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Food Inflation - unknownjulie - 07-12-2013
Has anyone else noticed the price inflation at Walmart? Small "Totinos" pizzas went from 1.33 to 1.88 overnight. Also, the canned salmon went from 3 dollars per can to 4. These are huge percentage increases! Are the new high prices here to stay?
RE: Food Inflation - Carey - 07-12-2013
Might look to the Matson agreement covered at the end of this thread:
http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16591&whichpage=3
RE: Food Inflation - macuu222 - 07-12-2013
Also they are pushing to increase the minimum wage to almost $10.00 an hour come January 1. That will change Walmart's pricing dramatically!
http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/media-center/entry/house-and-senate-intro-bills-to-increase-minimum-wage-to-9.80/
RE: Food Inflation - kalakoa - 07-12-2013
Walmart is just passing its share of the vehicle weight tax, property tax, and labor union pay increases along to the consumer.
Most consumers don't have the ability to give themselves a raise, so price inflation means a loss of purchasing power.
How much would a locally-produced frozen pizza cost? $5? $10?
RE: Food Inflation - bananahead - 07-12-2013
hit the farmers markets weekly for all those $1-$3 bags of veggies etc., and then the specials at Target, KTA, Foodland, etc. for the processed stuff some need to survive... and the price of food is not Bad at all here in Puna
15 cent papayas, 59 cent/lb. bananas, $3 jars of local honey, 99 cent bags of cauliflower, cheese for $3.50 lb, greek yogurt 1/2 price, 83 cent Cliff Bars, $3.99 lb. fresh organic free range ground beef (try find that on the mainland anywhere), 3 jugs of ice cream for $6.77 (Foodland last week lol
, etc.aloha
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RE: Food Inflation - dragon2k - 07-12-2013
Walmart sucks. Just my two cents.
RE: Food Inflation - kalakoa - 07-12-2013
quote:
Originally posted by macuu222
Also they are pushing to increase the minimum wage to almost $10.00 an hour come January 1.
Unlikely at best.
RE: Food Inflation - bananahead - 07-12-2013
are you sure its not San Francisco that has the $10+ min wage??? (theirs is the highest in nation)
Hawaii's Min wage is only $7.25 like many states, and the talks that failed a few months back were for a $1.50 raise, not $2.75
from what I read
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Food Inflation - Carey - 07-12-2013
The link Macuu provided was an old (2012) link for the US Senate bill s3453 from June, 2012 that died/was deferred back to committee:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s3453
came back this spring as s460 & referred to committee:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s460
and house bill hr 1010, also referred to committee:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1010
RE: Food Inflation - Oregon Woodsmoke - 07-12-2013
Prices on the mainland have gone up distressingly, so no, it is not temporary and it is not just Hawaii.
The rice noodles I buy went for 97 cents to $1.99 in just 4 months. I bought beef yesterday and paid $6.49 a pound, for the same stuff that was $4.50 just 4 months ago.
It's not so much that the price of food has gone up. It is that your dollar is fast losing its purchasing power. Don't expect it to get any better.