The Biggest Grocery Store Markups

We're talking about prices here, you dumb fuck, not environmental impact.

Wow. This really is a dumb shit thread.

Grocery stores have huge markups on perishable items? Holy shit!

Must have been a slow news day.

This must be an LA thing. Fifteen dollars for a sandwich? Not around here......unless you're a dumb tourist that has to go to some beach restaurant that is "uber cool" right now.

Actually you have no clue.

If grocery stores could they would convert everything in their stores to their store brand. They make shit loads of money off their store brands.

Yes, they do and the mark ups are growing because of the cost that is added for delivery. It also needs to be kept in mind that in the US, the major grocery store retailers also have to deal with union and paying for the benefits and salaries covered in the contracts they have reached with their employees. Does a genius like you actually believe the grocery retailer themselves pays that added cost, or is it the customers at those stores who pay it?

You might also want to take notice, it is not just grocery stores themselves that are increasing prices.

Good job actually reading the OP though WAB. It just goes to demonstrate just how lacking even the Canadian education system is and the disservice it did to you.

He lives in LA Zombie. Deli's, and for that matter all businesses that operate in that city have extremely high tax liabilities from the local government they have to deal with. That cost is passed onto the customers.

That must be why Jewish delis are closing all across the country. High taxes in LA. Business owner KIRK1ADM figures out another one!

LA is now considered the "country"?

Love Publix subs....

Just awesome....

The west coast doesn't have as many real ethnic delis like they have in New York specifically or the east coast in general and as such there is a lot less competition in that segment. That said, my favorate Jewish deli around here has sandwiches ranging from $4.99 up to $15 depending on what you want and how much of it you want. On the upside they cure their own meats, make their own pickles & sour tomatoes in house, and they buy their bread from the bakery next door so everything is much better then I could make myself at home. The last time I went there I got a corned beef, pastami, and cow tongue sandwich was great and so big I couldn't even take a regular bite out of it because it was stacked so high. That said, $15 is expensive for a sandwich so I don't go very often.

The best sandwich I have ever eaten in my life, we're talking knock out great, was at Katz's Delicatessen in NYC. I got one of their noblewurst (a type of garlic beef sausage) sandwich on rye with that spicy as all get go hot mustard. With a soda and a side of sour tomatoes I think the bill was around $18 or so. The real hand made stuff done the old fashioned way isn't cheap but you can taste the difference.

Kirk's stupidity aside, I think the real reason that the old ethnic places are closing is because the younger generation doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of their Grandparents or parents. Add in the fact that old ethnic neighborhoods are disappearing since everyone kind of mixes together now instead of living in seperate ethnic enclaves and the end result is fewer customers on a daily basis.

It's not just Jewish Delis as the old Italian Delis and restaurants are becoming rarer and it's getting kind of hard to find a Polish place selling pierogis. Sure, they're still around if you look but they used to be every where and now it's either high end places or chains but those really great family run places which used to sell cheap comfort food in their ethnic enclave are kind of dying out. It's sad but I guess it's the wave of the future.

Yep, it's a combination of high overhead, changing demographics and children not wanting to take over family businesses. Quite a shame, really.

Or, if you're KIRK1ADM, it's Barack Obama and the government of California who are to blame.

Got to love the stupidity of an out of work actress and a retard.

You have 24 hours to back this claim up.