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On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:00:21 -0400, Bert Robbins wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:28:02 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:08:44 -0400, JohnH
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On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:35:57 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:24:55 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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***ME*** shift the conversation? You're talking about mortgage
rates
while I'm telling that freight rates have increased 30% in
40-ish
months*, and you're making like it's a non-event.

*A number of months which is not a coincidence, by the way.
How much has the cost of groceries gone up at your local grocery
store in
the last two years?
On which products in particular? An average would be meaningless.
Well, let me put it this way - about 100%.

I'll let you know when we buy our annual "basket". That is to say,
we
buy the same thing, in one basket, every year just to see how much
more we pay year-to-year. We do it every year the weekend after
Labor
Day.

Last year it was just shy of 80%.
Tom, were 80% of the items priced higher, or was the total price 80%
higher?

If the latter, you've gotta quit buying tomatoes at Safeway!
Total price.

And we don't buy anything at Safeway. :)

Boycotting Safeway is a good thing! :)

Tell me you don't shop at Giant?

Tomatoes at Giant are a dollar a pound cheaper than at Safeway!

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John

I paid $0.59 / lb yesterday at the local produce market for tomatoes.
Cluster tomatoes on the vine were only $1.19 lb. You getting ripped.
Only 2 ripe tomatoes from my yard plants.

California has a lot more tomato-pickers (a.k.a. illegals).




They may or may not be illegal, but they are the same ones picking most of
the crops. As to tomatoes, we do grow a lot of them. And you have never
seen tomatoes commercially picked with your comment. When picking for
canning, and maybe even for market, they spray the field 3 days before
picking with a ripening agent. 3 days later, 95% are red. They then drive
a machine through the field, that rips up the plant, sends it along a
conveyer belt, and the workers along the belt, pick out the tomatoes and
they are sent along another chute to a hopper on a trailer next to the
picker. They the go off along the highway, spilling some small percentage.
You can get all the tomatoes you want at some curves and onramps. Every
once in a while a truck turns turtle, normally when I want to take the boat
somewhere and causes a huge traffic jam, while they bring in the skip loader
to clear the highway. One cannery near where I used to duck hunt, did
tomato paste for American Food's (Franco-American brands) and the smallest
container was 5 gallons, largest: tank car. UC Davis developed the
tasteless tomato with the heavy duty skin that can be machine picked.