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Fire&Water said:
Used to be here in the NW
but since the economy scam, kroger safeway
(major supermarkets) are running away with higher prices ...

matter of I just glimped an article about kroger and albertsons merging so they can charge even more
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you just gotta shop around - buy some things at one store and buy other things at another



but safeway/albertsons is the most expensive of the 3 (kroger/qfc/fredmeyer - safeway/albertsons - trader joes) and Albertsons used to be the least expensive before they merged with Safeway only to become the most expensive - i personally mostly shop at freddies - they have best selections and they are overall lower priced than sw/a - and of higher quality - especially the produce which is borderline garbage at sw/a - about as bad as walmart which also has terrible produce

so i think it's only gonna help take down the highest prices already at sw/a


now in order for that merger to happen, kroger agreed to sell 1/3 of the stores to C&S wholesale grocers, which is out of New Hampshire and owns Piggly Wiggly

so idk if that means we're getting Piggly Wiggly's or what now too - i guess we'll see
 
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AlsoTapered said:
www.forbes.com

The Time Is Ripe For Ugly Fruits And Vegetables

Are we finally seeing the beauty of imperfect fruit and vegetables?
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com

I can hardly claim Forbes as a flawless source, but 40% of all food waste is fruit and vegetables that don't meet cosmetic standards?

So essentially, the very low price of the carrots we bought for the horses was just someone picking them up, putting them in bags and distributing them. I am talking 35 years ago, but it was something like 5p/Kg... and I presume their was a profit margin built in.

let me just say - carrot and lentil soup was a very cheap option for us. Handy, considering how much the horses cost in other ways,
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Those "cosmetically imperfect" vegetables are not wasted. They are consumed in prepared food like canned soups, stews etc as well as frozen pre-prepared foods as well as sold in farmers markets.
 
Yeah I have a lot of Kroger stores around me and their produce is definitely worse than other stores
 
Mr. Krinkle said:
you just gotta shop around - buy some things at one store and buy other things at another



but safeway/albertsons is the most expensive of the 3 (kroger/qfc/fredmeyer - safeway/albertsons - trader joes) and Albertsons used to be the least expensive before they merged with Safeway only to become the most expensive - i personally mostly shop at freddies - they have best selections and they are overall lower priced than sw/a - and of higher quality - especially the produce which is borderline garbage at sw/a - about as bad as walmart which also has terrible produce

so i think it's only gonna help take down the highest prices already at sw/a


now in order for that merger to happen, kroger agreed to sell 1/3 of the stores to C&S wholesale grocers, which is out of New Hampshire and owns Piggly Wiggly

so idk if that means we're getting Piggly Wiggly's or what now too - i guess we'll see

AssholeTapered probably knows tho, you should ask him, he knows everything
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Yeah, we do shop around
Freddys is Kroger and theyre probably the highest priced here

They claim its because of overhead
 
Fire&Water said:
Yeah, we do shop around
Freddys is Kroger and theyre probably the highest priced here
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that's weird because that's not true where i am - safeway/albertsons is definitley more expensive plus lower quality produce than Fred's


i did Instacart too for a while so i know these stores over here inside-out
 
I read it's to avoid antitrust laws. Which kind of confuses me since closing stores reduces competition.

Some are indeed put to use but their is a limit to how long perishable goods can be used and often it's not the farmer who decides but the buyers.

Foodbanks operate on JIT and take what is given but people making soups and frozen food need to be certain that a specified amount will arrive each day.

I briefly worked in a place that just made two different types of cake around the clock. But one day the walnuts didn't arrive and half the staff were stuck. They weren't paid and since they provided transport to and from the factory, they all stood outside waiting for the NEXT shift so they could go home.

I'm glad that those stores have a buyer.
 
Mr. Krinkle said:
that's weird because that's not true where i am - safeway/albertsons is definitley more expensive plus lower quality produce than Fred's


i did Instacart too for a while so i know these stores over here inside-out
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We shopped @Lakemont
town&country yesterday just because we were there

holyhell they have that neighborhood snagged by the short and curlys

Im sure its mainly due to all of them (stores I mentioned) being on the east side
 
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In the UK a couple of store chains have a business model of being JUST far enough out of town to make the cost of travel offset their inflated prices.

They adapt each one to replace all of the traditional shops in a village. Then their is no competition.

What angers me is that one of them is the Co oP. These were set up in the 1863 as non-profit businesses to keep the prices as low as possible. Food cooperatives.

You know how chain stores like to have a full history of their business? Pages and pages of milestones? The Co oP has a paragraph - 53 words.

Even Porsche devotes 648 words....
 
Fire&Water said:
We shopped @Lakemont
town&country yesterday just because we were there

holyhell they have that neighborhood snagged by the short and curlys

Im sure its mainly due to all of them (stores I mentioned) being on the east side
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town&country is the worst - they're probably worse than Metropolitan Market with their prices

they own Central Market too - Ballard Market and Thriftway are them too - there's nothing thrifty about them at all
 
Last time I was in a PigglyWiggly I took a 12 pk up to the counter
cashier says thatll be (such&such) higher price
I said, the billboard price says 7.99
cashier lady says
'sign dont say Piggly Wiggly
neither now, do it'?

sure enough on the way out I look up and the sign say
(new proprietors)
Starvin Marvins
Haa!
 
You know, 192 countries are NOT the USA which, while a large nation is home to just 5% of the worlds population?

FYI their are 7 vaccines in use in the world, 6 of which were not developed in the USA. Most are actually VVVs. I know India is developing one and China has one also, but I don't have the details on that one.

mRNA medicines have been around since 1988, so it's hardly novel technology.
 
What's your point? I don't care about those other countries. The post was about U.S. FDA approving shots for Americans
 
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