"hob" > wrote in message
...
> I was walking through the store yesterday, and I noticed that the "5
pound"
> bags of sugar (of all producers) were now all 4 pounds.. (and the price
PER
> BAG was also up from last year, fwiw).
> Since I almost always buy by the "unit", e.g., can, bag, box, etc.
rather
> than by the weight, I don't really pay close attention to the "unit's"
> weight
>
> I realize there has been a lot of "downsizing" of the quantity without
> any commensurate lowering of price (a lot of candy bars put out in new
> displays in the past few weeks, e.g., ), but when did the "old standards"
> like sugar make that change?
>
> (FWIW 2 - It also looks like the price per pound of sugar is up almost
100%
> over last year.)


We eat way too much sugar anyway. I hear the average US household goes
through 160 pounds of it every year *per person*.
http://www.cspinet.org/new/sugar_limit.html

14 pounds a month is simply unbelievable - that's almost a half pound a day.
I have had he same box of sugar, 8 ounces, in my pantry for no less than 3
years now.

It's a commodity item and its cost is indexed to other goods which is why we
pay so much more for it. Any market with the demand that this country has
can expect to pay a lot more for it. Why sell low when the demand supports
gouging? Same for oil.

Do yourself a flavor - go savory.

Paul