food prices going up but the food getting worse
@easymoney75503 (1702)
United States
July 20, 2008 3:18pm CST
ok i am really upset cause this is the 3rd time in 2 weeks that this has happened. i live about 20 mins from town so it isnt like i can just go up the street when this happens either.
i have baught milk and then when get home go to use it and it is bad the date is good but it is bad.
banannas get them get home open one up it had worms in it.
corrots get them stick in frig go to use them 2 days later and they are bad.
potatoes by a bag and within 3 days throwing them away
meat buy the package then open it up to divide it into small packs and it is sticky or smells funky.
fruits rotten in about 2 days. veggies rotting in about 3 days and meat and milk spoiled before you get home.
the prices are out there and the food is horriable.
i shop at main stores too. walmart, brookshires, and albertsons so it is not like i am going to thift shops for food.
i pay full price liek 5.00 for a gallon of milk to have to waste another 10.00 in gas to take it back to hear i am sorry go exchange it what about my gas. my time. that nasty taste in my mouth. i am sick of it. i want a cow, chicken , etc for my own but when i look at the price of feed omg. this is getting out of hand. bush has stuck it to us in so many ways. gave us a raise in min wage then jacked up all teh prices.
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@paisleylass (440)
• United States
21 Jul 08
Gas prices are killing us. We are nnot just paying for it at the pump but also everything else we buy. You are right the quality is going down and the quantity you get is less. I dont know where we are going but the government better step in and do something quick. First I think they should take a fifty percent pay cut, pay into socia security, and pay for their own gas. Thats a start anyway.
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@jillhill (37353)
• United States
21 Jul 08
One of the biggest problems in government is too many of them come from families that are so rich they couldn't live a typical life. They have never went hungry....jobless.....or without insurance. So they make the laws without real consideration for the general populas! But this situation has been a long time a brewing....and as long as so many of the old f*rts are still in congress much of it will stay the same.
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@paisleylass (440)
• United States
21 Jul 08
You are so righ. I couldn't have said it better myself. Good luck to you.
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
20 Jul 08
I hear you about food quality and I've also noticed more expired food sitting on the shelves at my little local grocery store lately. Just yesterday a woman warned me that all of the cottage cheese was expired. I read somewhere that produce is sitting for longer periods of time because shippers don't want to move partically filled trucks so they wait for another shipment to arrive before sending the truck out. I really don't think that the increase in food prices is the Bush administration's fault though. It's being caused by the increase in gas prices which is making it more expensive to store and ship the food to the stores. They are paying more and have to pass along the price increases to the consumers.
@honeydew82174 (1720)
• United States
21 Jul 08
My hubby is a truck driver and with the high gas prices being passed on to the food company's they do not want to pay! The trucking companies do not want to pay so the food company has to pay! I think it is terrible we can't even get good food! When is it ever going to end!1 person likes this
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
22 Jul 08
The packages are getting smaller, the quality is less on everything else. The prices just seems to keep going up and up. I don't know what we are going to do.
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@snowy22315 (208846)
• United States
21 Jul 08
I can sympathize. i dont live that close to town either so when I go there it's a trip. I thought my milk was going bad this morning and I was thinking what? I just bought this 3 days ago. It's dated July 27. Some of the stores around here just dont seem to have good milk and produce. I try to go other places to buy it because most of it isnt that hot. I think it was the democrats who raised the minimun wage, but you can blame Bush if you want. I dont like him.
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
21 Jul 08
Get goats! They are extremely efficient weed processors. You really don't have to buy feed...if it's green, they will eat it and produce milk.
@karmendra (1123)
• India
20 Jul 08
i think there is no any way to make every thing good. but we can use packaged food. just like if you get packaged milk and if it is out of date you will leave it.
and if it spoiled fusty you can object the seller or replace it. but you have another big problem you are 20 min far from the market.
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@sherrir101 (3670)
• Malinta, Ohio
20 Jul 08
We also live about 20 minutes from town. With as hot as it has been this summer, food spoilage can be expected. Have you tried taking a cooler with an ice pack in it to the store and transferring the cold foods to the color when you get them to the car? This is the way that I do it. Ohio seems more hot this year. With the gasoline prices now, I make sure that my food is the best that I can keep it. I do not want to run to town needlessly.
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@kimbers867 (2539)
• United States
20 Jul 08
I would be writing letters to the corporate office of each of these stores and ccing the store manager.
That is so sad. You should hopefully receive letters from the stores. I would ask for full refunds from all three.
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@jillhill (37353)
• United States
21 Jul 08
Actually I don't really think all of this is Bushs' fault....all of this has been a long time acoming....like the hike in gas prices. Europe has been paying way higher prices then we have for a long time. So now it's our turn. I also have noticed alot of expired or nearly expired food at the markets....the other night I went to look for some fruit and all of it was very unappealing...and I always watch for the expiration date on milk......you'll just have to dig deeper to the back of the cooler...
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@MrsWickham1 (464)
• United States
21 Jul 08
I have noticed the same thing since actually December of last year. Things on the shelves expire within days or weeks. So I have to be really careful because I was wasting so much food. But my biggest thing other than the early expiration dates is the lack of stocked food. I do not have time to keep going to the store because they do not have anything ever. I go early in the morning on different days depending on when payday is, but never do they have certain foods in stock so I will either have to go somewhere else or come back later.
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@newtondak (3946)
• United States
21 Jul 08
I would definitely find a different store to shop!
I have also found it beneficial to take a cooler with me when I go to the store - especially in warm weather. I have filled a couple of 2-litre soda bottles about 3/4 full of water and frozen them and used them in the bottom of the cooler to keep things cold.
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@meiyeec511 (405)
• Malaysia
21 Jul 08
I agree with you, that's the thing I don't understand why.
I can accept that the price increase if not much, but why after the price increase, the food become low quality and quantity? There are a lot of places like this.
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@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
20 Jul 08
I don't think Bush had anything to do with jacking up the prices of our food. The cost of gas for the shippers has made the wholesale price go up to the stores. They, in turn, run the price up on the consumers. Nobody is losing but the consumers.
We take it for granted that our food we purchase is going to be fine when we get home. And it is terrible to get home and find some ruined. I also live about 25 or 30 minutes from the store I normally buy from and I would hate to get home and find I had ruined milk. I know the store I frequent will say bring it back in when you come later with your ticket. But that wouldn't help you if you were out of milk. We do have a store about 15 mins away, but their groceries are much higher. I buy from them occasionally but never a full grocery bill.
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