Disguising Price Increases(No Politics Please)

[Sue_CT]

The new crop of Russets, meaning this years harvest instead of stored old harvest? I think the early ones dug every year might tend to be thinner skinned and the later ones develop thicker skins? I have never grown them so not sure about that.

[karstopography]

Prices are coming down here on a few items. Limes were once about fifty cents, now eighteen. Small avocados were up around a dollar, now closer to 60 cents. I believe Aldi had their small avocadoes at 39 cents. I’m seeing eggs getting a little less expensive. A lot more beef is on sale now. Must all be related to lower fuel prices. Diesel seems to run all the farm equipment and all the transportation of feed, fertilizer and produce to market. Seems like some items are more sensitive to transportation costs than others.

Anyway, good to see some prices dropping.

[Sue_CT]

Fuel prices way down here too, but still .75 each for lemons and limes, avacodos at 1.00 each and that was advertised as a special, lol. Hopefully we will see more coming down soon.

[Tormahto]

The new crop of Russets, meaning this years harvest instead of stored old harvest? I think the early ones dug every year might tend to be thinner skinned and the later ones develop thicker skins? I have never grown them so not sure about that.

Yes, thy would likely be the first of this years harvest. The first of a years crop are called "new" because they are harvested at full size, but before they develop the thicker and fully russeted skin. These new ones have patches of thin russeting and patches of fairly smooth "whiteness" on them.

From what I've read, long storage potatoes like the russets, have about 9 months maximum storage potential, then it's on to the next crop. Of course, if potatoes are being shipped in from all over, not just the northern US and Canada, one can find some full russets year round.

[Danny]

For us, the "new" crop potatoes are a bit more wet as well as thinner skinned, even starchier ones like the russets. I sorta like it.

[worth1]

I thought there was a new variety of russet potatoes with a thin skin.
We just called them new potatoes and they were cooked with Kentucky wonder green beans and farm fresh bacon.
One year I grew some in a container and the vulture started giving them the eye.
Get away from them lazy vulture, they're all mine.

I can't believe you're not going to share, lazy vulture said.
Kiss off ya lazy bum.
I was so glad to get rid of that guy I drove him from Angleton Texas to Baton Rouge and dumped him off.
Then drove back in one day non stop.
620 miles round trip.

[Tormahto]

Currently, there are much less red and white potatoes, here, than the russets. I haven't seen Yukon Golds for awhile, but I also haven't searched all of the bins for them. There seems to always be a few small bags of fingerlings in stock, but they aren't popular, here. (too expensive). I wonder if people are somewhat "hoarding" the 5 to 10 pound bags of large potatoes (although the self life is fairly short in the summer). WalMart just had a large shipment come in a week ago, and they are all gone. Potato salad for the holiday?

"New" red potatoes are thin skinned and more of a pink color than the later dug thicker skinned darker reds. Same with the "new" whites, which are grown locally, being thinner skinned and whiter than the later harvested ones. If there is a local crop, there's severe drought here, they should be arriving fairly soon.

[worth1]

Darn mayonnaise is over 4 dollars a jar now.
All of them.
Some over 5 dollars.

[karstopography]

Except Burman’s is under $3. It’s good, too.

[Uncle_Feist]

A quart of Mayo is still a buck fitty at the salvage store with a huge selection of brands, some I've never seen before.

[Tormahto]

I haven't bought any mayo for several months. I missed my "mayo season" (mostly August), with nearly no tomato harvest this year.
The last time I picked up mayo, a generic store brand, it was $1.99 for a medium sized jar (about 32 oz ?). I don't even know if there has been shrinkflation with the mayo jars. I'd guess that it has gone up in price a bit since then, unless the jars are smaller.

I haven't done very much grocery shopping for a few months, outside of the same few select items, each week or so. There are likely a lot of things that I haven't looked at, that have gone up.

[karstopography]

Hellmann’s is 30 ounces and typically the priciest of the mainline mayonnaise around here. Duke’s is 32 ounces and around 15% cheaper than Hellmann’s. Blue Plate is 30 ounces and used to be cheaper than the rest, but that’s not true anymore. Kraft is 30 ounces. Burman’s is 30 ounces. Cain’s, not really a thing here, but is 30 ounces. Best Foods, 30 ounces. Walmart Great Value is 30 ounces, here that one is $3.48. Looks like Duke’s is the only 32 ounce well known brand.

Eggs went way up and brought Mayonnaise up with them. Eggs are creeping down a little in price here, but still way up there. A dog, one of their dogs, got into the coop and killed my daughter’s layers, but she’s got some more in the works.

[karstopography]

Mayonnaise season is year around here. I’ve got a nearly full 30 ounce jar of Blue Plate and a full 30 ounce jar of Burman’s and then a nearly empty Burman’s. Those will be all used up before the end of October if not sooner, possibly by the end of this month. Meanwhile, the ketchup jar will slowly darken and expire before even half of it gets used.

[bower]

Prices are still going up here. Big jumps on some items, like a full dollar on a bag of chips (was 2 for $6, now 2 for $8!).
Staples are up. 5 kilo bag of flour up a buck from $8 to $9. The $22 3L can of oil is now $24. Coffee sitting at $18 from $15. Can of beans gone from $1.19 to 1.79. Milk now over $4 for 2L. Cheese wars seem to be over, the lowest brand was $6.50 for 400 g. Fewer items now that are still the same price as last year.

[karstopography]

Wow, a gallon, 3.79 liters of milk is $2.68 here. All purpose flour, 25 lbs, 11.3 kilos is $8.57.

[Julianna]

A gallon of whole milk here from the cheap stores is about $5.50. I bet 2% is cheaper.

We got Thai food from our favorite place 2 weekends ago. When we first started in 2015, it was $8 an entree and that came with a large container of rice. By 2020 that had raised to $12-14, same size. Now it is $16 and the container is half the size and the rice is a small rice.

[worth1]

A gallon of whole milk here from the cheap stores is about $5.50. I bet 2% is cheaper.

We got Thai food from our favorite place 2 weekends ago. When we first started in 2015, it was $8 an entree and that came with a large container of rice. By 2020 that had raised to $12-14, same size. Now it is $16 and the container is half the size and the rice is a small rice.

Good lord.

[worth1]

I read Chipotle is doing away with a hack people discovered.
They basically buy a taco get a pile of free sides and a flour tortilla and build their own burrito for a little over 3 dollars or some such thing.
Not any more.

[Julianna]

I read Chipotle is doing away with a hack people discovered.
They basically buy a taco get a pile of free sides and a flour tortilla and build their own burrito for a little over 3 dollars or some such thing.
Not any more.

I do that at work.with the salad bar and the tortillas they have

[Julianna]

A gallon of whole milk here from the cheap stores is about $5.50. I bet 2% is cheaper.

We got Thai food from our favorite place 2 weekends ago. When we first started in 2015, it was $8 an entree and that came with a large container of rice. By 2020 that had raised to $12-14, same size. Now it is $16 and the container is half the size and the rice is a small rice.

Good lord.

I don't blame them. It is a family business. Monterey raised all the rents and their supplies have gone way up.

Last fall, my husband got this gift card when Zain was born from the people he supervises. He is not supposed ro accept gifts and so he thought he would bug the department lunches a couple times since they refused the money back.

We called this Indian restaurant where in 2019 -- for my other son's first birthday -- we had gotten a big roasting size aluminum tray of tandoori chicken for $66. They quoted us $300.

Had to say no. No idea if it would have even been the same amount either.