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WTF, $9+ for a dozen donuts!!??

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IronWing said:
Real men grab Cap'n Crunch by the throat, and use his own sword to spill his entrails right into the bowl. Nom, nom, nom! However, we don't eat Crunch Berries.
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And it's not breakfast, it's just food.

Just LOL at naming meals.
 
Dunkin Donuts said a while back that they are not a donut company, but a beverage company. They reinforced that by changing their name to Dunkin, dropping the donuts. Their change in their business was because of decreasing sales in the donuts, but apparently they don't mind charging a lot for them in the first place. Wife and i were stoked when they built a DD about a mile from us as opposed to seven miles away. it keeps busy and we love donuts, but not at the current pricing. But since Dunkin isn't a donut shop anymore then maybe someone should start a Donut Dunkin and make price-conscious donuts? Dunkin can't complain because they are not a donut company, but a beverage company.
 
Dunkin went to a commissary model and their donuts quality went from edible to "donut scented foam" since they make them off site and just truck them in to stores.
 
vi edit said:
Yeah. There were actually a couple of us at the milk isle on Sunday that say the price and went "Woah". It's been $1.99 for a gallon of milk for what seemed like years at my normal Kroger. Last week it was $2.40 a gallon. I was not the only person to comment on that. We buy pre-packaged salad kits and they used to be regularly be on sale for $3.00 a piece. Now the normal price is $4.00 and rarely on sale.
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I recommend you visit my excellent milk pricing thread: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-the-price-of-milk.2502289/
 
Exterous said:
Huh. Ours dropped from $1.79 to $1.29 a gallon at our Kroger so I guess "Thanks for subsidizing my milk"



None of the grocery stores around here make anything other than disappointment flavored doughnuts.
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Wife buys those fancy designer milk so we pay over $7 gallon for our milk. 😡
 
vi edit said:
Dunkin went to a commissary model and their donuts quality went from edible to "donut scented foam" since they make them off site and just truck them in to stores.
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I wondered how they managed to make a donut so awful. Never remembered them being that bad. Fortunately there's a place near me that sells fresh cheap no nonsense proper donuts. Hopefully the froofroo place opening around the corner doesn't put them out.
 
I used to bbuy a apple fritter every morning..but now the damn things are small as a timbit....they used to bbbbbbbbbe the size of a loaf of bread.
 
Exterous said:
Huh. Ours dropped from $1.79 to $1.29 a gallon at our Kroger so I guess "Thanks for subsidizing my milk"



None of the grocery stores around here make anything other than disappointment flavored doughnuts.
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Interesting, Publix, a very large Grocer in the SE has charged $3.79/gallon for the longest time, only last week when i stopped at Walmart I got a gallon for $2.20/gallon. I had been reading about all the dairy oversupply but wondered why it was not filtering down to retail, guess I need to shop around more. Donuts, (the nice kind from small shops) fetch $12-14/dozen around here, they are defiantly better than Dunkin or supermarket but all the more reason not to buy them, I'll eat 3 of them and have to talk myself out of eating more!.
 
BUTCH1 said:
Interesting, Publix, a very large Grocer in the SE has charged $3.79/gallon for the longest time, only last week when i stopped at Walmart I got a gallon for $2.20/gallon. I had been reading about all the dairy oversupply but wondered why it was not filtering down to retail, guess I need to shop around more. Donuts, (the nice kind from small shops) fetch $12-14/dozen around here, they are defiantly better than Dunkin or supermarket but all the more reason not to buy them, I'll eat 3 of them and have to talk myself out of eating more!.
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On vacation in FL over the summer, I noticed Walmart’s selling milk for a lot more (~$3.50) than my Midwest Kroger’s and Aldi’s. (Closer to $1). I figured that was due to distance from supply?
 
WTF? I haven't checked recently, but you could get 13 (so an extra donut) of the big flaky glazed style donuts from Wal-Mart for $4. If you get them early when they're fresh they're plenty good. Kroger (Fry's here) has some that look like that but the inside is just like normal white bread, they're fucking awful, and they're more expensive.

Bacon prices were down for a bit there (could get a pound of national brand for like $3-4, I think its back up to like $4-6). Haven't been paying attention on eggs.

Fast food places were doing 2 for $4, and I think Carl Jrs was even 2 for $2 at one point for some of the breakfast sandwiches.

ponyo said:
Wife buys those fancy designer milk so we pay over $7 gallon for our milk. 😡
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I've been drinking Fairlife. Its expensive (~$3-3.50 for not even a full half gallon), but since I go extended periods of time without drinking milk (the date is often months away, but once you open it says to drink within a couple of weeks), and don't drink enough milk so I'd be throwing away most of the other milk anyway or not have it around when I want some milk. Plus the container makes it so that I can put put in on its side and get it in the middle beverage drawer (I wouldn't trust the lids/cartons on the cheap milk to stay on), where its colder. Plus Fairlife has less sugar, more protein, and no lactose.
 
Local Safeway every week or two has dozen bagels or donuts for $5. I never get the donuts but get the bagels. The donuts look good but I can't justify eating that crap these days. Doctor wants me to lower the cholesterol and I'm on that mission... don't want to start taking meds.
 
Muse said:
Local Safeway every week or two has dozen bagels or donuts for $5. I never get the donuts but get the bagels. The donuts look good but I can't justify eating that crap these days. Doctor wants me to lower the cholesterol and I'm on that mission... don't want to start taking meds.
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Safeway donuts are terrible. Do not get them.

I do get donuts for work twice a month and they definitely have gotten more expensive within the past couple years.
 
When I moved back east and in range of Krispy Kreme, a plain dozen was 4.25 and you'd get a dollar off buying any dozen on a 2nd dozen of plain. Now plain is about 8.50. Must be the rising cost of cocaine in the sugar.
 
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