A topic up for discussion among a group of couponers that I know is the sticker shock we are suffering when we head to the store. A friend noticed a 50 cent increase in cold medicine among other price jumps and a few weeks ago I was chit-chatting with a Food Lion worker who was changing price stickers who confessed that it had been the third week in a row that she'd gotten new stickers to put up that reflected a price increase. She was just as tired of raising prices as I was of seeing new stickers showing a higher price.
For me, meat is the one thing that I've noticed going up in price --- and not going on sale as often. Bacon in particular! I love bacon and am fairly brand loyal because I refuse to pay for fat instead of meat, which is what most cheaper brands offer in their packaging.
Which price increases are burning your buns? Please leave a comment letting us know what price increases you've noticed in products you purchase regularly.
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I hear you on the bacon. I started couponing in the spring of 2011 and I remember seeing a 'stockpile price' list that had bacon listed at $1.50 per lb and that seemed pretty dang low to me but so did so many of the other stockpile prices at that time and then i quickly realized those were reasonable with sales/coupons. But to this day the cheapest I've seen bacon since then is $2.50 per lb and that was ONE time and was a 1 day sale not a full week sale. I've seen cheaper sales for bacon but they were for 12oz instead of a full lb.
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