Can someone help with prices?

[forestdale]

Hello ladies, I'm back after a few days away from the computer while my friend was visiting. We had a great time and even though we are two women in our 50s, we carried on like two mad teenagers, giggling and annoying my husband and both our sons. I'm sure you'd all approve.

I'm really angry about the way prices are going in the supermarkets here and I intend to write to my local member of parliament to protest. Can someone please tell me the cost of the following products in your towns? Sugar, milk, butter, bread, bananas, tomatoes, Coke, toothpaste and toilet paper.

Thanks!

[homesteadmamma]

Here are my prices, but remember I'm in Canada and like you the prices are higher than in the States.

-Sugar - $4.68
-Milk - $3.89 for a gallon of 2%
-Butter - $2.99 (on sale)
-Bread - not sure, I make my own
-Bananas - anywhere from 59¢ to 99¢ a lb.
-Tomatoes - $2.99 a lb.
-Coke - we don't purchase Coke, but Pepsi we can get for $1.99 a 2 litre bottle
-toothpaste - 58¢ for a small tube (on sale)
-toilet paper - $7.67 for 12 double rolls

There is also 7% GST on the coke, toothpaste and toilet paper and 7% Sales tax on those 3 items as well.

[forestdale]

homesteadmomma, so on those prices you add another 14%? also your prices for sugar and butter are for a pound?

Thanks for answering

[homesteadmamma]

The sugar would be in a 10 lb. bag.

Butter would be by the pound.

Yes, we have to add 14% on toilet paper, toothpaste and Coke. Its added on to any grocery item that is not a food item that is not a basic essential, so it gets added on to laundry soap, pet food, junk food, pop, any baking item under 6 (donuts, etc), and if we purchase any drinks, such as fruit juices, pop, an environmental tax is also added on of 2¢ per container. So if we've purchased a 6 pack of fruit juice, it costs an extra 12¢ a pack, although fruit juices aren't taxed the 14%.

Its nuts how complicated it can get.

[graci42]

WOW!
24 pk of 12 oz pepsi 6.99 (dh's addiction) we also pay an additional tax on beverages...usually closer to 7.50
liter of pepsi .99 or1.39 depending if on sale
5 lb sugar 1.69 (aldi's)
1 gal whole milk 1.99 to 3.19 (prices have been fluctuating madly)
.39 for 16 oz loaf of bread (I don't buy brand name)
tomatoes...20.oz...1.09
margarine...1.29 for 3lb tub
don't know how that would translate into your curency

[aylasmommy]

From the bay area in California..and I'll give non sale prices...

Sugar 1.69-2.69$ for 5lbs (you can usually find a sale for .99/5lb)
milk buy 2 for 4.69 whole or 2 for 4.29 for skim etc. I think seperatly a gallon is about 3$ each gallon
butter 2.19 lb for non name brand
bread .99 for store brand 'airy' 16oz. loaf
bananas .79/lb (some stores have it cheaper but in general that's the price everywhere)
tomatoes 2.69/lb
Coke 5.29 12 pack

[dz_blonde_girl]

Let's see

Sugar, I only buy on sale for .99/4# bag.

Milk is around $3/gallon for whole, the 2% etc is less.

Butter, I buy cheap tubs of polyunsaturated fat. I stocked up for baking during the holiday sales, .99 - $1.29/lb.

Bread, I can get a1 1/2 lb loaf at WalMart for less than $1.

Bananas bounce from .25 on sale to .38/lb, cheaper at the end of the month.

Tomatoes, We grow our own, when they're gone we do without. I can get a nice tomato plant, in the spring, for $2.

Coke runs about $4 for a 12 pack regular price lately.

Toothpaste is something I rarely pay for, but I think regular price is like $4 for a 6+ oz tube

Toilet paper depends on the brand, Angel Soft is a nice 2 ply brand. It comes on sale for aroud $3.50/24 pack often enough, otherwise its .89 for a 4 pack at Walmart.

I really do think groceries are less expensive in my part of the country. All the major food companies have plants here; Con Agra, Swanson, Frito-Lay...

[Darlene]

-Sugar -$1.50 for 5lbs.
-Milk - $1.99-$2.60 gal
-Butter - $1.50
-Bread - $1 & up
-Bananas - 49¢lb
-Tomatoes -$1.99 lb.
-Coke - 99¢ 2ltr $2.50 12pk on sale
-toothpaste - colgate 7.8 oz -$2.00
-toilet paper -scott 20 rolls 1000 sheets each -$10.

[aylasmommy]

ooops forgot toothpaste and toiletpaper...

I rarely remember toothpaste since I just know I only will buy it if I can get it for free or .50 a tube with coupon..but I think regular prices are around 2.89 for a small tube...

Toilet paper, well for our brand, Charmin it's about 6.39 for a double roll of 12 rolls at Target with no sale. Seems like other brands are about a couple dollars cheaper than that.

[milach]

I'm in NH. I'm paying-

-Sugar - Havn't bought any in a while, but I think it's about $2.00 for a 5 lb bag.

-Milk - $2.69 a gallon

-Butter - $2.00 a lb

-Bread -Store brand split top wheat is 99 cents, or you can get something like Pepperedge Farms for $2.69 a loaf.

-Bananas - anywhere from 29¢ to 59¢
a lb.

-Tomatoes - not sure

-Coke - 2 liter bottle for 99 cents, or a 12 pack for $2.99

-toothpaste - $3.00 a tube

-toilet paper - 99 cents for a 4 pack of double rolls of Charmin.

[canadian gardener]

CJ's prices are the same here in Western Canada, to the letter. And yes the tax is added on here too, but a little differently.

Non food is 14%

and luxury foods are 7% which are anything up to a 6 pack of baked goods like donuts or cakes or pop.

Plus there is a deposit for the cans or bottles of juice or pop AND
another fee called environmental tax on top of that.

[dz_blonde_girl]

Hmmm, the "powers that be" decreased our sugar bags from 5# to 4# about 3 or 5 years ago.

[PrairieRose]

Originally posted by dz_blonde_girl
Hmmm, the "powers that be" decreased our sugar bags from 5# to 4# about 3 or 5 years ago.

That was exactly what I was thinking Karen!

[Missy]

-Sugar -$2.00 for 5lbs.
-Milk - $2.00-$4.00gal (This really irks me)
-Butter - $1.99
-Bread - $1 & up
-Bananas - 60¢lb
-Tomatoes -$1.99 lb.
-Coke - 1.29 2ltr /$4.99 12pk
-toothpaste - colgate 7.8 oz -$3
-toilet paper -generic -$5

[SHOPGIRL]

Hmm... Anyone care to update their prices. It's been two years. Have your prices remained the same? Increased? Decreased?