Grocery store ripoff, maybe.

I think I would do what @BTPost said. I swear this is the second time I have read about thing being shorted. I swear I read what BT wrote before on the Monkey. Sorry to say but the stores are going to make all they can get. I do not leave the store until I have double checked my receipt. At least once a month I am at the service desk fixing over charges, sale prices not ringing up.

@VisuTrac regarding bacon, the price is rising, the packages are smaller and it is half fat. The quality is horrible. I have been real disappointed in the last few months.

 

We usually raise our own bacon. Not this year. Due to the virus that is killing off the piglets, prices for weaners are about 3x what they were last year. No pork this year. Guess we'll have to do with chickens, ducks and rabbits.

 

Visu I think you are the first person to mention the pig flu. I have mentioned it a couple times but not many replies. There is a bacon obsession on this site and I thought the piglet killing flu would be of concern. My Uncle chose not to raise pigs this year either.

 

the farms that are virus free are just participating in supply/demand economics.

Sister had to go 500 miles to get weaners from virus free farm. (usually 40 bucks or buck a pound this year 130 (over 3.00/lb) plus almost 300 in gas. Yep, the economics just isn't in it this year.

If they don't get a handle on the virus. Bacon this year will seem cheap.