My local market advertises that it's lowering prices everyday! If so why isn't anything

[Floyd R. Turbo]

free yet?

[marylandblue]

1. Miine lowered them so much, they are on the bottom shelf where I can't read them

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Oh oh oh!

[Lindsay]

3. You missed the part

where they raise prices first, then lower them.

(My local grocery store does this all the time.)

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. How is it that bananas were 53 cents a lb in 1998

At my local Winco (I did the signs when the store opened), and yesterday at that same store the bananas were 53 cents a pound?

[Flaleftist]

6. The short answer, an increase in global production

1998 64,915,704 tons
2016 113,280,302 tons

http://www.factfish.com/statistic-country/world/bananas%2C%20production%20quantity

That they are mostly produced in countries with a very low labor cost is also a factor.

[klook]

5. Prices ebb and flow like tides...

They have their own circadian rhythm. Every night, prices go up, and every day they go down. So your grocer isn't lying when he talks about lower prices "every day."

The swing is more pronounced when the moon is full. Of course, then more shoppers have raging hormones and high-flying emotions, so they buy, buy, buy no matter the price -- especially wine, chocolate, and Oreos.

This is detailed in greater depth in my new book, Ripoff Tide: Why Money Flows Like Water Through Your Fingers.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. You must be referring to Giant Eagle

Can that actor lady possibly become any more annoying?