re: #172 A Mom Anon

I’ve been to two different Kroger stores this week. Husband has a wicked case of the flu and a tummy virus so I was in search of various medicines and BRAT diet ingredients and stuff to make homemade chicken and rice soup. I also bought a turkey breast and a couple of ingredients for thanksgiving dinner. There were tons of turkeys, a bit more expensive than last year, but not ridiculous. The only items the stores seemed to be short on were some bakery products, smaller jars of peanut butter and I am having a hell of a time finding whole wheat pasta besides spaghetti, rotini and penne, for well over a year now. I need fettuccine, lasagna and elbow macaroni. I can get them from Amazon but the prices are sometimes jacked up on those. I also couldn’t find much lettuce in the produce department. Beyond that, things have been fairly stable at the stores I shop at. I also remember hearing or reading somewhere this week that Walmart’s CEO has said their shipping and merchandise levels were 11 percent higher than in years past.

Also, our media sucks. At pretty much everything related to fact based reporting.

I was just there. There are turkeys, but only the .79/lb Jennie-o types, pretty normal for the week before Tgiving. Full shelf of Nutella at 2 for $6 for 13oz jar. I took a look at ribs and holy cow. Last time I made them in the summer it was $2.79/lb. Today for the same brand it’s $5.99. I didn’t check beef. I should have, though, because we’re thinking of having that for Tgiving rather than turkey.