All food items are high now. I buy most of my stuff from Costco, especially bulk stuff and lesser quantities of things from Rouses near me.

Dave's Killer Bread in a 2 loaf package was $9 where it was not quite $7 not long ago. I don't buy them, but noticed the 30 pack of 12 oz. sodas are over $17 now and were around $12 a year ago.

Egg prices have gone up a damn near double what they were a year ago.

At Rouses, the last time I got some Chisesi Ham, it was almost $8 a lb. and a little over a year ago is was just over $4 a lb. unless on sale---and it was less than that.

And this one has been going on for years and I can't understand the crazy pricing. I grow okra and know it grows like a damn weed, is hard to kill, is drought tolerant and requires very little in the way of maintenance except picking the pods when they are ready.

Almost any supermarket I'm in has okra priced at $3.99 a lb. and it is usually some of the nastiest looking produce they offer with pods being limp, turning color, etc.

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Posted by HeyCap

Member since Nov 2014

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Posted on 4/28/23 at 8:29 am to gumbo2176

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At Rouses, the last time I got some Chisesi Ham, it was almost $8 a lb. and a little over a year ago is was just over $4 a lb.

Among everything else listed this one gave me sticker shock. For health reasons I cut way back on consumption of deli meats but decided to cheat a little recently. There were very few choices for less than $10/lb! (Zuppardo's) I also don't understand the large increase in bread prices. Maybe as a necessity they feel they can gouge, but milk hasn't skyrocketed like bread.
On the plus side chicken wings are as cheap as they've ever been ($1.29/lb recently) so there's that.

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Posted by Tigers4Lyfe

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 5/1/23 at 3:32 pm to gumbo2176