I lived in China from 2003-2005. One of three things I really missed was Doritos(the other two were Mountain dew and Taco Bell). Anyway, when I returned in 2005, I started buying a bag of Doritos about once a month or so.
The regular price in 2005 was $2.75. I’m in Michigan. I know the price because I was unemployed and on a tight budget. Mrs. Mahaloth and I only bought them when they were on “2 for 1” price at meijer, making them $1.37 per bag(we’d save one and eat the other).
Now, it’s 2011. I am employed, but still only buy Doritos when they are 2 for 1. However, today, I looked at my Doritios bag and noticed the list price is:
$4.29
Good Lord! What is with the insane increase in price compared to inflation? My wife and I watch food prices extremely carefully…borderline obsessively. I can list many other examples of food price inflation over the past 6 years, but none match that increase rate.
So what does a regular price bag of Doritos cost where you live? They actually print them on the bag, usually right above the “S” in Doritos.
I don’t know since mine did not have the price listed. but around there is right. I bought a 12 pack of beer on sale at 14.89 and a bag figuring it would be around $20 max. I was surprised it went over to 21 something.
This was a convenience store so I just chalked it up to price gouging and anyway had already opened the bag in line and was chowing down:p.
The Kroger stores in Salt Lake (Smith’s Food & Drug) have them on sale every couple of weeks on a 3 bags for $5.00 special…
I was never a huge Doritos person, (I typically like unflavored tortilla chips and fresh salsa for snacking) but I quite like the “new” (old) Taco flavored Doritos chips.
In Wegmans grocery store here they were $1.99 for ages. Now they’re up to $2.19. That’s quite low. Sometimes other groceries sell them two for $5, but a lot of places charge the full price, whatever it is printed on the bag. Convenience stores and gas stations are notorious for charging full price.
I looked in a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto, Canada; they only had 280 g bags and there was no price printed on the bag, so perhaps this doesn’t answer the original poster’s question. At any rate, the price was $3.49.
I buy a lot of Doritos, I help run a concession stand at ball games. Our vendor doesn’t offer Doritos in bulk packaging. We get other chips through them.
The kids, who are our main demographic have repeatedly requested we only have nachos made with Doritos . I have been tasked with buying them every week. I have done this for 6 yrs. When I started they were $1.59-$1.99 a party size bag. They are $3.99-$4.99 a bag now.
Kids don’t care how much we’ve raised the price of the nachos, they buy as many as we can make, every single game. We mark up the price to allow for a small profit, not much, mind you. We make the most money on the 20oz drinks. That price is set by the vendor, we have no control over that.
I don’t know if this is a phenomenon in the U.S., but in Canada product sizes for snacks change almost weekly, and there are never significant sales, even when advertised in weekly flyers. In this week’s IGA flyer for Quebec, Doritos 230g or 255g (25 More Grams!) are on sale for 2/$6.50, $3.25/bag or about $2.55 USD/230g.
This works out to about $3.61 for 326g, on “sale”.
