Not only higher prices but smaller portions.
No...they started to rise about two years ago...they are skyrocketing now.
Putting ethanol in gasoline raises the price of food and gas. Higher fuel costs raises food prices more. So we pay higher prices for fuel AND food— and get crappy gasoline to boot. Your Govt. at work!!
“Hormel Foods recently raised the price of Spam”
*awaits riots in the streets of Hawaii*
Four rolls of Scott toilet tissue for FOUR DOLLARS at Wal*Mart last week. That’s insanity. It’s all recycled paper. Three and a half bucks of it was probably Teamsters Union transport costs.
Higher prices, smaller packages. Been doing this for years and years and years.
NOT news.
Looks like Aldi’s is a better bet to shop. I just saw and online ad that Aldi’s is dropping its prices.
Thanks for the heads up and Hormel the Turkey Spam is great. I will have to stock up at the nearest Woodman’s Grocery in Appleton, WI and hit Aldi’s there too.
We've had inflation since 2008 with the last run up in oil prices.
Mike
Fuel is doing a cost push on everything, but will reduce some demand and shift demand to other products.
BUT the SERIOUS DANGER is from the consequences of the HR2748/S.510/HR2751 FDA Food Takeover Bill that the Lame Duck Session Passed in the last hours of the 110th Congress and the “Resident” at 1600 Penn.Ave. signed into law. This monstrosity could engineer real hunger in the U.S. It is projected to cost 1.4 billion Dollars. It is said to require the creation of 17,000 new “FDA food inspector jobs” (most outside the U.S.).
If you are not aware of the consequences of this legislation, it is time for you to do some homework.
The Senate passed this mess with a “voice vote” (not wanting to be identified as to who voted for it) and then found they had to send it back to the House because it was an appropriations bill. The house replaced the content of an already existing HR2751 Bill and it was sent back to the Senate where is passed. They want to hide those votes, but I have a record of them archived.
Starting to rise? Where has the author of this article been for the past, say, 15 years?
Product shrinkage is what gripes me.
Walmart has shrunk their coffee again. What used to be a 3# (48 oz) in 1978 has shrunk to just over 24 oz in 2011. Their price on the shrunk can is (as of last week) $6.00.
In 1978, I recall a coffee shortage and prices skyrocketing (in 1978 dollars). The price of a 3# can of coffee rose to over $9.00.
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Last week, fresh produce seemed to be stable from the previous week. Tomatoes were the most noteable increase — from about $1.49 (previous week) to $2.49 per lb. Lettuce was up from about $1.00 per head to $1.49. Ironically, bagged salad was the same price it has been for months.
Great advantage here in East Tennessee - we have lots of surplus stores. I recently saw Cafe Bustelo (which normally sells at $3.78 a package) for $2.00 each - I bought all 60 of them. I then put them in a Space Bag and vacuum packed them. Should last me a while. I love my coffee strong and Cafe Bustello is as strong as Starbucks.
I love these stores - toilet paper, health care items, bandages, paper products all for about half of grocery store prices. Crushed boxes don’t bother me at all.
I have been stocking up for two years now. I put in a garden, learned to can and dehydrate and I am building a chicken tractor next weekend. I will do my best to survive this idiocy we call a government.
food prices are starting to rise.-——
Seems to me they’ve been rising for some time now, not ‘starting’ to rise. Well especially when you consider they cut down the size of a can of vegetables, toilet paper rolls etc...to fool the consumer into believing prices hadn’t already risen...gettin less for the same price, now they are beyond fooling the consumer....ain’t the ‘age of Obama’ , grand?
This is a direct result of effectively PRINTING MONEY!, and MONETIZING THE DEBT!
We should be having DEFLATION right now, but the FED thinks this is not acceptable, so its doing everything it can do to prevent it.
Fewer people working, less disposable income mean wages and prices should lower, instead, wages lower and prices increase...
The FED NEEDS GONE! And the folks in DC authorizing this nonsense need drawn and quartered.
Not the Jennie O turkey loafs! NOOOOOOO!
Actually had one the other day and I did notice the smaller portions. Damn.
This shouldn’t be a shock to anyone but most of the moron public is too tied up with sports, American Idol, reality TV that they can’t make the connection between oil prices and the price of transportation, producing food or any other industrial process that produces the things that keep us and an economy going.
Either the states need to tell the fed to piss off and open drilling and refining within their state boundaries or there needs to be a second revolution to complete what should have been done with the democrat party in 1865 and to restore the Constitution.
FUBO & FAD
watch for the Global Leftist War on Commodity Trading to fire-up in earnest any day now