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If This Keeps Up, They Will Have To Start Putting Armed Guards On Food Trucks
TEC ^ | 7-16-2014 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 07/16/2014 5:24:54 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

It would help if you included either a width or height spec for that image.


21 posted on 07/16/2014 6:18:00 PM PDT by deport
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To: blam

Why would you post an image that’s larger (3,300px x 2,550px) that larger than most monitors?


22 posted on 07/16/2014 6:48:45 PM PDT by upchuck (The country is being billed for its own execution. ~ h/t: SpaceBar)
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To: blam

Diet Rite, my fav, jumped from $1.00 to $1.38.

Sargento Cheese just jumped by more than a dollar.

But we can’t include food and energy inflation when figuring gvt benefits for Social Security recipients. Oh, no, we can’t do that


23 posted on 07/16/2014 6:52:52 PM PDT by upchuck (The country is being billed for its own execution. ~ h/t: SpaceBar)
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To: blam

ping for later reference.


24 posted on 07/16/2014 6:53:31 PM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
They have been hiding it by putting less in the bag too. Have you bought a bag of chips recently? More than half the bag is air.

Well, in any bag of chips about 95% of the bag is air. But you make a fair point that package sizes have been smaller to keep prices down...

25 posted on 07/16/2014 7:03:04 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: upchuck

“But we can’t include food and energy inflation when figuring gvt benefits for Social Security recipients. Oh, no, we can’t do that”

Things we actually use are excluded from that calculation. Orwellian logic.


26 posted on 07/16/2014 7:25:19 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: yorkiemom

They won’t do it because then they can’t get away with a measly 1.5% or even 0%. They’d prolly have to make it 5% or so and Soc Sec would go bankrupt just that much faster.


27 posted on 07/16/2014 7:52:42 PM PDT by upchuck (The country is being billed for its own execution. ~ h/t: SpaceBar)
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


28 posted on 07/16/2014 8:09:24 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: blam

speak for yourself man, I gotta have the coffee.


29 posted on 07/16/2014 8:23:18 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Kartographer

Thanks, Kart


30 posted on 07/16/2014 8:33:33 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: upchuck

Yes, they want the slow death for us, vs just getting it over.


31 posted on 07/16/2014 9:09:31 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
They have been hiding it by putting less in the bag too. Have you bought a bag of chips recently? More than half the bag is air.

I had fun showing my granddaughters how to grow potatoes. Took a little over two months for a 1 foot by 4 foot patch to grow a huge bag of potatoes which we dug up a couple weeks ago. We had french fries and chips cooking for over a week. Yum. Cost nothing other than the olive oil to cook them, and salt. Don't buy them, grow them. We've been picking onions and tomatoes, next up are green beans.

32 posted on 07/17/2014 12:37:54 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

” Have you bought a bag of chips recently? More than half the bag is air.”

Been that way for years, and is done for a reason. They are not doing it to “rip you off”.

The “Air” is actually nitrogen which keeps the chips fresh and keeps the oil from going rancid. It also helps cushion the product during shipping so you don’t end up with a bag of crumbs.

If they didn’t package it that way shelf life would be very short, spoilage loss would go up (Thus so would the retail price) and the chips would be of lower quality when you get them.


33 posted on 07/17/2014 1:26:50 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Nik Naym; Opinionated Blowhard

He picked a bad example; a better one would be ice cream.

Formerly sold (most commonly) in half-gallon containers, now it’s a quart-and-a-half.

Or toilet paper. There was a time the standard sheet was 4.5” x 4.5”. I’ve seen it as small as 3.7 x 3.9 in the modern era.

Or a pound of coffee - now 11 or 13 ounces.


34 posted on 07/17/2014 4:49:38 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: nascarnation

It’s absolutely true. The “free” food of the moochers is currency in a lot of places here.


35 posted on 07/17/2014 5:03:08 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("Scheming demons dressed in kingly guise, beating down the multitudes and scoffing at the wise.")
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To: blam

A guy was arrested a few years back for eating a package of ground beef as he walked around the supermarket.


36 posted on 07/17/2014 5:10:38 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: nascarnation
Food inflation: big problem severely under-reported by MSM.

..and size and quantity reduction along with the price inflation.

37 posted on 07/17/2014 5:13:35 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: deport
"It would help if you included either a width or height spec for that image."

I'm willing to learn if you would be so kind and teach/tell me how.

38 posted on 07/17/2014 5:13:57 AM PDT by blam
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To: Nik Naym

Chips used to come in a 12 oz bag. That same bag now only holds 10 oz, and I’m already starting to see some flavors at 9.5 oz. When all this started a lot of companies introduced a higher priced, one pound “family sized” bag. Those are now 14 oz, and, having double checked on walmart.com, going down to 13.5 oz.


39 posted on 07/17/2014 5:17:11 AM PDT by Eepsy
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To: Eepsy

it is another form of inflation. They reduce the content instead of raise the price. It demonstrates that they are in cahoots with Obama’s administration.


40 posted on 07/17/2014 5:22:14 AM PDT by sport
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