What Products Have Priced Themselves Right Out Of Your Shopping Cart?

I caved in to the pressure today and bought 6 eggs for $4.25. Also bought 1 pack of "thin sliced" fresh chicken breast weighing 1.15 lbs for $8.10. A second pack of chicken breast that was NOT thin sliced weighing 1.32 lbs for $7.05. WTH is going on...lol Is this all because of bird flu???? I understand the whole supply and demand concept but the meat section of the market slicing the chicken thin and charging more is definitely price gouging.
 

UpstateGal said:
I caved in to the pressure today and bought 6 eggs for $4.25. Also bought 1 pack of "thin sliced" fresh chicken breast weighing 1.15 lbs for $8.10. A second pack of chicken breast that was NOT thin sliced weighing 1.32 lbs for $7.05. WTH is going on...lol Is this all because of bird flu???? I understand the whole supply and demand concept but the meat section of the market slicing the chicken thin and charging more is definitely price gouging.
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I would think in Upstate NY if NY you would have egg farm / vendors by you ?

I assumed Upstate NY due to owl pic .
 
UpstateGal said:
I caved in to the pressure today and bought 6 eggs for $4.25. Also bought 1 pack of "thin sliced" fresh chicken breast weighing 1.15 lbs for $8.10. A second pack of chicken breast that was NOT thin sliced weighing 1.32 lbs for $7.05. WTH is going on...lol Is this all because of bird flu???? I understand the whole supply and demand concept but the meat section of the market slicing the chicken thin and charging more is definitely price gouging.
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Sometimes I wonder.
Luckily for me I'm not a big egg eater.
 
Haven't read the whole thread so someone has probably already mentioned it, but I don't buy bacon anymore...too expensive nowadays.
 
Beezer said:
The Dollar Store sells small bottles of Parmesan near where I live for $4.00. I buy it there all of the time.
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Hmmmm. $4.00 seems expensive but I guess it depends upon the size of the "small bottles". We have a Dollar Store here in town. I just now checked the internet but all I see is parmesan "chips". The price is fine (y) but I can't sprinkle it on my pasta. :( ... or maybe I can!

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spookycat said:
Had a bit of a laugh reading this, as I'm not a fan of Mayonnaise. I thought I could invent my own brand and call it Hellnoman.
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I hear that.

Decades ago we'd had a lot of rain for an extended period. Lawn had to be mowed, wet or not. Bagged the clippings in black plastic and piled the bags on the South side of the house until I figured out how to get rid of them.

Sun came out for the new few days, and by a week the bags puffed up. Opened one, full of white bacterial foam! That's mayo to me.
 
I guess that shrinkflation is how Rose's marmalade priced itself out of my shopping basket, for decades I bought it almost exclusively. When I brought home a 375 gram it looked like the 500 gram jar's little sibling.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
My most recent is I Can't Believe It's ...
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OMG, as I read this I automatically stopped reading with "it's" and thought "... a girdle".

Wasn't there such a Playtex ad "I can't believe it's a girdle" several decades ago.

As I was a boy, at first I wondered why my mother needed quite some time getting ready for formal events. As I noticed this thing in the bathroom I knew the reason :ROFLMAO:

To be serious: I don't remember one single product my wife and me had to cut. We were always living frugally, hence nothing to cut. But we don't miss something.
 
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I've never seen Parmesan in a jar. We buy it as a solid wedge and grate it as necessary. The genuine article is expensive, but we buy a similar Italian cheese which is much cheaper. No problem with eggs here although the price varies according to whether they're from caged birds, free range, organic etc.. Reasonable quality medium eggs are around £2 ( 2.48 $) a dozen.
 
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