On 9/28/2011 6:42 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> Went to the used bread store this morning, same bread that was #$3.39
>> a loaf at Kroger was $1.39 a loaf there. Bought two loaves of Nature's
>> Own Honey Seven Grain and then they gave me two more loaves as a
>> bonus. That's cut the price down to 69.5 cents per loaf. Guess where
>> I'm buying bread from now on and the place is only about three blocks
>> from the house on the main drag in our town.
>
>
> The Hostess thrift store here charges almost full price for used bread.
> They used to have good deals before Interstate Bakeries went bankrupt in
> 2004. When they came back they jacked the prices way up at the outlet
> stores. I can get better fresh bread cheaper at Cub Foods and Aldi.
> (both are cheaper than Walmart except for the really awful squishy white
> bread.)
>
> I can bake a 2 pound loaf of sourdough bread for just a few cents. At
> least last time I bought a 25# bag of flour at Sam's it didn't cost
> hardly anything -- but that was over a year ago.
>
> -Bob
See what the price is now Bob. Seems fuel prices and inflation have
driven most food stuffs up about 20 to 30 percent. Even rice, which is
grown here, has nearly doubled in price in the last year. Beef is
selling at record prices, mostly due to the drought in
Texas. So many cattle were sold to avoid drought deaths that the price
went down for a bit but is really up now. Other parts of the US are
either suffering drought or excessive rainfall, all of that affects the
price of the food we buy. The food banks here are seeing more people
showing up looking for food. Welfare rolls are expanding. We are seeing
a rise in employment rates though. We have a new, very large casino
coming on line for construction and one of the local petrochem plants is
getting ready to build a multi-billion dollar expansion. That will help
our local economy and the state's too.