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Inflation is now up 39% this month, highest in 39 years.

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Originally Posted by rmd2 (Post 2038339)

I don't know WHERE you shop. My experience with the prices are they are up 30+% higher. I never spent over $100 for groceries until now.

We are loyal Aldi shoppers. Check them out. On many items, their prices have not changed or gone up very little. In addition you do not need to check out yourself.

Only complaint that I have is their quality of meats.

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Originally Posted by rmd2 (Post 2038339)

I don't know WHERE you shop. My experience with the prices are they are up 30+% higher. I never spent over $100 for groceries until now.

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2038123)

I'm seeing an increase in prices but not much on the things I normally buy, with only a few exceptions. I don't buy rib-eye steak, but I do buy ground chuck. The prices in Florida for ground meat were ridiculous when I moved here over two years ago. It's gone up a bit but this week Fresh Market has it for $3.99/lb, which was just about what it was in the north before I moved. Normally they have it at $2.99 on Tuesdays, but I haven't run low this month so haven't needed to check and see if they're still doing that or not.

Toilet paper is the same price it was before the pandemic hit. Cat food has gone up 2 cents per small can at some stores, and as much as 6 cents per small can at other stores. It's also harder to get a variety of cat food.

A half-gallon of "store-brand" milk has gone up 10 cents at Aldi and Walmart from pre-pandemic prices. But I notice most people get their milk at Publix and Winn Dixie so if you are, you'd save around $1 per half gallon by getting it at Aldi or Walmart instead. It's the same milk.

Oatmeal's gone up a few pennies, but you can still get B1G1 sales, and single-purchase discounts most weeks.

Sugar has gone up around 20 cents for 4 pounds of store-brand. Dixie Crystals are up a buck but they're ridiculously expensive in the first place.

Bread is pretty much the same, depends on the brand and you can usually find something on sale or with a coupon discount in the bread aisle. Same with peanutbutter.

Soda's gone up 50 cents for a 6-pack of Pepsi at Walmart, and it's STILL cheaper than the Publix price when Publix has a B1G1 sales on it.

In all, I think I'm spending maybe $3 more per week on the same groceries I buy throughout the year, compared with when I first moved in the end of 2019. I spend around $15 more per week compared to what I used to spend in Connecticut.

OBB- you are wrong about milk prices at Walmart. Gallon of milk has gone from 1.99 to over $4.

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Originally Posted by Michael G. (Post 2038362)

Yep, your steelers went alright, right into the toilet

well there not my team but if he doesn’t drop that pass in end zone Steelers and 3.5 was looking a lot better then it did at half time , I had 4 out of 6 from Sunday , Monday and Thursday not a bad week

I’m guilty as charged! I really enjoy dining out, it’s fun and relaxing. But, I am going to be cooking more from home going forward. It does get expensive.

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Originally Posted by Michael G. (Post 2038035)

When are you people going to learn and stay home and cook?
A Restaurant server told me once he wonders why they their put kitchens in the houses in the villages.

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Originally Posted by Scudder (Post 2038328)

Eat at home. Quicker, cheaper, cleaner and quieter.

Don't forget, it's often better and healthier, too.

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2038380)

Don't forget, it's often better and healthier, too.

Not always, the kitchen is to close. :icon_hungry:

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Originally Posted by billlaur (Post 2037966)

ITS ONLY MONEY dont worry :pray:

Truly spoken like someone who has such a surplus that they need never be concerned about money. Most people are not that fortunate and must consider money. Just sounded pretty cold and that is probably not what you were going for.

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Originally Posted by Bethwill (Post 2037949)

Went to lunch at Palmer yesterday, expecting the usual price increases we've all been seeing. I was totally surprised to see a 50% price increase on my usual entrée at that establishment.
The lunch was still good, along with the service, but 50%?...REALLY!!

Well with the increase in food and supply prices, increase in wages and trying to catch up with losses from the last 18 months. I'd say unfortunately that's about right.

Prices go up so wages go up. Wages go up so prices go up. Nobody wins. That is the saga of the minimum wage and it's part in inflation.

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Originally Posted by Michael G. (Post 2038152)

Are you my wife's sister?

She has a sister that when her husband came home after a hard day's work,
she'd throw a bag of chips on the table and a can of soda for is supper.

Until this day I'd like to put my size 11 boot up her where the sun doesn't shine.

I’m a bit surprised that SHE is serving him supper. Anyways, if I were him, I wouldn’t be coming home to eat.

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Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com (Post 2038220)

I absolutely don’t know what I have to do with your sister in law and her husband go Steelers

I think he is worried he’ll be expected to cook.

The first thing my daughter used to ask a guy who asked her out to date was, “Do you like to cook? cause I like to eat.” And she does hate to go into the kitchen, but she can make it up in other ways.

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Originally Posted by HIgolfers (Post 2038371)

OBB- you are wrong about milk prices at Walmart. Gallon of milk has gone from 1.99 to over $4.

I bought a half-gallon of 1%, two days ago. It was $1.52.

I'm looking at the Summerfield Walmart website right now (that's the one I shop in). A gallon of 1% is $2.53. A gallon of whole milk is $2.73. A gallon of 1% chocolate is $2.73.

If you're buying *organic* milk then yes you're paying more. But it was almost $5 for a gallon of organic milk last year. It's now at $5.68 for 2% and the same for organic whole. But that's organic, and it's always much much more expensive than normal milk.

Brand name milk is also more than those prices, but none of them are $4/gallon.

I don't know which Walmart you're shopping at but obviously it's not the one in Summerfield.

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Originally Posted by Aloha1 (Post 2038450)

Prices go up so wages go up. Wages go up so prices go up. Nobody wins. That is the saga of the minimum wage and it's part in inflation.

Except it doesn't actually happen that way.

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2038496)

Except it doesn't actually happen that way.

You might be surprised. Google wage-price spiral.