Dead, soulless eyes, bad hair and skin and their last two brain cells have hatched a suicide pact? That look?
Growing your own food, even on a tiny scale, is a great idea. Right up until Twatter Karen here petitions your city council to crack down on UNLICENSED AGRICULTURE!!!!
When the base effects of YoY inflation peter out, you're going to see more dipshits blame Big Grocery™ for Price Gouging™ and demand the government to Do Something™.
What I don't get is, right now, I can get American strawberries, on sale, for less than half of what they're charging for locally grown strawberries.
I don't save anything on buying local; the stuff they truck for two days costs the exact same as the stuff from 30 minutes north of town.
So where are all these "regulations" and "fuel costs" when it comes to imports? Are they all covered by US farmer subsidies that we, as a NAFTA signatory, aren't allowed to put tariffs on? Or are our local produce boards gouging us?
Probably a little of column A, little of column B. For local produce, you're also paying for an extended shelf life. A lot of imported fresh food lasts days or weeks, but spends all that time in travel, so what you take home from the store starts going bad immediately.
I wouldn't be surprised if grocery stores were forced to price things to sell, to avoid having entire shipments go bad.
What Seak_King said plus scale of production. Local farms don't have the luxury of shipping as much produce as the importers, so the price per unit is going to be higher.
The ability of humans to figure out so much information about someone just from looking at them for less than 2 seconds is truly amazing.
Dead, soulless eyes, bad hair and skin and their last two brain cells have hatched a suicide pact? That look?
Growing your own food, even on a tiny scale, is a great idea. Right up until Twatter Karen here petitions your city council to crack down on UNLICENSED AGRICULTURE!!!!
When the base effects of YoY inflation peter out, you're going to see more dipshits blame Big Grocery™ for Price Gouging™ and demand the government to Do Something™.
Better set up price controls! Works every time it's tried (works as far as killing people, anyway).
They've been doing that for the last 2 or so years.
I'm in Canada and I tell people to look at it this way:
Over the last three years, the federal government printed 25% of the money currently in circulation.
Food prices are up 25%, on average.
Case closed.
I dunno what $10 is supposed to be. 1 meal. Grapes are a luxury though.
What I don't get is, right now, I can get American strawberries, on sale, for less than half of what they're charging for locally grown strawberries.
I don't save anything on buying local; the stuff they truck for two days costs the exact same as the stuff from 30 minutes north of town.
So where are all these "regulations" and "fuel costs" when it comes to imports? Are they all covered by US farmer subsidies that we, as a NAFTA signatory, aren't allowed to put tariffs on? Or are our local produce boards gouging us?
Probably a little of column A, little of column B. For local produce, you're also paying for an extended shelf life. A lot of imported fresh food lasts days or weeks, but spends all that time in travel, so what you take home from the store starts going bad immediately.
I wouldn't be surprised if grocery stores were forced to price things to sell, to avoid having entire shipments go bad.
What Seak_King said plus scale of production. Local farms don't have the luxury of shipping as much produce as the importers, so the price per unit is going to be higher.