Observation at 7-11 today..

[GChief]

 

[John T]

Near four bucks is more than I’m willing to pay but for those who are willing that’s their choice. The free market and free people will decide. I’m an engineer and attorney so I will leave economics arguments up to qualified economist here. I personally would prefer any food benefit programs go towards wholesome foods, but to each their own preferences

Remember D Day God bless those who gave their lives for our freedom may they rest in peace

John T

 

[MSD]

But inflation is lower than ever so it can't be that. HA

 

[John T]

But inflation is lower than ever so it can't be that. HA

I don’t know if it’s “lower than ever” I think I saw 4.3 % today which beats the over 9% some time back. I will tell you about inflation however , when I was a kid many moons ago candy bars were a nickel but I think mounds (2 small bits) were a dime grrr. Fountain cokes were also a nickel but cherry cokes a dime. Local movie theatre was 15 cents for kids 25 for adults. Later it raised to 25 and 50

Best wishes yall

John T. SHOWIN his old age lol but as the old man told Jimmy Buffett. Some of its magic sone of its tragic but I had a good life all the way

 

[Texasmark]

I can remember when a small cone at the Dairy Queen was a nickel, a large one was a dime, and for a quarter you could get one so big that a kid couldn't eat it all!

Well the stack of cream either fell over, dripped down over your hand before you could get it all licked up, or caused the cone to crumble if using the yellow, not brown reinforced cones.....course they were smaller....a reason to not buy that cone....and on the drips, just be a fast licker of the dripping...........

 

[Gary Mitchell]

When I was in High school I would walk down to the local drug store pretty regular and get me a hot fudge sundae for 25 cents.
Most candy bars were a nickel but once in a while I would "splurge" and get me an Almond Joy or a Peter Paul Mounds which cost 10 cents.
'course a dollar was worth a whole heck of a lot more back in the late 50s. LOL

,,, and the small size "Chunkys" were two cents. gm

 

[Twisted_Steel]

When I was a kid we had a Pepsi machine out at the shop. We would say to my dad... "Pop, gimme 15¢" or "Can I get the key to the 'chine"? (machine)
I used to get big cookies in a glass display jar for a penny each. They even sold cookies at the Dr's office.
If you had 50¢, you were basically rich!

 

[Texasmark]

When I was a kid we had a Pepsi machine out at the shop. We would say to my dad... "Pop, gimme 15¢" or "Can I get the key to the 'chine"? (machine)
I used to get big cookies in a glass display jar for a penny each. They even sold cookies at the Dr's office.
If you had 50¢, you were basically rich!

When a youngster there was a Gulf Oil filling station with a park bench we used as a gathering spot in the summer. A bag of Tom's Peanuts was 5 cents and a 6 oz. Coke was also 5 cents. We'd get a swallow of coke to make room for the peanuts, dump the bag into the Coke and "have our cake and eat it too". That station also had a low octane white gas pump around the side of the store with the glass top and the measurement stripes.....you turn the handle on the side and watch the glass fill to the level of gallons desired. Stick the nozzle in your tank and squeeze the trigger.....no auto cut off. We mowed lawns in the summer ($3 per, mow only), walking around the neighborhood pushing our mowers, and used this cheaper gas in our mowers.

All our mowers were 4 cycle except for one which was 2 cycle. Oil to gas ratio was 25:1, not 50:1 like today and you could always tell where the guy was mowing as his mower made a lot of noise and smoked badly.

 

[Twisted_Steel]

When a youngster there was a Gulf Oil filling station with a park bench we used as a gathering spot in the summer. A bag of Tom's Peanuts was 5 cents and a 6 oz. Coke was also 5 cents. We'd get a swallow of coke to make room for the peanuts, dump the bag into the Coke and "have our cake and eat it too". That station also had a low octane white gas pump around the side of the store with the glass top and the measurement stripes.....you turn the handle on the side and watch the glass fill to the level of gallons desired. Stick the nozzle in your tank and squeeze the trigger.....no auto cut off. We mowed lawns in the summer ($3 per, mow only), walking around the neighborhood pushing our mowers, and used this cheaper gas in our mowers.

All our mowers were 4 cycle except for one which was 2 cycle. Oil to gas ratio was 25:1, not 50:1 like today and you could always tell where the guy was mowing as his mower made a lot of noise and smoked badly.

Speaking of peanuts and Coke, we always drank Pepsi or Mt Dew. Loved the peanuts in my drink.
Around 2002 I was at work and a 20-something girl saw me putting peanuts in a Mt Dew and said "Ewww". I responded with "You just ain't lived yet"
The simple things/times were so much better.

 

[1948CaseVAI]

The rate of inflation is down quite a bit for most things, but for some reason many folks think that prices should go down as well, and that is just not at all how it works. Prices still rise - but more slowly. If prices fall and we enter defaltion we will have serious troulble in many ways.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

You SURE the price went from $1.69 to $3.89 in a week? The larger candy bars have been North of $3 each for a long time in my experience. Haven't seen a candy bar under $2 in a long time.

 

[Gambles]

My local hardware store (3 employees, 1 employee on opening hunting day, closes at noon on Saturday, closed on Sundays), just raised their full-sized candy bars to $1.25. They were charging $1.00, but a storm came through about two months ago and a lighting strike knocked out their cooler that keeps the candy bars and pop cold. Anybody priced a three-phased, large, glass-doored cooler lately? I guess ya gotta raise the price of your candy bars to pay for the new cooler. BTW, his pop went from $.50 to $.75.
My community-owned grocery store charges $1.39-$1.59 for their candy bars.