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Okay, per my previous post about scam, shell-game pricing at Safeway (and likely other company chains like Albertsons and Vons, but I haven't checked), I made a statement that on any given day you could pay 100% more for the same ounce of soda depending on sales and container. But that was just a guess, and I hate guesses. So for science (and for you) I went back to Safeway to check today's price on an ounce of Diet Pepsi, and boy was I wrong...
Today you can spend 483% more for the same ounce of Pepsi! Photo evidence provided. Maximum cost, 14.5 cents per ounce regular price in a poorly named mini-can, and minimum price (3 cents per ounce) in a 2 liter bottle with a loyalty card. And if you don't like those prices, Safeway offers a whole RANGE of prices scattered through the middle! Something for everyone!
And if you DO like those prices, don't get used to them, because they'll certainly be different in a week, and they might be different tomorrow. You don't KNOW! Like I said, shell-game.
(To be fair, I didn't check individual containers for sale in cold cases at the register, and I didn't take the time to price Coke, since Pepsi is what I usually buy, so there are other prices for sugar water and sugar-free sugar water we could be talking about as well.)
#safeway #groceries #groceryprices #foodpriceinflation #albertsons #vons #pepsi #softdrinks

I've long been infuriated by the endless and malicious pricing shell game that my local Safeway (Albertsons, Vons and other chains are also part of the same company, and I assume pull the same B.S.). It seems to be a very conscious effort to keep consumers in the dark as to what "regular" prices on products are, and the real value (if any) of a sale price on any given item.
For example, just walk into the soda aisle and try to figure out what the going price for an ounce of Coke or Pepsi is. There are countless buying options (larger and smaller cans, often four or five kinds of plastic bottles, six packs and eight packs, "regular" or "real" sales that apply to everyone, loyalty card prices, digital coupon, multiple purchase requirement sales, limited purchase sales, and more. It's easily possible on any give day to pay at least 100% more per ounce on the same ounce of beverage, depending on what version you get and what hoops you leap through and how much of your privacy and information you're willing to sacrifice.
Multiply this by thousands of items changing day by day, and it's an unending dance of scammery. When my grocery bill routinely drops 20-30% when I use a loyalty card, this just tells me that Safeway's "regular" prices are likely overcharging by a large percentage, if not all, of that discount.
But the pictured price tag just really cheesed me off. My wife and I live alone, so we don't need vast quantities of most items. But many Safeway sales require mass purchases, often on perishable items (and many produce items are no longer even AVAILABLE in small quantities). Often that's applied to salad, which I often eat a lot of, but not TEN BAGS AT A TIME or whatever. Four is a stretch to eat before some of it goes bad, canceling out some or all of the savings, and just pointlessly wasting food.
So I checked to see if I really needed to buy three bags this time. But it turns out, no. Look closely, See the math problem? Yeah. Buy one, get the sale price. But buy the STRONGLY suggested three, and Safeway charges you an extra penny for their trouble!
Yeah, it's ONLY a penny, but there are principles here, and again, if they do this over hundreds of thousands of sales, over hundreds or thousands of products, over months and years, it ads up. Plus, they've duped you into possibly buying more than you need AND goosed their bottom-line a little in the process.
It should be illegal. The whole SYSTEM should be illegal. And, IMHO, whoever came up with it should have their testicles or other tender parts nailed to a shopping cart out in the parking lot for everyone's enjoyment. Are we together on this?

#safeway #groceries #grocerieprices #albertsons #vons #foodprices #foodpriceinflation #latestagecapitalism

A shelf tag for a bag of Italian salad mix in a Safeway store. The regular price is $3.49, but a yellow tag below offers 3/$10.00, save 47 cents on 3. And in very small type, $3.33 each.

Multiple Albertson chain stores ReadyMeals and store made items contain listeria. Store affected include: #Albertsons, #CarrsSafeway, #Eagle, #JewelOsco, #Pavilions, #Randalls, #Safeway, #Shaws, #StarMarket, #TomThumb and #Vons. #meals #deli #listeria #infection #recall
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBe2lddMF-n/

Over $10 with tax for a 12 pack?
Haha #AintGonBeMe

The grocery store is like one big comic strip.

#CorporateGreed
#AllTimeHigh
#Vons
#DiscountGroceryStore

A 12 pack of Diet Coke selling for $9.49 plus tax at a discount grocery store.

Been seeing these articles of late complaining about #Covid #vaccine rates dropping...

So I cruise on down to the local #Vons and learn that, as an uninsured senior, a #Moderna (the pharmacist said apologetically) shot will set me back $160 🙄

🤔

@mikemccaffrey #Pfizer, #moderna and #johnsonandjohnson all need our money 🤑💰🤑🤑. What were you going to do with it anyway? Choke from COVID without spending it all on pussy and beer? No!

We need real rich people to get that job done! We need those desperate entrepreneurs to have another orgy for posterity. They need our 100's for proper drug sniffing. And Jared, the scientist making this stuff behind a #Vons, he may need that extra microscope. Remember what they are up against now! #MS #AI

Proposed #Kroger #Albertsons #megamerger affects future of #FredMeyer, #Safeway, #Vons, #Osco, #Food4Less, #HarrisTeeter #QFC stores too. Together, the two chains operate approx 5 thousand of consolidated #RetailStores under varous #BrandNames across #US and have annual revenue of more than $209 billion.

#AntiTrust issues arise everywhere, with nearly 200 #grocerystores between them in #Oregon alone, many within a mile of each other. State Attorney Generals have sought to block the massive #merger, but everyone knows #BigMoney talks loudest.

To meet #FTC requirements this week the chains announced plan to #divest at least 400 #stores to a single #SoftBank backed holding corp that operates #PigglyWiggly

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2023/08/kroger-ceo-rodney-mcmullen-makes-case-for-proposed-albertsons-merger.html

Left the store with 7 items. Three of them bags of chips and 2 of them containers of ice cream. I may be hungry. 😂
Don’t temp me #Vons with $2.97 Tillamook ice cream!! I am weak!