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On 9/1/2011 3:13 PM, Chemo the Clown wrote:
> On Sep 1, 1:00 pm, > wrote:
>> On 9/1/2011 2:45 PM, sf wrote:
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>>> What's up with avocado prices this year? Horrible! I should be
>>> complaining about having to pay $1 for three instead of the usual 4
>>> for $1; but the best price I see now is $1.89 at the local green
>>> market and they're tiny. Everywhere else charges a $1 more for
>>> avocados that aren't much bigger than that.

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>> For a while now, the local Aldi's has been charging $1.49/ea for
>> avocados. The prices for avocados at regular grocery stores are much
>> higher! Before this summer, the price at Aldi's was more like $0.69/ea
>> if not a little bit less.
>>
>> I was a bit astounded that a gallon of mile at Aldi was $2.78; it had
>> been $2.59/gal. About a week ago, I paid $2.99 at the other grocery
>> store.
>>
>> Also, I was rather shocked to notice the $0.69/2-litre bottle of
>> 'sparking water' at Meijer had gone up to $0.88/2-liter ( It seems
>> the prices of _everything_ at the grocery stores have increase all
>> across the board(s)!
>>
>> Sky, who's making do with less (big sigh)
>>
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>
> What's a gallon of mile taste like?


OOOPs - call it a typo ;> Milk (as if you couldn't figure it out by the
context)!, and I meant to type "sparkling" water, too - aka soda water.
Oh well

Sky

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