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Post by sunny225 on Aug 11, 2023 20:38:10 GMT
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Post by FeralFerret on Aug 12, 2023 7:31:31 GMT
On what I buy, it was more than 4.9 % in July.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Aug 12, 2023 7:57:12 GMT
On what I buy, it was more than 4.9 % in July. Same here. |
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Aug 13, 2023 0:11:22 GMT
I've quit looking at the prices, it's bad for the blood pressure.
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Post by sunny225 on Aug 13, 2023 1:37:06 GMT
I've quit looking at the prices, it's bad for the blood pressure. Ain't that the truth? I can hardly stand to go buy groceries any more. Everything is so much higher than they were a year ago or a month ago. It's disheartening to see how much less you're buying for the same amount of money. |
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Post by FeralFerret on Aug 13, 2023 5:26:14 GMT
Remember when regular size candy bars were 5 cents and king size were ten cents? I do. A bottle (ten ounce) of soda pop was 10 cents. The deposit on the glass bottle was two cents.
I remember going up and down the side of the highway on Sunday afternoons picking up all of the soft drink and beer bottles that had been thrown out on Friday and Saturday night by people in vehicles. That bought me quite a lot of candy and soda pop as a kid.
Now the regular candy bars are almost a dollar and a half, and the king size almost two dollars. Even a year ago the regular size was under a dollar and the king size just over a dollar. And now days often times cheap beer is cheaper than soda pop.
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Post by laurazone5 on Aug 13, 2023 12:23:49 GMT
I remember on Saturdays I would go with my dad to the barber shop.
If I sat still and was quite, I got to put a dime in the machine and get a bottle of Coke.
I remember when my school lunch, a pack of smokes, and a gallon of gas was .55 cents.
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Post by FeralFerret on Aug 15, 2023 4:06:02 GMT
"I remember when my school lunch, a pack of smokes, and a gallon of gas was .55 cents."
And cigarettes were sold in vending machines.
When I was in high school, I worked as a weekend shift manager for a service station owned by the area distributor for Fina, Sinclair, and Atlantic Richfield gasoline. This was at their big station located in front of their oil warehouse and bulk gasoline storage plant. During the gas wars in the early 70s we sold regular for as low as 12.9 cents per gallon.
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