Heads up on large food price increases.

Mr. Gravy

Mr. Gravy

Veteran Member
I posted this in a thread on another forum but wanted to pass this along to my TB2K Friends:

I own a small mom and pop type restaurant in Florida. Last week I had three sales people (fron different national food service companys that I use) tell me that they had word from their bosses to pass on to their customers (Me) that major price increases are coming this month. One salesperson showed me a copy of their email and it showed increases from 10% to 70% across the board. I was also told to expect and plan for even more increases very soon.
Frying oil that use to run around $14.00 is now near $30.00 and told to expect $50.00 very soon. Flour, rice, pasta, ect all going up due to shortages and fuel charges. One of the salespeople was really scared with the news they got. Stock up while you can.

Mr. Gravy
 
Wise Owl

Wise Owl

Deceased
Yes, thanks. Nothing we didn't already suspect however.

I agree MzKitty. Double your sentiments for sure. I did a quickie to the grocery store cause I needed to get some other things in town yesterday. The stuff on sale was not really a sale in my book. The advertiser we got in the mail for that grocery store said "Stock up the pantry sale", HA! How can you do that when the prices on sale are doubled over even two months ago?

Going to have to figure out a way to create more income soon. Otherwise everyone will be burning thru their preps and when it really gets bad those preps will be gone.

Scary for sure.
 
F

frazbo

Veteran Member
Remember campbells tomato and chicken noodle soup...3/1.00, then 2/1.00? I re: when it was 10 cents a can. Well, the sale here two weeks ago had them 10/10.00. A DOLLAR A CAN!!!! Wholly guacamole! I get a whole case (home)canned in quarts for just a couple of bucks!
So basically, it's just "look out below" and then "look out below" that! Each week will give us a new level from which to pick and choose from.
Thanks y'all......
 
bw

bw

Fringe Ranger
This summer people will be in shock. Next summer they will be gardening.
 
M

Michiana MaJo

Deceased
NEXT summer they'll be gardening? I think a lot of people will be doing that, THIS summer. My neighbor and I plan to even plant veggies in our flower gardens.
We have regular gardens, out back, too, but not enough room for everything.
 
D

Deena in GA

Administrator
_______________
Thanks, Mr. Gravy! While it shouldn't be a shock to anyone here that food prices are rising, the amount of the increases you noted is staggering. It's almost funny in that the thought of what's coming is making me stop and think about every little purchase now.
 
G

garnetgirl

Veteran Member
Flour Price Alert

Yesterday, I added my observations to PrudentWatcher's thread, but they apply to this thread as well:


One of the items that I have been watching closely is a 5-lb. bag of King Arthur unbleached flour (not organic). A few weeks ago, it was $2.87 a bag on sale at my local Bi-Lo. Then it went up to $3.07 regular price and settled there for a few weeks. A few days ago, it was still at this price.

Folks, today that same bag has jumped to $4.49 for a 5-lb. bag!!!! I've been reading about this, expecting it to happen, watching for it to happen, and now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I STILL am shocked.


garnetgirl
 
T

Troke

Deceased
Yup, and one wonders what would have happened (or not happened) if the gov had not decided to divert 40% (?) of our corn production into ethanol.

One does have to wonder.

BTW, farm land values are going up vertically, like 15-25% in one year, way over capitalization. (Actual value based on what the land can produce)

Last time that happened (1981-84 about) two of my cousins lost their farms because they were using them as capital to buy additional acreage. Bad move when prices went down more than 50% in 1985 about and they could not come up with additional capital to cover the loan.
 
C

Copter Doctor

Inactive
Well now, let's use a gallon of fuel to make a gallon of ethanol. Let's subsidize the ethanol industry, 'cause they can't make a profit unless we do. Let's subsidize farmers to grow more corn for ethanol production. Corn that would have gone to feed cattle and humans.
That's OUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK!
Not to mention bailing out the subprime loan business, banks that were "encouraged" to make 'risky' subprime loans and folks (government un-educated) who bought homes they couldn't afford. So who is paying for all this government intervention? Mostly, the type of people who frequent TB2K.
I, for one, am FED UP! When is their government going to bail us out?
 
Mzkitty

Mzkitty

I give up.
Nobody is going to bail us. So prep now, if you haven't already. You see what Mr. Gravy said -- next week to next month, and it will probably get worse after that. I'm going shopping again tonight.



:dvl2:
 
D

Deena in GA

Administrator
_______________
The one thing we're having a hard time getting a handle on is when to quit buying and stocking. We've been trying to buy a little extra with the thought that it's only going to get higher. Well, it has gotten higher and we're continuing to buy even though the sale prices are much higher than they were because we think it's only going to go even higher. At some point we have to say, enough. But when is that point? It's more of a rhetorical question because I don't think we'll ever really know.
 
Mrs Smith

Mrs Smith

Inactive
In the same boat here Deena. I've promised DH I'd not walk into a grocery store for one month. There must be a limit, and surely there's a fine line between cautious prepping, and obsession. I'm about to fall off that line.
 
R

Red Rose

Contributing Member
Copter Doctor said:
Well now, let's use a gallon of fuel to make a gallon of ethanol. Let's subsidize the ethanol industry, 'cause they can't make a profit unless we do. Let's subsidize farmers to grow more corn for ethanol production. Corn that would have gone to feed cattle and humans.
That's OUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK!
Not to mention bailing out the subprime loan business, banks that were "encouraged" to make 'risky' subprime loans and folks (government un-educated) who bought homes they couldn't afford. So who is paying for all this government intervention? Mostly, the type of people who frequent TB2K.
I, for one, am FED UP! When is their government going to bail us out?
Click to expand...

As Jim Sinclair said in his recent 'I'm scared' article,

"FOCUS ON THE CONSEQUENCES"

Do whatever you are able to do... NOW.
 
bw

bw

Fringe Ranger
Michiana MaJo said:
NEXT summer they'll be gardening? I think a lot of people will be doing that, THIS summer.
Click to expand...

The GIs are already doing it, but the DGIs will spend the summer in denial, shock and blind hope. When it's too late to plant, they'll be starting to see the light. Everyone will be talking about gardening by fall, and next year, look out.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
_______________
City folks WILL NOT BE GARDENING (where would they do that?) They'll be RIOTING, and IMO justifiably so. Just in time for the elections....
 
O

Onebyone

Inactive
Flour will pass my purchase ability at $3.50 for a 5 lb bag. I saw that italian cooking show make noodles from potatoes. Anyone have bread recipe w\ potatoes?
 
Last edited:
sssarawolf

sssarawolf

We're just plugging along.
Oh how sad Troke :shk:
My fingers get burned every time I go to the store now, one iteem I used to buy went up $2.00 in 2 weeks, Picante sauce. We had a late freeze last yr(2ed weekend in June) and didnt have a good garden and it starts to freeze here by middle of Sept. I hope the weather is better this yr so it wont kill my tomatos and we can make our own.
 
Surprise

Surprise

Inactive
garnetgirl said:
Folks, today that same bag has jumped to $4.49 for a 5-lb. bag!!!!


garnetgirl
Click to expand...

:shkr: $4.49.....un-fricking-believable!

Things sure are in a mess. Most worried I have ever been in my adult life.

I cannot see any light at all at the end of the tunnel. SIL said maybe things would turn around after the elections......:rolleyes: I thought to myself, oh pleeeeeassee.......:kk1:
 
Last edited:
M

mbo

Membership Revoked
Dennis Olson said:
City folks WILL NOT BE GARDENING (where would they do that?) They'll be RIOTING, and IMO justifiably so. Just in time for the elections....
Click to expand...

justifiably so????


Gee, now there's an inalienable right to mandated food prices????
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
_______________
No mbo, but the mega-corps DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to bleed us dry, and then bleed us some more. Like the often-spoken-of trucker strike, at some point it will be necessary to TAKE A STAND.
 
C

cecilia

Senior Member
the best way to " take a stand" is to take control and responsibility of our own situations. Plant a garden. Almost everyone has the ability to grow some food regardless of where you live. Truth is even if you live in a apartment you can have chickens. Just keep them in a dog kennel or something similiar.3 or 4 chickens will do a family nicely and you don't have to have a rooster to get eggs.Bargain shop and learn to really cook from scratch, not from a box, etc.,,,,,,,,,,
 
energy_wave

energy_wave

Has No Life - Lives on TB
It's in the Bible. Something about...there will be a period of great inflation, followed by a great deflation and...something about... you will toil all day to buy bread and food.

I have no idea what passages they are but I remember reading them at some point in my life.
 
Michigan Majik

Michigan Majik

FreeSpirit, with attitude
garnetgirl said:
Yesterday, I added my observations to PrudentWatcher's thread, but they apply to this thread as well:


One of the items that I have been watching closely is a 5-lb. bag of King Arthur unbleached flour (not organic). A few weeks ago, it was $2.87 a bag on sale at my local Bi-Lo. Then it went up to $3.07 regular price and settled there for a few weeks. A few days ago, it was still at this price.

Folks, today that same bag has jumped to $4.49 for a 5-lb. bag!!!! I've been reading about this, expecting it to happen, watching for it to happen, and now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I STILL am shocked.


garnetgirl
Click to expand...
Not so long ago that same five pound bag of flour was only 89 cents...
Thanks for the info Mr. Gravy.
 
Mzkitty

Mzkitty

I give up.
cecilia said:
the best way to " take a stand" is to take control and responsibility of our own situations. Plant a garden. Almost everyone has the ability to grow some food regardless of where you live. Truth is even if you live in a apartment you can have chickens. Just keep them in a dog kennel or something similiar.3 or 4 chickens will do a family nicely and you don't have to have a rooster to get eggs.Bargain shop and learn to really cook from scratch, not from a box, etc.,,,,,,,,,,
Click to expand...

You can't be serious!! As a for-instance, while I live in a cute little residential neighborhood, I also live in a little apartment house on a corner and it HAS NO LAWN, there is NOWHERE TO PLANT ANYTHING, and further my apartment does not get much sun. Fortunately, I don't think I'll have to worry about it, given my current job situation, at least for a while. There are millions upon millions of apartment buildings with the same situation, most a LOT bigger than mine.

.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
_______________
MzK, people that have the land and opportunity to garden seem to think that EVERYONE can do the same. Total DGI myopia IMO....
 
Mzkitty

Mzkitty

I give up.
Dennis Olson said:
MzK, people that have the land and opportunity to garden seem to think that EVERYONE can do the same. Total DGI myopia IMO....
Click to expand...


Well, it's like people will find out when those hungry hoards start roaming and smashing, I guess, just like everybody always feared, Dennis. Because I don't think the idiot .gov is going to be able to hand out any goodies fast enough to satiate them, you know? And first they'll rampage what stores are still around. I know I'm talking nightmare scenario here. But if those prices indeed get jacked up to the sky, I don't think even the millions on food stamps are going to be able to survive. And then it really gets nasty.

I worry.

:(
 
C

cecilia

Senior Member
People would be much better off if they spent as much time thinking about how they can do something as they spent whinning about why they can't. Planters can be made from scrap wood and a few nails fo next to nothing. Most warehouses have tons of scrap pallets and wood they love getting rid of.Grow lights can be purchased for 20 bucks or so. There is always a solution if you are willing to look for one.
 
M

mbo

Membership Revoked
Dennis Olson said:
No mbo, but the mega-corps DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to bleed us dry, and then bleed us some more. Like the often-spoken-of trucker strike, at some point it will be necessary to TAKE A STAND.
Click to expand...



That's correct, a "mega-corp" does not have a "right..." (BTW, touchy-feely 'holistic' teeny-tiny and 'natural' food producers are ALWAYS more expensive, often just because of the cachet alone)

But that's subterfuge or just plain weasel-words. Define "bleeding us dry" and then state what mandates, regulations, quotas, laws, etc. you would propose as brand-new government expansionist policy to force ANYONE to charge 'X' for a crate of tangerines, or Wheaties, or jam.


I tire of sound bites purely for political purpose meant to ingratiate the citizenry. Food prices are up largely due to energy prices being up. If you can point out some specific area of gouging it would be more revealing.

Food prices are higher in urban areas because of rampant theft, shoplifting, credit fraud and check bouncing. Supermarket chains must NATURALLY account for such increased costs, if they even want to locate in some of these areas.

Detroit, for example, does not have a single big-chain supermarket, because of the inability to make any money.
 
Last edited:
T

Turnpike Jim

Inactive
People would be much better off if they spent as much time thinking about how they can do something as they spent whinning about why they can't
Click to expand...

Exactly!

Let's see, some examples from the store today;

$.99 24 oz Wheat or White Split top Bread

$3.00 31 oz Kellog's Frosted Flakes

$.99 8 oz Cream Cheese

$1.39 10lb Potato's

$2.29 Gallon Milk

$2.49 lb Bottom Round Roast


Just because something is listed at a certain price doesn't mean you have to buy it. Buy the sales, mitigate, compensate, get a better job, education, or move somewhere cheaper. The cry-babies do get tiresome.

Jim
 
Conrad Nimikos

Conrad Nimikos

Who is Henry Bowman
what is the name of your restaurant and where is it located. I'll bring my family for a meal. PM me if you don't want the name here.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
_______________
mbo, I soncerely hope that one day YOU AND YOUR FAMILY get so financially strapped that you don't have two nickels to rub together. You obviously have NO CLUDE as to the plight of "regular people" (that would be the "little people" to elitists like you). I hope that at some point you get to join them, just for a taste of the real world. I find you elitist DGI myopic rants absolutely intolerable.
 
brandyh29

brandyh29

Inactive
mbo said:
If you can point out some specific area of gouging it would be more revealing.
Click to expand...

Not food related, but I live in a quiet community 35 miles NW of Atlanta. Anyways the gas station by my house charges 15-20 cents more per gallon for gas than the stations in town, just simply cause the owner can. Theres no competition for around 10 miles so he charges more cause he wants to & gets away with it. The cashiers in that store have told me this. *that is gouging. I do not buy gas there BTW.
 
M

mbo

Membership Revoked
Dennis Olson said:
mbo, I soncerely hope that one day YOU AND YOUR FAMILY get so financially strapped that you don't have two nickels to rub together. You obviously have NO CLUDE as to the plight of "regular people" (that would be the "little people" to elitists like you). I hope that at some point you get to join them, just for a taste of the real world. I find you elitist DGI myopic rants absolutely intolerable.
Click to expand...


Wow, just wow.


Seems to me that we had a Great Depression once, without all the "justified" rioting.


When someone threatens my family, and invades my home, since that's what rioting is all about, if you had a clue, then I take offense at those who would set the mindset for such.

Apparently, your thoughts go to yourself, and your immediate needs, and to what extent you will justify your own illegal actions and those around you. I call that clueless. It's immature at best to declare that riots in the name of food prices are justified. Those that are harmed by riots are the innocent, not the "elitists" snug in their gated communities, if YOU had a clue.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
The price increases are certainly perculating down the chain much quicker now. I paid close to $3.70 for fuel today. I went into the store to pay and decided to pick up a few items. For a small sandwich on a croissant I paid $3.58 and for a small 8oz package of colby cheese I paid $3.19 for it.

I am very, very thankful that God gave me the wisdom to know what is coming a number of years ago and the foresight to make provision for these days. And this is only the beginning. Were not in the middle of it or seeing the end. These are just the first few waves of the hurricane washing up on the beach or the first lightning strike of the storm of the century.
 
dimensiondancer

dimensiondancer

Inactive
One bright light in all of this, many people will be eating less and losing weight.

We are a nation of fatties anyway. I have cut back myself and am eating the $1.00 frozen dinners at lunch, less than 300 calories.

Lose weight, get healthier = less doctor bills = lower insurance costs.

JMO, trying to make lemonaide out of this lemon world.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top