Behind the pharmacy counter though, there are usually more. However in my experience even with more people they're slower than ever.
The meat industry is subsidized so we end up paying for it in other ways.
But rising prices shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. We still use fossil fuels to transport practically all our food. Every increase in fuel cost will be passed on to the customer.
In some cases farmers are chasing profits and competing for resources in resource insecure areas.
I keep seeing products "produced in Israel" despite a "war" going on. There's a war in Ukraine, violence in Congo, a civil warn in Sudan. Russia is under heavy sanction. All of these have impacts on the markets.
And how are the bees doing? Has anyone checked on the bees?
Generally speaking you want to wait for days when it is in the 50sF before you check your bees this time of year. I am hearing in some places because it’s been a mild winter people are starting to check… I think my last hive was a dead out. For many northern beekeepers it will be April before we start new hives of any kind
Though speaking from inside the US, by all measures a wealthy country, the fact that anybody has to worry about food security is a gigantic shame.
I dice these, with an onion, and then freeze the 3/4's I don't use in the present dish. This way, they'll "keep" forever, and I don't have to chop but 25% of the time (for freshies).
Having been poor for the majority of my life (until just two years ago), please don't hesitate to ask for more "hack$."
Are french fries a commodity?
For non-economists to try and understand the actual differences between rising supply costs vs. profit seeking (or "growth" by simply raising prices), weird metric mixing makes it harder.
The grocery price increases have been significantly targeted. The more processed a food, the more its price has increased, despite the raw ingredients not getting that much more expensive. It's also funny they say prices of beef is rising, as it's still $8 a pound for a Ribeye steak at my local supermarket.
Pepsico has absolutely gone bonkers with greed. Flavored water has doubled in price, and I promise you none of the ingredients or mostly automated production line from 1975 got more expensive suddenly.
Yesterday, I purchased one (at Aldi Chattanooga) for $1.26
For the hundred years before that, it was slowly going down in price.
