Costco does gouge some items, just like Sam's and its daddy Walmart. We take notes and pictures to compare... I should have kept them like this fellow did. PS whenever you grab a family size or multipack, check the unit cost. We've found a LOT of times that the larger packages actually cost more per unit. Apparently they know everyone assumes the big one means savings - not anymore! Grab your calculator and do the math, frens!
(Also a good homeschool exercise)
Edit to add that restaurant supply stores sometimes have better prices too, if you can get a day pass or have a buddy. (King Arthur flour 50c/lb, for example, but you buy 50lbs so get a pet food bin) Many ethnic markets will have great prices on their staples as well. (Rice, coconut oil, organic, imported...) Okay, fine. Follow for recipes and other grocery tips, kek!!
(gets on soapbox) As ALL math and science should be! We artificially separated them. Math was discovered, not invented, to explain what was being observed in real life. Everything is connected. But if you look at a regular science book now, you'll see tidbits of trivia with pictures, disjointed, modular, presented in ways that actually DISSUADE the thought process that make connections. Without teaching kids how to distinguish evidence from hearsay, reasoning from supposition, vamos prayers from guesses, the system only priests then to be led by the noses and unqualified to apply logic anywhere. The scientific method has been buried, along with logic and rhetoric, and unless we make new schools and homeschool until then, we sentence another generation to stupidity. (Steps down)
All I know is, it is cheaper to dine at a "family" restaurant when ordering certain things like an 8oz steak with mashed and greens, than it is to buy a raw 8oz steak at some supermarkets right now. Things like this is driving me crazy with WTF.
Find a local farmer that raises cattle. The only downside is you have to invest in a large freezer and buy a lot of meat. We bought 1/4 cow in May. Our cow hanging weight was 740 pounds. Total per pound was $4.60 and that's based off of hanging weight. Prices may vary depending on region. I expect to pay more the next time because prices for everything has gone up. You might have to get on a waiting list and you can get whole cow to 1/4. Check with your local farmers market to see if local meat is sold or farmers in your area. Also a local butcher shop may have information. Next I'd like to get pork the same farmer has pigs. I'd love to find a chicken farm that sells to the public. The best thing about this the meat is 1000xs better than what's in grocery or restaurants. I won't eat beef in restaurants after eating this. If you can afford the bulk price at once it's worth it. Plus it's shrink wrapped so should last longer than regular ziplocks. I'm eating two year old shrink wrapped deer meat that looks just as fresh as day one. My husband and daughter hunt so we have plenty meat around here.
Heh, my dad bought two cows when we were kids, he was always buying random things, he hired a local guy to come out and butcher them after they grew and were ready, he then had to buy one of those deep freezers. We only kept a quarter of the meat, gave some to the guy as payment for coming out to do it and then we packaged up a lot of it and delivered it to some families who were in need (gave one family some of the egg laying chickens as well that year.) Was the best steak I ever had, and other cuts.. but for me, all about the steak lol.
Sounds like a great experience and being able to help others is wonderful. I'm all about helping someone I know instead but f giving blindly to a huge charity. For sure the best steak and burger I've ever had. When eating steak I'm about like a man I don't want to get full on the sides, give me just steak. We got an assortment of steaks, burger and roast. I've never liked sirloin or NY strip until I ate from this cow. I'm looking forward to cooking the chuck roast in the cast iron pan. My grandma's roast was simple and the best I ever had. This farmer has it processed at a local butcher and we get from them.
Oh yeah, steak does not need to be covered in anything, just good meat and cooked to just right with a lil salt and pepper for me and please, leave some fat on it.
We could get along eating steak but then again we would need someone that hates fat to share with us. We had pork chops tonight and they were so good. Four @ $4.37 on clearance (expires in three days). So good I stopped using the bbq sauce. That's vinegar based sauce that's what's common on pork in Eastern North Carolina. Don't give me a thick sauce, yuck.
Well, I do know a lady that just moved to the USA from Australia who insists that ketchup is what you eat steak with. hahaha. She as well, wrote "Out Back Steak House" some interesting emails and reviews, I was crying laughing as she went off about Americans eating fish bait "Shrimp".
Before I ate local steak with out the toxins I had to have ketchup with Worcestershire. I still like that combo but can eat steak with out it. My dad ate and I started eating it as a small child. It's gotta be done a certain way mound of ketchup and Worcestershire in the center like gravy would be on top of mashed potatoes. Australian lady sounds like a trip. I love shrimp but don't eat it unless it comes straight from the local ocean. I'll eat it at the NC coast (or other areas) as long as it's local fresh. It's shameful so many local coastal restaurants serve seafood from Asia. We usually but shrimp and cook it ourselves. Bet she would think the same about oysters, scallops and clams all bottom feeders but so good.
Check out these videos it's hilarious even if you don't know about Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Anyone that spends their own money on their own needs knows this.
The funny thing is that they’ve been lying about inflation for decades. I’m not a historian, but I’m old enough to remember when they changed the CPI back in the 80s or 90s because it was getting too high. So they adjusted the basket of goods to stay on the 2% target.
What we are complaining about now is that “adjusted” basket of goods getting up to 6-9% inflation!! So their cheat is running too hot. Real inflation has been running around 10% annually since 2008 and then when covid hit jumped to 30%+ per year.
Yeah, they manipulate with things like cell phones too. If last year's model was $800 and this year's model is twice as powerful but also $800, then they use that to lower the "official" inflation numbers.
Definitely. And the higher fuel prices as-is don't help either. The second I saw gas prices going back up, I told my wife that we needed to stock up on food. We bought a bunch, but let's face it, that only kicks the can down the road a little unless you can buy really long-term items in massive quantities.
They just mean 7% inflation times 10. Like the whole idea of basis points in the interest rate increase. 25 basis points is 25% of a point. Burn this Babylonian money magic to the ground!!!!!!!!
costco and sams have been intentionally jacking prices since the plandemic started. I like watching shit sit still because it is priced too high and won't sell, you'll catch them dropping the price after a few days they sit stagnant.
Before I stopped calculating it in 2022, we were up to 30% inflation on the food items I buy compared to prices from January 2020, and I have the receipts to prove it. I'm seeing around 50% inflation on food since 2020 based on the lowest price I can get for certain items.
For example, steak in January 2020 was $2.99/lb. at the lowest price. Now it's $4.99/lb. at its lowest. That's a 66% increase. Crackers for the kids are up from $0.99 to $1.49, a ~50% increase. Even soda at Sam's Club, which I notice but never buy there, has gone from $9.98 for 36 cans to $15. A 50% increase. As for soda prices at the local grocery store, I was sometimes able to get Pepsi products for 16.5¢/can on the best sales in 2019. Now the very best sales are 31.26¢/can. Just about a 100% increase. Though, admittedly, that 16.5¢ per can was a ridiculously low price then. A more regular sale in January 2020 would have been about 20¢-25¢ per can, which is still a 50% increase.
I just spent about $300 on food from Sam's Club and it's nothing compared to what I used to be able to buy for the same amount. My food budget used to be $400/month on the high end. Now it's double and I'm still wondering why the refrigerator is empty.
Costco does gouge some items, just like Sam's and its daddy Walmart. We take notes and pictures to compare... I should have kept them like this fellow did. PS whenever you grab a family size or multipack, check the unit cost. We've found a LOT of times that the larger packages actually cost more per unit. Apparently they know everyone assumes the big one means savings - not anymore! Grab your calculator and do the math, frens!
(Also a good homeschool exercise)
Edit to add that restaurant supply stores sometimes have better prices too, if you can get a day pass or have a buddy. (King Arthur flour 50c/lb, for example, but you buy 50lbs so get a pet food bin) Many ethnic markets will have great prices on their staples as well. (Rice, coconut oil, organic, imported...) Okay, fine. Follow for recipes and other grocery tips, kek!!
Unit price: I taught that in algebra.
Racist! ;-)
UNIT Price vs Product Price...That is where the market-ups are occurring due to the "inflation" that is caused by Xiden and his Merry Thugs!!!
(gets on soapbox) As ALL math and science should be! We artificially separated them. Math was discovered, not invented, to explain what was being observed in real life. Everything is connected. But if you look at a regular science book now, you'll see tidbits of trivia with pictures, disjointed, modular, presented in ways that actually DISSUADE the thought process that make connections. Without teaching kids how to distinguish evidence from hearsay, reasoning from supposition, vamos prayers from guesses, the system only priests then to be led by the noses and unqualified to apply logic anywhere. The scientific method has been buried, along with logic and rhetoric, and unless we make new schools and homeschool until then, we sentence another generation to stupidity. (Steps down)
Did you see the video of kid pulling the "roll back" price tags. The prices underneath were cheaper than the roll back price. Everything is a scam.
Oh I gotta look for that, excellent. And, of course.
All I know is, it is cheaper to dine at a "family" restaurant when ordering certain things like an 8oz steak with mashed and greens, than it is to buy a raw 8oz steak at some supermarkets right now. Things like this is driving me crazy with WTF.
Find a local farmer that raises cattle. The only downside is you have to invest in a large freezer and buy a lot of meat. We bought 1/4 cow in May. Our cow hanging weight was 740 pounds. Total per pound was $4.60 and that's based off of hanging weight. Prices may vary depending on region. I expect to pay more the next time because prices for everything has gone up. You might have to get on a waiting list and you can get whole cow to 1/4. Check with your local farmers market to see if local meat is sold or farmers in your area. Also a local butcher shop may have information. Next I'd like to get pork the same farmer has pigs. I'd love to find a chicken farm that sells to the public. The best thing about this the meat is 1000xs better than what's in grocery or restaurants. I won't eat beef in restaurants after eating this. If you can afford the bulk price at once it's worth it. Plus it's shrink wrapped so should last longer than regular ziplocks. I'm eating two year old shrink wrapped deer meat that looks just as fresh as day one. My husband and daughter hunt so we have plenty meat around here.
Heh, my dad bought two cows when we were kids, he was always buying random things, he hired a local guy to come out and butcher them after they grew and were ready, he then had to buy one of those deep freezers. We only kept a quarter of the meat, gave some to the guy as payment for coming out to do it and then we packaged up a lot of it and delivered it to some families who were in need (gave one family some of the egg laying chickens as well that year.) Was the best steak I ever had, and other cuts.. but for me, all about the steak lol.
Sounds like a great experience and being able to help others is wonderful. I'm all about helping someone I know instead but f giving blindly to a huge charity. For sure the best steak and burger I've ever had. When eating steak I'm about like a man I don't want to get full on the sides, give me just steak. We got an assortment of steaks, burger and roast. I've never liked sirloin or NY strip until I ate from this cow. I'm looking forward to cooking the chuck roast in the cast iron pan. My grandma's roast was simple and the best I ever had. This farmer has it processed at a local butcher and we get from them.
Oh yeah, steak does not need to be covered in anything, just good meat and cooked to just right with a lil salt and pepper for me and please, leave some fat on it.
We could get along eating steak but then again we would need someone that hates fat to share with us. We had pork chops tonight and they were so good. Four @ $4.37 on clearance (expires in three days). So good I stopped using the bbq sauce. That's vinegar based sauce that's what's common on pork in Eastern North Carolina. Don't give me a thick sauce, yuck.
Well, I do know a lady that just moved to the USA from Australia who insists that ketchup is what you eat steak with. hahaha. She as well, wrote "Out Back Steak House" some interesting emails and reviews, I was crying laughing as she went off about Americans eating fish bait "Shrimp".
Before I ate local steak with out the toxins I had to have ketchup with Worcestershire. I still like that combo but can eat steak with out it. My dad ate and I started eating it as a small child. It's gotta be done a certain way mound of ketchup and Worcestershire in the center like gravy would be on top of mashed potatoes. Australian lady sounds like a trip. I love shrimp but don't eat it unless it comes straight from the local ocean. I'll eat it at the NC coast (or other areas) as long as it's local fresh. It's shameful so many local coastal restaurants serve seafood from Asia. We usually but shrimp and cook it ourselves. Bet she would think the same about oysters, scallops and clams all bottom feeders but so good. Check out these videos it's hilarious even if you don't know about Dale Earnhardt Jr.
A1 sauce
Steak cooked medium etc
Multiple topics here up to 22 minutes mark. Dale's wife talks about his obsession with A1
Anyone that spends their own money on their own needs knows this.
The funny thing is that they’ve been lying about inflation for decades. I’m not a historian, but I’m old enough to remember when they changed the CPI back in the 80s or 90s because it was getting too high. So they adjusted the basket of goods to stay on the 2% target.
What we are complaining about now is that “adjusted” basket of goods getting up to 6-9% inflation!! So their cheat is running too hot. Real inflation has been running around 10% annually since 2008 and then when covid hit jumped to 30%+ per year.
Yeah, they manipulate with things like cell phones too. If last year's model was $800 and this year's model is twice as powerful but also $800, then they use that to lower the "official" inflation numbers.
Definitely. And the higher fuel prices as-is don't help either. The second I saw gas prices going back up, I told my wife that we needed to stock up on food. We bought a bunch, but let's face it, that only kicks the can down the road a little unless you can buy really long-term items in massive quantities.
They just mean 7% inflation times 10. Like the whole idea of basis points in the interest rate increase. 25 basis points is 25% of a point. Burn this Babylonian money magic to the ground!!!!!!!!
costco and sams have been intentionally jacking prices since the plandemic started. I like watching shit sit still because it is priced too high and won't sell, you'll catch them dropping the price after a few days they sit stagnant.
Before I stopped calculating it in 2022, we were up to 30% inflation on the food items I buy compared to prices from January 2020, and I have the receipts to prove it. I'm seeing around 50% inflation on food since 2020 based on the lowest price I can get for certain items.
For example, steak in January 2020 was $2.99/lb. at the lowest price. Now it's $4.99/lb. at its lowest. That's a 66% increase. Crackers for the kids are up from $0.99 to $1.49, a ~50% increase. Even soda at Sam's Club, which I notice but never buy there, has gone from $9.98 for 36 cans to $15. A 50% increase. As for soda prices at the local grocery store, I was sometimes able to get Pepsi products for 16.5¢/can on the best sales in 2019. Now the very best sales are 31.26¢/can. Just about a 100% increase. Though, admittedly, that 16.5¢ per can was a ridiculously low price then. A more regular sale in January 2020 would have been about 20¢-25¢ per can, which is still a 50% increase.
I just spent about $300 on food from Sam's Club and it's nothing compared to what I used to be able to buy for the same amount. My food budget used to be $400/month on the high end. Now it's double and I'm still wondering why the refrigerator is empty.
Good on you for keeping receipts. I should have done that too. Will probably start now