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<p>[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 4946829, member: 89393"]There was a time when the local premium dairy sold a whole milk product that was $3.99, it is close to $7.00 today. You can still get cheap milk at places like Walmart, but if your standards for food quality are as high as they might be for your coin collecting, then you would be able to tell the difference between these two products immediately. (I had a person once tell me that the best steak she ever had was at Applebee's—that's one of those cheap meat restaurants if you don't have one where you are.)</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife shops the sales, and we pore over the weekly circulars when they arrive every week. Even at Walmart a ground beef product is usually around $6 per pound, though. It used to average about $2. If you read the circulars, you have to learn how to read their deceptions. One can assume if the grade of beef is not specified that what is for sale is just verging on select, the lowest grade that's fit for human consumption. When the sale is for Choice or Prime grades this is usually in big letters. If you ever served in the military, you would know exactly what this low grade of meat tastes like. More power to you if you can tolerate its flavor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER] , I don't know about where you are, but a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale used to cost me $4.98 at Walmart, now it's $9.97. How's that for inflation?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it was John Arbuckle who said, "You get what you pay for." He brought us this pearl of wisdom long before the American Dollar started sliding as fast as the Italian Lire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 4946829, member: 89393"]There was a time when the local premium dairy sold a whole milk product that was $3.99, it is close to $7.00 today. You can still get cheap milk at places like Walmart, but if your standards for food quality are as high as they might be for your coin collecting, then you would be able to tell the difference between these two products immediately. (I had a person once tell me that the best steak she ever had was at Applebee's—that's one of those cheap meat restaurants if you don't have one where you are.) My wife shops the sales, and we pore over the weekly circulars when they arrive every week. Even at Walmart a ground beef product is usually around $6 per pound, though. It used to average about $2. If you read the circulars, you have to learn how to read their deceptions. One can assume if the grade of beef is not specified that what is for sale is just verging on select, the lowest grade that's fit for human consumption. When the sale is for Choice or Prime grades this is usually in big letters. If you ever served in the military, you would know exactly what this low grade of meat tastes like. More power to you if you can tolerate its flavor. Oh, [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER] , I don't know about where you are, but a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale used to cost me $4.98 at Walmart, now it's $9.97. How's that for inflation? I think it was John Arbuckle who said, "You get what you pay for." He brought us this pearl of wisdom long before the American Dollar started sliding as fast as the Italian Lire.[/QUOTE]
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