute my steak to more deserving “voters.” :

 

Gee, I've been doing the shopping for the last couple of years and the only food inflation I've seen is ALL OF IT. WTF!

Between higher prices, smaller sizes and lack of selection I hate walking into the stores now.

 

Walmart's Great Value brand drink mixes (generic Crystal Lite) is $1.98 a container. The number of packets in the container is dropping from 6 to 4. The new containers were hitting the shelves this morning. I bought some of the older 6 packet containers.

 

I saw a tri tip for 9.99 a pound
last year 3.99
thanks Obama........for nothing

 

buy it cheap and stack it deep, im eating some $1.29 pork chops tonight.

bought some last week when the sale broke and they were great so bought more yesterday. just BBQ'd 2 trays and throwing 4 other trays in the freezer, replacing the .99 pork chops bought 6 or 8 months ago that i just ran out of

 

If you really want to be shocked, take a look at the price of Bacon, Milk and long term canned meat. All of them have gone crazy. Thank you Obama for the new economy.

 

i bought 40# of bacon when i saw it for .99 sometime last year, freezes really good with the no air packaging, also have a nice little hoard of butter for .99 in the freeze.

 

Grocery store wars

A new Grocery Store chain opened a store In our local town population 6,502.
We now have a total of 3 stores. I have been stock piling the weekly deals.
Mayo has been a 2.50-2.99 a jar name brand. 16.3 oz peanut butters 1.99. T-bones, KC or New york strips 6.99-7.99 In-store Ground Hambuger 3.85 Pound
Sodas 12 pck 2.88-3.00. Potato Chips 1.99 bag. Lemons .59-.79 each.
Canned fruit and cambells chunky soup 1 buck each. Spam 2.00 a can. Bacon thick cut 2.99 a pound

 

Publix is a big chain in the south. They have buy one get one free sales all the time. When it is something I frequently use, I fill up a shopping cart full of it.

 

We have a store that says that bu one get one is the sale, yet sometimes they double (or more) the price of the item and you are paying same or more than last week. At times they will do a buy one get two offer, those are generally a savings, suspect overstock items or running out of fresh by date as marked.

 

I got some campbells chunky sirloin burger soup. Barely edible, worst canned soup ever tried.

Some ice cream brands went from half gallons to quart and a halfs in one move. That's 64 ounces to 48. Others to 56 ounces.

Amazon subscribe and save five item discount drops from 20% to 15% Nov 11.

Baking supplies go on sale during the holidays, loss leaders. Wait a bit for stocking up. Clear some freezer space for Turkey and ham sales.

What annoys me is how stores jack up prices then put things on sale and tell you how much you saved. You have to track the going price to spot good deals.

Hopefully gas will go down with crude prices and end of summer driving season.

 

gas

Saw gas for $2.99/gal. today in central NJ.

 

Gas is down, food is up, I'm betting those CPI#s will look great again this year. Inflation, what inflation?
I was in South Fla. Last weekend. Kinda spendy there. Even at the aforementioned Publix.

 

Bought a quart of milk at Walmart today for $3.25.

 

It's not so much the prices are going up.
It's the value of the dollar going DOWN!
The printing presses have been going warp speed since ODUMBO took office.

 

Thanks, Guys, For a Timely Thread...But Take a Step Back for a Bigger View...

I was going to post something about food & household prices after nearly fainting on my last trip to Costco...but then I realized that without quarts, pounds and USD, any post from Canada would be pretty meaningless to most of you.

Suffice to say I have not paid a lot of attention to food prices up to now, but I can now feel a spreadsheet coming on.... OTOH, storage will only get me so far. Gotta get those banana rings (which include a variety of root and veggie crops), coconut groves, citrus pots, and cinnamon hedges planted!

It's not so much the prices are going up.
It's the value of the dollar going DOWN! The printing presses have been going warp speed since ODUMBO took office.

Finally, the last post got it... IT's THE VALUE OF OUR DOLLARS, GUYS!!
....IF you hate going to the market now...just wait a few months... the entire house of cards is coming apart fast... The fraud in COMEX commodities is very visible now, which just inflates your costs to live. Soon, Saudi will take other currencies or only gold for oil, and our reserve currency status will end...which, will crash our markets, etc..
GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE BANKS NOW... stash it in a safe someplace on your property...buy some silver and gold coins/bars...do it now. There won't be any real metal for sale soon...as the Chinese have moved it all to their country...trying to get up to 8,500 tons in their vaults...to match the USA....
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One thing that is probably much easier to see from outside the US, though, is that "inflation" in the sense of rising food prices and other costs of living, is not exactly the same thing as a "falling dollar."

For those prefer the simple answer of blaming Obama, Bernanke & Co for all the ills of the economy, the idea that there could be different trends going on at the same time won't hold any appeal.

But compared with a range of commodities (e.g. gold, oil, but not all) and a basket of other currencies, it's undeniable that the USD is the highest it's been since the summer of 2010. In fact by most measures the USD is at a multi-year high.

So what's going on? It's only my guess, but it would appear that price pressures on food supplies and productive land is a global-- and likely long-term phenomenon for the foreseeable future. If you have the strongest currency in the world and you're feeling it, what should that tell you?

So go ahead and say that the dollar is only high because everyone else is going to hell faster, if you like. The danger I see in taking this view is that if and when the USD really does fall relative to other things, the inflation you have been complaining about will be NOTHING by comparison.

The main takeaway here is probably to emphasize what many of you already know in your hearts, that depending on store-bought food is a huge vulnerability. Storage will buy time, but only the ability to produce more calories than you require will actually provide longterm food security. As I say this is only my guess, but how else can you add it up?

 

Ground beef is only about $2/lb. cheaper than t-bone steaks. When it's not on sale, it's around $5.49 lb. Ridiculous.

 

Finally, the last post got it... IT's THE VALUE OF OUR DOLLARS, GUYS!!

FWIW: We buy farm direct here in MT. An average range cow/heifer will run you $1.65/lb live on the hoof.. kill costs $50 now..+ the hide and by products belong to the shop. Cut and wrap is 55-cents/finished lb. The total yield is usually around 55% or so, of live weight. Pigs cost $40 to kill, cure is 65 cents/lb, cut/wrap is 55 cents/lb finished. the Pig is running about 90 cents per lb live weight...yield is like 50% or so... BOTH OF THESE ARE TOTALLY BONELESS CUTS. At the local stores, hamburger is now pushing $4/lb...steak is around $10... organic or grass fed meet and eat special cows will add 50% to these numbers easy...
Our fresh Veg's are NOT...sorry looking...nothing lasts/stores..same for fruit. Most of our standard deli meats have gone up $2/lb...cheese about the same. Even chicken is now UP by about a $1/lb or so...for most varieties. Organic is again +50% at least.

IF you hate going to the market now...just wait a few months... the entire house of cards is coming apart fast... The fraud in COMEX commodities is very visible now, which just inflates your costs to live. Soon, Saudi will take other currencies or only gold for oil, and our reserve currency status will end...which, will crash our markets, etc..
GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE BANKS NOW... stash it in a safe someplace on your property...buy some silver and gold coins/bars...do it now. There won't be any real metal for sale soon...as the Chinese have moved it all to their country...trying to get up to 8,500 tons in their vaults...to match the USA.
Don't forget those bullets too...you can't eat them, but the bad guys sure can! Check-6