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Skriven 2013-07-05 12:08:38 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 2157 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: stuff 816
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 03 Jul 13  03:02:00 <=-

 JW> I was astounded by the prices which ran all the way up to $8.90 for
 JW> some obscure English offering with green marbling. THERE IS NO SUCH
 JW> THING AS $89 CHEESE!!!  
 JW> I ended up buying nothing.
 NB> So, which was it...?  $8.90 or $89...?  The first doesn't sound all
 NB> that bad, as there are a number of offerings at Wegmans for $12+ per
 NB> pound, mostly various specialty imports...
 ML> Both. Grocers often price things by the 100 grams in an
 ML> effort to reduce the perceived sting, but consumers cite
 ML> prices per kilo.

Ah.  OK.  That is still pretty steep, I suppose, then... $8.90/100g
would be, hmmmmm, about $36-40/lb...  
 
 -=> Nancy Backus said to Dale Shipp <=-
 
 NB>> The real question is why Costco made it to the survey list where
 NB>> neither BJ's nor Sam's did...
 ML> As I don't subscribe to the publication in question, I don't
 ML> have access to the full results. The bottom ten list was widely
 ML> publicized, but it took some small amount of digging to find
 ML> the top ten (bad news is always more news than good news).
 ML> There also was presumably a vast middle that was not newsworthy
 ML> at all. Consumer Union members could find that list.

Ah... so presumably, there could have been BJ's and/or Sam's as well,
which were considered neither wonderful nor nasty...  

 NB>> or, as a corollary, why any of them would
 NB>> be considered grocery stores, just because one can get groceries
 NB>> (mostly in bulk) there... :)   
 ML> For me that would be the main question.

But we didn't make up the survey... ;)

ttyl        neb

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