On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 2:12:37 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> On 7/26/2020 10:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 3:26:06 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> >> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 6:29:19 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can afford to buy meat but don't like the idea of paying $30 to $40 for a hunk of meat. The last meat I bought was $6 for some ground pork.
> >>>
> >> I've not seen any meat here that is $30 to $40 per pound but then again I
> >> don't look for meat priced that high. I did buy pork for carnitas this
> >> past week and it certainly was nowhere near that per pound.
> >
> > My wife said that eggs on the mainland were going for $1.49/18. I bought some eggs the other day. They were $3.45/18. That was a major score because usually they're $5.49/18. I was quite pleased with myself.
> >
>
> At my local store here (Harris Teeter) a 30-count tray of eggs is only
> $1.99. Same price it's always been and always available.
>
> Someone here told me that Walmart sells them even cheaper but I've never
> shopped at Walmart for groceries. Just for their other stuff.

My first trip to the mainland was to the San Francisco Bay Area. I was quite impressed at how cheap food was. Milk seemed dirt cheap to me, it was half price. I suppose that prices were about 30% cheaper than Hawaii. My guess is that the price difference isn't so large these days.

The Japanese tourists that come here must be amazed at how they can buy a steak or burger for dirt cheap so I suppose we should be grateful for what we got.