$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)

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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?
   
I am having some major sticker shock today. Mind you I go to the CHEAPEST grocery store in town. No fancy nothing. This place is cement, metal racks and you bag your own everything.

Dog food was up a buck, bread prices went up and I don't think I've ever seen summer fruit so expensive in my entire life.

But the kicker was the 'Nilla Wafers by Nabisco. The box is different than I am used to so I double checked it. 11 oz... $4.08. Sigh...another old favorite that are not within my budget.

How long are prices going to go up? I'm a repetative shopper--I kinda get the same things over and over--and for years I'd spend right around $100. Today's shopping was $147--of which only $7 was meat.

Why are the food corporations pushing the American public so hard? How long until people start to protest because they are hungry? Why are they choosing to make so much unrest? It can't all be greed can it?

They just don't get it. Can you say inflation DUmmie?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1634424

[thundley4]

Prices have always went up, their just using trampolines to raise them during the Obamaconomy.

[franksolich]

I'm a repetative shopper

Snout--er, snort.  This, from a teacher.

Why are they choosing to make so much unrest? It can't all be greed can it?

The greed of the Dems, liberals, and primitives; their avaricious obsession with controlling things via regulation and taxation.

[Chris_]

Nilla Wafers?  Make your own.  Or buy the store-brand box for two dollars less.

[DLR Pyro]

Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?

How's that hopey-changey thingy working out for ya, DUmmy?

[Ballygrl]

Buy store brands, that's what we do on high priced items.

[JohnnyReb]

Democrat math again....they tax the rich corporations to give to the poor.... the rich corporation has to go up on the price.... the poor buys the product the rich corpration makes ....but because of the rise in prices the poor have less money left to buy dope..... so the democrats have to raise taxes on the rich so they can give it to the poor.....the rich corporation has to go up on the price...

[NHSparky]

This is what happens when fuel and taxes go through the roof, DUmmies.

How do you think those items get to market?  Unicorn farts?

[franksolich]

Democrat math again....they tax the rich corporations to give to the poor.... the rich corporation has to go up on the price.... the poor buys the product the rich corpration makes ....but because of the rise in prices the poor have less money left to buy dope..... so the democrats have to raise taxes on the rich so they can give it to the poor.....the rich corporation has to go up on the price...

Basically, that's it, sir, but the primitives don't get it.

Corporations don't pay taxes, which makes corporate taxes a silly idea to begin with.

Customers of corporations pay those corporate taxes, in the form of higher prices.

The primitives can't seem to understand this, though.

[kraven]

Newbie here, but long time head shaker of over there. I originally started reading their site a few years back thinking I would see some type of sanity to explain why they think the way they do. It left me going wtf even more. I can read 1 million and 1 liberal points of view and can never figure them out.

Anyhow, this Snoutput is particularly whacked, with long, pointlessly detailed and obviously fabricated tales of stupidity. I am sure y'all know that.

He is supposedly a gay guy living with another gay guy? Is $147 his weekly shopping budget? That is a lot of food for 2 people. I spend less than that to feed 6 people.

[thundley4]

Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts)           Mon Aug-01-11 05:18 PM
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30. That's what they want you to think. Why doesn't it require more gas to get all the groceries home
   
then?

It may take the same amount of gas, but the cost of that gas goes up DUmmie.  God they're idiots.

[jukin]

When your communist democrat leaders spend so much that for each dollar spent there is 42 cents borrowed or printed this is the inevitable result.

It's not that prices are rising but that your dollar is worth so much less since the donks took over congress and the presidency.

[DumbAss Tanker]

He is supposedly a gay guy living with another gay guy? Is $147 his weekly shopping budget? That is a lot of food for 2 people. I spend less than that to feed 6 people.

If you can read their posts about food without your head exploding from the pretension and cutesie word-like letter assemblages, it's not too hard to see how they burn through twice what a normal household would spend.

[ScubaGuy]

ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-01-11 05:24 PM
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32. veggie burgers up to $7.00/box from $5.17 in ONE week...
   
...that was my latest sticker shock. That's for FOUR damn soy burgers. SOY! :wtf:

That price increase is because the manufacturer knows that if you're stupid enough to be eating veggie burgers, you'll be stupid enough to pay $7 for 4 of them.

[kraven]

If you can read their posts about food without your head exploding from the pretension and cutesie word-like letter assemblages, it's not too hard to see how they burn through twice what a normal household would spend.

LOL! I was reading an article a few weeks back about the plight of mothers on food-stamps having to wait until midnight to shop when their EBT cards were reloaded. Sad tale of running out of food-stamps a week before the first of the month and dragging 4 hungry kids to the store in the middle of the night. Then I saw where they were getting over $600 a month in food-stamps, to feed 1 woman and 4 kids. I spend less than that a month and have to feed a man too. I aim for $125 a week and try hard to stay under that. It can be done, but not if you are throwing prepackaged junk like vanilla wafers into the cart. And I really don't feel like we are deprived at all. If you get $600 a month in food-stamps to feed 5 people, no way should you be running out a week ahead of time. Geez, plan better!

[Evil_Conservative]

'Nilla Wafers are not a necessity.  I think you can do without.

[Chris_]

It's because all the hippies want us to put soy in our gas tanks.

[JohnnyReb]

It's because all the hippies want us to put soy in our gas tanks.

Beat me to it.....if the prices of corn and soybeans get much higher, the farmers around here may go back to plowing and planting again.

[Chris_]

They're already doing that here.

A biodiesel factory in the area caught on fire over the weekend.  It was a mess.

[Freeper]

I wonder if he thinks that the ingredients to make the nilla wafers cost a dollar and that Nabisco is making a $3.08 profit, like that genius who thinks that there is a dollar of potatoes in one bag of potato chips and frito lay makes a 3 dollar profit when one bag costs $4.00. 

[franksolich]

I wonder if he thinks that the ingredients to make the nilla wafers cost a dollar and that Nabisco is making a $3.08 profit, like that geniuswho thinks that there is a dollar of potatoes in one bag of potato chips and frito lay makes a 3 dollar profit when one bag costs $4.00. 

Yeah, the pie-and-jam grasswire primitive.

[BattleHymn]

Buy store brands, that's what we do on high priced items.

Impossible.  The store brand Nilla Wafers are not all-organic free-range grass-fed variety.

[Tucker]

1st this:

Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Mon Aug-01-11 04:53 PM
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$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. What? Really? How?

Then this:

Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Mon Aug-01-11 05:50 PM
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41. Western Family Brand Vanilla Wafers were almost half the price and1 oz bigger box
   
I guess it just costs Nabisco twice as much to make a very cheap cookie.

I'd say the biggest reason in the rising cost is these guys who represent Nabisco workers nationwide.



Rising labor costs.<--------------

[Alpha Mare]

I need to open a store that sells exclusively to DUmbasses.

[franksolich]

I need to open a store that sells exclusively to DUmbasses.

Another thing the primitives don't seem to understand is that if something is priced too high, the public won't buy it.

The public will either go without, or purchase a cheaper alternative.

And as companies exist to make a profit, if nobody buys their products, they don't make a profit.....and the companies go out of existence, bankrupt.

The price of $4.08 is probably fine-tuned to that sensitivity; the difference between discouraging and encouraging the public to buy it.

Primitives however have no idea how economics works--either in this society, or in any other sort of society.

And they think they're smart enough to vote.....