There’s certain items at the grocery store that I feel is over priced. I just don’t think Potato chips and Frito’s are worth what they charge. Planters cocktail nuts are another item I buy maybe once every three years. A lot of the name brand cereals just aren’t worth over $4 a box. I buy Krogers brand shredded wheat.
I could afford to splurge on these items but I hate that feeling of getting ripped off.
Ice cream is rapidly reaching a luxury item price. I stopped buying Baskin Robbins almost 15 years ago because of their price per scoop. Today an elderly neighbor asked me to pick up a few things while I was at Krogers. She wanted a gallon of Blue Bell Old Fashioned Vanilla. $7.56 with sales tax. :eek: For what? Some Milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla flavoring run through a machine? I’ve made vanilla ice cream many times at home. There’s not that much in it.
I do buy a gallon of Bell Bell occasionally in the summer. They sometimes have Black Walnut or Strawberry. They are my two favorites. I was tempted today to get a gallon of peppermint ice cream. Blue Bell is a good medium priced ice cream. I shudder to think what the premium brands like Haagen Dazs or Ben and Jerry’s costs.
If ice cream goes any higher than I may have to stop buying it. There’s a limit to how big a hole I’ll put in my wallet for this stuff.
There’s is the store brand. But Krogers store brand ice cream tastes terrible. I rather not have ice cream than eat that.
Yeah, I only buy ice cream when it’s on sale.
The ice cream that’s cheap at it’s regular price has so many 6 or 7 syllable ingredients that I could never pronounce, so stay away from it.
I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum. The only ice cream I’ll eat comes from a local lady and her husband who use as many local and organic ingredients as they can. Since I’m too lazy to bother making my own, I happily slap down $8 for a pint every couple of months. Of course, they make some unique flavors you can’t get from store-bought which kind of makes it worth it, too.
Once upon a time, I really enjoyed Breyer’s back when all the ingredients were simpler and the texture was like you got with homemade, but they changed it and since then I’ve stopped eating store ice cream anyway.
I love Edy’s. It goes on sale about once a month for $2.50 and I’ll pick up two or three of them. But if it’s not on sale ($5) and I’m out, I’ll still buy it anyways.
Hey, I keep the lights off around the house, I take short showers, I don’t buy a ton of crap I don’t need (anymore), I don’t owe a nickel on my credit cards…I can afford $5 for ice cream. I looove ice cream and unless I get a flavor I don’t particularly care for, it’s not like it goes to waste.
I only buy it when it’s on sale, but between the different brands and the different grocery stores, something is on sale pretty much every week. The trick is not to be too attached to a specific brand.
I can literally not recall a time when there hasn’t been *some *acceptable brand of ice cream on sale Two for One or 2/$6. Not so useful if you’re brand loyal, but if you’re a brand whore like me, it’s still reasonably priced.
It’s harder when you can remember what stuff used to cost. Don’t want to sound like my dad but it is true. A gallon of Blue Bell was probably $4 in the 1990’s. Then it went to $6 about five years ago. Now it’s $7.50. Where’s it going to end.
It is probably easier for a younger person that never bought something for half what they charge now.
Give it ten years. Then they’ll be complaining (and you’ll be complaining even more). Time marches on and all that.
When I started smoking I had someone that would buy cigarettes for me. This would have been about 1992. I could giver her $2 and get a pack of Marlboros…and change. Then it went up to $1.98 a pack. Now it’s seven dollars and change (depending on where I get them).
Around here, both Friendly’s and Hood have flavors of ice cream that I like a lot. The regular prices at the store where I shop is somewhere around $2.99 to $3.19 for the 1.5 quart size. Often one or the other is on sale for $2.50. Edie’s, Breyer’s, etc. are in the same general ballpark. Brigham’s a bit more, I think. Ben & Jerry’s is the priciest.
About a mile away, there’s a great seasonal ice cream place open from mid-March to mid-November that makes its own. Best ice cream in the world. In the summer, if my wife, daughter and I go there for cones, we’ll spend around $11 with the tip for three servings of ice cream (and Little Miss Winterbottom is still only eating the “kiddie” size.) I probably spent more than $150 there on ice cream last summer.
So supermarket ice cream really doesn’t really seem all that expensive.
If you’re not willing to spend the money, you don’t really love ice cream.
Well, a lot of that is just inflation. I’m 37, and I remember when hot dogs were a buck. Now they’re, on average, $2.50. Of course, I’m also not making a 1982 salary now. So it mostly evens out.
Just curious - where do they sell ice cream in gallon containers? In the grocery stores here, you get either 1.5 or 1.75 quarts - no one even make half-gallons any more.
That’s what pisses me off. I know prices go up - everything goes up. I remember my dad driving across the street to a different gas station because it was .23 instead of .24 a gallon. But to this day, gas is still priced by the gallon. But ice cream? Not where I live. Tuna used to be in a can of 6.5 oz, but the last time I bought it, it was 6 oz and it cost more. Canned pumpkin used to contain a pound. Now it’s something like 14.5oz - I can deal with the increased cost per unit, but my recipe calls for a pound!
Just yesterday, I bought a few boxes of tissues - same size box I’ve been buying forever, but instead of 200 tissues, it’s now 184 - 8% reduction in product for the same price. Toilet paper rolls are narrower than they used to be. Paper towels now claim 150 sheets!!! per roll, but the sheets are the skinny ones - you need 2-3 as many as one or the old regular size, and of course, the price went up.
Sorry to hijack, but this aggravates me to no end. Stealth price increases are the worst!
I know this is a thread about ice cream but since there are a few mentions of other food costs…
I see this complaint about cereal a lot and it confuses me. A box of cereal is 8-12 bowls. Even if we go with only 8, that still works out to $.50 per serving. What would you consider a better price?
