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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 11, 2019 14:05:56 GMT -5
Ran out to do some errands. Stopped at Safeway for 2 Honeycrisp apples and 2 Bosc pears. $7.00.
Welcome to California.
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 11, 2019 14:06:59 GMT -5
Indeed, the cost of food here is only outstripped by the cost of housing.
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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 11, 2019 14:12:29 GMT -5
Indeed, the cost of food here is only outstripped by the cost of housing. It's ridiculous. I walked the rent check down to the office the other day (rent is due on the first, this was the third) and mentioned to the manager that my wife and I had been ill. She said "oh, feel better, and did you include the $75.00 late fee?" S***! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 14:17:14 GMT -5
We only buy fruit that is in season just like back in the 70s. I am saving up for a can of Chili.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 11, 2019 14:19:54 GMT -5
Sounds like the potential to be a real a**hole.
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Post by kbareit on Feb 11, 2019 14:30:10 GMT -5
Sure am glad I live in NE Ohio. The weather sucks sometimes but the cost of living is cheap.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 14:34:18 GMT -5
Martin, that’s absolutely absurd!! I give you credit, I wouldn’t have purchased them. Here in NC “ fresh produce “ is quite expensive in general. I’ve seen honey crisp apples selling @ Food Lion for $3.50 a lb. I walk on by....just like the song👍👍👍
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 11, 2019 14:36:19 GMT -5
Food has really gotten expensive everywhere. I just feel lucky that it is available and we have such a huge amount of choices. Apples are often over a dollar fifty each. But in season strawberrys can be bought for 99¢ a pound. Iceberg lettuce was $1.79 a pound last time I shopped, but that's still half the price of a bag of Ruffles.
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 11, 2019 15:24:20 GMT -5
That's crazy about the veg... Even more crazy about the rent. Good grief, some people are just asses.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 15:26:04 GMT -5
You rang?
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Post by AJ on Feb 11, 2019 15:32:26 GMT -5
I’m just glad I like bacon and beans. Fried chicken once in awhile and maybe a Jack’s Frozen Pizza and I’m good.
AJ
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Post by slowroll on Feb 11, 2019 18:34:33 GMT -5
Ran out to do some errands. Stopped at Safeway for 2 Honeycrisp apples and 2 Bosc pears. $7.00. Welcome to California. Wonder if that price has anything to do with water going to the fish and kelp rather than farmers? |
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Post by Scott W on Feb 11, 2019 19:33:01 GMT -5
Martin, that’s absolutely absurd!! I give you credit, I wouldn’t have purchased them. Here in NC “ fresh produce “ is quite expensive in general. I’ve seen honey crisp apples selling @ Food Lion for $3.50 a lb. I walk on by....just like the song👍👍👍 Surprisingly in NJ, I’ve seen them at as low as $2.99/lb for organic honey crisps but that’s not too often. That offsets the giant tax rates I suppose. $14k/ in taxes but we have cheap apples |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 11, 2019 19:47:28 GMT -5
I felt the opposite here... with the just4u app from Albertsons, we score a lot of freebies, a Kroger driver told me that Albertsons/ Safeway has a price war going on.
3 heads of iceberg at Costco runs about $2, and they are always so fresh, they will last a few weeks.
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Post by AJ on Feb 11, 2019 21:59:34 GMT -5
Indeed, the cost of food here is only outstripped by the cost of housing. It's ridiculous. I walked the rent check down to the office the other day (rent is due on the first, this was the third) and mentioned to the manager that my wife and I had been ill. She said "oh, feel better, and did you include the $75.00 late fee?" S***! Greed throughout the world has run amuck. Insensitivity, people without care or compassion, and hate is leading us to disaster and ruin. AJ |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 11, 2019 22:30:26 GMT -5
I honestly live in the place with the cheapest cost of living in the USA. Gas is 1.72, and we have an Aldi. We could eat a lot cheaper, but we eat very well instead.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 11, 2019 22:33:04 GMT -5
That is ridiculous on the late fee....my mortgage is due on the 1st, but the grace period extends to the 16th.
Pretty lame that in a situation like yours Martin that on a case by case basis, common sense with a dose of compassion doesn't rule the day.
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Post by headrott on Feb 12, 2019 5:26:27 GMT -5
Ran out to do some errands. Stopped at Safeway for 2 Honeycrisp apples and 2 Bosc pears. $7.00. Welcome to California. That's why I moved Martin..... Now, Oregon is getting almost as bad.....If Banchero's was still in California, I would consider moving back to California....except for the F***ing smog checks, the sales taxes, the people who rule the state and how, and probably 20 other reasons.......(at least). Probably 10 percent (at least) of that total was sales tax..... |
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Post by flatwatermonte on Feb 12, 2019 10:21:52 GMT -5
My opinion is that it isn't so much greed that is causing the spike in prices it is the fact that our dollar is worth so much less than it used to be. I own a body shop. Been in this business for 18 years now. When I started out the average repair was $600 now, $2800. Yes vehicles are more compleslx than they used to be, but I see it reflected in the average price of things nowadays. A wise old man once told me:
In 1964 you could walk into a Ford dealership with $3500 in silver dollars or greenbacks and drive out with a brand new mustang. Today you can still walk into a ford dealership with $3500 in silver dollars and still drive out with a brand new mustang but $3500 in greenbacks is a down payment.
Our dollar has been slowly loosing ground since we were taken off of the gold standard and it accelerated with the debasing of silver in our coinage.
I tell my young techs that it used to be a $1000 emergency fund was a good chunk of money. Now I tell them they need a minimum of a $2500 emergency fund.
One thing for us pipe smokers, Brian Levin famously says to buy tobacco now as it will never be cheaper. I agree with him!
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