Anyone Noticing Falling Grocery Prices?

We don't have CVS here.

That's sad.

Do you have a Rite-Aid? We don't, but my understanding is that you can work their rewards program much the same as CVS.

I've also read in the trade publications that Walgreens is revamping their rewards program so that it will be more competitive with CVS.

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Not here bacon just went up $2 a package, campbells soup is $1.29 a can. I haven't seen anything but prices going up and up.

I'm pretty sure this is exactly what they're hoping you'll do. I'd watch out, though. Those tags are tricky. I keep a price book for the things I buy regularly and I have seen them up the base price and then put it on sale. The sale price was worse than the non-sale price the week before. They've got us trained to think that tag means we're getting a good deal. Honestly, though, everything I've seen shows that we're headed out of the woods and all that's needed now is for employers to have the confidence to start rehiring folks who've been laid off and for the general public to become their normal, consumer driven selves again.

It still boggles my mind how instead of telling citizens to be responsible and save their money for crises like we've just had, we tell them to spend their money to save failing business in hopes that they'll start hiring again. It's like perpetual motion, in theory it sounds great but in practice entropy and inertia will always cause it to fail.

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Yep, I know the 'tricks', but these are legitimate price reductions---stuff I buy regularly so I have the prices memorized.

Not so sure about being out of the woods yet. While grocery prices lag in respect to what's happening in the economy, per the article this is as much about the unemployment issue (competing for tight dollars) as it is about commodity prices.

And while we may be coming off the bottom of the recession, I fear we may be heading for significant inflation. All that new money that's being printed will have a negative impact eventually, unless Bernanke can keep things under control. At this point, I'm just not real confident he can do that, so I'm trying to build a cushion, just in case.

Not here! Last week the regular price on store brand canned fruit was 1.29. Yesterday the regular price was 2.19 and they were on sale for 2/$3.

Bread was 1.63 and is now 1.79.

T.P. was 4.99 and is now 5.49.

Dog food was 7.45 and is now 8.99

Sugar used to be sale priced regularly .99/4 pound bag & is sale priced this week at 2.35, last week it was 1.99.

Couponers- Heads Up! Tons of high value coupons are scheduled for the Sunday inserts in October (lots of $1, $2 and $3). These will go great with the fabulous sales that stores have been having!!! Time to stock up on a lot of stuff!!

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i shopped this morning..filled my cart with a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy and a few other things..got my bill and it was $130 i almost dropped my teeth..i thought it would be $200 i did use $12 worth of coupons and saved almost $50 in shopping sales..but i was still shocked..there is no room left in our large freezer or our frig..we are stocked !!

I think that some of the price reductions are due to oncoming harvests. I think we will see canners/manufacturers/processors drop prices to clear out last year's crops, especially on veggies and fruits.

For instance, I haven't seen a really good sale this year on orange juice, or Green Giant Steamers frozen veggies, but in the past two weeks, there have been very good sales on both items.

I don't think the average consumer has any idea how much back stock these canners have on hand, and with new crops being harvested, they have to make room for them. I have been in warehouses that were so full of canned, unlabeled veggies....quite unbelievable.

Cool!!! I thought last week's Q's were a little lame.

Where did you find such cool information?

I monitor the coupon forums.

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BTW, tomorrow's inserts aren't all that great. There aren't any I will be ordering extras of from the clipping services.

But I'm anxious for October. I'll probably be ordering quite a few extras.

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This week just ending, I was in Aldi's getting a few groceries.
Gallon of skim milk 1.29
Gallon of 2 % milk was 1.39
Gallon of Whole milk was 1.49
And the 4 gallons of skim that I got all had a expiration of Oct 2
Normally for me is to pick up 2 gallons a week, that have been 1.99 a gallon.

If we can't use it fast enough, I might freeze 1 or 2 gallons of it.
We have 2 freezers running now. Normal is one. Also canning any extras.
I been stockpiling

Milk prices have been dropping like crazy here. I'm not sure what the regular prices are now. A couple months ago the regular prices were over $3 a gallon, and sale prices around $2.50.

About a month or so ago, I saw the sale prices dip below $2. And they are continuing to drop through the ensuing weeks....$1.89...$1.69...$1.49...

I'm watching other dairy products drop, too. Kraft 8oz cheese as low as 99cents!!

There's no way this kind of deflation can keep up. I'm very worried that so many farmers will go under, that we will have to increase imports of food.

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Well Dairy Prices SHOULD be dropping.~!!!!!
Milk prices when taking inflation into the mix. the FARMERS are getting Paid the Same Price they were in the 1950's`!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.nbc15.com/news/headlines/59787662.html

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I'd rather pay more for milk and see the farmer get a fair price.

The way it is now, if there's not a turnaround, we'll be importing our milk from Mexico and South America, maybe even China.

Most of the powdered milk already comes from China. It would take only a small step to get the "fresh" milk from there, too.

But maybe we should get back on track with this topic. This isn't GC.

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Very true, and I agree 100%.
But of late the store prices are NOT reflecting the Low low prices the farmers are receiving for their product.

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That's been true ever since middlemen were invented.

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