every weekend - because no one store stocks all of our favorite foods.
This past weekend I noticed that the prices have been adjusted up in all the stores we shop at and for all of our favorite items.
Now - they still haven't gone up precipitously - but they are inching up the prices by small amounts. Some about 0.6 cents more and others by over 0.10 to 0.15 cents more than the prices for the same item just one week before.
I've noticed this at Wal-Mart, Trader Joes and Aldi's. I've also noticed this at some of the local grocery stores we shop at.
Check out the latest price on Subway footlongs. The days of a $5.00 footlong are long gone. I've seen them going for as high as $8.99 each.
Also - many of the local Subways are not honoring the Corporate Coupons - you get in you weekly newspapers.
The other trick I see more and more grocery stores using is - posting a price for an item - like $0.99 cents. In the small print that you can't read - it says that this price if only if you present your store card and a digital coupon. You have to read everything these days - because it says without the digital coupon one has to pay the full price. The item I almost bought at the $0,99 price was then priced at $3.29. If you weren't watching as they were ringing up this item - you would have just thought you bought it at the lower price. However, the price on your receipt would reflect the higher price. Many people don't even review their receipts and they just think they saved money.
Watch it folks. It's only going to get worse. Even items that aren't under any tariff directives - will be going up. That's where the price gouging is really going to hurt us. A lot of greed out there. Just like during the pandemic - there will be those stores that will take advantage of the situation and where they see an opportunity to raise the price - they will - even on non-tariff items.
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