Let’s forget corn and look at other groceries. Where I live, half a gallon milk is $5, a loaf of bread is $6.5, potatoes are $3 a pound, dozen eggs are $6 and so on. Grocery prices only rose about 200% in the past 4-5 years. I used to get loads of food for $100, now everytime I do a grocery run I pay at least $70-80.
That is based fully on where you live. I just got home from the grocery store.
1 Gal Whole Milk: $2.69
1 Dozen Large Free Roaming Chicken Eggs: $2.89
2.5 lbs 80/20 Ground Beef: $7.86
5lb bag Russet Potatoes: $2.56
5lb bag Satsumas: $7.85
1 Loaf Whole Grain Bread: $3.12
But at the same time, I did see that a 12 pack of Pepsi was $9, 1/2 gal Tropicana Orange Juice $5.50. I didn’t get these things, but they were more then they used to be by a significant margin.
This is selective. A dozen eggs at Aldi near me is $3.50. There is no loaf of bread in the store which is $6.50. According to my grocery log I have kept over the past ten years, process are up about 20% since 2020.
An ear of corn yields, on average, about 3/4 cup or 2oz of kernels. There’s 16 oz in a pound. My grocery store was selling ears of corn for $.67/ea. 16 / 2 * .67 = $5.36/lb. You can get ears of corn pre-shucked and wrapped in plastic for closer to $1/ear, at which point you’re looking at an even $8/lb.
$7 is in the ballpark, at the least. The markups on even simply abundant produce like corn is absurd.
Corn is absolutely not $7/lb wtf are you even talking about.
The original post they’re quoting tplked about kilograms, not pounds
Let’s forget corn and look at other groceries. Where I live, half a gallon milk is $5, a loaf of bread is $6.5, potatoes are $3 a pound, dozen eggs are $6 and so on. Grocery prices only rose about 200% in the past 4-5 years. I used to get loads of food for $100, now everytime I do a grocery run I pay at least $70-80.
That is based fully on where you live. I just got home from the grocery store.
1 Gal Whole Milk: $2.69 1 Dozen Large Free Roaming Chicken Eggs: $2.89 2.5 lbs 80/20 Ground Beef: $7.86 5lb bag Russet Potatoes: $2.56 5lb bag Satsumas: $7.85 1 Loaf Whole Grain Bread: $3.12
But at the same time, I did see that a 12 pack of Pepsi was $9, 1/2 gal Tropicana Orange Juice $5.50. I didn’t get these things, but they were more then they used to be by a significant margin.
This is selective. A dozen eggs at Aldi near me is $3.50. There is no loaf of bread in the store which is $6.50. According to my grocery log I have kept over the past ten years, process are up about 20% since 2020.
Are you buying, like, Fairlife milk, Ezekiel bread, and the most organic, freest rangiest eggs on the shelf?
Believe it or not these are the most basic ass things you can buy in a grocery store in NoVA.
Oh, the most expensive things on the market are representative of the country as a whole… 🙄
I mean I wrote about basic necessities. Not sure what you’re smoking, but you can’t deny everything got a lot more expensive.
An ear of corn yields, on average, about 3/4 cup or 2oz of kernels. There’s 16 oz in a pound. My grocery store was selling ears of corn for $.67/ea. 16 / 2 * .67 = $5.36/lb. You can get ears of corn pre-shucked and wrapped in plastic for closer to $1/ear, at which point you’re looking at an even $8/lb.
$7 is in the ballpark, at the least. The markups on even simply abundant produce like corn is absurd.
That’s a pretty steep price per ear and frozen bags of prepared corn are even way cheaper.
I agree, although even the frozen bags aren’t cheap-cheap. $.67/ear is a high water mark. I remember getting 10/$1 not all that long ago (pre-COVID)