Food Prices

saden1 · 04-29-2008, 08:52 AM

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?

FRPLG · 04-29-2008, 08:56 AM

Pretty simple. Gas.

saden1 · 04-29-2008, 08:58 AM

It can't be just gas can it?

MTK · 04-29-2008, 09:34 AM

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?

Daseal · 04-29-2008, 09:55 AM

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!

firstdown · 04-29-2008, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Daseal

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.

Hog1 · 04-29-2008, 10:04 AM

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

djnemo65 · 04-29-2008, 10:39 AM

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

TheMalcolmConnection · 04-29-2008, 11:00 AM

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...

MTK · 04-29-2008, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

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.

MTK · 04-29-2008, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Daseal

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!

Believe me I despise even being seen near a wal-mart, but our weekly grocery bill typically runs around $125 or so and last week we finally gave in and went to wal-mart and barely broke $100.

Now that it's costing me over $50 to fill up my tank every week something's gotta give. Wal-Mart it is for groceries.

Schneed10 · 04-29-2008, 11:45 AM

It's a number of things with food prices, these are the main ones:

- As mentioned, gas. Shipping costs, and energy expenses required to process foods, are up.

- The fuel industry is buying up more corn for ethanol. So corn prices especially have gone up. Corn is also used to feed livestock, so that higher cost gets passed on to the prices of just about every kind of meat, poultry, and dairy you can think of.

- Global demand. The economic development in China and India has led to growth in the number of citizens wealthy enough to eat meats, which further increases the demand for corn/feed.

BleedBurgundy · 04-29-2008, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

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...

It's like some kind of absurd slot machine. Numbers keep on spinnin'...

BleedBurgundy · 04-29-2008, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Believe me I despise even being seen near a wal-mart, but our weekly grocery bill typically runs around $125 or so and last week we finally gave in and went to wal-mart and barely broke $100.

Now that it's costing me over $50 to fill up my tank every week something's gotta give. Wal-Mart it is for groceries.

$50 sounds wonderful. I can't fill up if I'm lower than a 1/4 tank because I'll hit that damn $75 limit every time. I'm grateful to work about 10-15 minutes from home.

Monkeydad · 04-29-2008, 12:00 PM

What kind of bread are you buying?

I can get a loaf of regular white bread for $0.89 but I usually spring for the Italian for $1.59.

Just bought some last night too.

However, some foods I do notice an increase and I KNOW it's a combination of gas prices (because treehuggers aren't letting us use our own oil + taxes) and now demand for foods, expecially corn and grains, are up because a lot of the supply is being used to try to develop ethanol that is much less efficient than gasoline. It's not something we should pursue because it's less economical than gas and also disrupts the world food supply unnecessarily. It's causing some huge shortages in some Asian nations right now.

Until the hammer is put down on politicians who cater to the leftist "green" organizations who would rather starve the world than harm a tree and until gas taxes are controlled, we'll continue to see expensive fuel. We need to use our own reserves that could last generations while we research a TRUE alternative solution, not a bandaid like ethanol or electric cars. We need to build more refineries so we can cut down on imported oil and also more nuclear plants need built.

04-29-2008, 08:52 AM	#1
saden1 MVP Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Age: 46 Posts: 10,069	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? __________________ "The Redskins have always suffered from chronic organizational deformities under Snyder." -Jenkins

04-29-2008, 08:56 AM	#2
FRPLG MVP Join Date: May 2004 Age: 47 Posts: 10,164	Re: Food Prices Pretty simple. Gas.

04-29-2008, 08:58 AM	#3
saden1 MVP Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Age: 46 Posts: 10,069	Re: Food Prices It can't be just gas can it? __________________ "The Redskins have always suffered from chronic organizational deformities under Snyder." -Jenkins

04-29-2008, 09:34 AM	#4
MTK \m/ Join Date: Feb 2004 Age: 52 Posts: 99,853	Re: Food Prices 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? __________________ Support The Warpath! \| Warpath Shop

04-29-2008, 09:55 AM	#5
Daseal Puppy Kicker Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arlington, Virginia Age: 42 Posts: 8,341	Re: Food Prices 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! __________________ Best. Player. Available.

04-29-2008, 10:04 AM	#7
Hog1 Quietly Dominating the East Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Naples, Florida Posts: 10,675	Re: Food Prices Family of 4, average $900 p/mo................Sam's/Costco __________________ Goodbye Sean..........Vaya Con Dios thankyou Joe....... *“God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.” – Joe Gibbs*

04-29-2008, 10:39 AM	#8
djnemo65 Playmaker Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,836	Re: Food Prices 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

04-29-2008, 11:00 AM	#9
TheMalcolmConnection I like big (_\|_)s. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Age: 44 Posts: 19,264	Re: Food Prices 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... __________________ Regret nothing. At one time it was exactly what you wanted.

04-29-2008, 11:45 AM	#12
Schneed10 A Dude Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Newtown Square, PA Age: 46 Posts: 12,458	Re: Food Prices It's a number of things with food prices, these are the main ones: - As mentioned, gas. Shipping costs, and energy expenses required to process foods, are up. - The fuel industry is buying up more corn for ethanol. So corn prices especially have gone up. Corn is also used to feed livestock, so that higher cost gets passed on to the prices of just about every kind of meat, poultry, and dairy you can think of. - Global demand. The economic development in China and India has led to growth in the number of citizens wealthy enough to eat meats, which further increases the demand for corn/feed. __________________ God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

04-29-2008, 12:00 PM	#15
Monkeydad Living Legend Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: PA Age: 46 Posts: 17,460	Re: Food Prices What kind of bread are you buying? I can get a loaf of regular white bread for $0.89 but I usually spring for the Italian for $1.59. Just bought some last night too. However, some foods I do notice an increase and I KNOW it's a combination of gas prices (because treehuggers aren't letting us use our own oil + taxes) and now demand for foods, expecially corn and grains, are up because a lot of the supply is being used to try to develop ethanol that is much less efficient than gasoline. It's not something we should pursue because it's less economical than gas and also disrupts the world food supply unnecessarily. It's causing some huge shortages in some Asian nations right now. Until the hammer is put down on politicians who cater to the leftist "green" organizations who would rather starve the world than harm a tree and until gas taxes are controlled, we'll continue to see expensive fuel. We need to use our own reserves that could last generations while we research a TRUE alternative solution, not a bandaid like ethanol or electric cars. We need to build more refineries so we can cut down on imported oil and also more nuclear plants need built.

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