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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Grocery bill still high? Blame 'sticky' prices
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:00:55 -0400

At 02:12 PM 10/20/2008, you wrote:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310ap_sticky_prices.html

Grocery bill still high? Blame 'sticky' prices

One way to fight sticky prices, of course, is to buy as much as possible outside the system that sets the prices. Every person who buys their food from small farmers and market gardeners is one less person supporting the producers and contributing to the statistics about food purchases. Granted, you can't get completely outside the system, because the people you're buying from may be purchasing feed, seed, fertilizers, etc. But at least you won't be contributing to the statistics about grocery sales. Are there enough of us doing this to make a real difference? Probably not yet, not in comparison with the number of people still buying in grocery stores. But statistics depend not just on the numbers of the moment, but also on how things change over time. As more and more people plant their own, or buy from local farmers markets or neighbors or nearby farms, it will show up in the data, and prices will fall to reflect the competition. In the meantime, regardless of what others are paying in the supermarkets, you've saved money and bettered your family's health.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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