After 11 years, 'Two-Buck Chuck' wine price increases to $2.49

[Newsjock]

Source: San Jose Mercury News

The price of gas goes up, taxes go up, but "Two Buck Chuck'' stayed the same for more than a decade.

No longer. After an 11-year run, the $1.99 price of a bottle of "Two Buck Chuck" wine has disappeared from Trader Joe's in California.

... Joe's had maintained its $1.99 price for 11 years but "quite a bit has happened during those years and the move to $2.49 allows us to offer the same quality that has made the wine famous the world over," Trader Joe's spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki said in an email to this newspaper.

Trader Joe's has sold 5 million cases of Charles Shaw wine a year -- for a total of 660 million bottles, according to its wholesaler, Bronco Wine Co. based in Ceres.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22420517/trader-joes-two-buck-chuck-price-rises-249-bottle

[liberal N proud]

1. Two Buck and Fourty Nine Chuck doesn't sound right.

[Ohio Joe]

2. arrrrrrgggg...

I'm still waiting for the Trader Joe's to open in Denver... Fuck I miss them

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. It shouldn't be too much longer now.

Last I heard the Denver store developer was in a race to beat the Boulder store developer. Which means both places will be getting theirs soon.

[DollarBillHines]

3. Whole Foods has $2 Chard, Merlot and Cab

Better than Chuck and OK for the night's 3rd bottle.

[Siwsan]

4. In Michigan it's "Three Buck Chuck"

I just bought a case. Wonder if it's going up to $3.49, here.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Same in Tucson because, you know, our Republican leaders don'T

Believe in taxes except for poor people.

[cloudbase]

6. $2.89 in Houston.

The price differential may have something to do with different state tax rates.

[riderinthestorm]

8. Its been $3.49 chuck for a long while in the store nearest me...

[TeamPooka]

9. still nifty at two fifty.

[madville]

10. I'm waiting for "Two Dollar Tree"

Even that crap in there can't stay a dollar forever.

[LTR]

18. i love Dollar Tree!

Okay, not a high end store by any means, but I've found some good stuff there. A recent purchase netted me Guns n' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" for a buck. And they used to be better for reading glasses before the styles started getting ugly.

[RedCappedBandit]

11. They can't even sell wine in my state

Freakin ridiculous imo.

[catnhatnh]

12. Can I trademark...

"Deuce and a Half Juice"????

[pinboy3niner]

13. DU members react to news of 'Two-Buck Chuck' price increase...

[Egalitarian Thug]

14. Very lazy reporting. It went to $3 in LA years and years ago, and I know that it has been at least

that much in IL, AZ. OR. and NV for years as well.

[petronius]

15. Why do you gotta go and ruin such an otherwise wonderful day?

But I guess this is fair, and still a tasty deal for swigging wine...

[kestrel91316]

16. It's still great wine for the price. Whole Paycheck still has theirs at $2 but I expect them to

price fix in accordance with TJ's any day now. I hate to spend $ there. When I do it's often their loss leaders like this.

TJ's is a bit too far to be convenient without a car.

[LTR]

17. Three Buck Chuck in Wisconsin

Still the best $3 wine I ever had.