HappyTrails

Sticker shock grips me every time I walk into the grocery stores.  My dad always proudly said that I knew how to make the buffalo on a nickle holler since it was always being squeezed, but I seem to be losing my touch.  Sometimes you can only take so much aggravation with the price hikes on everything.

We shop several stores in the area according to their sales flyer, our need, and then bring our coupons. Fortunately, there are about 4 stores that are close enough to us to do so.  Coupons help because some of the stores sometimes double face value if a coupon is no larger than $0.99 –if it is a $1.00 off, you are out of luck.

Coupons are available online too — before you go anywhere, always check the website of the company from which you need to buy something, and check for coupons to print.

At least there are weekly specials, and sometimes BOGO deals, but it often seems to me that a higher price per pound, or last week’s price was lower than when those are advertised.  So, this is just one more thing we have to do, compare prices when we need something and sort the coupons. At least most of the grocery store ones do not make you spend money for a stamp and fill out a refund form.

As the gasoline prices rose, the prices of food went crazy.  Here in Pennsylvania, the gasoline prices are still about 20 cents higher than Florida.  Since the gas price is down, the grocery store prices have a few more sales, but the normal sticker prices are NOT budging downward — they seem to me to still be climbing.

Some companies along the food chain have to be making a lot of money here…here is one explanation from a news station, but until I read a lot of independent bloggers and the views of other news stations, I refuse to take it at face value.  The buying public is being being gouged big time and there is always way more to the story than what is presented.

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