Thread: Food prices...

Wondering if anyone here is seeing increases in prices in any significant numbers in your portion of this country?

Right now, we can get a five pound bag of flour (store brand) for about $1.52 (I just went shopping). Local brand name vegetables for .58 cents a can, of course tomatoes are high, grain based products are holding steady yet. Talking grain prices, so far all meats have held their average prices, and the animal by-products such as milk and eggs, are no higher (well for us not at all, no egg buying is necessary, we are now making money on our egg surplus).

We keep hearing about increases in prices, but so far out here in the Pacific Northwest, we have not seen really any increases, and wonder if it is slow to make it's way over here?

Has anyone here been doing any kind of stocking up to use as a barrier to oncoming increases? Gardens? Raising livestock?

We are seeing price hikes here in Colorado, also downsizing of products. I was in the juice aisle and saw bottles labeled, "Still 64 ounces" - sure enough, others weren't. Another thing I expect to hear about soon: short counting. It happened during the price controls way back when: you'd buy a box that was supposed to have maybe 100 nails and get 92.

Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth

Wondering if anyone here is seeing increases in prices in any significant numbers in your portion of this country?

Right now, we can get a five pound bag of flour (store brand) for about $1.52 (I just went shopping). Local brand name vegetables for .58 cents a can, of course tomatoes are high, grain based products are holding steady yet. Talking grain prices, so far all meats have held their average prices, and the animal by-products such as milk and eggs, are no higher (well for us not at all, no egg buying is necessary, we are now making money on our egg surplus).

We keep hearing about increases in prices, but so far out here in the Pacific Northwest, we have not seen really any increases, and wonder if it is slow to make it's way over here?

Has anyone here been doing any kind of stocking up to use as a barrier to oncoming increases? Gardens? Raising livestock?

The prices of groceries here in Texas have almost doubled in the past year. My wife is complaining every day about it. The biggest increases have been in dairy products, meats, vegies and gains products. The basic needs of any family. Between the cost of utilities going up, gas and now groceries I hope we can all continue making it.

Why does the MSM not cover these price increases. Inflation is happening at a time when the economy is taking a beating and people are out of work struggling to make it.

I'm seeing prices increasing in Las Vegas as well and have been complaining about it for a year or so...and it isn't just food prices it is everything.

No inflation ha... the administration likes to talk the talk..but that's all it is just talk any one who believes it I got some ocean front property here in Vegas for ya... interested.


Kathyet

Found this link and thought it would bring it on home for ya...





A little more than two years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States . Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:


January 2009

TODAY

% chg

Source
Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S.

$1.83

$3.104

69.6%

1
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)

$43.48

$99.02

127.7%

2
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)

$38.74

$91.38

135.9%

2
Gold: London (per troy oz.)

$853.25

$1,369.50

60.5%

2
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL

$3.56

$6.33

78.1%

2
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL

$9.66

$13.75

42.3%

2
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob

$13.37

$35.39

164.7%

2
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall

7.6%

9.4%

23.7%

3
Unemployment rate, blacks

12.6%

15.8%

25.4%

3
Number of unemployed

11,616,000

14,485,000

24.7%

3
Number of fed. employees, ex. military (curr = 12/10 prelim)

2,779,000

2,840,000

2.2%

3
Real median household income (2008 v 2009)

$50,112

$49,777

-0.7%

4
Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10)

31,983,716

43,200,878

35.1%

5
Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10)

7,526,598

9,193,838

22.2%

6
Number of long-term unemployed

2,600,000

6,400,000

146.2%

3
Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009)

13.2%

14.3%

8.3%

4
People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009)

39,800,000

43,600,000

9.5%

4
U.S. rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings

5

9

n/a

10
Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10)

29.9

23.5

-21.4%

11
Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date)

140

164

17.1%

12
U.S. dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate

89.76

82.03

-8.6%

2
U.S. money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)

1,575.1

1,865.7

18.4%

13
U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)

8,310.9

8,852.3

6.5%

13
National debt, in trillions

$10.627

$14.052

32.2%

14
Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times as fast! Metaphorically, speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster . . . it would be doing 1,755 MPH! This is a disaster!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; ( Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury

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Kathyet

My wife does the family shopping and she is constantly complaining about the increased food prices.

Originally Posted by kathyet

No inflation ha... the administration likes to talk the talk..but that's all it is just talk any one who believes it I got some ocean front property here in Vegas for ya... interested.


Kathyet

I agree with you and it seems our newly elected republicans are doing nothing to address it. Instead they are doing nothing but posturing and trying to get the media's attention. I have yet to see any real change. We have an out of control government and it appears nothing is going to change until the USA does what the people of Egypt did and toss all of our leaders out of office and start over.

Originally Posted by bigtex

Originally Posted by kathyet

No inflation ha... the administration likes to talk the talk..but that's all it is just talk any one who believes it I got some ocean front property here in Vegas for ya... interested.


Kathyet

I agree with you and it seems our newly elected republicans are doing nothing to address it. Instead they are doing nothing but posturing and trying to get the media's attention. I have yet to see any real change. We have an out of control government and it appears nothing is going to change until the USA does what the people of Egypt did and toss all of our leaders out of office and start over.

That's my worry, how to do it.


Kathyet

I noticed a big increase in boneless skinless chicken the last year or so. We used to be able to get a bag of them...around 3 lbs I think for about $6, now we are lucky to find them for under $9. Same with hamburger patties. We are also always on the lookout for packaged chicken that is $1.79 lb or less...getting more and more scarce.

For years now, I have tried to make do with less and get my family and kids used to it. We read all those "how to save money" on groc, utilities, etc....and all they tell us are things we have already been doing for a long time now. Soon, it will get to the point where there won't be any belt left to tighten.

Just reading a book,....thought I would share this.

"The rise of prices that follows an expansion of [paper money]," wrote William Gouge, Andrew Jackson's Treasury advisor, "does not affect all descriptions of labor and commodities, at the same time, to an equal degree....Wages appear to be among the last things that are raised.....The working man finds all the articles he uses in his family rising in price, while the money rate of his own wages remains the same."

This was known way back then, and it is also known as a transference of wealth from the bottom to the top. Now we must wait for the "trickle down" to rain upon us and green up the pastures. Ofcourse by that time the debt still will linger and the interests rates will go up and the tax rates as well.

I bought a ice cream sandwich the other day, (always did like them! ) it cost $1.29, when I was younger they cost $0.10 and were twice as big. Either I have gotten much bigger with failed memory, or the sandwich has shrunk by atleast half.