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High cost of food in Hilo - macuu222 - 05-23-2011
Has anybody noticed the high cost of food recently in the grocery stores? Especially dairy products and produce! The sale prices are still worth it "sometimes"....but regularly prices items have just jumped (cheese-$10.50lb, butter-$5.50lb, Limes-$1.30 each). These are Safeway prices...but other stores are pretty close. And now they're saying that the price for beer is going to shoot up! What's next? Water fountains that charge by the ounce?
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - pslamont - 05-23-2011
When gas goes up, everything goes up because it has to be transported....
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - macuu222 - 05-23-2011
I know...but gas has recently spiraled down in the last 2 weeks. And is still falling...
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - Rob Tucker - 05-23-2011
Matson's record setting fuel surcharge (47% I believe) is still in effect.
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - macuu222 - 05-23-2011
Yea..Your right Rob. Quick to increase surcharges....and painstakingly long to bring them back down. Gonna have to talk to my brother about that!
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - Guest - 05-23-2011
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Originally posted by macuu222
Has anybody noticed the high cost of food recently in the grocery stores? Especially dairy products and produce! The sale prices are still worth it "sometimes"....but regularly prices items have just jumped (cheese-$10.50lb, butter-$5.50lb, Limes-$1.30 each). These are Safeway prices...but other stores are pretty close. And now they're saying that the price for beer is going to shoot up! What's next? Water fountains that charge by the ounce?
Inflation. It will only get worse.
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - Bob Orts - 05-24-2011
Most of the items you are buying today were produced and distributed when fuel cost were high. You can't look at fuel cost this week and assume that means the fuel cost were as low 1 month ago.
As for Matson’s fuel surcharge, I didn’t read anyone complaining when fuel cost skyrocketed and Matson's fuel surcharge was still based on lower fuel cost. Matson's is a lagging surcharge which means as fuel cost rises, they eat that increase until they raise the surcharge. They have every right to maintain that surcharge until they cover the cost. To complain about them not dropping as fast as fuel cost drop should be met with equal complaining that it’s not rising as fast as fuel cost rise.
Many want it to drop on a dime but would throw a fit if it rose on that same dime. [
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RE: High cost of food in Hilo - Dinamight - 05-24-2011
Macuu,
Do you buy those high priced, dried out old limes at Safeway? For the price of one of those rock hard things you can get 10 or more at the market. They are local, juicy and delicious.
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - macuu222 - 05-24-2011
Actually I grow my own limes. I'm just complaining about the crazy prices they're charging.
RE: High cost of food in Hilo - whalesong - 05-24-2011
Here's a list of all the local farmers here in Puna. Maybe we could organize a group that would like to buy in bulk and divide it up, so the cost is lower.
http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?m&lat=19.575395&lon=-154.961816&scale=10&ty=-1&zip=96749&p=1
Here is Co-Op Distributor for Hnl, HI, none found on Hawaii.
Kokua Market Natural Foods Co-op
2643 S. King Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96826-
Phone: (808) 941-1922
FAX: (808) 944-9151
kokuamarket@verizon.net