By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 03:23:35 | Updated at 2024-11-24 04:53:57
5 days ago
Walmart just raised its price tonight on tomatoes. From $1.98 /lb to $3.54 /lb.
Posted on 11/18/2024 7:06:11 PM PST by 4Runner
This is in Tampa, Florida. I just came back from the superstore in my neighborhood. Making hay while the sun shines. The grocery markets are going to take pricing through the stratosphere and fleece everyone until Trump gets in on January 20. So what else could possibly motivate such a rise in prices at this particular moment, to this extreme extent? This is an absolute disgrace.
TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: food; produce; tomatoes; walmart
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1 posted on 11/18/2024 7:06:11 PM PST by 4Runner
To: 4Runner
Ours have stayed the same price, for months ...
Organic tomatoes ... $2.98/lb.
2 posted on 11/18/2024 7:08:47 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
To: 4Runner
Shop somewhere else. I just bought tomatoes for 99 cents a pound from a farmer’s market.
3 posted on 11/18/2024 7:08:48 PM PST by devere
To: 4Runner
4 posted on 11/18/2024 7:09:05 PM PST by jra
To: 4Runner
All I ask is that there be free market competition among the purveyors of tomatos (and everything else).
5 posted on 11/18/2024 7:10:48 PM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
To: 4Runner
6 posted on 11/18/2024 7:13:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
To: 4Runner
Produce prices are local and seasonal.
7 posted on 11/18/2024 7:15:27 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
To: 4Runner
The grocery markets are going to take pricing through the stratosphere and fleece everyone until Trump gets in on January 20.
Welcome to the new normal in America. We thought we could have huge deficits forever, with no consequences.
Inflation always happens in countries and empires with high debt. It's why Louis XVI was sent to the guillotine. France had high debt and high inflation.
Trump has his work cut out for him.
To: 4Runner
Really?
9 posted on 11/18/2024 7:17:40 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: Responsibility2nd
LOL...I asked perplexity “why have tomatoes shot up in price” and got a long explanation for the India.
10 posted on 11/18/2024 7:20:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
To: bankwalker
At our local Walmart, a pound of bacon is a little over $6.00.
At another large grocery store, it’s $3.98.
11 posted on 11/18/2024 7:22:13 PM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
To: milagro
12 posted on 11/18/2024 7:22:57 PM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
To: 4Runner
About 90% of tomatoes in the last 20 years are not worth 5 cents a pound. They really messed them up.
13 posted on 11/18/2024 7:23:21 PM PST by Revel
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