Have your grocery prices gone up or down?

[Chaotic42]

They seem high, especially for fresh fruit. I don't eat eggs or drink milk, so I don't know how much they cost around here.

 

[OverVolt]

Had been paying $1.60 for half gallons of milk, though it was cheaper last I checked... forgot the exact price

Eggs had been bouncing around between $1.18 and 98cents and recently dropped to like 68 cents or something ridiculous. I bought 2 dozen for myself lol.

 

[OverVolt]

It seems like wholesale prices might be lower: closer to $1/lb as of mid-late 2017:
From September 2017:
"Wholesale U.S. pork belly prices hit their highest ever of $227.54 per cwt (or $2.28 per pound) on July 26, before sinking to the lowest for the year on Friday, to $101.63 per cwt, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data"

I have never been able to correlate wholesale prices and the actual grocery price.

I remember seeing data that said wholesale price would double. Store prices didn't budge. They use futures contacts I guess. Thats how you get these steady highs and overproduction crashes. Like I care I guess. Their problem not mine.

You can only try so hard to financialize and rule the world with eggs and milk.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Grocery prices have gone up slightly but, they were high to begin with. Part of the problem living in a culinary desert here in ND. Wholesale prices are through the roof. I truly don't see how the area can support housing and food costs except for students being supported by their parents. There are plenty of jobs though.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Eggs and milk are not a major part of our groceries, so I couldn't really tell you if they changed. Meat and produce make up by far the largest share of our weekly buys, and they've been inching up for years. $2+/lb for green peppers? $3/lb for green beans? GTFO. That's mostly our fault for shopping at a small, local grocer.

 

[OverVolt]

Eggs and milk are not a major part of our groceries, so I couldn't really tell you if they changed. Meat and produce make up by far the largest share of our weekly buys, and they've been inching up for years. $2+/lb for green peppers? $3/lb for green beans? GTFO. That's mostly our fault for shopping at a small, local grocer.

I was in a relationship for 7 yrs now as a 30 year old single guy I can spot the married saps miles away

You know what I eat? Whatever is cheap, healthy, and on sale. I'm saving soooooooooooooooooooooooo muchhhhhh moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. LOL.

Screw pizza night honey, you see how cheap eggs got!?
Try more like omelet month.

Haha .

 

[Pick2]

Our grocery shopping consists of Me dropping the Wife off at the front door of the Market.
So I don't know about the prices going up and down , but the Wife sure is on those cucumbers

 

[Insomniator]

Haven't noticed, but they could go up 50% and still be cheap to me. When compared to ordering out, cooking feels practically free.

I even buy the brown organic BS free range eggs and be-nice-to-the-animals meat... still cheaper than going to Chipotle.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Haven't noticed, but they could go up 50% and still be cheap to me. When compared to ordering out, cooking feels practically free.

I even buy the brown organic BS free range eggs and be-nice-to-the-animals meat... still cheaper than going to Chipotle.

Yeah it's hard to justify eating out with the price difference. Not just that but the ingredients used at 99% of places are pure garbage and I can taste it. I'm used to good cuts of meat, cage free eggs, fresh veggies. I've become super picky about where I eat out and how often.

 

[ponyo]

Haven't noticed, but they could go up 50% and still be cheap to me. When compared to ordering out, cooking feels practically free.

I even buy the brown organic BS free range eggs and be-nice-to-the-animals meat... still cheaper than going to Chipotle.

Organic, cage free, vegetarian, and free range eggs are all BS marketing labels. Don't pay more for marketing. Save your money and buy the cheaper regular eggs. It's the same. Only pasture raised eggs are different. And it's reflected in the price.

 

[vi edit]

Milk has been $2 a gallon at Kroger for years now. I haven't seen that change much at all. I can regularly get 18 packs of eggs for $.99 on sale or with a coupon.

Meat (pork and beef in particular) has gotten very expensive. Pork has almost double in price. Prepackaged bacon was $8 a pack a few years ago. Now the same pack is upwards of $14. Beef is almost $4 a pound for basic 80/20 chuck. That was $2.99 not too long ago. Some fruits have gotten more expensive (raspberries are almost $6 for a quart now) but others are dirt cheap. Bananas are still $.55 a pound. 5 pound bags of mandarins cost $5 on sale, although I'm finding that the quality of mandarins have been absolutely terrible the last few months. They are not anywhere close to ripe (still very green) and won't ripen any more once they are picked. Pre-packed salads have gone up a bit recently. Last year I was regularly picking them up for $2.50 a bag on sale. Now it's very hard to get them for anything other than the "normal" price of $3.99.

I have noticed the shrinking of products which is effectively a price increase. Peanut butter, cereal, ice cream, ect. All coming in slightly smaller packages/amounts for the same price.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I want to live where Exterous does. Milk in Tallahassee is $3.28 per half gallon, eggs $1.88 doz and bananas .60 lb. And those are Walmart prices.

edit: sorry, I meant $3.28 per gallon rather than half gallon.

Dang, milk is $1.49 here in WV

 

[pete6032]

Not sure since I pretty much buy the same stuff every time about $45/week, mostly at Walmart, Aldi and Jewel. I haven't noticed any changes in Bananas, Milk and Eggs.
Chicken (Rotisserie) usually cheaper Mondays. It bothers me that TP and tissue rolls are expensive.

5 buck cluck?

 

[Zeze]

I'm surprised how a dozen eggs still 99 cents over a decade.

 

[allisolm]

Dang, milk is $1.49 here in WV

Was just at the store. $3.78/gal for milk and $1.88/doz for eggs and, outside of Easter, no stores ever have a sale on eggs and no stores ever have a sale on milk.

 

[snoopy7548]

I don't really look at individual prices, but my grocery bill has been fairly stable. It only really rises when I buy long-term items (olive oil, soap, shampoo, paper towels). Still average around $60-75/week, but I guess it has been on the high end for the past year. I don't bother going to different grocery stores.

A half gallon of store-brand whole milk is $1.99. Extra large store brand eggs are $2.79/dozen.

 

[SKORPI0]

5 buck cluck?

Yes, $4.98 at Walmart. Goes to $2.49 for whatever wasn't sold after 12 hours.

 

[dullard]

I came in here thinking about that old tale that people only care about the prices of milk, eggs, and rotisserie chicken at a grocery store. Then I clicked on the link and most of the talk is milk, eggs, and some chicken. The fact that your milk is cheaper/more expensive doesn't mean a thing if you are ignoring the other 99% of things you buy at the grocery store.

I sure can't tell exactly if the grocery prices near me are going up overall since my purchases are too sporadic and random. I feel that things have been pretty stable overall though.

The 10 year food inflation chart shows that food has been pretty stable since about 2009 with just a gradual increase here and there and even a slight decrease at the end of 2016:
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/food-inflation

 

[ponyo]

With grocery, it's super easy to substitute. Price of ribeye too expensive? Buy NY Strip. Beef too expensive? Buy pork. Pork too expensive? Buy chicken. Name brand too expensive. Buy generic. We're lucky most of us live in the US where we have the lowest prices in just about everything. It's not like how screwed we were when gas prices shot up to over $4 gallon.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Sometimes you see prices drop when Aldis comes to town.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

With grocery, it's super easy to substitute. Price of ribeye too expensive? Buy NY Strip. Beef too expensive? Buy pork. Pork too expensive? Buy chicken. Name brand too expensive. Buy generic. We're lucky most of us live in the US where we have the lowest prices in just about everything. It's not like how screwed we were when gas prices shot up to over $4 gallon.

The part about the $4 a gallon gas was everyone raised their prices because "shipping costs are higher" which i get and can deal with, but then gas prices lowered and nobody lowered the prices due to reduced costs, then when it went back up the second time businesses tried the price bump again. I was like, wait a minute, didnt you already raise prices because of the higher fuel and then never lower them?

Then i guess enough people caught on to that game and so they started changing packaging "looks" to covertly lower the quantity inside and kept the prices the same so you got less for the same cost.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Organic, cage free, vegetarian, and free range eggs are all BS marketing labels. Don't pay more for marketing. Save your money and buy the cheaper regular eggs. It's the same. Only pasture raised eggs are different. And it's reflected in the price.

In theory, the hens that lay eggs labeled "cage-free" are free to walk around the hen house, to perch on roosts, and to lay eggs in nests.

This is in great contrast to most laying hens, which are kept in cages so small that they can't fully open their wings, much less walk or move about.

So yes there is a difference.


I will not support caging chickens up in a cage so small they can't move or even "sit down".

 

[Zanovar]

Tesco definitely going up in price.they recently refunded me 56 pence.cheaper elsewhere apparently.not going to argue.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I sure can't tell exactly if the grocery prices near me are going up overall since my purchases are too sporadic and random. I feel that things have been pretty stable overall though.

That's pretty unusual. You mean you go into grocery stores and choose random products? Maybe you blindfold yourself, so that you don't know what you'll be eating until you get home?

 

[snoopy7548]

That's pretty unusual. You mean you go into grocery stores and choose random products? Maybe you blindfold yourself, so that you don't know what you'll be eating until you get home?

Maybe he's one of those mystery shoppers?