Food Prices

I just recently started notice food prices at the grocery stores. Bread is $4.59. Only a year ago it use to be $3.50. My cereal box's content is getting slimmer these days too while its price jumped about a dollar. WTF is going on?

Pretty simple. Gas.

It can't be just gas can it?

If you have a super wal-mart near by I suggest shopping there. I can't stand shopping there but you save so much money. Gas prices are soaring and in turn so are food prices.

By the way does anyone else love driving by the gas station and seeing a new price every freaking day?

It is gas. Everything in your grocery store comes via truck, be it a vendor or a super market truck. Now, I'm not totally sure if a jump that big is because of gas, that seems hardcore.

Personally, I'll never shop at Super Wal-Mart, Harris Teeter, or BJs Wholesale because of the way they treat vendors. But that's a bit closer to my heart than most. When you have to stand outside in the rain while the bread is getting drenched in rain because they'll only let one person in at a time, then complain that the bread is wet, I get pissed. Wonder why their bread randomly goes moldy far before the expiration date!

It is gas. Everything in your grocery store comes via truck, be it a vendor or a super market truck. Now, I'm not totally sure if a jump that big is because of gas, that seems hardcore.

Personally, I'll never shop at Super Wal-Mart, Harris Teeter, or BJs Wholesale because of the way they treat vendors. But that's a bit closer to my heart than most. When you have to stand outside in the rain while the bread is getting drenched in rain because they'll only let one person in at a time, then complain that the bread is wet, I get pissed. Wonder why their bread randomly goes moldy far before the expiration date!
Its not just gas prices but now that the goverment maindates that we use gas with E10 there is more demand for corn or whatever they use.

Family of 4, average $900 p/mo................Sam's/Costco

It is actually a complicated confluence of things. We are unfortunately in the beginning stages of the first global food crisis in a long time right now. Here is an article from the Post that does a good job summing up the multiple economic forces at play here. The New Economics of Hunger - washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/26/ST2008042602333.html)

Matty, that drives me in-f-ing-sane... It's not just a penny or two, or some kind of fluctuation, it's like 4-5 cents up a day...

Matty, that drives me in-f-ing-sane... It's not just a penny or two, or some kind of fluctuation, it's like 4-5 cents up a day...

I know, I went by a gas station last week on Thursday and I think the price was $3.60 and I was at about a 1/4 tank, so I was like I'll fill up on my way home after work. Well, after work it was up to $3.69!

This morning it was $3.73. :doh: