I just don't get food prices these days.

[AlongCameJones]

Some of the most humble foods are the highest priced if they are name brands. These are bread, cereal, crackers, snack foods and cookies.... basically starches, grains.... cattle food. A loaf of name-brand bread can be priced as much as Walmart ground beef, pound per pound! A small thing of Nabisco's Oreo cookies or a small/medium-size bag or Lay's potato chips easily exceeds the price of a pound of chicken or even a pound of deli ham. It doesn't cost anymore to ship the generics to your local Walmart from the food plants than it does the name brands. They all travel in the same trucks and trains which use the same high-price diesel fuel which is the chit on the bottom of the petroleum barrel. The markups must be HUGE on name-brand foods.

$3.00 for a box of saltine crackers that say NABISCO on it vs the same size generic crackers at 98 cents a box? Come now!

 

[Profreedomokie]

Most call it price gouging.

 

[Progun223]

 

[1shott]

Its called margins, some items have higher margins, or profits than others.

Great value brand dairy is packaged at the same plants that package a few name brand items, yet which costs more? Most of the times you are paying for the name on the label. I will admit some items name brand is the only way to go. imo.

 

[rickm]

If you dont like the prices then dont buy it problem solved.

 

[mr ed]

If you were a spoiled trust fund baby that lived off the royalties. Would you want your brand selling for 98 cents and you got a couple pennies or $3 and you got a dollar?

 

[golddigger14s]

It was weird, the turkey I got for Thanksgiving was a name brand Butterball for $.98. The Walmart brand was $1.20 a pound.

 

[HFS]

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I think you meant to post a picture of a troll instead of that photo of Conor McGregor.

 

[Grendelshooter]

If you dont like the prices then dont buy it problem solved.

Yes, and while they’re at it let them eat cake.

 

[AlongCameJones]

Yes, and while they’re at it let them eat cake.

Cake, that's another thing priced through the roof: cakes, donuts, pies and pastries. Just sugar, shortening and starch. I should have be a NABISCO crackers or Sara Lee executive: I'm entirely in the wrong racket.