Is it just me or have grocery prices gone up since the election?

[doni_georgia]

Just got back from the grocery store, and I really need to vent. I buy my groceries every two weeks, so I haven't been to the store since the election. My GOD prices have gone up in the last two weeks! Tomotoes $5.99/lb (yes I know there's a shortage - but there was no shortage at the grocery store), canned corn - 4 cans for $5 (last time I bought can corn it was $.69/can for same brand), milk $4.59/gal. for the stuff with hormones. I spent $100 and didn't even get enough food for a week, much less two weeks. I figure I will try a different store later in the week. Is it just me or have grocery prices gone up this much since the election?

[havocmom]

1. Always a bit of price rearranging prior to Thanksgiving is one thing

Add in the cost for fuel getting things to market. Then add in the election factor. Sum of the factores = hit in the wallet.

Next up: toys. Shipping bottleneck in L.A. and Long Beach ports makes me glad there are few little people for me to shop for. Consider giving kids magazine subscriptions and expanding their world view beyond the reach of a game boy.

[doni_georgia]

2. Yep - I have three kids holiday shopping will break me this year

And we are not ones to over do the Christmas thing. Just with prices the way they are - ugh.

[arabella]

3. Agreed...

While I haven't noticed an increase in prices since the latest selection, I agree: food is costing too damned much. As one of the piss-poor Americans, I've had to go back to weekend baking/cooking to fill the freezer and feed my kids. I buy my flours and sugars in bulk. Bake my breads (freeze for up to 3 months), made 30 pizza breads yesterday for the freezer, just made waffles to freeze... I'm fortunate enough to live near the Amish and the one, a friend, was giving away eatin' pumpkins because they were starting to go bad. I cooked them down and froze the mash for breads and pies.

If I didn't do all this the kids and I would starve. There's no way I can afford the prices at the grocery store anymore. And milk prices! Ugh!!

[doni_georgia]

9. Cool, I would do this if my freezer were big enough - guess I could

save money in the long run by buying a stand alone freezer. I bake bread about once a week, but end up having to buy one loaf per week to supplement. We're nearly vegetarians - meaning we eat meat 2-3 times a week. I do buy organically raised meat which is more expensive, but today I noticed the Springer Mountain Chicken wasn't but a few cents more than the store brand. Soy milk is now cheaper than cows milk, and I had some coupons for Soy Silk, so I bought more of that than usual (usually only my son drinks soy). It's just really frustrating. I live in suburbia, so no farms to get anything from here. I used to belong to a co-op, but it went under. I also used to drive across town to the whole foods store once a month, but with gas prices being so high, I have stopped that for a while. I don't like to feed my family garbage. We'll just have to eat more beans, and I'll have to bake more bread. Just pisses me off that produce is so high right now.

[arabella]

15. Stand alone freezer...

It was the best investment I ever made!

[NuttyFluffers]

10. milk prices are pretty outrageous, rapidly approaching $5

love that rolling economy... europe and japan is looking better by the minute. must hit books and make myself marketable there.

[newyawker99]

24. Hi arabella!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[doni_georgia]

25. BTW love your web site. n/t

[PATRICK]

4. Outsourcing exodus at same time

Personal experience of a whole industry racing overseas. Any computer job or anything that can be done via the Net especially.

Cannibalization of America by companies as loyal as those that sold steel to the Japanese before Pearl Harbor and those hardy RW respectable businesses that financed Hitler.

Cannibal Capitalism. Take away your jobs. Raise prices. Lower taxes for the corporations so that makes up for their loss of revenue, which continues to flow overseas where there is less market for computer technologies. If there IS a market then we sealing our doom as a competitive nation by sending the means of production with them. Along with our military defensive superiority in technology. Into a world made deliberately hostile.

Eventually we need these patriots honored with a cemetery in the shape of a giant latrine trench. A fitting memorial for the gratitude of future generations(if any).

[Poiuyt]

5. There was a note at my grocery store saying the increased price

of fresh fruits and vegetables was due to the hurricanes. But $4.59 for a gallon of milk?? I just bought some today for $2.09 (skim milk). Of course this was in Wisconsin, but I wouldn't think the prices would be that much higher elsewhere.

[doni_georgia]

11. I live in Metro-Atlanta - notorious for high food costs

[buckettgirl]

19. I haven't noticed milk prices fluctuating here...

i'm in western kansas and we grocery shop every week - with a list and a calculator, and we rarely buy name brands, and we shop at super Walmart...
last friday I bought a gallon of Great Value 1% milk for $2.60. yesterday, i bought a half gallon of the same milk for $1.52...prices haven't fluctuated much out here at all.
However, I was wanting to make a roast this week and we were looking at the roasts at walmart (i rarely buy walmart meat) a 3lb bottom round roast was $11!!! The pot roast they had for the same size were around $8. I don't need a big roast because its just me and my husband... but i thought that was rather outrageous. For meat, i'll shop at our small town grocery store because I know that it is fresh cut and at least a few cents cheaper per pound than walmart.
Oh I also noticed corn went up too. I bought a 12 oz can of green giant mexicorn (for a special recipe) and it was 84 cents, usually it only runs about 50 cents

[Meritaten1]

6. Not your imagination

Other people have noticed the same thing. Imagine how bad things will be if the regime institutes a national sales tax?

[tandot]

7. I just moved from N TX to N CA. I was shocked about grocery prices here

I rarely buy milk or tomatoes anymore. Too expensive for me. I'll plant tomatoes and peppers in the Spring. I will not pay $4 for a pound of peppers.

I've also noticed a wide range of prices across different grocery stores. I guess I'll spend more time shopping...going from store to store to find the best deal each has to offer.

[SmokingJacket]

8. I haven't been out much since the election...

but grocery prices have been skyrocketing for about a year, particularly in the last couple of months. I used to pay anywhere from 75-100 for a weeks groceries (family of four), now it's never under 120.

$5.99 a pound for tomatoes??? Sheesh -- I never buy those fresh anyway. In season I grow, otherwise canned.

I prefer organic milk but that's gone up to $4 something for a half gallon!!!!

Well, I'm too fat anyway. Time to cut down big time.

[eauclaireliberal]

12. "Is it just me or have grocery prices gone up since the election?"

Do you have an Aldi's near you?

The wife and I get a month's worth of groceries for under $200.

[CrispyQ]

13. Major grocery stores in the Boulder area are all replacing

fast lanes with 4 Service Yourself checkouts and one employee watching over the whole process. We won't use them. Once they get us use to checking out our 10 items or fewer orders, when will they ditch 90% of all their other checkstands & offer only a few checkstands with checkers? It's just another way for the stores to save cost on labor. If I'm checking & bagging my own order, shouldn't I get a discount on my groceries?

Also, if you encounter a problem with your order -- like you can't find the produce code -- the attendant is frequently at another checkstand bagging.

Sheesh. The corporations have gotten so greedy.

[doni_georgia]

16. Kroger already does that here. Usually only has 1-2 reg lanes open

the rest are all self-serve 15 items or less. Irks the hell out of me.

[eauclaireliberal]

14. Here we go...any of these close by?

Conyers, GA
Conyers, GA 30013
1794 GA Hwy 138

Fayetteville, GA
Fayetteville, GA 30214
1060 Highway 85 North

Jonesboro, GA
Jonesboro, GA 30238
615 North Ave.

Lawrenceville, GA
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
996 Duluth Highway

Lawrenceville, GA
Lawrenceville, GA 30044
1225 Scenic Hwy.

Mableton, GA
Mableton, GA 30126
5020 Floyd Road SW

Marietta, GA
Marietta, GA 30064
1260 Powder Springs St.

Smyrna, GA
Smyrna, GA 30080
2589 Spring Road

Stockbridge, GA
Stockbridge, GA 30281
5420 North Henry Boulevard

[doni_georgia]

17. Yeah - one of them is within 20 minutes - what are these?

Grocery chain? I have never heard of them. Most have replaced the old Food Depot. I'll check it out.

[eauclaireliberal]

18. RE:"Yeah - one of them is within 20 minutes - what are these?"

Aldi's Foods.

See this post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2687707&mesg_id=2687822&page=

[bklyncowgirl]

20. Diesel prices have skyrocketed

I drive a Ford 250 diesel to pull my horse trailer and I can tell you that diesel priced have skyrocked since September. Putting on my old tinfoil bonnet, I believe that this was done deliberatly by the oil companies. I think that they diverted crude oil that normally would have gone to diesel into gasoline production so that consumers wouldn't feel the pinch at the pump. Unfortunately food, particularly fresh produce, meat and dairy are dependent on diesel powered trucks and trains to move it to the markets.

Just my two cents worth.

[genieroze]

21. "Is it just me or have grocery prices gone up since the election?"

It's been going up, so had medication. It's been really cutting into the budget for me. I just got my husbands Lipitor it was 32.53 last month and this month it jumped to 41.96. I started screaming at the poor pharmacist. Shame on me it's not his fault.

[xfundy]

22. Don't overlook Mom & Pop stores!

Some small independent grocers, butchers, bakers, etc. have better quality and prices on lots of things--and supporting them helps families and local enconomies instead of mega-corps.

I make a habit of taking mental notes on prices of items I buy regularly when in both "Try'N'Save" and small independent stores.

Also, those 'shopping club' cards can lead to a false sense of economy, because they've raised prices on most other stuff just so you think you're getting a bargain on 55-gallon drums of detergent for four bucks.

[genieroze]

23. I'm not adfvertising here

but if you have a ALDI near you then shop there. Most of their brands are just as good if not better then major brands. Just went shopping for the week for five adults and spent 140.00 bucks. I have two adults, one near adult kid. my husband and myself to shop for.

[natrat]

26. Remember -BOYCOTT WALLMART

i try to go to costco but stuff is packaged in huge portions and not alot of vegeterian stuff but still a good company and inexpensive

[Eloriel]

27. Massively -- but in our area (West GA) we saw this happening

a few weeks ago -- a month at least, maybe more.

[fwiff]

28. I think they have been creeping up for quite a while

because of fuel prices and probably a slight decrease in a tighter economy of sales of prepared foods- so they make it up by price increases.
But, there's no real inflation! It's just a myth. Nothing to see here; move along.:crazy: