Things keep getting cheaper in the grocery store
July 1, 2009 by Bob Meyer
Filed under Human Interest, News
Things keep getting cheaper in the grocery store. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau says the total price of the 20 basic food items in their Market Basket Survey was $53.40 in the second quarter of 2009. That is $2.45 less than in the first quarter and the third quarterly decrease in a row. In the last nine months, the price has fallen 9 percent.
No big surprise there were declines in the dairy case reflecting the plunge in farm milk prices. Farm Bureau says a gallon of whole milk averaged $2.59 in the April through June quarter down 31 cents from the first quarter. Butter was 17 cents a pound cheaper but cheddar cheese was a penny higher. A pound of sirloin tip roast was down 66 cents to $3.36, ground sirloin was 12 cents cheaper, bacon declined 26 cents per pound, pork chops were only 2 cents lower and ham was a nickel higher. A dozen eggs down 17 cents to $1.14 and a pound of red delicious apples were 11% cheaper at $1.27.
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Nancy Pelosi, Democrat speaker of the house says; “This proves my point, we don’t need farmers, we can get our food cheap enough from the grocery stores”….When asked about the farm bill, she paused only for a moment and said; “I can’t answer that, I don’t know how much we are charging those farmers yet”…When asked if she had ever been to a farm she replied; “AFARM, hmm, I think we flew over it on our trip to Saudi Arabia”….Meanwhile Sen. Harkin has just finished reading a book, How Stalin Nationalized The Farms. He and Obama are using it as a guide for their next surprise on the American farmers….that’s all folks!