I won't !!
Rather let's deal with my experience in regard to recent purchases of fruits and vegetables.
And just for the record, Governments' claim that inflation hovers around just 2%...it is to laugh.
The other day, my wife and I were shopping at the local Loblaw's Super Store and one of the items our her list was celery. The cost was pushing $8.00 for the sorriest celery you could ever imagine. I said to Anne, you can not be serious in buying such a miserable imitation of the real thing. She was.
It gets worse. Yesterday I went into the local Farm Boy grocery store ostensibly to purchase a bread stick to go with the Boston Clam Chawda I had prepared earlier in the day. Didn't know I had some hidden talents. I found the bread okay at a cost I viewed as expensive but as I say, it got worse.
I thought I would purchase some fruit while there and came across some nectarines. The puniest things you ever did see but I thought what the heck they were sure not to cost too much.
But when I got to the cash with my 4 'silver dollar' sized takings I was literally floored to find out the price for same was 4 1/2 dollars - over a buck ten for each of these miniatures.
It reminded me of a joke I heard years ago where this chap went into a store where he too bought something extravagant like I did ...he paid the clerk the over-sized price and threw in an extra quarter. The clerk ask him what the extra 25 cents was for and he explained, that upon entering their store, he had inadvertently stepped on a grape.
I really do not know how the average consumer can cope these days with the truly outrageous cost of food. Couple this with the high cost of gasoline and you can see why it must be virtually impossible for the average Jill and Joe to make ends meet.
As I See It...
'K.D. Bell'
