Maybe I've just been spoiled. I loved my health food store. Not only did
they have the freshest popcorn and nuts but the best prices! I'd been
buying sprouted walnuts. They do cost a bit more but I like them for eating
as is. But the health food store as it was, is no more. The owner has moved
it to her house but I've yet to get out there. I don't think she is selling
much in the way of food and mostly has supplements. I do take supplements
but rarely bought those from her.

Anyway... I recently bought walnuts at two different stores and were
shocked at the prices. These were neither organic nor sprouted and one was
a store brand. And they cost a lot more than I'd been paying at my health
food store.

So... Have nut prices gone way up recently? Or was I just a lucky duck in
getting cheap prices at the health food store?