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Bacon at $6/lb?!

Beef prices have gone up too.
Paid $4.39 a pound for brisket at Costco in March. Last night bought another one and it was $5.49 a pound.
Last year I was paying under $4 per pound for it ($3.69 to $3.89).
 
I bought bulk brisket (about 5 alternator's worth) a month ago and smoked it. It was like $3.89/lb in bulk. There was a lot of fat cap I had to trim down, but that's the nature of the beast.
 
LTC8K6 said:
The prices are up, and the package sizes are down.

But this package size deal has been happening for a long time as a sort of stealth inflation. Make the can smaller, the box smaller, the roll skinnier, etc. , but keep the price the same.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-06/bacons-stealth-inflation-pay-same-less
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No kidding... bacon here went from 500g in a package for ~$4.19 to $5.69 for 375g in the last month...

On the bright side, I got prime rib for $8.00/kg last night.
 
TwiceOver said:
Supply, Demand. People love meat. People really love Bacon. Luckily a buddy of mine raises both animals.
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He raises both meats and bacons?

LTC8K6 said:
The prices are up, and the package sizes are down.

But this package size deal has been happening for a long time as a sort of stealth inflation. Make the can smaller, the box smaller, the roll skinnier, etc. , but keep the price the same.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-06/bacons-stealth-inflation-pay-same-less
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And ten years ago people were bitching that everything was supersized and Americans were too fat and gluttonous as a result. Remember those cute little graphics that compared the old 6 oz. Coca Cola glass bottles to the 20 oz. bottles sold today? The packages are all clearly marked, the unit prices are avaialble, who cares?
 
TwiceOver said:
Supply, Demand. People love meat. People really love Bacon. Luckily a buddy of mine raises both animals.
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There is more to it than that. A virus has been killing off pigs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/usa-pigs-pork-idUSL2N0NS1T120140506

Also the price of fuel directly affects the price of fertilizer, which is used to grow corn. Then corn is also used to make fuel. So there is less corn to use as animal feed.

You want the price of bacon to go down, stop using corn to make ethanol.

Some states prohibit butchers from processing wild pigs. If people were allowed catch, fatten and then bring the pig to a butcher, the price of bacon might go down.

The government has thrown so many issues into our food supply prices are bound to go up.
 
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Blackjack200 said:
He raises both meats and bacons?



And ten years ago people were bitching that everything was supersized and Americans were too fat and gluttonous as a result. Remember those cute little graphics that compared the old 6 oz. Coca Cola glass bottles to the 20 oz. bottles sold today? The packages are all clearly marked, the unit prices are avaialble, who cares?
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That's not that same as a 3.75 quart orange juice bottle that most people think is still one gallon...

Or the 4 pound bags of sugar...

Or the toilet paper roll that is 1/2" skinnier...

Or the 1 ounce smaller tuna cans...

etc.

I remember noticing this trend a long time ago, too. It's clearly an effort to fool the consumer, and "unit price" is clearly an effort to justify it, imo.

I actually try to buy from companies that still sell the traditional size packages, to reward them.

Ice cream went from 1/2 gallon, to 1.75 quarts, to 1.5 quarts, all in similar packaging.

It's now known as the "grocery shrink ray".

http://consumerist.com/category/grocery-shrink-ray/
 
I saw this when reading the article and now I want one, the "Bacon bowl"!..
https://www.buyperfectbacon.com/
cooked-bacon-bowl-300x202.jpg
 
I bought 8 pounds of bacon from Costco last month. Got like 6 1/2 pounds to work through yet. Worth every penny.
 
The price of all the staple goods & services (food, housing, transportation) has gone up dramatically over the last decade. All it means is we just have to make do with less. Feels like we're going backwards. Probably better for America's collective waist line though.
 
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