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> On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 5:17:34 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
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>> > On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 9:27:34 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
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>> >> I was going to buy a packet of Post bran cereal the other day but
>> >> balked
>> >> at the price. It appears to have *doubled* in the last ~3 years.
>> >> Graham
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>> > A major saver on cereal is buying the store brand.
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>> Yeah but that kind is often loaded with crap or doesn't taste good. Not
>> that
>> I don't think that most cereal no matter the brand is not loaded with
>> crap...
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> No, it's not. If you take the time to read the box you will
> see the store brand matches the ingredients of the big name
> cereal companies ingredient for ingredient.

Oh, I have. And in the ones that I looked at, they don't. The store brand
had extra stuff in there.
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> Why do you think they place the name brand cereal at eye level?
> IF you pay attention you will see the store brand is usually
> on the bottom shelf.

Dur. You're forgetting that I worked in retail. I also buy very little in
the way of cereal.