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To: Yogizuna who wrote (14620)	12/10/2004 7:28:45 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Festus, Re: And prices.... have approximately doubled The curious thing is that most of the foods that help to contribute to the obesity pandemic haven't gone up that much at all. If a food's calories are predominantly from corn syrup, trans-fats or other "empty calories", they are more likely to appear affordable as nutritious foods keep becoming more and more costly.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (14620)	12/11/2004 12:42:36 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

By my calculations on various commodities we have had something like 9-15% inflation for the past decade, largely hidden by the importation of artificially cheap oil and cheap Chinese goods flooding our markets. Combine this with the march of the mighty WAL over the domestic retail landscape, you can pretty much buy goods for less due to efficiency in distribution and a stripping of the wages of the retail worker. Remember when WAL used to have buy American? That went away with old Sam. There was a period of time where they packaged things in an American protectorate in the South Pacific but they don't even bother with that now.