Grocery prices where you live

[manning]

Food prices are up at least 10%

 

[LilyWDW]

I bought uncured bacon from Earth Fare for $4.99. Organic milk at Earth Fare was $4.99 as well.

I am on a restricted diet so to have something like bacon I have to get the uncured.

 

[aprilchem]

One thing that is great about living in a more urban area is that there are tons of supermarkets in direct competition so some one is always having a sale.

Last week, I got OM bacon, 2 packages for 7.00 bucks. You had to buy 2 though. I stocked up.

rarely do I buy it for 4 bucks. Milk hovers around $2.79 and butter once again is always on sale some where. generally I can get it for 2.50 a pound. I stock up when it's on sale for $1.99

I WISH I could get butter at that price! I cook completely from scratch (including grinding my own wheat and baking my own bread) for my large family, and I end up using a lot of butter. It's steadily gone up here and last week it was up to $3.69 a lb. $1.99 used to be my stock-up price but I haven't seen it that cheap in a long time - I'm hoping there will be a sale around Thanksgiving, and then I'll buy enough to last a year. Did you know you can freeze butter?

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

OP, I'm in Florida, also - Northwest Florida panhandle and Oscar Mayer bacon was on "sale" at Publix last week for $5.69. Even the Publix brand was about $6, I think. It's gotten high everywhere around here, Publix is not just jacking up the price. I do buy a lot of bacon for my kids' breakfasts so they have a little protein to get them through the morning. I am quitting until the price goes down.

Milk has been $3.69 for months. We like the Sara Lee whole grain white bread and it's often on sale 2/$4, or I can get Publix brand honey wheat for $1.59. If I'm close by I go to the Colonial bread store and get the Sara Lee bread for about $1 each and freeze them.

Someone mentioned grapes at less than $1/lb - I haven't seen that in literally years. They've been around $1.69 on sale lately and I've been buying them but when they go back over $2/lb, I won't buy them.

I think prices are going up all over and it's bad in my area because we're not near any of the big population centers of the state (Jax, Orlando, Tampa, Miami) so we're far from the distribution centers. I prefer to shop at Publix so I know I'll pay a little more than if I went to Walmart but I hate shopping at Walmart. I like Publix's fresh produce and meats the best. But I do wish prices would go down!

 

[ChristmasElf]

I travel constantly and grocery shop on a fairly regular basis.

Groceries are cheaper in Orlando than they are in Dallas. (for the most part) (Tom Thumb and Kroger in Dallas and PUBLIX in Orlando)

Groceries in Nashville are very high (PUBLIX) and (FRESH Market)

Groceries in Rochester New York are pretty much the same as in Orlando. (Wegmans in Rochester and PUBLIX in Orlando)

Groceries at Ralphs (owned by Kroger) in Beverly Hills California are cheaper than they are in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee! (which really surprised me)

I try to pick up most of the meats and produce at Costco.

 

[ChristmasElf]

I WISH I could get butter at that price! I cook completely from scratch (including grinding my own wheat and baking my own bread) for my large family, and I end up using a lot of butter. It's steadily gone up here and last week it was up to $3.69 a lb. $1.99 used to be my stock-up price but I haven't seen it that cheap in a long time - I'm hoping there will be a sale around Thanksgiving, and then I'll buy enough to last a year. Did you know you can freeze butter?

You can also freeze milk and eggs too! (although I don't usually do it!)

 

[Sadie22]

One thing that is great about living in a more urban area is that there are tons of supermarkets in direct competition so some one is always having a sale.

Last week, I got OM bacon, 2 packages for 7.00 bucks. You had to buy 2 though. I stocked up.

rarely do I buy it for 4 bucks. Milk hovers around $2.79 and butter once again is always on sale some where. generally I can get it for 2.50 a pound. I stock up when it's on sale for $1.99

This is one of my practices, too. I watch for certain items to go on sale as loss leaders and then I buy as many as I can use. So I'm always buying different items, but the price on each is as low as possible.

 

[Eliza32]

Just in case you're interested, I checked the price of Oscar Meyer bacon in the UK!! So after being imported, and put on sale at our most expensive national chain (Sainsbury's), a 200g (8oz) pack sells for £2.09 ($3.20 at current exchange rate)

 

[AnnaS]

OM bacon here - regular price - give or take is about $8.

Milk is way over $4 gallon. These vary a few cents by store/supermarket. You do find some corner deli/bagel store that sells the milk a bit less.

Buy what/when it is on sale. Prices are not only going up, but all packages have shrunk.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I travel constantly and grocery shop on a fairly regular basis.

Groceries in Nashville are very high (PUBLIX) and (FRESH Market)

Groceries at Ralphs (owned by Kroger) in Beverly Hills California are cheaper than they are in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee! (which really surprised me)

I try to pick up most of the meats and produce at Costco.

You've got that right. We live in Nashville. I don't even add up what we spend on groceries b/c I don't want to know!

 

[ChristmasElf]

You've got that right. We live in Nashville. I don't even add up what we spend on groceries b/c I don't want to know!

I LOVE that Costco you have right next door in Brentwood!

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I LOVE that Costco you have right next door in Brentwood!

Yes it is nice but always so crowded! We live in Franklin, so I shop there once a week.

 

[tvguy]

Back to OP's bacon. $10.25 at my grocery story, I about fainted, but we always also hit Walmart, same bacon there is $6.20. Okay, there is no reason there should be a $4 difference.

 

[maplevale]

Another Canadian....

Milk (we buy in a 4 liter bag works out to 1.057 gallons) was on sale at WalMart for $3.97 Canadian... works out to about $3.65 a gallon

Bacon averages 500 g for 4.78CAD or about 4.21 a pound.

But we pay almost $5 a gallon for fuel........



(If I am doing all my conversions correct!0

 

[powellrj]

Back to the ops bacon. Its not a brand we usually buy, but because it was on sale a few weeks ago, I bought some. Everyone complained it was the worst bacon ever! I was told to go back to my usual Kroger private label brand!

 

[BCmomma]

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I'm curious what grocery prices are throughout the country. Over the past year especially, I am finding that groceries and gas are skyrocketing in my area, and when I talk to family and friends in other states they tell me they don't see this kind of increase.

As a disclaimer, I do live in a very, very expensive part of South Florida, and our population ebbs and flows with the seasons with the snowbirds. Generally, I shop at the local Winn Dixie and Publix based on weekly sales, and I go to Whole Foods also because oddly, sometimes the prices on meat, dairy and veggies are even better than the mass market chains. I took this pic above when I bought bacon last week at Winn Dixie, and I wish I had taken a shot of the $6.24 gallon of store brand milk.

So what's it like in your neck of the woods?

Holy cow!!! I thought prices were high here in Canada....your prices in Florida are insane!!

I shop across the border in Washington state when I can as I only live 15-20 minutes from 3 different border crossings.

For bacon in Canada: $4.99 regular price ($2.99 is an excellent price on sale, and rare). Milk 1% 4litre jug (just a tiny bit more than a gallon in size) is about $4.50 or so depending on stores.

In Washington I will pay $2.59 or so for the same size milk but bacon is not much cheaper, usually around $4-$5 unless that goes on sale and I can get it for $2.50 which does not happen very often.