Shoppers crying out

NOW, more than ever, shoppers have to find ways to make their dollar stretch when they head to the supermarket. Like days gone by, $100 or even $125 just do not seem enough to buy that much anymore. Since when did the price of a pack of local biscuits jump from 85 cents to $1.00? This is now the case. With complaints and queries of escalating prices, charges and denials of price gouging, the SUNDAY SUN took a shopping trip to a popular up-scale supermarket....One shopper asked if the six per cent cess tax Prime Minister Owen Arthur introduced in this year's Budget was responsible for the increase – however marginal – seen at the supermarket, or if the supermarkets were just "trying to juck out people eyes cause they know we got to buy food?". For example, at this supermarket on Monday, we purchased a tin of vienna sausages for $1.39. On Friday, we purchased it for $1.49 cents. In January that same brand cost $1.25... The cheapest priced whole chicken was $17 plus dollars, so we opted to buy chicken cut into nine pieces for around $13. We could not afford fresh or even frozen fish to eat this Friday, so we opted for tins of sardines in spring water, and tuna, and not our favourite brand either.Source:

Yup.. prices hot. I remember when a pack of tea times used to be 35 cent, 3 for $1.05 and dem used tuh taste good.. now they taste like burnt chocolate ashes with this gritty sugarred down cream... and if yuh want 2 small packs, yuh gotta visit RBTT for a loan. Remember when Pine Hill Dairy used to give away flavoured milk at them $2.99 specials? Days done! Milk now costing $4.00 and tasting suspect before yuh even get home. Sodabix did $0.50, but now when dem stick on de price, de plastic does melt... too hot man. Dem really doing dixie fuh trute... speaking of which, dem don't sell dixies no more? Not the peanut butter ones.. the real real dixies! Youuuu, $0.75 used to buy you a 16 ounce drink... all now a Plus costing at least $1.25 calm, and a baby bim cost 80 cent. Can't buy fruit, can't buy veg, can't even buy fresh meat... bare can products in yuh skin, tasting like you really buying a tin of Sodium Benzoate that dem put some Tuna Flakes in to give it lil taste. I know cost of living rising, but so is tax and salaries lagging behind like a fat boy at interschool sports. Right now more people can afford cell phones than a pack of chicken necks. Boy... wuh yuh cuh do. Eat once a day and count de ribs.. it's quite fun actually. 1...2.. *pass out*

*After reading this post, 38 persons will buy some cleaning products for the house.. after burning $50 in Clorox and Ajax products, they will have to starve for the rest of the day. Wait, you want a clean house or food? Choose man!