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> MP>It doesn't help when all the news channels have talking heads on telling
>   >people that the increase in fuel prices will cause food, etc., to "go up
by
>   >X%" -- and "X%" always comes out to much higher than half-a-cent.

> Yes, and even those numbers are an average that covers high priced
> stores meaning, people like me who have to shop sales at lower
> priced store chains find that when they say prices have gome up
> by 8%, I find the things I buy have gone up by 50% or 100% or are
> no longer available in quantities that are not sold out within a
> few hours (or minutes) of the week's sale starting..

Yeah, there are some things that I buy that nearly doubled in price 3+
years ago that have yet to start back down.  I do a lot of shopping at
Kroger, which is where that happened.  At Wal-mart, the increase was
less... maybe 20-40%... but the price there has also yet to go back down.

Mike

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