What is it with the supermarkets in Halifax, either the buyers are stupid, mentally challenged or just plain profit mongering money gouging toadies for corporate. I am leaning toward the 3rd. A 5 pound bag of potatoes, about $4.00 a 10lb bag $5.00, 15 pounds about $7 to $8. So apparently nobody has a family around here. Or is it just that the grocery stores expect customers to carry out 10 5lb bags?
These stores are forcing people to pay for tiny packaging, so they can gouge more profit. You can bet you @ss the farmers aren’t seeing so much as a tarnished copper from it.
So here is the deal. Enjoy your price gouging now while you can, I’ll rotate my shopping per where the sales are, but as soon as I find a store that carries what I want to buy in the size I want, I’ll be headed there, and these other places can go []>>>>>>> themselves. —GB
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
you want 50 pound bags of taters, go to dave’s fruit and vegetables on the # 7 hiway. he is next door to ben’s thrift store, and just efore the gateway meat store. which has fantastic prices on local meats by the way. i get all my shit from those 3 paces, and save a bundle of cash. fuck no thrills,s.s. and scobeys.
You’re bitching about potatoes? Seriously?
How large is your family? How many potatoes do you eat?
A 10lb bag usually goes moldy in my house and we’re a family who eats potatoes a few times a week.
Perhaps you’re stuffing your gob too much?
Also: get a fucking life.
There’s 7 kids in my family. We just doubled up on the 15lb bags and survived just fine. If it’s too much to handle, volunteer whoever is eating all your spuds into carrying them out of the grocery store for you. Problem solved.
why would you have to carry them???
they do have these magical inventions that save you the burden…
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OB, those 15lb of potatoes are a meal as itself for the poor people of Halifax to go with their glass of tap water. Yet they complain they can’t afford to eat healthy. What nonsense.
Good luck keeping track of all 2 choices of grocery stores!
I don’t know maybe Costco sells Potatoes, (sarcasm) unless your Irish your bitch on Potates is silly
I buy smaller things because there is a hill near the grocery store I frequent that is just a fucking bitch, especially with a couple bags full o’ food and weak arms like mine. It probably depends on the location of the store. The one I go to is near a lot of students and apartments, people not likely to have a truck to carry all of those potatoes in. Have you tried Crustco? Everything is massive there.
Who’s gonna get through 50 lbs of taders before they go rotten? And most people can’t lug 50 pounds around.
*But I can!
As LS pointed out, most fruit and vegetable stands carry fifty pound bags. Give OP a break, they have a large family perhaps. I know a lady who had borders and she went through a 50 lbs. of taters every two weeks.
Costco.
Mel… such a Queen, eh? I used to carry all my shit back up that hill to Morris every few days. It was always nice on the hot summer days to pack the milk in the backpack to keep me cool for the 10 min trek home.
troodon, this lady has borders….
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FhqQQIE6yHk/S9ORGvD6…
yours, not so much.
I don’t think the OB was bitching about having to lug a bunch of small bags of spuds around, (although, that WOULD be a pain), so much as they were complaining that they are forced to buy several small bags where they shop because they don’t sell 50 lb bags and that they are paying more by doing this. Typically with spuds, the larger bag you buy, the less you are actually paying overall. His/her household has a need for a large amount of potatoes, (borders, large family, spuds at every meal, whatever. Not important), ergo it only makes sense for them to be able to buy the largest bag they can. Saves money and trips to the grocery store. (And, on a side note, if you have a cold room, spuds will keep a heck of alot longer then just putting them in a bin.)
The bigger grocery stores, (Slobeys and Stupidstore) don’t carry the 50lb bags because typically, most people don’t need/can’t use that many spuds before they would go bad. As was already mentioned, OB would be better off going to the smaller markets/veggie stands.
thanks avast for that summary… almost the same size as the original bitch….
anyways, I have to make *8 dozen muffins but they don’t carry **boxes of mix for 8 dozen so I guess I’ll have to just…. *GHASP* GET 8 FUCKIN BOXES AND SHUT UP.
*not really
**Ha, I’d never actually use mix.. I’m a scratch man.
you can’t expect the stores to carry ridiculous quantity sizes in the off chance your stupid ass happens to need them.
Go to the wholefoods/bulk stores or the places where restaurant owners shop for their produce…. dickmitten.
OB, if you need that kind of quantity food, you should join a food co-op, or order directly from wholesalers, who would also deliver.
zZz…STFU and make me some muffins lol
First off bitchers…if you don’t have a cold room , don’t be dissin’ those of us who do & 50 lbs of spuds rarely a one ever goes bad when stored in my cold room shelf. Plus that grocery store by the sears bargan basement sells 50lb bags of spuds for under 10 bucks !
So OB i’m on your side, idiots who live in apartments & have no understanding or knowledge that generations of people who used to store the harvests of root veggies in cold rooms on racks where you could check your racks to use up anything appearing to go soft, or remove the odd piece starting to mold, so it doesn’t ruin the rest of your stores. They can’t help it ! All they know is refrigeration & freezers & frozen prepared meals ( & I really use the term ‘meals’ loosely here), if they ever had to go back to the ‘good ole days’ (which I really don’t believe were all that good)…they’d be starving before they even got half way through the first winter !
If they are under a light, check to make sure the skins aren’t greenish in colour. Don’t buy them if they are.
Whoops, my mistake zZz!
Did I mention that she also used to belong ‘Doctors without Boarders’?
Good on you for going through so many. I used to buy the 5 or 10 lb bags, but Aesop and I couldn’t keep up with them. Talk about eyes in potatoes. Our potatoes had eyes on stalks! Ö Now I buy maybe 2 chef size per week and maybe a pound of red or new tatties…
More … you beat me to it … I was going to suggest the Cash & Carry … it’s on Chebuc, near the Sears bargain basement.
I remember 50-pound bags of potatoes being available at the supermarkets well into the 1980s at least. I grew up in a family of 8+ and those spuds were depleted long before the eyes grew on them. Outport families in Newfoundland used to be able to buy 75-pound bags.
You went through them like that, quite simply, because that was the starch portion of most meals back then. Rice was not as commonly used, and any pasta was either macaroni or spaghetti unless you were Italian. The larger quantities of potatoes fell out of favour precisely because our diet has become so varied. Tonight, for example, I had chicken with sweet potatoes as my main side. Trust me, though, with consumer prices the way they’re going, there will be a run of the 50-pounders at some point.
Persevere…That’s it !
I can never remember the damn name of that place.
Yup … that’s it, More. Cash & Carry rocks!