Exactly. That’s why I didn’t bring the topic back up. I knew he understood.
But you are right. And don’t get me started on the incredible markup that convenience stores have. That’s what you’re paying for, after all.
You’re also paying for the incredible amount of shrinkage that c stores have. Kids (and adults) goof off in c stores and pass the time by shoplifting.
Beef is ridiculous. I paid $3.99 a pound for soup bones last week.
The shrinking sizes piss me off. Yesterday I bought a box of M&M’s that I knew was light, but I didn’t find out how light until I opened it. The M&Ms were vacuum-packed in a foil inner bag such that they lay in a single layer. That spread out the pack so you couldn’t hear it rattling around inside the box. I opened the inner wrap and poured the M&Ms back into the box and they couldn’t have filled it more than a quarter of the way. I’m surprised some environmental group doesn’t get up in their bidness about wasteful packaging.
Cereal seems to be a lot higher. I don’t like to buy it in the summertime or during breaks because it’s nasty and I loovvveee eggs, but in the morning we’re in a rush, so my son eats cereal and small snack when he gets to school. It’s usually about $3-4 a box. Eeesh.
But what really irks me is MOVIE TICKETS. Gah! I know that getting snacks will set you back, but $25 to see Lion King in 3D made me want to cry. I am no longer embarrassed to be bringing in my own food to the theatre. Over the summer I tried to get some snacks for the lil dude and it was $26.
Oh, and bowling. I took him and his friend bowling last June for the end of the school year celebration and it was over $60. :eek:
“Family-friendly” entertainment is so expensive. His bday is coming up and there’s no way I can afford a party at a remote location and our place is too small to host one, so he’s going to have to settle with inviting a few friends to do something (and probably still cost me a few hundred bucks).
Yeah, the price of “cheap” cuts is incredible. I don’t buy soup bones, I buy a bone-in chuck roast and make a pot roast, and then soup. After all, it’s meat that needs slow cooking, and it’s bones, and it’s the same price (or cheaper) than soup bones.
Some stores sell ham hocks at a reasonable price. Other stores seem to think that ham hocks are an expensive delicacy.
Join a co-op or ‘buy a share’ of a farm.
Back in the day I ran a 7plex movie theatre. The three owners of said theatre were a insane 80 year old harridan, a short round guy who sweated in the dead of winter and someone in the Witness Protection Program (all now taking dirt naps). Tickets were $4.75. Every week I would get $200 in 50 cent pieces. The bank thought I was nuts. People would get two tickets and a half, pick it up and go “What the hell is this?”, walk over to the concession stand and buy something to get rid of it. End of the night, the box office would buy them all back.
Owners were pleasantly surprised that my per-head was higher than the other theatres in the chain. Never figured out why.
Today, tickets range between 11.75 and 14 per seat, and I avoid the concession stand like the plague.
A year or two ago, I bought toilet paper. The width of the TP was about 3/8" shorter than the my previous purchase.
Yes, prices on everything are going up: but I am most irked by the practice of shrinking the size of the package to keep the price the same. My (ex)favourite kitty litter did this a while back… the salesguy chirped “But we didn’t raise the price!” Sorry babe, but 40 pounds at the 50 pound price IS an increase. And the new bag does not last as long. I switched brands.
Food prices rising hasn’t got anything to do with inflation.
It’s called “the worst drought in 100 years all across Texas”. Take a ride through any Texas city or suburb and you’ll see green lawns, normal-looking golf courses, no water-restriction signs. Now, head ten miles out of town. Every field will be brown. All the leaves on the trees will be dead. The animals, if you see any, look like they’re in Somalia. I used to enjoy the best produce I’ve ever seen at any cheap grocer; now it’s like wintertime in New England.
60% of Texas’s water goes for irrigation, and that got cut massively. The other 40% should’ve been cut but wasn’t.
Beans and brown rice have gone up, too, even if not as much as milk and some other items. Believe me, what with getting the montly foodstamps cut I have noticed this. Thank Og the garden did well this year, because prices for vegetables keep going up. Greens for $2-3 a pound? Gimme a break! Or maybe I’m just spoiled what with them growing in the backyard.
^ And this is why a corner of the garden is in sunflowers and corn, for my pet birds. Of course, the wild birds get some of it, too, before I can harvest it, but that’s life, right?
Don’t know where you’ve been but we have water-restriction signs and brown lawns.
A year or two ago?! I hope you bought a truckload. That’s a long time to go between purchases. 
A while back (before I retired) a friend came to work with a package of something called Lunchables. All it was was a couple slices of bologna and cheese and a few crackers. I don’t know what she paid for it but I know for sure it was outrageously overpriced for what she got. It didn’t seem to dawn on her though that it was nothing more than a tidbit and the plastic packaging was an environmental nightmare. More plastic than food.
The thing I’ve notice the past few years is the price of nuts has gone sky high. I always look forward to fall because that’s when the grocery stores stock walnuts, pecans, almond, hazelnuts, etc. But now the price is prohibitive and I don’t buy any. 
No wonder when Washington comes out with its monthly report on inflation, they EXCLUDE food and gasoline costs.
Got to keep the peasants in the dark.
In the HEB area of NE Tarrant County, I see water-restriction notices all over the place, informing me that we are under Level 1 restrictions. We’ve also been notified about the rules for watering, we’re only allowed to water on certain days, and we can only water during certain hours of those days.
And yeah, our lawn and our plants have suffered, I think that we’ve lost about half of our rose bushes. I don’t see my neighbors doing any unlawful watering, either.
Wouldn’t it more PC to say, “the Jewish-American area of NE Tarrant County”?
Assuming this is not a whoosh, “HEB” stands for Hearst-Euless-Bedford. Those three cities all connect together and the area is called “HEB”. It doesn’t have anything to do with the residents there.
No, it was whoosh, or at least I was teasing Lynn a bit for assuming we’d all know what HEB stands for. I debated a smiley, but I really don’t like smileys. 
It’s Hurst, and yeah, I’m so used to hearing HEB used that I forgot that it can be used as an abbreviation for Hebrew.
And what do you mean, not everyone knows what HEB stands for?