cheers

You just gave me a new word.......a UKian. I'm no longer a Brit I'm a UKian.

cheers

The store has a legal problem so if you could document these instances you can take them to an attorney and sue the pants off them. I know first hand because part of my job as an auditor was to take 20 randomly selected items off the shelves and check the prices and if they came up wrong the manager got written up. It is against the law to falsely advertise.
Another thing you should know in California is if they advertise something in the newspaper or ...they had better have it in stock or they get fined.
No bate and switching. You probably knew that......

Michael

As someone else said, I'm retired so I have plenty of time on my hands. Also I live in the downtown area and prior to the Safeway opening up, all there was were small grocery stores in the downtown area but now I can walk to Safeway in a few seconds so I don't want to rock the boat and/or make the effort and get banned from that store and have to drive miles daily to get to a decent supermarket.

Besides I now watch closely at the prices and can generaly get the issue resolved in a few minutes.

Bob

You know that'll never happen

fatbrit

I've read academic papers demonstrating that lowered wages lead in main to higher CEO remuneration than lowered prices to the consumer. I would think my hypothesis would be difficult to investigate, though, because of a severe lack of data.

Egg and Cress

Yes, we ARE bothered by what's going on around us!!! I, for one, just don't know what to do about it. The only thing I know to do is to shop each of the stores only for their reasonably priced products (i.e., "on sale") and do more "scratch" cooking. My boycotting certain products certainly doesn't work since all the major companies appear to be in bed with each other. It irks the snot out of me to note that the canned goods now have only 14.5 or 15 oz. rather than the original 16 (the basis for so many recipes in my mother's and Betty Crocker's cook books), but the prices have gone UP! The only grocery stores I can go to are either Wal-Mart or Kroger - there's no Safeway or SuperLo Foods in a decent area nearby, the nearest Publix is 175 miles east of us, Schnuck's has left the city, and the Whole Foods shop is over-priced shite!

So, tell me how to have an impact on food prices and other kinds of inflation. Write to my congressman? HAH! Tried to - messages wouldn't go through. Contact the stores? HAH! The store managers don't care, as long as they get their paychecks - the area managers are totally clueless and e.mails to the home office go unnoticed. Raising Cain in the store to get them to open more registers only gets you moved to a register manned by a "supervisor" to get you out of the store before you incite others to riot. There's no one in the produce department to point out the rotting and inferior fruit and vegetables to (this applies to both Kroger and Wal-Mart), and nobody in the Memphis area seems to give a crap about customer service!

We drove to Nashville and back yesterday to go shopping at Publix (who has quite a range of British foods - Kerry Gold butter, mushy peas, Heinz Baked Beans, HP Sauce, chocolate digestives, Carr's Ginger Lemon biscuits, etc.) just to find Kraft White Cheddar Mac & Cheese because it can no longer be located in the Memphis area. Publix' private label of that product is a good substitute, but others pale in comparison. The staff at that Publix (and 2 others in the Nashville area) have been cheerful, attentive, helpful and efficient every time we've been to any of them - contrary to what another poster indicated previously. Prices seem comparable to Kroger.

We buy very little Kroger meat - pork chops come from Aldi and I've become a convert to their ground beef as it's leaner, tastier and not as expensive.

My OH and I could go on and on - he, a whinging and moaning Brit and me a trappy American (as he puts it)! It does no good to turn a blind eye and ignore reality, "keep calm and carry on" or any other thing - we are sorely bothered but, like everybody else, frustratingly helpless to change it.

That do it for ya?

cheers

[QUOTE=Egg and Cress;9858532

My OH and I could go on and on - he, a whinging and moaning Brit and me a trappy American (as he puts it)! It does no good to turn a blind eye and ignore reality, "keep calm and carry on" or any other thing - we are sorely bothered but, like everybody else, frustratingly helpless to change it.

That do it for ya? [/QUOTE]

Hey, move because the grass is greener on the other side.

Watch the presidential candidates as they explain this is the greatest country on the earth.

Cheers.

Steerpike

Anyone care to discuss this in terms of the consumer price index (CPI)? Is that index reflecting your observations or contradicting it?

I just looked at the CPI website ( http://www.bls.gov/cpi/#data ) but there seems a lot of data to digest.

Egg and Cress

OH and I both learned a long time ago, the grass is NEVER greener on the other side - but that doesn't keep us from recognizing the failings and faults of where we are. I'm old enough to have seen prices rise and quality diminish, along with quantity, and I resent the heck out of it. I'm old enough to remember when customer service was just that and people trained others in it. Smiles, "please" and "thank you", courtesy, kindness, and the "golden rule" were de rigueur and what went around, came around. I mourn the loss of the personal attitude that maybe would have made the price increases more tolerable.

As far as the presidential candidates explaining - or trying to maintain that we are still the greatest country on earth - as a USC, I have to wonder which rock they've been hiding under or which planet they've come from! It's still great, mind you, and I wouldn't want to live in Russia, or Kosovo, or China or Somalia or a lot of other places, but I want "my" country back......the one I was proud of. (Maybe what I really want is the blissful ignorance I had in my younger days?)

Egg and Cress

Neither my extremely intelligent and numbers oriented OH, nor I, can see any connection between the CPI and the reality of everyday living! I can only surmise that the "government" believes the people are "stupider than slugs" and will swallow anything "the government" puts out. We sat down one day and did the maths - our food, utility, clothing, medical, fuel costs went up by percentages that bore no resemblance whatsoever to the CPI figures!

Egg and Cress

I've just been to the site you give a link to; don't know if I'm not awake yet, don't have the required self-discipline to wade through it or just don't have the mental capacity to absorb it - but it is, as you say, a LOT of data to digest. I also think the word "obfuscation" fits perfectly here.

tamms_1965

Grow your own, then freeze and can. I'm getting chickens in the Spring (really).

Bob

Which is easier said than done, when you either don't have a garden, or you have a water ban.

Window boxes only go so far...though I think this spring we're going to try some inverted cans hanging above the sink at our new place as it gets more sun, for herbs and tomatoes.

And how expensive is a bag of soil these days? A tiny bag around here costs around $20, it's mental.

Gabgoeshome

You need to start clipping those Q's.

Or...find an Aldi

Actually, PUBLIX is supposed to work very well with coupons as they have a lot of B1G1 *and* you can use a coupon on each product.

Squirrel

I can't believe they are gonna cut the MBTA commuter lines at weekends! Do they think people don't work in Boston at weekends?