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#groceries

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Rising prices at American groceries are still something that is far more discussed in media than I see in the stores. Peanut butter is a great example. You CAN pay a lot more than in the past few years but that’s silly if you can just look for sales to stock up. Got our usual Jif far cheaper at the employee-owned Winco. BTW, yesterday I often saw a price difference much less per oz. for food in smaller packages or bottles. Never assume large containers are cheaper for the food!
#Winco #Groceries #Food #PeanutButter #Arizona

The story about eggflation arising from bird flu doesn't withstand even cursory scrutiny. The industry claims it's raising prices to cope with a shortage that just doesn't exist. It's an excuse. It's excuseflation. pluralistic.net/2025/03/10/dem #eggs #monopoly #agriculture #groceries #food

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Eggflation is excuseflation (10 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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🚨🚨The #Trump admin is preparing to help the #Afrikaners find “temporary or longer-term #housing” & “basic #HomeFurnishings, essential household items & cleaning #supplies,” acc/to the memo. The admin is also planning to help the Afrikaners secure “#groceries, weather-appropriate #clothing, #diapers, #formula, hygiene products & prepaid #phones that support the day-to-day #wellbeing of households,” the memo said.

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[just think about the treatment of non-#white immigrants]
#law #immigration

#CaveatEmptor = LET THE BUYER BEWARE

What a shame how #consumers are taken advantage of by #corporations in general!

Use #groceries as an example ~ some people choose to eat lighter w/less sodium, sugar, fat &/or calories in their diet. Then others really Need these types of foods for health reasons. Yet many of these so called Lighter versions of food cost consumers MORE! How does adding LESS ingredients to a product cost companies More to manufacture them?
🚩IT DOESN'T🚩 🤔💸🛒🤑

Okay, per my previous post about scam, shell-game pricing at Safeway (and likely other company chains like Albertsons and Vons, but I haven't checked), I made a statement that on any given day you could pay 100% more for the same ounce of soda depending on sales and container. But that was just a guess, and I hate guesses. So for science (and for you) I went back to Safeway to check today's price on an ounce of Diet Pepsi, and boy was I wrong...
Today you can spend 483% more for the same ounce of Pepsi! Photo evidence provided. Maximum cost, 14.5 cents per ounce regular price in a poorly named mini-can, and minimum price (3 cents per ounce) in a 2 liter bottle with a loyalty card. And if you don't like those prices, Safeway offers a whole RANGE of prices scattered through the middle! Something for everyone!
And if you DO like those prices, don't get used to them, because they'll certainly be different in a week, and they might be different tomorrow. You don't KNOW! Like I said, shell-game.
(To be fair, I didn't check individual containers for sale in cold cases at the register, and I didn't take the time to price Coke, since Pepsi is what I usually buy, so there are other prices for sugar water and sugar-free sugar water we could be talking about as well.)
#safeway #groceries #groceryprices #foodpriceinflation #albertsons #vons #pepsi #softdrinks

I've long been infuriated by the endless and malicious pricing shell game that my local Safeway (Albertsons, Vons and other chains are also part of the same company, and I assume pull the same B.S.). It seems to be a very conscious effort to keep consumers in the dark as to what "regular" prices on products are, and the real value (if any) of a sale price on any given item.
For example, just walk into the soda aisle and try to figure out what the going price for an ounce of Coke or Pepsi is. There are countless buying options (larger and smaller cans, often four or five kinds of plastic bottles, six packs and eight packs, "regular" or "real" sales that apply to everyone, loyalty card prices, digital coupon, multiple purchase requirement sales, limited purchase sales, and more. It's easily possible on any give day to pay at least 100% more per ounce on the same ounce of beverage, depending on what version you get and what hoops you leap through and how much of your privacy and information you're willing to sacrifice.
Multiply this by thousands of items changing day by day, and it's an unending dance of scammery. When my grocery bill routinely drops 20-30% when I use a loyalty card, this just tells me that Safeway's "regular" prices are likely overcharging by a large percentage, if not all, of that discount.
But the pictured price tag just really cheesed me off. My wife and I live alone, so we don't need vast quantities of most items. But many Safeway sales require mass purchases, often on perishable items (and many produce items are no longer even AVAILABLE in small quantities). Often that's applied to salad, which I often eat a lot of, but not TEN BAGS AT A TIME or whatever. Four is a stretch to eat before some of it goes bad, canceling out some or all of the savings, and just pointlessly wasting food.
So I checked to see if I really needed to buy three bags this time. But it turns out, no. Look closely, See the math problem? Yeah. Buy one, get the sale price. But buy the STRONGLY suggested three, and Safeway charges you an extra penny for their trouble!
Yeah, it's ONLY a penny, but there are principles here, and again, if they do this over hundreds of thousands of sales, over hundreds or thousands of products, over months and years, it ads up. Plus, they've duped you into possibly buying more than you need AND goosed their bottom-line a little in the process.
It should be illegal. The whole SYSTEM should be illegal. And, IMHO, whoever came up with it should have their testicles or other tender parts nailed to a shopping cart out in the parking lot for everyone's enjoyment. Are we together on this?

#safeway #groceries #grocerieprices #albertsons #vons #foodprices #foodpriceinflation #latestagecapitalism

Gotta love that Amazon is trying to do what grocery stores what it did to bookstores: sell at a loss until you drive the competition out of business, then jack up prices.

I have mixed feelings, given the overall price gouging in the grocery industry, which retail stores are definitely colluding on. Many of the major stores are owned by the same parent companies. So they are evil, yes. But that doesn't mean being at the mercy of a billionaire's monopoly game is any better.