Rising Costs At The Grocery? Legacy Media Would Have You To Believe There’s Nothing To Be Done But There’s One Simple Solution

Originally posted at FMShooter

Despite fear-mongering from the usual suspects in legacy media, claims that the consumer price index being the cause of rising grocery prices are simply not conducive with reality. NBC News writes “shoppers had better start budgeting more for their groceries” and explained the rising prices of food are due to “pandemic stockpiling” and supply-chain disruptions from COVID-19.

NBC News also points out that the rising prices in something considered a “necessity” – food – comes during a time when more than 9 million people are unemployed. Of course, they also pass the blame off on soaring gas prices and inefficient transportation costs.

With the narrow view that NBC News wants you to apply to this situation, all of the observable aspects are not being accounted for. For instance, if we take a look at 5 of the top corporations that distribute food across North America: Kraft-Heinz, Conagra, General Mills, Nestle, and Tyson – you can see things begin to not add up. Both the sheer scope of their variety in product and their profit margins doesn’t back what NBC News is claiming.

Starting off, we’ll take a look at Kraft-Heinz. Of the most notable of their brands is A1 steak sauce, Bagel Bites, Breakstones cottage cheese, Capri Sun, Crystal Light, Classico pasta sauce, Claussen pickles, Cool Whip, Corn Nuts, Country Time drink mixes, Delimex, Gevalia coffee, Heinz condiments, Jell-O, Jet-Puffed marshmallows, Kool-Aid, Kraft, Lunchables, Maxwell House, Miracle Whip, Ore-Ida, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia dairy products, Planters, Shake N’ Bake, Stove Top, Velveeta, Smart Ones, and Wylers food and beverages.

Bearing in mind, this is only a handful of the brands they own – not even half of them. So among these products, they still have many more they make money from. Not even mentioning, Kraft-Heinz is majority-owned by Berkshire Hathaway – which is owned by Warren Buffet. From 2019 to early 2021, their profit margins were in the green.

Conagra owns many different brands as well. Among them are Boomchickapop snacks, Andy Capp’s, Armour meats, Aunt Jemima, Banquet, Bertolli, Birds Eye, Birds Eye Voila, Blue Bonnet, Chef Boyardee, Duncan Hines, Earth Balance, Glutino, Healthy Choice, Hungry-Man, Hunt’s pasta sauces, Kid Cuisine, La Choy, Manwich, Marie Callenders, Mrs. Butterworth’s, Tennessee Pride, Open Pit barbeque sauces, Orville Redenbachers, P.F. Chang’s Home Menu, Pam, Parkay, Peter Pan peanut butter, Reddi-wip, Ro*Tel, Slim Jim, Smart Balance, Swiss Miss, Van Camp’s, Vlasic, and Wish-Bone.

Again, these aren’t even a fourth of all of the brands owned by Conagra. From 2019 to early 2021, their profit margins were in the green.

General Mills also has a robust arsenal of products sold across grocery chains in America. Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Bugles, Cascadian Farms, Cheerios, Chex, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, Fiber One, Gardetto’s, Go-Gurt, Gold Medal, Golden Grahams, Green Giant, Haagen-Dazs, Hamburger Helper, Kix, Lucky Charms, Nature Valley, Old El Paso, Pillsbury, Progresso, Reese’s Puffs, Toaster Scrambles and Toaster Strudels, Totino’s, Total, Trix, Wheaties, and Yoplait.

From 2019 to early 2021, their profit margins were in the green.

Next, we have Nestlé. Acqua Panna, Alpo, Beggin Strips, Beneful, Beyond, Carnation, Chameleon Cold Brew, Coffee-Mate, Deer Park, DiGiorno, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Gerber, Hot Pockets, Ice Mountain, Jenny Craig, Lean Cuisine, Juicy Juice, Lean Pockets, Nescafé, Nespresso, Nesquik, Nestea, Perrier, Pioneer Woman, Poland Spring, Purina, Stouffer’s, Taster’s Choice, Tidy Cats, Tombstone, and Toll House are a mere handful of their products. From 2019 to early 2021, their profit margins were in the green.

Finally, Tyson Foods. They own Ballpark meats, Bosco’s snacks, Hillshire meats, Jamwich, Jimmy Dean, Landshire, Nudges, Open Prairie, Sara Lee, Star Ranch, State Fair, Steak Eze, Supreme Tenders, Tastemakers, Top Chews, Tyson, and Wunderbar. From 2019 to early 2021, their profit margins were in the green.

After digesting this information, simply ask yourself if you believe these multi-billion dollar corporations have to offset costs onto consumers in order to protect profits. Instead of offloading the burden onto consumers – in a time when 9 million are unemployed – perhaps the cost could be shaved off of the grossly and excessively high salaries they dole out to their CEOs.

Kraft-Heinz CEO, Miguel Patricio is paid $500 thousand. Conagra CEO, Sean Connolly is paid $1 million. General Mills CEO, Jeff Harmening is paid $1 million. Nestlé CEO, Ulf Schneider is paid $10 million. Tyson Foods CEO, Donnie D. King is paid $6 million.

Sure, though, let NBC News lead you to believe that the reason food prices are increasing is because of the “consumer price index”. It’s all illusory, so don’t pay any attention to the man behind the curtain or you might break free of the proverbial allegory of the cave corporate America is keeping the majority of us in.

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Stucky

Air pumps at the gas station used to be free, now it costs a buck. Rapper Ten Cent is now Fiffy Cent. A bird in hand used to be worth two in the bush, now it’s ten in the bush plus the bush. A 10% raise at work still leaves you 20% poorer. The government stimulates the economy more often than I stimulate my pecker. It used to take a whole month for me to get 100 down votes, now only one or two posts. They piss on us and tell us it’s rain, Fuck ’em all to hell and back.

Ken32
Ken32

You seem to be shooting more for even ratio’s. A greater challenge, I assume.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Stucky – A hand in the bush is worth two in the hand, maybe more.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

They shaved away the bush (or waxed it away).

Ken32
Ken32

Finally for the first time in 15 years. Corporate profit margins are at record highs when Main Street is struggling. And nobody is asking why. The answer is because everything is essentially a monopoly and it was done under everyone’s noses.

Mygirl....maybe

When they print TRILLIONS of fiat (fake) dollars the value of the dollar goes down. What is inflation and how does the Fed cause it?

Thus, hidden in the Fed’s stable-prices mandate is the promise to inflate the money supply – and this represents theft on a massive scale. Who gets the money when the Fed creates it? A privileged class. The rest of us are cheated by higher prices. This is why the issue of the Federal Reserve is so vital – it is the one issue that is the crux of it all.

The price paid to the farmer for his products is much less than that charged to the consumer.

Now shipping costs are 100,000 a day. And while no food is shipped, per se, where does the packaging, materials and machines for food production come from? EVERYTHING is interconnected.


“We have just fixed [chartered] a 2,800-TEU vessel at above $100,000 per day for 65 to 80 days. We bought that ship, which was [built in] 2008, for $8 million. This charter alone pays $8 million.”

When the cost of fuel goes up, so does the cost of food and other items. There is no single cause, rather, there are many factors as to why food costs more. All of the current factors are manmade.

How the Federal Reserve Causes Inflation


https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/more-container-ships-score-astronomical-100000day-rates

rhs jr
rhs jr

As we move into the Eddy Minimum, more of our lack of food supply will be because of real Climate Change compounded by TPTB government Politicians, USDA food pogroms, corporate genocidal psychopaths , and sociopaths like Bill Gates and Charles Schwab (and Ep 6:12). Come out her my people, make gardens and trade your garments for swords.

Dan
Dan

The REAL solution to inflation is the same as the solution to most of our problems.
Find a commie…or a Demonrat…the terms are synonymous, and KILL THEM.
When enough of them are removed from the equation fixing our problems becomes
simple.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I’m going to disagree a bit. The problem is that a lot of consumers will just pay the asking price for whatever they want at that instant. You guys need to start going to Aldi. They don’t have A-1 steak sauce (or any of the brands in this article), but their “Burman’s” brand tastes 97% the same and is 1/3 the price. Multiply that times most products. A pineapple is $1.49 almost all the time. Whole chicken- 95 cents a pound – all the time. Etc., etc.
Then go to a different store if you need tofu or saffron or fake, vegan meat.

The average price of a new car is $41,000 now. I am not paying no $41,000 for a car ever- under any fucking circumstances. I’ll buy something 5-8 years old.

BL
BL

Iska- How many years have I been saying the same thing? I could not agree more with you, Aldi’s prices are MUCH LOWER on everything.

Stucky

Been a big Aldi’s fan for YEARS. Article below –“13 Reasons Why Aldi’s Groceries Are So Cheap” is a fast read with lots of pics. An interesting read for all Aldi’s fans.

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13 Reasons Why Aldi’s Groceries Are So Cheap

Ken32
Ken32

Good points, but any competition at this point is an illusion. Aldi is owned by the same people the others are owned by. More downward pressure from consumers might help a bit.

BUCKHED/BUY MORE AMMO/MORE BOURBON TOO.
BUCKHED/BUY MORE AMMO/MORE BOURBON TOO.

Deer feeders are going up at the farm . I’m putting two calves over at my neighbors farm soon and a few pigs will die in the swamp as well. We’re good .

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

I like a hand in the bush, just sayin’

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