It IS, to me.
I drink a six-pack of Busch tallboys once in a while. It is pretty bad beer, but it fits my purse, doesn’t give me a headache, and that’s that.
It has been $4.65 in Ohio for a few years now. Yesterday, the guy at the drivethru charged me $4.22. Wow! I thought. That guy must be a newbie. He rang it up wrong.
Just now, I bought another. My regular waitperson said $4.22. It went down.
It’s useless to ask the clerks why it happened.
Sign of the economic times?
I don’t know if its related or not, but I was just in the liquor yesterday and they were selling a beer, Alberta Genuine Draft, 12 cans for $12.99. Canadian $$$! I can’t ever remember a beer costing just over $1 here.
As a side, I was a little scared to buy it. I mean, $1 beer? How good can it be?
Trader Joe’s has $4.49 porter and $4.99 dry stout six packs that are excellent. I’m enjoying the porter right now.
The price of Dannon Yougurt dropped 10 cents! Oh, dear. I’m sorry. This is about you.
The price of Dannon Yougurt dropped 10 cents! Oh, dear. I’m sorry. This is about you.
Busch. Bush. Think about it. It’s obviously some sort of pre-election conspiracy type maneuver to get the cheap drunk vote out and avoid any problems with the popular vote through name association.
NB: I am not calling samclem a cheap drunk on purpose, it just kind of worked out that way.
Beer? Yogurt?
It’s obviious that prokaryotes as a whole are declining in value.
Or maybe everyone realized that Busch sucks.
And why are you drinking Busch in the land of Hudy Gold and LIttle Kings Cream Ale?
And the size of the container dropped by 25%, any chance they were 9 oz bottles?
I thought that I was in the land of Hudy, not samclem. Anyway, I’ve not noticed the price of beer drop in our part of the state. Maybe Voinovich has had Taft lower the sin taxes as some part of a bizarre scheme to get back at Busch? Does he still get to drive the GovMobile from the GovCave if he wants too?
Sorry if you read it that way.
Maybe a little more background.
I drink beer. I can’t afford to drink good stuff on a regular basis. So I’m well aquainted with beer producers running specials all the time. Typically, the specials are for 12-packs and (24) cases. I see this all the time.
But, in my experiece, when you buy a sixpack of beer produced by any of the major brand producers(Anhauser, etc.), there ain’t no going backward on the price. Usually, the price only escalates by 10 cents or 25 cents every few years or so.
That’s why I was startled. It wasn’t a sale, like Dannon 10 cents less. They didn’t reduce the size of the container. They simply dropped the price. Not a sale. They dropped the price.
So, I then wondered if this was a sign of the times(deflation?) or something more trivial.
I also had a hard time trying to figure out where to post my question. I decided that I was “polling” in a sense, and it certainly wasn’t an earthshaking question.
It certainly didn’t merit me writing all of this.
Shib got it right. Hudy is a foreign brand in Northern Ohio. Only those Republicans downstate drink that. We Dems in No. Ohio drink whatever is on sale. Unless we got our tax refund check from GW. Then we splurge and buy anything from Great Lakes Brewing.
[sub]Shib! I’ll buy you that Hudy I owe you, just as soon as they find the WMD[/sub] 
Well, I live in the Rep area but that’s not normally the way I’d vote. Even less so lately. I think that the locals aren’t so much Republican as they are anti-intellectual, so there’s no danger of them swinging your way anytime soon.
I am kind of hoping now that you never have to buy me a beer, especially since I’m kind of enjoying watching the administration do the Texas two step. Anyway, you’d be downright embarassed by the beers in my fridge right now. The Chimay went by the wayside yesterday, but we still have some Duvel and Ephemera left in that class. Plus the Theakston’s Old Peculier and the Old Speckled Hen. Once we work through that I might have to try something from Great Lakes Brewing. Never had it before, but I think that they might carry it at Krogers.
You got a Kroger’s down there? Heh! I thought they went out of biz about the same time as the A&P.
Sorry about that.
Beer of your choice when they find the smoking gun. 
FWIW, Kroger is alive and doing very well in Atlanta.
I am with you SC, I have never seen the price of beer just go down, barring a sale.
I bought a couple of Moose Drool Ales this afternoon for me and a couple Michelob Ultras for my wife. The checker scanned one of the Ultras and the she was prompted to enter a price. She entered 89 cents and hit the enter key a total of 4 times and then bagged the beers. The Michelob is only $3.49 a six pack so 89 cents is reasonable for singles but the Moose Drool was $7.99 a six pack. They tasted mighty fine with the ribs I BBQ’d for dinner.
Kroger is currently the largest grocery chain in the US- it owns all of these chains. (I work for Cala, s’how I know.)
The price of beer DROPPED?? Whoa!!
[In other breaking news, Hell is reported to have experienced a frigid spell, and farmers claim that their cattle are voluntarily returning to their domicile.]
I’m in Colorado, and we’re currently drinking Coors light in 16 oz. cans at $12.99 for an 18 pack. Finally a can of beer that fills my pint glasses!
Happens here too, 'bucky.
Here in the west, Tooheys Extra Dry used to be in the range of $37 a carton. Since last summer, $30 blocks aren’t uncommon.
Premium stuff like Cascade, Boags and Crownies* can occasionally be had for $40. That was almost unheard of a few years back.