Grocery store dropping its pants

[Indenturedebtor]

My wife and I bought a fixer upper in the most affluent area of Tucson. We're barely making it ourselves but we're probably among the lowest earners in the district...

Anyways, we went to the local Bashas Supermarket last night to pick up some essentials and came home with about 15 pounds of every type of meat, boxes of crackers, salad dressings, bread, you name it! Every type of item had one brand that was about 75% off! We bought about 150 dollars worth of groceries for about 80 dollars!

Anyone else see anything like this in their area? Of course I figure that the stores are losing out to Sams Club and Costco, but jeeez... these are some wierd times.

[niyad]

1. the safeway in my neighborhood raises its prices nearly every single day on

many items. their sales are a joke.

we did just get our first costco, will be interesting to see what happens.

[TomInTib]

2. I can only wish...

There are none of those low-cost places in Marin County, so our grocers can charge whatever they damned well please.

[mainegreen]

3. We've figures out where to buy what.

We do not one stop shop.
We shop around. It saves a lot.

[lonestarnot]

8. Don't forget to calculate that $5.00 a gallon gas!

[yy4me]

4. In our area, this one week increase made my blood boil:

48 ounce corn oil, $1.79, house brand.
Dropped it, (mess!) went back yesterday for another. Either they made a huge pricing mistake or we're in deep do-do...it was $3.29. I did not have time to talk to the manager about this and we all know that does little good anyway. Tighten your belt folks.

[dysfunctional press]

6. in our area, all the various grocery stores weekly sales begin on thursday, and end on wednesday...

it's very possible that the item you bought was on sale one day, and back to regular price the next...:shrug:

btw- talking to the manager has almost always worked for me- one time i left a case of beer in a shopping cart in the lot(the bagger had put it in the under part of the cart, and i have a bad back- never put stuff there myself, so i didn't think to check), and when i came back for it, the shopping cart wrangler in the parking lot said that she had seen it, asked someone else if it was theirs and they said yes and left with it...when i went to the manager with the story, he gave me a new case of beer.
the same large chain also has a policy that if the price on the register doesn't match the price on the shelf, the item is free(if somebody doesn't enter the proper sale price into the computer for that week's sale, it will ring up incorrectly when scanned)- that one usually gets me at least one freebie more than half the time.

[Indenturedebtor]

9. Yeah some items were WAY up as well

Milk for one was about 2 bucks more than it was a couple of months ago! I was just shocked to see some things like steaks go down 75% though. I can't help but wonder if many of these grocery stores are going under though.

[Deb]

10. Farmers are getting 25 cents a pound

on the hoof at auction around here. The price of corn has skyrocketed and they are selling out the herds. My advise is to freeze up 8 months worth of the cheap meat if you can.

[samdogmom]

5. Wow! Lucky for you!

There are no huge megastores (except Walmart--and their meat sucks) in my immediate neighborhood. We're still at the mercy of the local grocer--unless we want to drive 45 minutes to a big city to find competition! But--the gas cost truly offsets any savings to be found in the bigger city. Bottom line, right now people in my town only drive for groceries because they want specialty items..any other reason just makes you look very stupid!

[lonestarnot]

7. Yes Fry's this week, Safeway last week. Stocked up so much I had no room to put anything.

Still half the shit sitting on a table. But may do it again this week if there is another deal going down. LOL Happy groceries! :toast: