Food prices expected to rise

Expatriated said:
You can spot this at the supermarket yourself. First, the prices remain the same but the size of the product gets smaller. This happened recently at Wal-Mart with coffee, as just one example. That's the first step as the manufacturers try to "ease" things into play.
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The price doesn't always remain the same, either. :D

I do know what you are talking about. My brother and I buy a lot of Ro-Tel. Over the last two years the contents of the can have almost been cut by a third or a half, it varied from can to can. They filled up the rest with juice/water. Ro-Tel has been getting better as of late with more maters and peppers in them, I guess ConAgra got a lot of complaints or something.

But you see it with green beans, corn, peas and everything else. Campbell's soup, less in the can or more liquid, etc.

Buying chicken, they make sure they put liquid in the package, the old Butcher's thumb on the scale. When they do that from time to time, I throw the package right back in the case, just for that reason. I have tap water at home, I'm not paying for it when I buy chicken, too.
 
This takes me back to when milk went to over 5 bucks a gallon. I have been watching gas prices inch up over the last couple of months. Food usually follows right behind. I already noticed at the Walmart that canned veggies have gone up about a dime. I buy these crappy Micheleno tv dinners for work because they are 99 cents and I don't eat much at work. The other day went to grab some and they are up to 1.22.

We are fixing to have more regulations on food for safety purposes and you can just about bet that will drive it up more. I have become the person I thought I could never afford to be. 25% of the staples I get at Walmart and the other 75% I get organic at Whole Foods.

Never thought I could really afford to shop there but with prices on the rise, I might as well get the best food I can for my money.
 
tersfeld said:
It's not going to get better either. Wheather all over the world basically has been EXTREME, it's causing, and going to continue to cause alot of problems. Gas here just jump up from about 3.08 a gallon yesterday or the day before, to 3.15 a gallon today.
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Yup, gas went up here about a month ago, and stayed there. The local news did a story about how many local products are shrinking in size\volume from bread to mayonnaise, etc. We have all seen prices rise but I doubt that I've seen product shrinkage. Maybe China will start shipping soilent green to North America. ;)
 
From all I'm hearing and reading, alot of people are saying that the gas prices back in 08' will seem tame. they expect Oil to go over $147.00 a Barrel. Soon we will be Saying "remember when it was only $147.00 a barrel" Is what one analiyst said.

$5.00 a gallon here we come........
 
Do any of you have a clue what you're talking about? Repeating rumors, speculating on worst-case situations. No comprehensive, Y2K style preparations for the emergency or long run.

Put the comic books away and go to work. :)
 
All info comes from somewhere. If you choose not to listen, that's your choice. I don't take things lightly, nor do I listen to EVERYTHING I hear. But I do know when something makes sense. Some people just like to stick there heads in the sand and pretend bad things will never happen.......Those people will be the first ones begging at your doorstep, looking for a hand out.

If people can't see what is going on around the world, then there really is no hope for them. you just can't convince some people. To hard to deal with the thought of what is to come for most of them I guess!
 
Ha. I bet I've lived through more history than you've read about. Most of mankind has dealt with shortages, emergencies, and misery more often than not. Pretending we are on the cusp of the worst ever is short-sighted. Learn from what's happened before, learn what your options are. And realize that many of the doom-sayers are linked to for-profit financial advisors.
 
Kinda proved my point! Also remember, Assuming is the mother of all F'up's As far as your first sentence goes anyway!

I may not be 60+, but I'm not 20 either ;-)
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Do any of you have a clue what you're talking about? Repeating rumors, speculating on worst-case situations. No comprehensive, Y2K style preparations for the emergency or long run.

Put the comic books away and go to work. :)
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I don't know about everyone else, but what I posted is a fact, not fiction.

When the gas and diesel go up, food prices and everything else do go up as well. That's the main, valuable point in all of this. I don't care about "Y2K" or the rest of that stuff, however. :)
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Ha. I bet I've lived through more history than you've read about. Most of mankind has dealt with shortages, emergencies, and misery more often than not. Pretending we are on the cusp of the worst ever is short-sighted. Learn from what's happened before, learn what your options are. And realize that many of the doom-sayers are linked to for-profit financial advisors.
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And if we were talking about the whole of mankind you would be correct.
What you didn't say is that some survived and some perished. The world population is 7 billion moving toward 10 B by 2050.
What is happening in Tunisia has gotten the middle eastern governments worried because food prices are up, unemployment is up, energy prices are up, population is growing in size and discontent.
 
I don't lnow about anything else but working as a butcher I can tell you the price of meat is going up.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Ha. I bet I've lived through more history than you've read about.
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Should we start calling you Esav Pre-Cambrian? :D

Most of mankind has dealt with shortages, emergencies, and misery more often than not.
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That's very true and I don't think anyone here would deny it. But its really not a relevant point is it?

After all...

Pretending we are on the cusp of the worst ever is short-sighted.
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It doesn't have to be the "worst ever" and I don't think anybody's claiming it is. At least not in this thread that I've noticed. But even if it isn't the worst in the history of Mankind, if it's just the worst we've ever seen, isn't that bad enough?

"Rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10."

If the worst pain you've ever felt is a papercut, that's a 10.
If you get into a car accident the next day and lose both arms, suddenly your scale is recalibrated.

But having somebody look at your armless carcass and say "It could be worse. Other people have had it worse." doesn't grow your arms back.

Learn from what's happened before, learn what your options are.
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I think a lot of folk here are doing exactly that. Hopefully they're taking advantage of some of those options while they still exist.

And realize that many of the doom-sayers are linked to for-profit financial advisors.
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Some are, but since the big players make money both ways, getting rich when the market rises, and getting rich when the market falls, they really don't give a crap what us little folks do.

Words to the wise are words to the wise, regardless of whether they come via "rumor" or born on the wings of angels.

Besides, all the "rumors" posted so far in this thread are of the Captain Obvious variety.
 
Maybe I'm just different, maybe I have a bit too much nerd in me or something, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of TV shows but I do like movies (and music). One of the things that I love the most about DVDs is most of the time you get a chance to listen to the Director's Commentary or some other person's commentary in the special/bonus features. On the version I purchased for "The Grapes of Wrath," they had a Steinbeck Historian and one or two other people doing the commentary and it was incredibly interesting, to say the least.

The Historian had remarked that at no other time was this country so close to having a communist revolution as loomed during our "Great Depression."

Without going into what Steinbeck referred to as, "Salinas Thinking," I think we are in for some fairly troubled times ahead.

The main problem that I see is this, the country is not going to really prosper until great-paying jobs come back and, I don't see them coming back. There are many reasons for this, some very real and some incredibly imaginative that are very high on political and ideological rhetoric but sorely lacking in any real substance.

Wal-Mart is now the world's largest employer, unless that, too, is a false report from the media. Any time Wal-Mart plans to open a store and the community in the area opposes it, the defenders of Wal-Mart start talking about all of the jobs it will create, etc., etc., ad infinitum. But they're not good jobs by any stretch of the imagination. Any given Wal-Mart "Superstore" might have a half-dozen "good jobs" available.

I'm basically apolitical on all of this, one side seems to be driving us into a situation where communism/socialism will flourish and the other side appears to be offering that, communism/socialism, as a solution from the start.

This country has a few really, really bad problems going on and no one, regardless of party or ideology, seems to be offering anything of real substance to cure them or at least mitigate them. This is a recipe for very bad times ahead.

Anyone in any position to really do something positive about these problems seem to embody the old Winston Churchill quote: "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

So, I don't see things really getting better in the next few years. They will either remain the same or become worse to some degree.
 
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