*I* say sh*t sometimes.. Maybe you should too? #price #inflation

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We like wine ;) So we look for bargains there too. We have been buying Corbett Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon in a 1.5 liter bottle for 4.99. It's pretty good stuff we think, we like it ok for a standard inexpensive table wine.

We have been purchasing it at Mays Drug locally, at that price, for a few weeks. We went in the other day and the price had jumped, from one week to the next, to 5.44 a bottle. That's a price increase, or price inflation, of something close to 9%

I hope no one enjoys paying higher prices for the the things they buy. The current plan of action for our beloved Federal Reserve Bank is to increase prices on virtually everything, to 'inflate' the economy. But that's for another post..

All I did when we went to the checkout counter was to comment on the fact that the price had just jumped nearly 10% in one week and wondered out loud if it had anything to do with expected increased holiday sales of wine and/or boosting profits.

I don't know if the gal ringing up our purchase was a peon, a supervisor or a manager and I didn't really expect much of a response. I didn't get much of one either LMAO She meekly repeated what I had said myself ".. nothing to do with holiday sales". Ok, whatever, I thought to myself lol

*I* think it's a good idea to ask questions and/or make comments that show we really don't approve of retailers taking more of our hard earned money. I always prefer that they take less of mine..

Collectively we, the people, have a voice. We can make a difference by using capitalism properly and avoiding indifferent consumerism. Have a voice. When/if you see retailers, utility companies, drug companies, anyone doing anything to grab ever more of YOUR money say something about it, do something about it, shop around, refuse to pay more unless you absolutely have to..

One day maybe this economy will get what it has been screaming for for more than 2 years now.. A serious bout of deflation to correct the severe excesses throughout our economic system.

We can only hope.. Or can we do even more by refusing to pay more and the higher prices go the more we restrain our own spending? American consumers represent some 70% of the economy in the United States. Maybe we should try to use that fact to our own advantage ;)

Greg