Reply #9: and yet prices keep going up . . . [View All]

[DollyM]

I have started shopping at discount grocery store Aldi's even though it is very difficult for me due to a physical handicap. I lost my job 7 months ago and don't hold out hopes of finding anything but at least the whopping 500.00 dollars a month in unemployment compensation helps. I try to make it stretch, have not been able to bring myself to applying for food stamps. I went to Aldi's today to pick up some basics that are entirely out of reach price wise at the big box stores, milk, eggs, bread, etc. A month ago, a carton of eggs was 99cents, two weeks ago it went to $1.19, today I just about died when I saw it had jumped to $1.49 for 12 eggs. That may not seem like much to people who have jobs but try making 900 dollars a month (my husband is disabled and had to take early retirement and gets 400.00 a month) stretch to pay the house payment, utilities, groceries, etc. I just want to scream "ENOUGH"! I can't take it anymore. I am stretched as far as a person can stretch financially.