Grocery price monitor

Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:27 am by mtbarb

Costco: Half gallon jar of Farman's baby dill pickles, three weeks ago $2.69. Yesterday $3.89. 30% increase.

Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:37 am by hamlet_jones

If you are a prepper, this is the time of year to kick it into high gear. New price increases always come on fast and hard just after Jan 1.
All the pain and losses the wholesaler & retailer accumulated and had to eat in the last year are paid back in spades in the month of January.
From what I'm hearing, the new year is going to be a real bitch-slap.

If you eat pickles, get a few cases. Don't dick around with onesies and twosies. Food will never be as available or cheap as it is today.

Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:10 am by roccman

hamlet_jones wrote:If you are a prepper, this is the time of year to kick it into high gear. New price increases always come on fast and hard just after Jan 1.
All the pain and losses the wholesaler & retailer accumulated and had to eat in the last year are paid back in spades in the month of January.
From what I'm hearing, the new year is going to be a real bitch-slap.

If you eat pickles, get a few cases. Don't dick around with onesies and twosies. Food will never be as available or cheap as it is today.

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Sage advise.

Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:19 pm by weaver

Guy at the groc. store thought I was crazy for buying whole flats of canned soups and veggies. I had asked him to always leave at least one of the case flats on the shelf for shoppers like me and he looked like I had 8 eyes or something. I guess no one buys in quantity these days.

Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:42 pm by Earth_Girl

Going to be getting some groceries this week, I love pickles and definitely going to be stocking up! :mrgreen:

Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:43 am by Swampman

I was in the Philly area last weekend. There is a great produce chain, Produce Junction, that buys distressed cases from the central produce market. A distressed case of oranges, for example, might have one rotten orange in it, but the grocery stores will not buy the case because the shelf life is shorter for the whole case. I went there to get some veggies

The staff at PJ, repackages the fruit and veggies and I used to get incredible bargains when I lived in the Philly area years ago. Needless to say, I was shocked at the price increases. Granted, the prices are much less than in the grocery stores, but they were almost double what I paid 5 years ago.

Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:49 am by Zac

Zac wrote:Ribeye steak (boneless, usda choice, costco), 6.99/pound
Soda (hansen's, 24 pack, costco), 7.25
Hawaiian sweet rolls (24 pack, costco), 3.79
Parmesan cheese (1 pound jar, shredded, costco), 13.89

2/6/11: Sacramento, CA

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Ribeye steak (boneless, angus, choice, bel air), 5.97/pound

2/14/11: Sacramento, CA

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Ribeye steak (boneless, choice, costco), 8.99/pound
NewYork steak (boneless, choice, costco), 6.99/pound

12/2/11: Sacramento, CA

Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:27 am by gin

strictly from my personal observations.. curiously, the price
of beef products have risen quite a bit whereas pork seems
to have been more or less stable over these past three years..

I have wondered on more than one occasion why that is?

Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:44 pm by allissun

gin wrote:strictly from my personal observations.. curiously, the price
of beef products have risen quite a bit whereas pork seems
to have been more or less stable over these past three years..

I have wondered on more than one occasion why that is?

I was wondering the same thing, gin, when I looked at Zac's previous post where the price went up 20% ( i think the math is right :shock:

).

Also, considering that I think there are many cattle farmers who had a hell of a time, like unrepentantcowboy, this summer, to get enough water and feed and protection from the sun for the cattle and other livestock... horses..., and so a lot of farmers had to take the animals to get slaughtered as there was most often no way to care for them, otherwise, in a humane way.

Yikes... this brings tears to my eyes as I write.

Well, so I guess maybe the price reflects the extra costs of transporting hay and grains and other "inputs" required to feed and care for the animals, above and beyond what would be considered normal in times where there is no drought?

Any ideas, anyone? Why the price went up so much in just less than a year?

Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:00 am by cleiserle

Texas producers unloaded massive amounts of cattle this summer. Next spring calf crop will be way down because so many heifers were sold off, driving prices further up.
Beef exports continue to rise, while U.S. consumers are eating less beef.
Input costs are still trending way up.
We had a good hay year here, yet prices right now are where they should be at the very end of winter. Too many sold hay out of state all summer, and are now coming up short.
Next year the prices will really shock people.

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