It's Filling
File this under "social studies":
This is the back page of a recent ad for Publix grocery stores. Tagline: Everyday economizing. Publix is working hard to help you save on the staples. Here are some more great deals on groceries you've got to get."
[1] When did Frosted Flakes, Tombstone frozen pizza and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese become "The Staples"?
[2] There are about 15 Publix's in our town, which is not very large. All of the other grocers are disappearing. We lost two of three Albertsons this Fall. While Publix does offer higher tier selections, one will pay dearly for them.
In Publix's expanding organic Greenwise section, for instance, tofu sausages (4-pack) run about $6. For many such items it is now cheaper to buy from the local health food store. Everyone spoke of how Walmart would put the smaller sellers out of business, but that trend is happening within the niche markets themselves. As the others are muscled out of the market, the one left standing enjoys a hefty markup.
And may beneficently toss out an occasional crumb to their less well-heeled patrons.
This is the back page of a recent ad for Publix grocery stores. Tagline: Everyday economizing. Publix is working hard to help you save on the staples. Here are some more great deals on groceries you've got to get."
[1] When did Frosted Flakes, Tombstone frozen pizza and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese become "The Staples"?
[2] There are about 15 Publix's in our town, which is not very large. All of the other grocers are disappearing. We lost two of three Albertsons this Fall. While Publix does offer higher tier selections, one will pay dearly for them.
In Publix's expanding organic Greenwise section, for instance, tofu sausages (4-pack) run about $6. For many such items it is now cheaper to buy from the local health food store. Everyone spoke of how Walmart would put the smaller sellers out of business, but that trend is happening within the niche markets themselves. As the others are muscled out of the market, the one left standing enjoys a hefty markup.
And may beneficently toss out an occasional crumb to their less well-heeled patrons.
Labels: food cost and the war, publix
posted by Lisa at 10:57 PM
5 Comments:
i've been telling some of the more floridly "patriotic" types that they have things all wrong.
if they do their duty as a citizen and actually increase their spending in order to support the economy they have few rational choices.
production of goods in america has gone south. if you buy most foodstuffs, you are actually supporting mexico, chile, venezuela, peru and honduras.
if you buy electronics or other things like that at your local wall-to-wallmart you are mainly supporting china.
to truly buy american one is restricted to martin guitars, marijuana, many beers (check your labels), califonia wines, most bourbon whiskeys (although be careful here, the thais make a mean ass copycat), and our own home grown industry, hookers.
do it for the flag yo.
MB,
You old war dog -you're remembering the old days. Look at a Martin catalog these days and look at the MIM models.Yep, even Martin has done gone south.
My fav is Ruger . They advertise the American made thing very heavily but ALL THEIR STEEL COMES FROM BRAZIL.Oops. Look at Colt Single actions, the all american pistol- yep -now made in Italy and assembled ,marked and finished in the states. Cost 1500 plus or minus. The same thing marked as a Uberti=400+/-. Call me an Italian cowboy. jim
hate to say it, but the italians have made some of my favorite pieces. baretta puts out some sweet shotguns, rifles (although the germans are still the class of the action there) and, of course, pistols. a baretta .28 is a very concealable, and deadly enough at close range, if you're not at close range in a pistol fight i suggest that you have some didi mau len room and you might want to think about increasing that distance before decreasing it to get a fucking shot off.
weatherby, a maker of seriously fine rifles has taken to buying most of their steel from brazil (like most other folks who want quality stuff), and they have a maquilliadora (sweat shop with mexican sweat and american labels) just across the border from me. the composite for their stocks, instead of being cured hardwood, now comes from india.
nope, it looks like my list was accurate.
booze, grass, and hookers. even the meth (except for kitchen cooks like sarah palin's new inlaws) has mostly gone over to mexican production.
viva la nafta.
MB: Ohe, vato, you clearly been getting your streetmeat out on 82nd - no gringas hookin' out on the west side or down in Canby. Even our chucha comes from La Raza around here now, 'mano.
And how can anyone overlook the Frosted Flakes Food Group? Got me through lunch out at Camp Mackall, that's for sure, that and nasty cold Krispy Kreme honeybuns.
Sad to hear that Ruger can't find steel in the Land of the Free; you'd think that somewhere in Pittsburgh someone'd still be making American steel...
But I'm with MB on Beretta: if Jesus really loved me he'd find a way to get a Beretta 12G over-and-under down the chimney tomorrow night.
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