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RE: Grocery store price gouging - Midnight Rambler - 12-15-2011
quote:Ew...but you should have been able to take it back. It's not quite like the farmer's market, but unlike Safeway KTA does have real produce (caterpillars in the broccoli!), so every once in a while you'll get something like that.
Originally posted by DTisme
I liked KTA produce until I got a watermelon that was completely liquified inside. Never saw THAT before. It "knocked" just like a normal watermelon. What a surprise when I cut into that baby! It basically exploded red sticky liquid all over my kitchen.
quote:Really? I like it better. The corn-fed mainland beef tastes bland.
The reason I don't buy local beef is that it's grass-fed. I know this is supposed to be a good thing, but it tastes funny to me. I guess I'm a corn-fed 'merican girl.
RE: Grocery store price gouging - ef9 - 12-15-2011
I don't know one local who shops at Safeway. We all go to KTA.
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Originally posted by Hotzcatz
Watch where the local folks shop and you'll see they aren't in Safeway. There are a lot of folks who grow food around here, folks with cows, folks with sheep, vegetables, fruits. Why bother with Safeway, Target or Walmart at all?
"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson
RE: Grocery store price gouging - tada - 12-16-2011
Long's has a sale on Alley Cat the cheapest cat food- my bantam chickens like the O's but not the X's.
Also Safeway selling 2 pound block of cheese for $6 today. Hope it's not another "mistake". Usually they have these overflow sales around Easter time for dairy and eggs. Might pose a pleasant surpise in a few months with the deflationary economic turmoil in Europe.
Nothing you can do about the people in Europe so just have to stock up with cheese when it's 2lb/ &6. For extra refrigeration I'm thinking of getting a 12volt dc frig-
http://www.refrigeratorpro.com/12_volt_refrigerator.html
And hooking it it up to enough pv panels to make it work.
RE: Grocery store price gouging - macuu222 - 12-16-2011
You can't grow toilet paper!
RE: Grocery store price gouging - condoman - 12-16-2011
Sure you can. PAPER BARK. Might be a bit abrasive though?
RE: Grocery store price gouging - missydog1 - 12-16-2011
We must live in alternate dimensions.
I'm in Safeway right now getting ready to leave, and every sIngle person in my field of vision is local as in non-haole.
Oh wait, there's a haole guy with his kids, but he's definitely not FOB.
Locals shop in all these stores, but like I said, not so much in Island Naturals except for local hippies and old health food nuts like me (and I can't afford most of what they sell.)
"And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends ~ Phil Ochs
RE: Grocery store price gouging - getty62 - 12-16-2011
this for anybody who doesn't think the locals shop safeway. coming from someone who works there, there sure seems to be a lot non-haole people shopping there. or maybe i just don't know what a local is, considering everybody here came from some place else at some point.
RE: Grocery store price gouging - DTisme - 12-17-2011
Condoman, did you just post yourself quoting yourself quoting yourself? Not really, but 2 posts ago it's just quotes. Confusing, my friend.
On corn-fed beef being bland, I think that's just it! I must LIKE it bland. The grass-fed beef tastes way too strong, almost like it has gone bad. I actually like ground turkey the best of all and most beef eaters hate it.
Didn't take the watermelon back bc it's 30-40 minutes away and would mean another trip into Hilo. Just marked it up to experience. It was funny, too, bc I had another watermelon at checkout, it was leaking from a little hole in it (hindsight tells me someone had checked it after having same problem) and ran over to the melons to get a new one. I'll bet they were all bad. Someone told me this is from leaving the melons out in the field too long.