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People Who Buy Groceries On Sale

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People who buy on-sale groceries, particularly meat

People don’t want to poison their family

My wife and I had lunch over the weekend with one of those couples you get along with exactly 51% of the time.  They’re nice people, but we disagree on SO many things that having a conversation about anything but the safest of topics will turn into some sort of a debate.  This time around, we did pretty well, but they reminded me of one of our legendary debates: that of buying discounted food.

Looking at this issue in a strictly economical sense, what we see is called a “demand shift”

downward shift in demand for shitty beef

Downward shift in demand for shitty beef

Demand shifts commonly happen when forces outside the normal marketplace are at work.  For example, a demand shift might happen if a shopper was “fucked in the head”.  In this case, a shopper would have a lower demand for quality because they are price conscious.  In other words, this person is willing to send themselves to the hospital to save $0.11 on ground beef that fell on the floor no less than 13 times and has now been mixed with food dye to give it less of that gray, dead meat look.

I drove by the Fresh Market the other day – a pretty good store – and saw a sign that said $5.99/lb. filet.  Now, I didn’t go in to investigate because I’m horribly allergic to grocery shopping, but I wondered: #1 how many people did this sign attract, and #2 filet of what?

I think that if you buy meat on sale and have a family, you should go to prison.  If you buy meat on sale and live alone, well, you can do the math there.

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October 30, 2008 | Filed Under food and eating 

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4 Responses to “People Who Buy Groceries On Sale”

  1. Joe the nazi on October 30th, 2008

    Typical elitist commentary from an elite elitist. Some of us out here in the real america can’t afford to eat chipotle everyday.

  2. Jess on October 30th, 2008

    Evan, this blog says more about you than intended. Here are your priorities in your life according to your blog entries:
    6.) Home- one Blog.
    5.) Health is clearly a priority with 2 blogs
    4.) You- 3 blogs
    3.) Work- 6 blogs
    2.) Traffic- 8 Blogs, and, the most important thing in Evan’s world according to blog entries:
    1.) Food (and eating) 9 Blogs. This is not surprising.
    Whitney really must be an amazing woman to put up with you.
    *hugs*

  3. evanlapointe on October 30th, 2008

    Joe:

    I’m sorry you feel that way. And my “America” comes with a capital “a”. I’m not being elitist, I’m just being better than you.

    Jess:

    I can’t refute that. Very astute observation. Do we think something should be done about that?

  4. Garrett F on October 30th, 2008

    Joe is so elite that even America doesn’t deserve a capital “A”. Apparently the Nazis don’t either.

    He is, surely, one elite mother fucker.

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