A Deal Was Not a Deal Until It Was a Deal
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (95899)
United States
August 21, 2022 9:57am CST
It is sometimes funny how we think about certain things as we try to recondition ourselves a bit.
I am talking about inflation.
As I have mentioned many times before, I have what I call threshold prices. In other words, it is a top line I will pay for anything—I will never pay more than my threshold price.
But of course, I have had to rethink some of those threshold prices a bit because inflation says if I don't, I might starve. lol
So, when I went to Ruler Foods yesterday and saw eggs at 2 dozen for $3 I jumped at the chance, especially since it has been about three weeks or so since I have bought eggs due to the price.
The week before the best price I could find was $2.09 a dozen at Aldi. Nope. Not paying that.
Not that long ago I would never have paid $1.50 for a dozen eggs either. Especially considering not that long ago 99 cents seemed high considering I was buying them for 69 cents a dozen for a long time.
But now suddenly $1.50 seemed like a deal so I bought two dozen.
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@lovebuglena (45412)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Aug 22
That's crazy! I used to buy corn bread at my local supermarket. The price was $5. Saw it at the supermarket Sunday now selling for $7.
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@porwest (95899)
• United States
22 Sep
@lovebuglena $5 for cornbread is outrageous enough, honestly. lol
@Beestring (14906)
• Hong Kong
21 Aug 22
Eggs are expensive in Hong Kong. We have to pay $4.00 for 10 large eggs. They are imported from Japan, pretty good quality. Eggs from China are cheaper.
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@Beestring (14906)
• Hong Kong
23 Aug 22
@lovebuglena Because Hong Kong does not have enough farms.
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@lovebuglena (45412)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Aug 22
@Beestring Oh. That's why the prices are high. Not everyone can afford to pay so much for eggs.
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@moffittjc (122656)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Aug 22
I get all my eggs for free. One of my co-workers raises chickens, and so he brings tons of eggs to work for everyone to take what they want. He has so many eggs he can hardly get rid of them all.
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@moffittjc (122656)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Sep 22
@porwest $1.79 would be a great price here. Our eggs start at $1.99 .
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@porwest (95899)
• United States
25 Sep 22
@moffittjc $1.99 would definitely leave eggs on the shelf for me. lol
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
22 Aug 22
I've noticed that too. Why are eggs so expensive all of a sudden?
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
22 Aug 22
@porwest Ah, I thought about gas costs for transporting, but didn't figure the rest, hadn't heard about that avian flu , that's too bad :/
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@porwest (95899)
• United States
23 Aug 22
@FayeHazel Just one more thing to affect badly an already bad situation. It is what it is.
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@pumpkinjam (8860)
• United Kingdom
21 Aug 22
Sadly, this is the case with so many things now. I don't have a threshold as such, although I recall a time when I wouldn't pay more than £0.99 per litre of petrol. Now, it's well over twice that for the cheapest places. Inflation happens, of course, but I'm sure a lot of prices have increased more over the last 20 years than they had done for the 20 or 30 years previous.
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@pumpkinjam (8860)
• United Kingdom
22 Aug 22
@porwest it is much the same here in the UK. While I'm quite lucky myself, I do feel that I've worked up to where I am only to be in the same place I started because inflation has overtaken wages so much.
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@porwest (95899)
• United States
22 Aug 22
@pumpkinjam I have been fortunate enough that it is not hitting my bottom line like it is some, and my buying habits also afford me some flexibility. But it is still impacts.
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@kaylachan (74877)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Aug 22
That still feels like a bargain. I'll take it especially since everything is so high.
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@kaylachan (74877)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Sep 22
@porwest Yes, that's real true, LOL
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
21 Aug 22
Eggs here ( Philippines) still costs around a dollar a dozen depending if it's small, medium or large. Yes inflation would make us make thinking adjustments, I'm still trying to figure out if it's directly or inversely proportional to inflation. I agree with having a threshold.
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@RebeccasFarm (92002)
• Arvada, Colorado
21 Aug 22
That is very very cheap I must say.
I pay $6 for 18 eggs, but they are what I want. Brown and big and organic pasture raised.
I could walk to the Natural Grocers and get them much cheaper though.
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@FourWalls (71337)
• United States
21 Aug 22
I’ll bet farmers can make a killing on roadside stands selling eggs for $1.50 a dozen now!
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@1creekgirl (42376)
• United States
21 Aug 22
I have two words for you: Overton Window.
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@LindaOHio (183886)
• United States
22 Aug 22
Yes, you have to adjust your thresholds as the market changes.
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@dgobucks226 (36068)
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21 Aug 22
Yes, shopping for food today I describe as a shell game waiting for a sale to stock up on an item and going without one while you wait for it to eventually go on sale. And like you I will wait rather than buy something I think is overpriced! Well, people are wising up to who caused this problem (hopefully)...
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@dgobucks226 (36068)
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23 Sep
@porwest Yes, true. It's amazing how when phrased a certain way, people will believe anything without being curious enough to find out if it's true. 
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@porwest (95899)
• United States
24 Sep
@dgobucks226 ESPECIALLY when it comes to Harris, I mean, she was saying entirely different things just two months ago and NO ONE on the left remembers it? And they call Trumpers a cult.
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