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Re: Price Inflation 

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (2)
Sat, 10 Jul 21 2:40 AM | 32 view(s)
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I'm over here eating ice cream tonight. Do you remember when ice cream containers were 1/2 gallon? Then, a few years ago, they suddenly moved to 1.75 quarts. And today I notice that all the ice cream I'm buying is 1.5 quarts. That's 25% less in what seems like a very short time.

And then there's orange juice. It came in 64 ounce cartons only a year ago. The store brand still is 64 ounces, but all the name brands are down to 52. 18% less.

My favorite, though, is what they're doing with canned soda. Yes, the 12 oz 6-packs are still available, but they're just one liberal "we know what's best for you" vote away from being replaced with 7.5 oz 8-packs already on the shelf. What I find interesting here is how the soda companies introduced the new cans AS A FAVOR TO US - because they were supposedly being deluged with requests by health nuts to make the cans smaller. I don't know about you folks, but I think that a person who drinks soda in ANY quantity is a poor excuse for a health nut - but then I'm old fashioned. In any event, the new 8-packs have 17% less soda than the 6-packs.

You can see the direction things are heading. By this time next year, I expect CTJ will find that his boat fuel is being sold at a lower price but per 1.75 liter instead of gallon. You know, as a favor to him.




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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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Re: Price Inflation
By: ribit in 6TH POPE
Wed, 07 Jul 21 10:02 PM 		Msg. 19703 of 60014

...mz decomp probaly has him well insured. Ya can never tell when an old fart like him is gonna fall down, get tangled up in tomatoe fencing and get eaten by fire ants. She gets double indemnity for that, but she don't get to keep the body for her "hedgehog stew" recipe.

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