Re:OT: Price increases

Veggies are seasonal. Last month an ear of corn was 6 per dollar at Safeway. Now one ear is 60 cents... still cheap tasty calories.

If you don't want gourmet stuff, you can make a cup of coffee for about 20 cents.

Who needs 2 liters of soda? If you usually drink it before it goes flat, it will kill you.

By historical standards, food is cheap. Electronics is cheap. Housing is expensive.

Umm... isn't it the tariffs in action?

IIRC coffee is from off shore and lettuce from California, probably. Off shore will definitely be affected and lettuce just because. Everything else costs more now so why shouldn't lettuce?

Consider the chilling effect of ICE on legal migrant workers who pick the lettuce as a factor in prices.

If no one wants to come to work in your fields then you have no produce to sell and the price goes up...what did you expect?

Denmark and Japan and Maine somehow managed to feed themselves in the past without millions of poorly-paid off-the-books illegal migrant workers.

Stabilty of prices is as much psychological as a fundamental effect. Some outlets regularly change prices to estimate what customers are willing to pay. And when customers are expecting change, busiensses may do much larger change than justified. Case in point may be Germany changing currency to Euro. Prices had to change and customers were not used to new prices, so busiensses introduced large price increase.

Changes like you mention may be just random variation. But they may be "probing" to find out potential for price increase. Or even first examples of massive price growth.

Do the other countries have all the free things for the non workers like the US ? I doubt they do.

How's that free healthcare in the US?

Might go down that much next week. Fresh veggies are seasonal.

Don we get bunches from Mexico?