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Things that cost way more than they should.

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techs

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Cereal. How the heck can a box of cornflakes cost 4-5 dollars? The corn and ingredients don't cost 10 cents. The production, packaging and shipping can't cost more than a 25 cents.
It's insane that they charge 4-5 dollars for a box of cornflakes.
 
airfare. more bare bones carriers are needed.. safety standards need to be reduced for everything except things required to make the aircraft run. Let me go on an airline whose planes are an empty shell and i am strapped to the floor, as long as its cheap.
 
Food in general. They attributed the soaring prices to the rise in fuel costs yet with fuel now at half at what it was, food prices stayed the same.
 
Originally posted by: techs
Cereal. How the heck can a box of cornflakes cost 4-5 dollars? The corn and ingredients don't cost 10 cents. The production, packaging and shipping can't cost more than a 25 cents.
It's insane that they charge 4-5 dollars for a box of cornflakes.
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Tony the Tiger gets a really high salary. A box of store brand cornflakes is usually under $2. Production, packaging, shipping (and advertising) cost a lot more than you think.


Originally posted by: oddyager
Food in general. They attributed the soaring prices to the rise in fuel costs yet with fuel now at half at what it was, food prices stayed the same.
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😕 You think that during the last 6 weeks, they planted a crop of wheat, fertilized the crop of wheat, applied insecticides to the crop of wheat, harvested the wheat, produced flour from the wheat, produced cereal from the flour... all in 6 weeks? Transporting the product to the grocery store is just one part of the fuel required. Food takes a while to grow.

Grain prices have only recently begun to fall. It's going to take a while before that "works its way through the system." The beef you're eating today has been eating that expensive grain for 2 years. Just because grain prices are down 25% in the last 2 months, doesn't mean that it cost the rancher 25% less to produce his cattle over the last 2 years.
 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
hookers... I mean seriously, prices should fall after each "use" but instead they raise them... wtf 😕
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i go to place that offer buy one get one free.

rossman taught me well.
 
Originally posted by: chin311
draft beer in restaurants
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There's a reason for this. They don't want you getting loaded for $10 and driving out of there lit. They can sell enough beer at $5 a pop (or so), so most people will have one or two and call it a night.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: techs
Cereal. How the heck can a box of cornflakes cost 4-5 dollars? The corn and ingredients don't cost 10 cents. The production, packaging and shipping can't cost more than a 25 cents.
It's insane that they charge 4-5 dollars for a box of cornflakes.
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Tony the Tiger gets a really high salary. A box of store brand cornflakes is usually under $2. Production, packaging, shipping (and advertising) cost a lot more than you think.


Originally posted by: oddyager
Food in general. They attributed the soaring prices to the rise in fuel costs yet with fuel now at half at what it was, food prices stayed the same.
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😕 You think that during the last 6 weeks, they planted a crop of wheat, fertilized the crop of wheat, applied insecticides to the crop of wheat, harvested the wheat, produced flour from the wheat, produced cereal from the flour... all in 6 weeks? Transporting the product to the grocery store is just one part of the fuel required. Food takes a while to grow.

Grain prices have only recently begun to fall. It's going to take a while before that "works its way through the system." The beef you're eating today has been eating that expensive grain for 2 years. Just because grain prices are down 25% in the last 2 months, doesn't mean that it cost the rancher 25% less to produce his cattle over the last 2 years.
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That was just what I was going to say. Most food is produced in the spring->fall time frame. We are well into winter now, so I doubt that a large portion of the food we are consuming now was harvested last week. Give it till the end of next summer.

The other problem with food prices is that a vast majority of farmers are somewhat stupid in the way they farm. Wheat prices where high last year so what does everyone do? Plow up their corn, barley, oats, ect, and plant wheat to claim money from the cash cow. Unfortunatly, when you get a large supply of wheat coming in, wheat prices fall and they are left saying "Humm, must have been bad luck." So what you see is that the other markets that depend on things like oats, barely and corn suddenly have a price hike, but things that depend solely on wheat go down slightly. (Remember not many products depend solely on wheat costs).

The truth is that food prices would be stable and pretty much fuel Dependant if farmers all decided that for the rest of their lives they will only grow produce x. But since thats never going to happen, your food prices are always going to fluctuate.
 
Oranges/orange juice. $5-$7 a gallon now. WTF???

Text messages. These cost cell phone companies near ZERO because it's small data packets travelling over an existing paid for data network. I read somewhere it's 4x more expensive per character to send a text message than to get information from the Hubble telescope.
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Oranges/orange juice. $5-$7 a gallon now. WTF???

Text messages. These cost cell phone companies near ZERO because it's small data packets travelling over an existing paid for data network. I read somewhere it's 4x more expensive per character to send a text message than to get information from the Hubble telescope.
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what are you talking about?


<----unlimited text messages included in my plan. 🙂
 
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