You know exactly what I'm referencing.
To all the Aussies here
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Hey, an egg!
Where did you get an egg? Around me for the past nearly month I've seen like 20 cartons, and 19 of them were priced to buggery for a dozen. And the one half dozen that I saw that wasn't priced at 8 million dollars was $5, so I bought it because who knows when I'll be able to find and or afford eggs again.
Where did you get an egg? Around me for the past nearly month I've seen like 20 cartons, and 19 of them were priced to buggery for a dozen. And the one half dozen that I saw that wasn't priced at 8 million dollars was $5, so I bought it because who knows when I'll be able to find and or afford eggs again.
Hugh Man!
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He probably associates with the egg council creeps
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At the Dollar General a dozen eggs are $5.50 USD per dozen! A family member asked me to pick up two cartons of 18 eggs. So at DG that would have meant getting 3 dozen for $16.50! So I passed on those and went to Kroger where an 18 count of eggs was $6.19. So at Kroger 36 eggs cost $12.38. Still way too expensive but $4.12 cheaper than buying them at the Dollar General.ian wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:38 pm Hey, an egg!
Where did you get an egg? Around me for the past nearly month I've seen like 20 cartons, and 19 of them were priced to buggery for a dozen. And the one half dozen that I saw that wasn't priced at 8 million dollars was $5, so I bought it because who knows when I'll be able to find and or afford eggs again.
People need to just stop paying these prices. Nobody really NEEDS eggs. If nobody bought any eggs for just a week they would have to drop the prices. The same goes for many grocery items. Just don't buy them. I realize people need groceries but there are many items that we are getting gouged on that people could do without for a week or two.
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I've stopped buying lots of things that have recently been put up to gouge prices.
But the eggs at $5 for 6 is reasonable.. not $15 for 12.
Haven't had a packet of Tim Tams for a while. They're worth $2, that's it... or MAYBE $2.50 if I've just won the lottery, on payday, and found a note on the street... Not paying FUCKIN' $4.80+.
Haven't gotten a packet of no name supermarket chocolate chip cookies because they put them from $4 to god damn $6! Before COVID they were $3.50 which is what home brand shit is worth.
Haven't been buying dare iced coffee, because it's gone from $4.50 to $6.30 for the 2 litre bottles.
Stopped buying home brand tissues when they went from $1 to $2.20.. FUCK THAT NOISE, a pack of Kleenex everyday is $3 so I pay the 80 cents extra and get something much nicer.
Also I've been eating SO MUCH less meat and dairy these past couple of years, even shit stuff is priced out the ass.
I actually got about 300 grams of sandwich steak the other day for $7.50 and that was a really good price considering what we're charged most of the time.
Grocery prices are so fucking ridiculous that by the time you factor in the raw cost, and the time to go to the shops, and the time it takes to cook something, and the time to clean up after cooking that fast food is now actually cheaper...
I also haven't had many potato chips in a while because the smith brand ones are now more than fucking Pringles used to be. On the plus side, I did get some Pringles for $2.75 the other day, which is a realistic price even if they have gotten smaller and worse over the past decade.
A number of years back we had a severe banana shortage down under, and bananas wound up costing about 2 times as much per kilo than anything else in the supermarkets... Prime Wagyu imported from Japan on a private jet and butchered by the royal families personal butcher 10 minutes before you buy it and then packaged fresh by a local millionaire? Yep, Bananas were more fucking expensive than that!
I only bought 1 single banana the whole shortage, and because it was so fucking expensive, I peeled it in store, put it in a plastic bag and weighed it and ate it fresh out of the shop.
I can't afford to pay for bits I can't fuckin' eat when it's 8 trillion dollars a kilo!
So yeah.. I am not getting gouged, just find cheaper alternatives or go without for a while.
But the eggs at $5 for 6 is reasonable.. not $15 for 12.
Haven't had a packet of Tim Tams for a while. They're worth $2, that's it... or MAYBE $2.50 if I've just won the lottery, on payday, and found a note on the street... Not paying FUCKIN' $4.80+.
Haven't gotten a packet of no name supermarket chocolate chip cookies because they put them from $4 to god damn $6! Before COVID they were $3.50 which is what home brand shit is worth.
Haven't been buying dare iced coffee, because it's gone from $4.50 to $6.30 for the 2 litre bottles.
Stopped buying home brand tissues when they went from $1 to $2.20.. FUCK THAT NOISE, a pack of Kleenex everyday is $3 so I pay the 80 cents extra and get something much nicer.
Also I've been eating SO MUCH less meat and dairy these past couple of years, even shit stuff is priced out the ass.
I actually got about 300 grams of sandwich steak the other day for $7.50 and that was a really good price considering what we're charged most of the time.
Grocery prices are so fucking ridiculous that by the time you factor in the raw cost, and the time to go to the shops, and the time it takes to cook something, and the time to clean up after cooking that fast food is now actually cheaper...
I also haven't had many potato chips in a while because the smith brand ones are now more than fucking Pringles used to be. On the plus side, I did get some Pringles for $2.75 the other day, which is a realistic price even if they have gotten smaller and worse over the past decade.
A number of years back we had a severe banana shortage down under, and bananas wound up costing about 2 times as much per kilo than anything else in the supermarkets... Prime Wagyu imported from Japan on a private jet and butchered by the royal families personal butcher 10 minutes before you buy it and then packaged fresh by a local millionaire? Yep, Bananas were more fucking expensive than that!
I only bought 1 single banana the whole shortage, and because it was so fucking expensive, I peeled it in store, put it in a plastic bag and weighed it and ate it fresh out of the shop.
I can't afford to pay for bits I can't fuckin' eat when it's 8 trillion dollars a kilo!
So yeah.. I am not getting gouged, just find cheaper alternatives or go without for a while.
Hugh Man!