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The stores have all of their products and prices computerized.
Wouldn't it be great if they provided this information to a third
party so a website could be set up which showed you exactly who had
the lowest prices on any product? It's in their best interests to
advertise their low prices. I wonder if they would go for that.
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Hey pahoated, you know not of what you say. Do you have ANY idea how much time it would take to change prices on that schedule ??
Glad my SS check comes on the 24th, means I am special and get all that CHEAP food.
Prolly not Paul but that is an open door for someone ambitious to do for a small membership fee.
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Originally posted by pahoated
A lot of this doesn't have to do with a specific scapegoat store. It is the crazy shopping here and knowing how stuff gets here. The major container ship from the US arrives in Honolulu on Monday, the Young Brothers tugboat it over Tuesday and it's stocked Wednesday. All the stores raise their prices from the 1st to the 5th, the 1st for SS and SSI, the 3rd and 5th for EBT. Then, there are just crazy prices for the same product in different stores. And wild fluctuations in the store. An example, Malama has a regular price for Breyer's ice cream pints of about $5 for a pint. Then, they will have a sale on it, 2 pints for $3 or $1.50 for a pint. So, what will be unbelievably high in one place will be half the price someplace else. That's why Hilo is such a bustling little town, it's everybody going from store to store to get the best prices. Very little percentage is air freighted in, and at an even more premium cost, so of the 92% Hawaii is importing, it's almost all container ships, all floating on oil. The price of a barrel of oil has gone up almost 11% in the past two months, so that gives a rough idea of the shipping cost increase for the next few months.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
Mahalos for the very astute observation of our pathetic dependency on oil. Seriously though, thanks for the inside scoop on the pricing calendar.
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Who cares about food prices!
IT IS AMMO prices that have gone up 100,000% if you can even find it at a hunter type / gun shop.
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Here is an EXACT example of the type of site you want for local food price tracking, but this is for ammo. unfortunately, none of these retailers will ship ammo to Hawaii due to the TSA hazardous materials rules.
http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/223-556/
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Er, this thread is about food prices. Maybe you care about ammunition. I don't.
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Vampire - time to start making your own. Brass prices have been relatively steady and it's not as hard as you might think. You also get to dial in the size of load that works best for you and your weapon.
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Gun nuts always gotta talk about guns, not matter what anyone else is talking about.
Ever notice that?
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Newbie Vampire - please Cease and Desist. This is a thread about FOOD prices.
