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In article >, says...
> In message Steve Wertz > wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:00:22 -0400, Goomba38 wrote:
> >
> > > Nancy2 wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'd be curious to know why national branded bacon is $5/pound, right
> > >> here in the middle of pork country. (Store brand is half that, but
> > >> typically unsatisfactory in quality.)
> > >
> > > Oscar Mayer is my bacon of choice. Last time I bought it I paid maybe
> > > $3.00 a package??
> >
> > $1.60lb at CostCo (in a 4-pack). This stuff cooks up too thin. I
> > think it's adulterated/pumped-up somehow (err...more than most
> > bacon, that is).
> >
> > -sw
>
> We used to get 'shrink-proof' bacon in every butcher's shop in Britain until
> the stupid markets slithered in, under the guise of 'Everything we sell is
> unbeatable in value and of a high quality'. They cornered almost every market
> and drove other smaller businesses to the wall.
>
> All we get now is pumped ut bacon like a car tyre. But the sneaky thing is
> that you can't tell until you cook it!! We're all too lazy to complain and
> just try another stupid market. Yep, I know, it's really our own fault for
> falling for the 3 card trick. I still feel peeved though, at how they have
> devalued taste and and reduced everything to the lowest common denominator:
> 'their value for their money'. Hell it doesn't take an Einstein to work out
> who's being duped!!
>
> Don

And what is it with Sainsbury that they sold of the Shaw's and Star
Markets here in the U.S. to Albertsons. Now Albertsons is dumping them
on SuperValue and CVS.

There used to be a fair amount of stability in the grocery market. Now
it's sell, sell, sell.

But Dutch giant Royal Ahold still owns Stop & Shop. I doubt they'll ever
give that away.