Food prices going up and up!

I think some stores are trying to do great sales to encourage people to buy stuff. A local supermarket here is having a sale on General Mills products (of course, except for DB's favorite Multi-Grain Cheerios) 10/$20 and there is a coupon in the flyer for $10 off, so we got a bunch of Chex Mix, cereal, and granola bars for $1 each.

A bottle of coke, or even just a water bottle, out of the coke machine at my school cost $1.75 and the cans are $.95. I keep a stash of water bottles in my backpack and car so I don't have to pay those prices!

I've seen bottles over $2!!

I don't go out of my way to look for sales, because they are usually for stuff I wouldn't buy in the first place, so I'm really losing money by buying stuff I don't need.

If I am going to buy something anyway, then I'll buy it at the cheapest price I can find, but I won't buy anything just because it's on sale.

Sainsbury's Woodland medium eggs have gone up about 15p for a half dozen in the past month or so.  I don't know how much of this is everyone moving towards free-range poultry.

Last week you could get their pre-chopped stir-fry beef for 2 for £5 (it saves me a lot of kitchen time since we use the kitchen after my MiL's done for the night).  Now it's up to 2 for £6.

Sainsbury's Woodland medium eggs have gone up about 15p for a half dozen in the past month or so.  I don't know how much of this is everyone moving towards free-range poultry.

Last week you could get their pre-chopped stir-fry beef for 2 for £5 (it saves me a lot of kitchen time since we use the kitchen after my MiL's done for the night).  Now it's up to 2 for £6.

If the prices have to go up though, I prefer the way they do it here by just raising the prices. In the U.S. they've covertly started cutting container sizes while maintaining the same prices. I guess it's kind of six of one, half-dozen of the other but for some reason it just feels more honest. Like you're not trying to fool your customer.

If the prices have to go up though, I prefer the way they do it here by just raising the prices. In the U.S. they've covertly started cutting container sizes while maintaining the same prices. I guess it's kind of six of one, half-dozen of the other but for some reason it just feels more honest. Like you're not trying to fool your customer.

They've been doing that forever in the US.  Coffee is a prime example.  Those cans used to be a pound.  Now you're lucky to get 11 oz.