[Sca-cooks] Re: comparison shopping

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    When this sort of stuff happens, write it up and send it to your local
TV station's consumer / investigative reporter. They LOVE that sort of
thing! Especially if you do most of their investigative work for them . . .
    I see deceptive ads all the time, and tend to laugh uproariously at
people who get took by them. I can't really fault the advertisers; they put
it in writing for anyone possessing more than a mere moiety of their marbles
to figure out. Those who fail to do so should receive a P.T. Barnum Memorial
lollipop at the checkout line . . .
    They really ought to teach a (required) high school course in aggressive
consumerism and media manipulation, or  'How Not To Be a Schmuck'. It's
something that EVERYONE could benefit from, and would keep the retailers on
their toes. And who knows . . .? Perhaps the process of critical thinking
might be extended to things like social issues, politics, and How It All
Works.

    Sieggy

-----Original Message-----


>I have a list of common ingredients on my computer. Occasionally, I take
>a copy with me and note what items are selling for regularly. Then, when
>a sale is on somewhere, I can tell if it's truly a sale, or just seems
>like one.
>
>For example, I was nearly duped recently by a sale on Miracle Whip at 2
>quarts for $5. But the regular price is $2.38 per quart. By the empty
>shelves, I realized I wasn't the only one.
>
>I'm a numbers person, so it amused me to graph prices of particular
>items, say chicken, milk, eggs and doughy white bread.  After a couple
>of years, I started seeing cyclical price increases and decreases. It
>was interesting and annoying when I would see the price of chickens and
>eggs increase dramatically after an Arkansas blizzard, and never return
>to their original prices. Central Oklahoma gets most of their poultry
>from Arkansas.
>
>Liadan