Old Salt
Senior Member
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- New Brunswick, Canada!
I know that we are limited in what we can do but being good consumers when it comes to shopping helps keep the prices down! I always had a spiteful feeling of pleasure everytime I took on the Giants! There take that! But I don't think they ever noticed!
That's why I am standing on my soap box today and brag about the things that I have done and hope others will imitate. Just think if all of us, including the visitors to this forum, did ridiculous things like
a) refuse to buy anything that has too dramatically increased in price, even if we have the dough to afford it! Years ago my wife and I stopped buying Carnation tinned condensed milk when it went from 49 cents a tin to 79 cents overnight! Yes, it was that long ago, but we never went back! We stopped buying Pringles when they reduced their tins but kept the same price and within weeks increased that as well! You get the picture, be a bit more spiteful and childish and say to h... withyou, I am not playing your game!
b) watch the size of what you are used to buying! Have you ever noticed the size of the big plastic bottles containing your favourite vitamins? 30 pills of Vitamin C rattling around in a bottle that could easily hold ten times as many pills! Buy some apples instead, unless their price has gone through the roof as well. Then you'll just have to boycott them until the price has gone down!
Or the opposite, check the side of your favourite tissues for contents, as one example. Same boxes, same price but now it's 188 sheets instead of 200! Big deal, you say. Well, all I am saying is that it would keep them honest if you looked for a brand that still has 200 to the box! There is one, I just don't want to promote it!
Same with yogurt. I mentioned this before but this is the most outrageous example of them all! The incredible shrinking size over a period of years. You can't do much about that now, they'll defend their actions by, well, everything has gone up in price, and we only made it more affordable by reducing the size. What do I do? I suppress my Yogurt craving until there is a sale, That's quite frequent if you are not stuck on a certain brand!
And finally c) when it comes to groceries, get a weekly flyer by email and shop the sales. If they can be frozen or are tinned buy more than you need, they won't get any cheaper, I promise. Nothing does!
This applies to everything, don't be impulsive, wait for a sale. There invariably is one!
Okay, now I'm done. Sorry for being so preachy, but it's in my blood! I had a long stretch when we were relatively poor, so being aggravated by egregious profiteering bothers me to this day!
That's why I am standing on my soap box today and brag about the things that I have done and hope others will imitate. Just think if all of us, including the visitors to this forum, did ridiculous things like
a) refuse to buy anything that has too dramatically increased in price, even if we have the dough to afford it! Years ago my wife and I stopped buying Carnation tinned condensed milk when it went from 49 cents a tin to 79 cents overnight! Yes, it was that long ago, but we never went back! We stopped buying Pringles when they reduced their tins but kept the same price and within weeks increased that as well! You get the picture, be a bit more spiteful and childish and say to h... withyou, I am not playing your game!
b) watch the size of what you are used to buying! Have you ever noticed the size of the big plastic bottles containing your favourite vitamins? 30 pills of Vitamin C rattling around in a bottle that could easily hold ten times as many pills! Buy some apples instead, unless their price has gone through the roof as well. Then you'll just have to boycott them until the price has gone down!
Or the opposite, check the side of your favourite tissues for contents, as one example. Same boxes, same price but now it's 188 sheets instead of 200! Big deal, you say. Well, all I am saying is that it would keep them honest if you looked for a brand that still has 200 to the box! There is one, I just don't want to promote it!
Same with yogurt. I mentioned this before but this is the most outrageous example of them all! The incredible shrinking size over a period of years. You can't do much about that now, they'll defend their actions by, well, everything has gone up in price, and we only made it more affordable by reducing the size. What do I do? I suppress my Yogurt craving until there is a sale, That's quite frequent if you are not stuck on a certain brand!
And finally c) when it comes to groceries, get a weekly flyer by email and shop the sales. If they can be frozen or are tinned buy more than you need, they won't get any cheaper, I promise. Nothing does!
This applies to everything, don't be impulsive, wait for a sale. There invariably is one!
Okay, now I'm done. Sorry for being so preachy, but it's in my blood! I had a long stretch when we were relatively poor, so being aggravated by egregious profiteering bothers me to this day!
