The salad I bought at the grocery store cost me 2 dollars more than a month ago.

[Political Heretic]

I dunno... discuss I guess?

Crazy.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. ahhh...for the good ol' days when a head of lettuce could make sald for 8

What's the price of a head of lettuce these days?

[virtualobserver]

2. We will all be on the economic depression weight loss plan soon

it takes the weight off and it stays off.

[Double T]

3. How much was the salad prior to the latest $2.00 increase; $4.00?

[Selatius]

4. If they calculated inflation according to how they did it in 1980 under Carter, inflation would be..

something like this:



Roughly, 11.5 percent annual inflation. It isn't 1980 bad, but it's the worst since 1980.

[soothsayer]

5. you have to count all the money in circulation now, and we don't know because

we don't publish the M3 index anymore. Inflation is more like 20%-30% right now.

[Selatius]

7. The 1980 methodology does count in M3. The same guy keeps track of M3 now:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data

The first graph is a graph of M3 if it were still reported. As you can see, there was a reason the Fed stopped reporting M3.

[Yael]

6. If I were you, I would go ahead and eat it.

Vegetables are known to go bad after a time. :scared:

[NJCher]

8. what galls me

Is Whole Foods charges $7.99 a lb for their salad bar.

Other grocery store chains around here charge only $4.99, including one that is considered to be for the upper income market.



Cher

[JDPriestly]

9. You might be able to grow lettuce in pots on a balcony

or window sill. You might not get enough to feed a family, but you could grow some. And if you have room for a garden you could grow your own lettuce there. I grew some in pots last winter (here in in L.A. it's a winter vegetable). I could have grown more, had I known to keep replanting a few heads each week. All you need is dirt, sun, water, pots and seeds.

[Political Heretic]

10. That's interesting - could get to see if I have a green thumb or not.

[KamaAina]

11. Took me a few seconds to parse that

For a minute there, I thought you had a $2 salad you'd bought more than a month ago. :puke:

[uppityperson]

12. Gas went up 10 cents today.