The [grocery / food bill] is Too Damn High! Bulk Beef,where are you?!?

[sandorski]

Here in Arizona, we have cheap nopal and tuna. We could trade. This time of year we also have cheap iceberg lettuce.

That's not lettuce.

 

[IronWing]

That's not lettuce.

It's green (sort of).
It's high in selenium.
It wilts.
therefore
It's lettuce.

 

[sandorski]

It's green (sort of).
It's high in selenium.
It wilts.
therefore
It's lettuce.

Ok Commie.

 

[Geekbabe]

I shop carefully via Amazon Fresh & Aldi via Instacart. I usually choose generic brands & watch for sales & specials. Got a huge whole chicken via Amazon Fresh for $10, we will get a hearty meal & soup from that. I also cut down on the size of meat portions…too many of us eat more meat than is recommended

 

[HomerJS]

chicken thighs are around 1.25 a pound, ground beef around 2.25 a pound , brisket is 1.25 a pound, chicken breast is around 1.60, pork chops are about 3$ a pound

https://jumbo.com.do/supermercado/carnes-pescados-y-mariscos/carnes.html?product_list_limit=100&product_list_order=price&product_list_dir=asc

we get most of our fruit from roadside stands as it's way cheaper there...the daily lunch here used to be around 100-200 pesos, it's now hovering around 350-400

NFW you can get brisket for 1.25/lb. Please verify. Especially when chicken thighs are same price.

 

[HomerJS]

Just bought a whole pork shoulder @BJs 1.49/lb. Smoke that bad boy for 10 hrs gets a ton of meat.

Chicken thighs here are .99/lb and that's Wegmans.

 

[KMFJD]

NFW you can get brisket for 1.25/lb. Please verify. Especially when chicken thighs are same price.

yeah i messed up, 2.25$ us a pound for brisket , 1.36$ for fresh chicken thighs

 

[VirtualLarry]

MSN

Stop&Shop caught "grocery redlining". (in/around Boston)

 

[nakedfrog]

MSN

Stop&Shop caught "grocery redlining". (in/around Boston)

The original story on that was last year, this appears to be their response?

 

[IronWing]

Walmart does this with price differentiation between their Supercenters and their Neighborhood Markets. The effect is that people w/o transport pay more.

 

[highland145]

We have KJs by a lower income neighborhood. Prices are stupid on top of the already stupid prices. SMH and I'm a loan shark capitalist. 🙄🙄

 

[Muse]

Only beef I've eaten in the last 10 days or so is 1/4 lb. of ground stew meat.

I bought a 4lb box of organic tofu at Costco a couple weeks ago, have gone through 1/2 of it. I'm liking it. It was the photo on the box, "suggested recipe" that attracted my attention, "that looks good!" Lot's of vegetables! I've been trying to duplicate that. Really easy, cheap, high protein, lots and lots of fiber, vitamins and minerals.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I'm guessing the prices in the above ad are not in the US.


We have Kroger in direction and one of their off brand discount chains in the other. Both are within about esqual driving distance of me but in opposite directions and quite far from each other. I went in to Kroger for the first time since they started their card nonsense close to 20 years ago. Even their super discounted, member only prices are higher than their identical product at their discount chain store. Same item, same size, same packaging, same Kroger branding. Is it the full store trying to make up for the costs of the card system? Or is it the population and demographics of the two towns? Yes, the discount store is in a much smaller and less urban area.

 

[sdifox]

I'm guessing the prices in the above ad are not in the US.


We have Kroger in direction and one of their off brand discount chains in the other. Both are within about esqual driving distance of me but in opposite directions and quite far from each other. I went in to Kroger for the first time since they started their card nonsense close to 20 years ago. Even their super discounted, member only prices are higher than their identical product at their discount chain store. Same item, same size, same packaging, same Kroger branding. Is it the full store trying to make up for the costs of the card system? Or is it the population and demographics of the two towns? Yes, the discount store is in a much smaller and less urban area.

Wait USA switched to Pesos Dominicanos?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Why doesn't bulk yield discounts? If I buy a case of canned soup, or even two cases, why does it work out to be the same as individual cans?

Why does flat of 5 dozen eggs work out the the same as individual dozens?

 

[nakedfrog]

Why doesn't bulk yield discounts? If I buy a case of canned soup, or even two cases, why does it work out to be the same as individual cans?

Why does flat of 5 dozen eggs work out the the same as individual dozens?

I've seen instances where buying a multipack was more expensive.

 

[VirtualLarry]

MSN

Not the c0000kies!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I noticed that with cookies. Not only are they smaller but there are way less in a package. I rarely buy cookies from the cookie aisle much anymore and typically just buy the bakery ones but the other day I bought a package and the way they're packaged makes it look like there's a lot of them, but there was like, 15. 15 freaking cookies in a box that could easily hold 30+.

Get much more value buying a box from the bakery section and you get bigger cookies out of it too.

 

[Torn Mind]

Sugar and starches sure make people eat a lot that even losing money isn't enough to stop that behavior.

 

[highland145]

Sounds like the enforced diet many of us need.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

No, I'm not paying $11 for a gallon of Apple Cider.

One thing I missed after moving south was being able to hit any of several Cider Mills at will. This area really only has a couple and they're a long ways apart. Prices were always in the $5-6 range for several years at the one most convenient to me. Stopped it today for the first time in quite a while. They're only open for a few weeks in the fall and I'm not ways in that area, so I've missed a couple of years.

At $11/gallon I left it in their cooler.

 

[Exterous]

No, I'm not paying $11 for a gallon of Apple Cider.

One thing I missed after moving south was being able to hit any of several Cider Mills at will. This area really only has a couple and they're a long ways apart. Prices were always in the $5-6 range for several years at the one most convenient to me. Stopped it today for the first time in quite a while. They're only open for a few weeks in the fall and I'm not ways in that area, so I've missed a couple of years.

At $11/gallon I left it in their cooler.

Apple Cider (the good kind anyway) has gotten crazy in Michigan over the last few years. Crazy mobs decent on the orchards - which have largely turned into theme parks with prices to match. At least I work from home now and can run by one not too far away in the middle of the day. But its a half gallon and 2 donuts and that's it anymore

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I used to love Parmenter's at one time, but the whole operation changed in the early 90s and it lost all appeal.

Franklin turned into a zoo too but their cinnamon spice doughnuts fresh and hot couldn't be beat.

Even the one in Parshalville got nuts on that narrow road.