Food prices in Tucson

[Mike]

We live in Kansas City and food is going up pretty fast there, but we are visiting our son in Tucson and just spent $150 dollars at the store and barely got anything. I was blown away at the prices.

Between food prices soaring and gas soaring I find it hard to believe that a very large segment of the population is not sinking under. People don't like to let others know that they are hurting and I think there is a major struggle going on that is largely unseen.

Some have a bigger cushion than others, but if this keeps going then almost no one will keep up.

[sunshine2777]

We went to sam's today and I purposely took an old receipt to see what is increasing in price.... Pasta, Cheese, Meats, Sugar are a few things that made a noticeable jump. Another thing we saw? More people actually leaving with little to nothing purchased. The faces of everyone... well, the look like robots....... no life in their eyes.....

If the prices of food and gas do not level off.... things are going to get so very ugly..... I keep saying it but this country's blessing is going to be its curse..... its one thing to not have anything and to get something.... its a totally other thing to have alot and to lose it........ and with very little morality in our society... its ripe for some real ugliness......

How are people doing it? In our society if you dont recognize a problem, it honestly doesnt exist and will eventually go away...... so when the other shoe falls.... it will fall hard...

[Southern Lady]

It's going to be difficult for a lot of people. More people live in cities than they did 70 years ago. Many people back then had gardens where they could grow their own vegetables, they may even had chickens.
But I live in an area where we aren't allowed to keep chickens, but a vegetable garden is a possibility.

[cbressler1976]

Almost everything is going up in price....I went to the grocery store yesterday and got half as much as I normally do and paid the same amount!!
It's getting ugly out there!:tsk

[stonewallfan]

It takes energy to raise food process and deliver it to our grocery store. (Not to mention alot of grocery stores in suburban or rural areas are manned by minimum wage positions I wonder how they will handle the fuel situation) There is a formula that says for every 1 Kalorie of food's worth energy we eat it takes 2 Kalories of energy to deliver it. Food is going up. I do not shop for our family I am the go to guy if we run out of stuff before the next big shopping trip and my wife calls me at work. So I have picked stuff up and gone home and said "Is it me or when did a gallon of milk become expensive?" Spouse says "Where have you been?"

[Issachar]

My wife does 99.9% of grocery shopping. She is tied up this past week with funeral stuff for her mom. That leaves myself and my two still at home children to fend for ourselves. Ugh! Nothing like her absence to remind how much she does. God bless her. Well, food is running down. I went to the store to get some on Friday. WHOA! I got almost nothing! The prices were so high from what I remember ... I thought, "Surely I must be looking in the wrong place or something!" That night I told her what I saw and she said I was in the right place. We buy a bag of potato chips maybe every 3 or 4 months .... It's been a long time so I thought the kids might think it was cool if I bought a bag. NO WAY! I saw the price and said NO WAY! I refuse to pay that amount.

Oh .... BTW, last night, Saturday night, at about 10, I was on my way to my son's house and gas was the (now) usual $3.79. On the way home about mid-night, the same station was at $3.85! I don't recall seeing prices go up on a Saturday night. ???

Issachar

[I'm all 67X]

The food is changing also. Meat especially, just tastes wrong.

We had pork chops last night. No big deal, we might have them 1-2 times a month. The meat was wrong. It looked like a pork chop, but the texture was more like a chicken nugget...when I looked close, it looked like it was injected with water? They were moist- more than normal, but it was just plain wrong. Another way to fool us into thinking we are getting value? If the meat is only half meat, is it still meat? Very disturbing.

[cbressler1976]

The prices and tricks are just crazy lately....but at least we don't live in Myanmar....this world is going crazy fast....and people are just now noticing it a little bit...it's really hurting my heart....i try and imagine what it would be like to have gone through a crazy storm...and then no one comes to help you(they have no idea that their government wouldn't allow anyone)....your children are probably dead because they can't swim as well as you....(there was a man who was able to hold onto a tree, but his wife and children got swept away)...I'm not a man, but I couldn't imagine how he must have fealt...he could have blamed himself for not saving them...or how the tornado victoms must feel....your home is completely gone...you have nothing....your children are in their only clothes....your cars are crushed....your house is gone...all this is sooo sad...

[lilbitsyspider]

We live in Kansas City and food is going up pretty fast there, but we are visiting our son in Tucson and just spent $150 dollars at the store and barely got anything. I was blown away at the prices.

Between food prices soaring and gas soaring I find it hard to believe that a very large segment of the population is not sinking under. People don't like to let others know that they are hurting and I think there is a major struggle going on that is largely unseen.

Some have a bigger cushion than others, but if this keeps going then almost no one will keep up.

They are, instead of calling the economic crisis for what it is, they've glazed over the truth and called subprime mortgages. Not everyone going under is due to subprime mortgages.

[lilbitsyspider]

The food is changing also. Meat especially, just tastes wrong.

We had pork chops last night. No big deal, we might have them 1-2 times a month. The meat was wrong. It looked like a pork chop, but the texture was more like a chicken nugget...when I looked close, it looked like it was injected with water? They were moist- more than normal, but it was just plain wrong. Another way to fool us into thinking we are getting value? If the meat is only half meat, is it still meat? Very disturbing.

A few years back Piggly Wiggly got in trouble for bleaching old meat making it look more fresh. I don't buy pork chops cost to much, I let my mom buy them and cook them up. Just love having a mom!