A blog by Jorge Garcia.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

2 Days Before Halloween

And Safeway totally jacked up the price of their pumpkins.
Last week I paid 39 cents a pound.
But today they're at 79 cents a pound.

Kind of a d. move Safeway.
I'm just sayin'.

23 comments:

Rachel said...

thats the recession for ya!!

ClistyB said...

ok thats way uncool. Especially because you are paying a way higher price than the rest of us mainlanders in the first place.

Julie said...

boourns! I hate it when places do that.

Erika Jean said...

that's a 40 cent penalty to last minute parents.

Jewl said...

I paid 49 cents at that Times grocery store in Pearl. Good for you for finding some though! There was a mad rush of us mothers out at the last minute trying to get them!

The Mom said...

Wow, that sucks. They go down in price here (I am in Utah). I paid 10 cents a pound!

Jasie VanGesen said...

and this is why safeway is evil. Trust me, I know... They stole 3 1/2 years of my life. Working retail is 10 times worse when it's grocery retail.

Michelle said...

I went today and it was .69 cents a lb. They have a monopoly though- the only store in K town that has them still!

Happy Halloween!

Jenni Hunt said...

It totally sucks... and our pumpkins were just stolen too :-( My poor 7 year old daughter cried for HOURS that her decorated pumpkin was taken...

Miztification said...

That does suck, but I'm not surprised. :(

Jessie Rayot said...

That is way uncool! Arrrggg!

Checkie said...

That sucks, but just imagine what they're going to do to turkeys next month.

James Hernandez said...

Jorge,

Your paying what the market will bear! Econ 101!!

jennY said...

i went to check on my pumpkin last night and it has melted...literally into a watery pile of mush...

so sad..

Happy Halloweeeeeeen Jorge!

Eugen Caitaz said...

I want to buy pumpkins tomorow!!! It's interesting - How many money will cost pumpkins?

Topanga said...

You buy them by the pound?? Jeeeez, their half price down at the farm market here, which means they are about $2.00.. in total!!

WT said...

Just Econ 101: "supply & demand." Demand for pumpkins increases to highest point of the year. Thus, price increases.

yellowdoggranny said...

isn't there a maket place that you can get them?..

Lisa Chin said...

That stinks. I paid 9 cents a pound the other day - but I don't live on in an island paradise either.

Tammy said...

I didn't know they still sold pumpkins by the pound! I live in the Bay Area and all the stores around here, including Safeway sell pumpkins by set prices depending on their size - small, medium, large, which range in price from about $1.99-$8.99.

Today, I bought a small pumpkin at CVS for only 50 cents! They had 4 big containers of small pumpkins that they're still trying to sell off.

Pauline Laing said...

Well, my local fruit and veg shop is selling "Halloween Pumpkins" for $30. They have two for sale. We don't really do Halloween here (Australia). But good on 'em for trying, hey?

Barry Traylor said...

I never gave this a thought, but are pumpkins native to Hawai.
Surely they aren't shipped from the mainland.

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