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<blockquote data-quote="THAT Gurl" data-source="post: 3885891" data-attributes="member: 45551"><p>I don't disagree with you one bit. "Regular" food -- the stuff you eat every day -- stores much better than most people these days realize. Those buckets are junk. You'd be better off buying a super-sized box of Snickers from Sam's and storing that.</p><p></p><p>I can't tell anyone else what to do -- just tell them what I have seen and done.</p><p></p><p>Last night I watched the owner of this store take an entire shopping cart full of boxes of sweets, bakery items -- basically the junk food Americans think they can't live without -- and mark it ALL up. I don't know the new and improved price -- I don't typically buy that stuff (I eat the other junk food <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦" title="Person facepalming :person_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926.png" data-shortname=":person_facepalming:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging :person_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" />) so I didn't really look. I can already tell you it will not affect sales of those items one bit -- at first. Eventually the price of the healthier stuff is gonna rise some more too.</p><p></p><p>I wish I had paid attention to prices when I first started 8-9 months ago so I could report back with better info than "best as I can recall" but I'm one of those folks who doesn't generally focus on the bad (like rising prices). Especially if it is a necessity (like food ... Or gas ...).</p><p></p><p>BUT ... Generally speaking ... ALL of the other cashiers and I have noticed that in the last 6 to 8 months alone prices overall have risen enough that people who tend to just stop by and get whatever for dinner every evening or two spend around a $20 bill now. $25 if they buy any kind of meat from the meat counter. Six to 8 months ago it was $8-10. And folks who shop every couple of weeks or once a month (you know them. They are the people with a basket FULL of stuff and even more food/drinks piled on the little rack on the bottom of their cart that you HATE getting behind when only one lane is open lol) used to spend $150 each time we saw them. Now it's more like $200-275.</p><p></p><p>There was a woman who came in last night near closing time. She said she was looking for a specific kind of cereal that her pregnant girlfriend -- yes you read that right -- was craving and we were THE FIFTH STORE she had been to looking for it. She had just finished a 10-hour shift at wherever she worked but she "had" to find this cereal for her girlfriend. We had it -- but it was crazy expensive if you ask me -- and she bought several boxes of it "just to be safe" lol. There are SO MANY THINGS WRONG with this scenario ... Lol ... My unemployed, pregnant girlfriend could have gotten her lazy ass off the sofa and gotten her own cereal, for starters. And WHO is so picky they go to 5 stores looking for some kind of breakfast cereal?!?!?!? Americans are about to be in for a real rude awakening, IMHO.</p><p></p><p>It's gonna be an interesting winter -- in more ways than one ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="THAT Gurl, post: 3885891, member: 45551"] I don't disagree with you one bit. "Regular" food -- the stuff you eat every day -- stores much better than most people these days realize. Those buckets are junk. You'd be better off buying a super-sized box of Snickers from Sam's and storing that. I can't tell anyone else what to do -- just tell them what I have seen and done. Last night I watched the owner of this store take an entire shopping cart full of boxes of sweets, bakery items -- basically the junk food Americans think they can't live without -- and mark it ALL up. I don't know the new and improved price -- I don't typically buy that stuff (I eat the other junk food 🤦🤷😉) so I didn't really look. I can already tell you it will not affect sales of those items one bit -- at first. Eventually the price of the healthier stuff is gonna rise some more too. I wish I had paid attention to prices when I first started 8-9 months ago so I could report back with better info than "best as I can recall" but I'm one of those folks who doesn't generally focus on the bad (like rising prices). Especially if it is a necessity (like food ... Or gas ...). BUT ... Generally speaking ... ALL of the other cashiers and I have noticed that in the last 6 to 8 months alone prices overall have risen enough that people who tend to just stop by and get whatever for dinner every evening or two spend around a $20 bill now. $25 if they buy any kind of meat from the meat counter. Six to 8 months ago it was $8-10. And folks who shop every couple of weeks or once a month (you know them. They are the people with a basket FULL of stuff and even more food/drinks piled on the little rack on the bottom of their cart that you HATE getting behind when only one lane is open lol) used to spend $150 each time we saw them. Now it's more like $200-275. There was a woman who came in last night near closing time. She said she was looking for a specific kind of cereal that her pregnant girlfriend -- yes you read that right -- was craving and we were THE FIFTH STORE she had been to looking for it. She had just finished a 10-hour shift at wherever she worked but she "had" to find this cereal for her girlfriend. We had it -- but it was crazy expensive if you ask me -- and she bought several boxes of it "just to be safe" lol. There are SO MANY THINGS WRONG with this scenario ... Lol ... My unemployed, pregnant girlfriend could have gotten her lazy ass off the sofa and gotten her own cereal, for starters. And WHO is so picky they go to 5 stores looking for some kind of breakfast cereal?!?!?!? Americans are about to be in for a real rude awakening, IMHO. It's gonna be an interesting winter -- in more ways than one ... [/QUOTE]
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