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To: tejek who wrote (135536)	8/8/2013 8:14:56 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

The Target near our neighborhood is a Super Target. It has a grocery store section. My wife shops at 4 different grocery stores as follows: * Super Walmart * Super Target * Harris Teeter * Lowes Foods Super Target is the cheapest on most groceries, but sometimes she finds better deals at Lowes or Walmart. We get specialty items and fresh fish at Harris Teeter, although nothing is cheap at Harris Teeter. Originally, on this thread I posted that we must have bought Organic Chicken, because I figured it must be something special to cost so much. I couldn't have imagined that those prices were for lower quality chicken. My wife is a coupon clipper and frugal by nature. She doesn't wear jewelry and decades ago asked me not to buy her flowers...because she wanted to save the money for things we needed. I have never met a more frugal woman than my wife, which is one of the reasons I love her. She's the most intelligent and practical woman I know. Anyway, back on topic. My wife buys the cheapest groceries she can. We're not snobby at all. In the area we live in, this is as cheap as goods come. However, the picture your missing when you post cheaper chicken prices from some other location and store is that it is not the ABSOLUTE PRICE we paid for the chicken that should concern you. It is the RATE OF INCREASE on prices over time that is the main point we should all be concerned about. She paid $3.50 four years ago. Now she pays $7 for the same chicken. That means we have experienced 100% inflation over 4 years. That's almost 20% annualized inflation on chicken. That $4 chicken from Foster Farms you posted...how much did that cost 4 years ago? $2? I would bet inflation is running at similar rates on chicken around the country, although the absolute price will vary. Whoever says there's no inflation is just plain full of shit. The 99% are experiencing inflation, while their incomes are stagnating. No amount of lying about this by the government is going to change the reality that the 99% are experiencing.