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I just don't get food prices these days.
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<blockquote data-quote="AlongCameJones" data-source="post: 3689433" data-attributes="member: 47875"><p>Some of the most humble foods are the highest priced if they <strong>are name brands</strong>. 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.</p><p></p><p>$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!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AlongCameJones, post: 3689433, member: 47875"] Some of the most humble foods are the highest priced if they [B]are name brands[/B]. 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! [/QUOTE]
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