Here's my receipt from this evening's trip for this week's groceries.
Premium marinara sauce, 2 for $7.55. So $3.78 each. This is a shitty tactic Publix has always used...hiking up the "base" price and offering a BOGO like it's an "amazing" deal. It's not. Before the recent price hikes, this sauce was regularly around $3.50 a jar.
A packet of dry store-brand brown gravy mix. Used to be about 50 cents. Now $1.19.
Two pints of Talenti gelato. Well, let's be honest, this shit was ALWAYS expensive. But they used to have regular BOGOs every other month or so bringing it down to around $2.50 each. Haven't seen them in a long time. Oh, and I just noticed they charge tax on this now? Is it some sin tax like on soda to reduce junk food abuse? Since I'm buying on the last few dollars of my EBT I'm exempt from that tax, but it'll come into play in the near future when I go back to buying food with my own money.
The next two are pre-packaged deli meats, black forest ham and lower sodium turkey. Lower-quality brands like Land-O-Frost, infused with salt and water to make them weigh more yet provide less. Mmm, just look at this shit pictured below. Isn't it great to be poor? You want better? Go pay at least twice the price for deli counter options.
Bag of potatoes, $4.99. Used to be about $3.99 not too long ago.
BOGO Pepperidge Farms bread, one whole wheat, one potato, $2.24 each. This BOGO puts it on the same price point as store brand bread and again, around the price this used to sell for a year ago.
Sweet Vidalia onions and premium tomatoes. These don't seem that much higher than usual, but it still amazes me that here in the farm belt of Florida, where no doubt these two crops are grown in abundance, we don't enjoy a discount accordingly. Probably because of the quirky supply chain algorithm supermarket chains like Publix have...these are most likely not locally grown so we pay what shmucks in say, far-less-agricultural, Massachusetts would pay.
And finally, a large 4.74 lb. package of chicken thighs @ $2.09 a pound. With skin and bone. Used to regularly be available for about a buck a pound for many years, but it's been a while. Frankly, at the current price, it's kinda the best deal of the list...$9.91 for what will easily be broken down to make at least 5 meals.
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