Everybody that likes to eat any sort of prepared food gets the economic squeeze.Hermskii wrote:Great argument about how other cost should have gone down by now. You have to ask your self who gets pinched in this current arrangement.
The original point of this thread was my rant against ever decreasing package sizes, and the sly packaging tricks that hide price increases.
It occurs to me that I may be constantly repeating myself in this thread, but nevertheless:
I forgot to mention that recently cheese makers up here reduced the size of their blocks of cheese. Kraft did it first, followed by Black Diamond a few weeks later. The size of the packages went from 500g to 450g. (454g = 1 pound) The effect is noticable. The bars of cheese are now narrower and shorter, and it is obvious that they don't last as long.
If you came up here and saw what we are paying per pound for cheese, you would not believe it. It's due to an outdated set of milk marketing board guidelines. Proposals to ensure that independent farmers (what few of them are left, as it's all agribusiness now) make a decent living while giving consumers a break with more realistic prices never seem to make it onto the government agenda.
When the Canadian dollar was at par, cross border shopping at American grocery stores was popular. The savings on food could be huge. Maybe I should move to Niagara Falls, so that I can be ready for when the dollar goes back up. There's all sorts of nice cheeses I would like to buy that NEVER go on sale here, and are way beyond my budget at their regular prices.