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saarnok · 4/6/2026, 3:27:18 AM · permalink

Yeah, we don't have that store, but I suppose it's the same as Walgreen's since that's who owns them.  
  
I don't go there. Basically ever.  
  
That would put you in New York or thereabouts which is radically more expensive than the Northwest region where I live for a host of reasons.  
  
In order to even get into the region of low cost groceries you'd need to join BJ's or Sams club or Costco, though if you want the bulk bins, maybe you could go to Aldi or Lidi, but since I don't actually know those stores, I'm just going off of what I've been told.  
  
There's just no comparison the costs between an urban environment being run by suits and a rural environment where growers will literally just ask us to take food home sometimes. My brother was given an actual ton of potatoes. We'll buy onions in huge sacks and give most of them away. Numerous people have chickens and get overrun with eggs.  
  
A friend of mine works for a giant farm and several times per year will load up thousands of pounds of food that are expensive where he works but that you can buy in bulk for for next to nothing and just give it to the farm workers, refusing to let them go home until it's all gone.  
  
It's a weird thing to me when I hear people complaining about food prices, but then see them order uber eats when they could buy premium meat, whole potatoes, raw... everything, for a small fraction of the cost.  
  
When I was growing up I knew (my relatives) who shared bath water. My house was built without plumbing or electricity. My grandfather's generation was poor on a level we can't even imagine.  
  
But, here we are bitching about costs while driving cars that would have been miracles with access to food so damn cheap the "poor" people order it prepared and delivered. And we live in air conditioned heated houses.  
  
When my dad was young he knew some of the old time coal shovelers who fed the railroad steam engines of the time. They told how the kids would come running when the train came through, because they wanted to grab up the lumps of coal that would sometimes fall from the train as they shoveled it into the firebox so they could maybe get a bit of heat in their houses. They admitted they could get awfully sloppy with the shovel as they went through town.

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goyim · 4/6/2026, 3:50:24 PM · permalink

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