Just did an online grocery deliver order for later today. I wasn't thinking "New Golden Era"

[Miles Archer]

7. The local markets here DO make an attempt, I'll give them that

It's not that "THIS item is expensive" and "THAT item is on sale," it's the cumulative shock of one day's shopping.

Last week my girlfriend and I went in the market with a budget. We take two carts and do our thing. It drives me nuts to follow her and it drives her nuts to be followed.

But I had a set dollar amount to stick to and hit it REALLY FAST. I looked down into the cart and thought "You've got to be kidding me."

So I don't do much of a happy dance on sale items because I'm going to see that balance out with the non-sale items.

We don't have any kind of a "Safeway" or "Albertson's" or "Kroger" here. We DO HAVE "Harris Teeter," which is part of the Kroger chain, and it's a 45 minute to one hour away drive, so we never go. We have the regional chain Food Lion, plus Aldi and WalMart. We shop at all three and knew where the best prices were at each well before Trump sank his tariff talons into them so we've always been "price conscious shoppers."