I ran into an interesting situation re the cost of food the past few days. The sneaky way we consumers are being had.
Lets begin with Publix. A great super market. Nevertheless putting it to consumers. I shopped yesterday. Generally purchase fresh cut cake at the bakery department. Yesterday, I opted for sliced banana walnut loaf cake. Price appeared to be the same $6.99. When I got home, I noticed the slices were smaller. Considerably. By 25-30 percent.
Smart but deceptive move. Keep the price the same, but the size smaller.
Another deception occurred at Denny’s. Denny’s serves good food at reasonable prices.
For some time they have been providing what they describe as “$5 Slammin’ Meals.” I particularly enjoyed the egg meal. Two eggs, potatoes and toast. This week I noticed the cost was up $.99. The $5 meal now $5.99. A 20 percent increase. No notice. Window advertising still $5 as was the menu.
I politely asked if there was a mistake. No mistake. The price was up almost $1. A few days later a new menu with the increased cost. Yesterday the massive $5 window advertising gone.
I might add that even at $5.99 the egg meal still a bargain from my perspective.
My problem is Publix and Denny’s can raise prices and get away with it. The consumer is stuck with the increase. The consumer can’t go to his employer or Social Security and say hey, the store increased its price. The consumer has to eat the increase, yet big Publix and Denny’s do not.
Not fair, not right. On the other hand, I am not aware of a solution.
Trump promised a manufacturing boom. We are still waiting for it.
Last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner was Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado. She was at the White House yesterday. Gave her medal to Trump. His desire for the medal desperate. It did not matter he got it second hand.
Machado trying to help her country by giving the medal to Trump. Trump not understanding not the way to receive such a medal. The Nobel Prize Committee said they do not recognize the transfer.
Donald does not care. He got the medal. What he wanted. Such is all that concerns him. He wants what he wants and does not care how he gets things as long as he gets them.
Syracuse has won its last three basketball games. On a run! Playing Boston College tomorrow at 2. I hope to watch the game. Where I watch it from depends on my ankle.
Trump so anti-black. It oozes out of his pores. He claims white people have been treated “very badly” because of civil rights legislation among other things. I do not agree. Trump speaking words of hatred. He is not really President of all the people. I sometimes wonder if he is President of anyone other than himself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
On this day in 1919, a sufficient number of States ratified Prohibition which then became law. Ultimately a failure. Caused more problems than it cured.
I flew commercially for the first time in 1960. Back then people dressed. Men wore suits and ties. Women dresses and stockings. No one dressed as they do today. The ultimate in casualness. Even down to pajamas. Flyers dress the ultimate in sloppiness.
Last year, the Transportation Department decided to bring “courtesy and class to air travel” again. No sign of success so far.
Hiram Revels a name few if any Americans know. He was the first African-American to serve in Congress. The year 1901.
The last two Key West evenings cold. I have turned on the heat.
Forget not Mike Kelly. Presently a U.S. Senator, former astronaut and 25 year Navy veteran. Ultimately captained a carrier. The man for President in 2028. Trump already trying to destroy him.
Enjoy your day!