Grocery Surprises, What's Got Your Goat With High Price?

[Gadfly22]

21 hours ago, Luv2play said:

We haven't seen those prices since the 1970's.

Its true. Scout’s honor! I was gonna link the circular but unfortunately it doesn’t mention the above items. I think its because its not even a sale. That’s the normal price. Aldi in Union, NJ if anyone is interested. Not all Aldi’s have the same prices, though, even when not separated by a great distance. So I can’t vouch for any others. I’ve also been to the one in Edison. Not as good.

[Gadfly22]

21 hours ago, Deadlift1 said:

Most of Aldi beef and chicken is grass fed hormone free too.  Good place for chocolate too.

Trader Joe’s also has excellent chocolate 🍫. Very cheap.

[Deadlift1]

Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi so it is most likely the same.  And it is good!  

[samhexum]

On 10/3/2021 at 7:39 PM, Deadlift1 said:

I now shop at Aldi and Lidl.  Trader Joe's is a separate division of Aldi Nord.  Aldi is trader Joe's without the psycho Karens.  Lidl has it's own Bakery pumping out artisan breads and pretzel rolls.  Inexpensive.  The bread gets sliced in front of you

 

On 10/5/2021 at 10:49 PM, tassojunior said:

Aldi, Lidl and Wal-Mart are amazingly cheaper for groceries.  My favorite at Aldi and Lidl are their big 49 cent avocados and all 3's $1.33 12-grain bread that's $5 everywhere else. 

Lidl, a discount grocery chain, is opening a 35,000-square-foot space in the lower level of Queens Place Mall in Elmhurst. The new store is estimated to open in 2024, making it the first grocery store at the mall.

There is only one other location in the borough at 19-30 37th St. in Astoria.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. said the Astoria location has been a big hit, and he’s looking forward to the same success when the new store opens in Elmhurst. 

“Lidl is well-known for its good-paying jobs, affordable prices and its diverse, healthy and high-quality food offerings, so we are very excited that the company will be opening a second store here in Queens,” Richards said.

Lidl has previously been recognized by Food & Wine Magazine and USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards for its shopping experience. 

The new store will replace DSW, whose lease ends in August. 

Tom Grech, president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, said that he is pleased to have a second location of the globally-recognized company in the borough.

“This supermarket will seek to create quality job opportunities and provide an affordable place to buy groceries for residents of Elmhurst and the surrounding neighborhoods,” Grech said. “We look forward to celebrating the opening in 2024 and shopping at the Queens Place Mall Lidl for years to come.”

Edited July 15, 2022 by samhexum
just for the hell of it

[+ LIguy]

i have several supermarkets within a 2-3 mile radius around me so i think they get competitive pricewise....been to the Lidl twice and they had very little of the sale items and i found it to be like an upscale dollar store....This past Friday the first Amazon Fresh on Long Island opened up but I'll wait a few weeks before checking it out.....Love Stop n Shop because I can scan on my phone and bag items as I shop and just go to the self checkout...scan the code..pay and i'm out.

[spider]

On 10/6/2021 at 8:10 PM, Deadlift1 said:

Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi so it is most likely the same.  And it is good!  

No, it isn't. It is owned by the Aldi family, which also owns  Trader Joe's but that's it

https://www.almostallaldi.com/are-aldi-and-trader-joes-the-same-company/

[Deadlift1]

Go climb a tree Karen!!!!!!

[+ Billsboy4]

I was in Gelson's (a high end grocery store in LA) and red cherries were $10.99/lb and rainier (white cherries) were $15.99/lb........crazy!

[+ Lucky]

On 10/5/2021 at 9:46 PM, tassojunior said:

In fairness gasoline, a huge inflation factor, is in the stratosphere at 3.50 a gallon

 

The stratosphere ain't what it used to be!

[MikeBiDude]

1 hour ago, Lucky said:

The stratosphere ain't what it used to be!

What’s next? Mesosphere? Thermosphere? Exosphere!!

Geek alert, licensed HAM radio operators know these levels.

[BSR]

6 hours ago, Billsboy4 said:

I was in Gelson's (a high end grocery store in LA) and red cherries were $10.99/lb and rainier (white cherries) were $15.99/lb........crazy!

Were people actually buying them, or did they just snap photos of the prices and post the pix to their Instagram??

[mike carey]

On 7/19/2022 at 4:06 AM, Billsboy4 said:

I was in Gelson's (a high end grocery store in LA) and red cherries were $10.99/lb and rainier (white cherries) were $15.99/lb........crazy!

I had to google what the cherry season is in the US. Turns out they are still in season, but this was a bad year for them, frosts in CA, too wet, too cold in OR. So in large part it could well be just that there aren't many of them available. (I seem to remember they were $10/kg here last summer (i.e. in January).)

[Epigonos]

I have traditionally been very conscious of prices in grocery stores. Nowadays I go in buy what I want and ask the checker to throw the receipt away. Frankly I'm NOT going to stop entertaining and thus I buy what I need to do so and to hell with the prices. However, is seems that most people, myself included, are very concerned about inflation. I vividly remember what it was like during the Carter Administration.

[+ Pensant]

On 7/20/2022 at 9:21 AM, Epigonos said:

I have traditionally been very conscious of prices in grocery stores. Nowadays I go in buy what I want and ask the checker to throw the receipt away. Frankly I'm NOT going to stop entertaining and thus I buy what I need to do so and to hell with the prices. However, is seems that most people, myself included, are very concerned about inflation. I vividly remember what it was like during the Carter Administration.

And the Ford administration.

[+ augustus]

On 7/20/2022 at 8:26 AM, mike carey said:

I had to google what the cherry season is in the US. Turns out they are still in season, but this was a bad year for them, frosts in CA, too wet, too cold in OR. So in large part it could well be just that there aren't many of them available. (I seem to remember they were $10/kg here last summer (i.e. in January).)

I heard on the news that a head of lettuce is $12 in Australia.  Is that true?

[+ augustus]

Go to Costco for a hot dog and large soda at $1.50.  Together!  They haven't raised the price on this for 25 years.

[Epigonos]

Costco has also not changed the $4.99 price of their huge rotisserie chickens. If I’m making Enchilada Casseroles or Chinese Chicken Salad for a large party, I NEVER buy and cook chickens. I simply buy them at Costco and shred them it’s far cheaper.  There is a Costco four blocks from my home and I use it as my regular grocery store. I absolutely love the place. I usually go in looking for one item and come home with a full grocery cart.  Costco isn't always the cheapest but I love their business and employee practices therefore I regularly shop there.  I used to be a fan of Trader Joe's but definitely NOT so much since Aldi bought out the chain.

Edited July 23, 2022 by Epigonos

[BtmBearDad]

Everything has gone up. But my “holy sh*t!” moment happened yesterday. I needed a couple of things, one being eggs. At the register as the cashier was ringing everything up, I saw the eggs scan at $6.29! These were a regular dozen jumbos - nothing fancy, nothing organic, or free range, or name brand. I was well, and truly gobsmacked. 😮
I remember before covid a dozen jumbos were under $2 - and if on sale $.99 a dozen. Crazy! 

As an aside, I can remember my parents having conversations like this when I was child, and now having these same conversations myself, I feel positively ancient!

 

BBD AKA Methuselah 

[samhexum]

1 hour ago, BtmBearDad said:

BBD AKA Methuselah 

   🤣😂😝

[mike carey]

7 hours ago, augustus said:

I heard on the news that a head of lettuce is $12 in Australia.  Is that true?

Close enough (that would be $US8.20) but it varies so that's the high marker. That was for iceberg lettuces, others like cos were much less, at close to normal levels or slighty more. Here, high produce prices have been almost entirely caused by repeated floods in the farming areas. More of the 'specialist' lettuces (for want of a better word) are grown hydroponically and have been less flood-affected.

(I was about to go to the shops so waited. Today at my local, one of the two big chains, icebergs were $6.90 (US4.75) and a pack of two cos $4.50 (US3.10).)

[samhexum]

On 7/22/2022 at 5:24 PM, augustus said:

Go to Costco for a hot dog and large soda at $1.50.  Together!  They haven't raised the price on this for 25 years.

 

A top Costco Wholesale executive confirmed the big-box retailer has no plans to change the price of its $1.50 hot dog-and-soda combo at its stores despite months of decades-high inflation.

Costco CFO Richard Galanti reiterated the cheap price point on the fan-favorite deal would stay in place during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday.

An analyst asked whether Costco was adjusting prices in other parts of its business to maintain sales margins for its hot dog-and-soda deal and other value offerings.

“Lightning just struck me,” Galanti joked when the combo was mentioned. He added that higher-margin businesses such as gas and travel sales help Costco maintain its value deals.

“Those things help us be more aggressive in other areas, or as you mentioned, hold the price on the hot dog and the soda a little longer – forever,” Galanti added.

[pubic_assistance]

8 hours ago, samhexum said:

A top Costco Wholesale executive confirmed the big-box retailer has no plans to change the price of its $1.50 hot dog-and-soda combo at its stores.

Being the child of a family who's relatives raised beef cattle; we were expected to help out on their farm over the summer. One memory that sticks out in my mind, is shoveling the various discarded bits of ears, nose, penis and feet into a garbage bin and tossing that into a grinder for hot dogs. 🤢 You couldn't pay me to eat a hot dog to this day.

[MikeBiDude]

2 hours ago, pubic_assistance said:

Being the child of a family who's relatives raised beef cattle; we were expected to help out on their farm over the summer. One memory that sticks out in my mind, is shoveling the various discarded bits of ears, nose, penis and feet into a garbage bin and tossing that into a grinder for hot dogs. 🤢 You couldn't pay me to eat a hot dog to this day.

I’d challenge you to find a hot dog product today in the USA with that offal. 

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

On 7/22/2022 at 2:24 PM, augustus said:

Go to Costco for a hot dog and large soda at $1.50.  Together!  They haven't raised the price on this for 25 years.

No, but they've stopped using sesame seed rolls and switched from Coke to Pepsi.   Yuck!  I wish they would have just raised prices instead!

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

2 hours ago, Vegas_nw1982 said:

On 7/22/2022 at 2:24 PM, augustus said:

Go to Costco for a hot dog and large soda at $1.50.  Together!  They haven't raised the price on this for 25 years.

No, but they've stopped using sesame seed rolls and switched from Coke to Pepsi.   Yuck!  I wish they would have just raised prices instead!

And... They stopped offering onions and sour krout.  So inflation is indeed real.  If someone is not raising prices, then they're cutting size or service.