good morning everyone this is tony from her homestead skills and
today's video is a little bit concerning to me i just did an evaluation of
price increases that i've dealt with on a few items over the last month
and i'm just going to go over them there's only five items that i've picked out and um
and unfortunately there appears to be huge price increases i've got my
reading glasses on so i can follow this okay i'm going to start off with
cream 10 cream i buy for coffee and sometimes i use it in cooking
at costco used to get the best price at a dollar 85
and today costco's best price is now 249 and that has slowly inched up over the last month
so a month ago i was able to buy that at a dollar eighty five today it is 249. if i go to a
regular grocery store and the best price you're gonna find is 249 and it can go as high as four
dollars for the same item so what i'm dealing with here is what i'm dealing with here is
the best prices i can buy them at a month ago and the best prices i could buy them at today
butter is another item i used to be able to buy butter at three dollars
a pound and today the best price i can find is five dollars a pound now that is the last time
i went shopping for it i have no idea what the price is today i did shop for butter about a week
two weeks ago so anyway the last price i paid was five dollars a pound and i think i bought
quite a few another item is olive oil now olive oil i do not buy at costco they uh that is not
the best price i can get a better price at say walmart or one of the grocery stores when they
have it on sale so and once again these are all sale prices that i always buy at
then and now so i used to be able to get a one liter bottle of olive oil for five dollars and
now the best price is seven dollars okay so flour at costco used to be seven dollars for a
i believe it was a 22 pound bag and now it is 10 it is whatever brand they carry
um at the time normally i would prefer to buy um two different brands say the
um at the regular grocery stores and they would be the five roses flower or the robin hood flower
those are brands that i grew up with and i'm familiar with unfortunately the same size bag
is around on regular pricing is around 18 and you used to be able to find it for ten dollars on sale
and now i can't so i do buy my flour at costco now because that's still the best price i can get
and eggs are going to be the last item on my list and
our egg prices have always been high and once again the best prices i could get at costco
was for two dozen you couldn't buy a single dozen but for two dozen eggs it was 549 and now for two
dozen eggs it's 649 is the best price that is the cheapest products that they have they do have more
expensive items more expensive eggs available that you can buy as well so what used to cost
me 22.34 cents last month now cost me 30.98 this month and i've calculated that and that is a 38.67
increase in one month
um that is worrisome where is it going to go from here this is certainly not the end of it
and i have concerns i have anyway keeping an eye out on our grocery prices and
always look for sales i mean these are sale prices if i was paying regular prices i'd be in
trouble here it would be more than 38 increase i think it's a 38 percent increase just from
just buying them without looking at the prices okay um this is tony from her homestead skills
hope this has been informative and we'll catch you in the next one bye for now
you