"Tracy" > wrote in message
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> On 3/26/2013 4:05 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> Maybe I've just been spoiled. I loved my health food store. Not only
>> did
>> they have the freshest popcorn and nuts but the best prices! I'd been
>> buying sprouted walnuts. They do cost a bit more but I like them for
>> eating
>> as is. But the health food store as it was, is no more. The owner has
>> moved
>> it to her house but I've yet to get out there. I don't think she is
>> selling
>> much in the way of food and mostly has supplements. I do take
>> supplements
>> but rarely bought those from her.
>>
>> Anyway... I recently bought walnuts at two different stores and were
>> shocked at the prices. These were neither organic nor sprouted and one
>> was
>> a store brand. And they cost a lot more than I'd been paying at my
>> health
>> food store.
>>
>> So... Have nut prices gone way up recently? Or was I just a lucky duck
>> in
>> getting cheap prices at the health food store?
>>
>>
>
> You don't say how much you paid.
> I can get a three pound bag of almonds at Costco for $12.99. About a year
> ago or so, the same bag was $9.99. I don't remember how much the walnuts
> or pecans cost - but I do believe the price is better than the regular
> supermarket, which can be around $7 per pound.
>
> Tracy

It was just over $8 for 4 cups. The Costco nuts are done on shared lines so
I can't eat them.