Sorry for calling aluminum foil, tin foil. That’s just I’ve always called it.
Eggs are 68 cents at Aldi, as mentioned above. Walmart also had them for 68 cents for a long time. They’re up to $1.18 now. I’m in Minnesota.
9.99? How big of a roll are you buying?
I had an uncle that worked for ALCOA and the one thing every family member had was like a 500’ roll of foil in an industrial size box with a cutter on it. It wasn’t until I was on my own that I discovered, you have to buy your own foil.
!!! I just spent over $900 for rubber and metal braiding shot into a mold.
Yeah, and considering the externalities, maybe that is still too little. And there are cheaper alternatives, I guess. How did they convince you to part with that much? Is your car special, or does it look special now?
I know a Croatian immigrant that returns home every summer. He packs as much aluminum foil into his bags as he can to give as gifts to friends and relatives. The way he tells it, it’s really expensive in that part of Europe and not as good.
Ninety-nine percent of exported bananas are a variety called the Cavendish—the attractive, golden-yellow fruit seen in the supermarket today.
I submit the humble potato. Ten pounds for a buck and a half. Goddamn, how does anybody in this supply chain make a cent???
So? The loss of one variety does not mean there would be no more bananas, just as it didn’t when the Gros Michel bananas wee almost wiped out…
It used to cost more…
But potatoes are (among) the very easiest crops to grow more than you can use, even by an amateur. I’m not suprised they cost as little as they do.
Or a Martian. I think it was Fast Food Nation that broke down the economics of potatoes and how the farmers’ cut of the end price of french fries is the lowest in the food industry: 2 cents from every $1.50 order of fries.
gas is cheap in the US because we make a lot of it and also get a lot of oil from Canada which is cheap to get via pipelines. Most people don’t know Canada sends more oil to US than any other country. Also gas taxes here are low compared to most places
Canada sends 2/3 of its oil to the US. The pipeline cancelled by Biden won’t increase the numbers - forcing the US to continue to depend on imports, mostly from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iraq. The US imports about the same amount of oil as it produces domestically. And without a pipeline to the East - it’s cheaper for eastern Canada to import oil from the above-mentioned countries (and the US) than to have it shipped by rail or truck across the country.
Enter Andrew Mellon, who made a huge fortune in aluminum. Some sources regard him (along with Rockefeller and Ford) as one of the first three billionaires the world had ever seen.
Next comes the Pound Shop: (one of my favorite ‘funny bits’…)
Gas, per liter; is cheaper than a Big Slurpee at the gas station soda bar, made as you wait out of water, carbon dioxide, corn syrup and food coloring. Think about where that gas came from and how it got there.
I’ve been wondering the same thing!
See Amazon’s page from Reynold’s store:
The 200SF roll of ordinary foil sells for ~$11. The heavy duty or 18" wide foil is even more expensive.
One of the ways Reynolds and the others have held the line on prices as inflation just keeps slowly ticking away has been to put ever less linear feet of foil into the same size box.
That’s how they still have a product selling for ~$3.50: it’s mostly an empty box.
I probably buy a roll once a year, and likely the biggest size available. $9.99 wasn’t from a real price, but more like an estimate of what I recall paying last time.