She has an all or none mind.  I am sure given the choice, a low paid worker would rather have a bowl of rice instead of none.  That is what a non sale looks like.  Asian workers would rather have 17 cents per hour instead of no pay. 

Lefties need to take a basic economics course.  For myself, i would buy the combo of dogs and melon with that incentive.  Ordinarily I would buy neither. 

Most of the costs in the two items are transportation costs or fuel costs.

These are the same greenies that pay 5 bucks for starbucks.  Starbucks represents in one beverage at most 3-4 pennies for the bean picker.

My Ball Park Beef Franks were buy one get one free. So I paid 2.06 a pack. The watermelon was 3.99. You did get a 1.00 off the store brand buns if you bought hot dogs. I saved .59 on each pack of buns.

I am a cheapskate. I only buy drinks when they are on sale. Doesn't matter what the brand. I can drink Diet Coke just as well as Diet Pepsi. I buy the store brands too in everything from washing powders to ketsup to snack foods.

By the way, Wal-mart pays its employees better than any of the stores that sell her book.

I buy most of my books through the Conservative Book Club or the Christian Book Club thereby saving a few more dollars.

Semper suprene nitens

Does this idiot realize many Demonrat voters shop discount all the time?

Does this idiot realize the majority of the country, with the exception of bigger idiots, could give a crap less about the environment?

Her readers must live in swanky neighborhoods that seem to want to vote for Demonrats all the time. They also like to shop discount when they can.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths some people will go to prove how clueless they really are.

Shell need not worry.  The Obamatrons are working diligently to achieve economic social justice for all.  This will put an end corporate abuses such as cheap goods and ensure that all consumers everywhere, regardless of their personal choices, are able to enjoy these products at the same price.

This dim bag should keep her mouth shut!

Retailers are serving the public, going for volume, and drawing buyers into THEIR stores.

With everything going up, people loosing their jobs, loosing their homes, and the total freek out over SOBama and the Lefts policies, the lower prices help both the buyer and the retailers.

The principle of business is to make a proffit and to draw buyers to THEIR stores.

Where does this idiot come from again?

Send her back and tell her to take her books with her!

Pay attention to the store flyer every week. I shop Acme and there is always something on sale. Bacon, hot dogs, butter, detergent, chicken, cereal etc. there is usually something that is BOGO too. Buy what's on sale when you don't need it instead of buying as you run out.

D

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This is typical elitist claptrap. I bet if you followed Shell around you would see her in a hat and big sunglasses sneaking into Target and the other discount stores. Liberal elitists are always hypocrites. As for Wal-Mart, I say we all owe them a thanks for giving us a higher standard of living. I've been investing in groceries there for years and have yet to see a ball and chain on any employee.

Re soda pop, if you want to be a real cheapskate, give them up entirely. There's too many bad things in them (HFCS, benzoic acid, pthalates, benzene, phosphoric acid, etc, etc) and once you are off them for a month or two you won't miss them. You will also be less likely to develop diabetes as you age. Make iced tea, or even better, iced green tea. Drink beer.

I also like Woot,  Dealnews, Dealoco, mostly for techie deals.

For more like superstore tech, I use  Tigerdirect, Onsale, or Geeks

For comparison price shopping engines I use:  Pricegrabber, Shopzilla

jessieH               What an idiot. I wonder if she believes her own B.S..

A quick subscription search will find her Rag, The Atlantic, for $24-25 a year. OR $6.90 and $6.95 a year! She is an editor of the rag, is she really that stupid? Yeah.

     I almost always shop at Publix because the level of their customer service is incredible.  They are so accomodating that I feel guilty when I shop someplace else!!

     As for this goofy woman..........soon with the increased cost due to "cap and trade" on each item we will all have to cut back.  All those exploited workers will be out of jobs and exploited no more.

It's tough to walk the walk for most of us.  I personally cannot imagine most wealthy politicans biking to the office or living in small apartments or even taking the stairs up three flights once in a while.  But, in Ms. Shell's case, perhaps she can simply forgo using the shopping cart on her next trip to the local grocerer.  While she's at it, she might politely suggest her fellow shopper--preferably one with a toddler--to refrain from using one as well.

Elitist, ivory tower academic snobs like Ruppel Shell and the parasite class they speak for are completely oblivious to one basic fact about money and economics: what's important is not how much money you have, but how much that money can get you.  They should be kissing Publix and Wal-Mart's a**es for providing such great value...not just to people who make a ton of money, but especially to those who make little.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

She's convinced me. I vow from now on to market every day at the local boulangerie, green market (with those cute baby vegetables from cutesy name farms) and charcuterie with my little mesh bag like the French carry- oh, who am I fooling? It's the ten for ten bargains at Albertson's and Smith's for me - unless this chick wants to pick up my grocery tab.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

The rich aren't like you and me -- and some of them just hate it when the less well-off get cheap stuff. Like this insufferable  hoity-toity blowhard

I did a little research and find that in 2005, the average annual salary for a professor at Boston University was $110,100, around $9100 pcm gross.

Just to compare and contrast: in 2005 the average salary in the United States was $42,028

But let's personalize it.

Most of us can get through life without a college professor. No offense, but when there's medical emergency I don't call up BU and ask to be put through to the Journalism School, STAT! 

But what about an American nurse -- okay, in 2005 her gross income per calendar month was $4,061.

And for that she has to work 180 hours a month. A hell of a lot more than a university professor, I bet. I mean, think an RN has time to write a book, or get a couple of months annual leave?

How about the guy who services the prof's car?  He gets $3,118 gross pcm.

Or the Firefighter who saves her life? He get's a massive $3,454 gross pcm.

I bet these worthy citizens really appreciate low price shopping from Wal-Mart...

A place an elitist University professor, on almost triple the median US salary, wouldn't be caught dead in.

Nice work if you can get it, eh, Proesssor? A few lectures a week. Vacations at regular semester ends. Cushy second job editing a Monthly. Writing books.

It's a tough life.

“For God's sake, somebody tell Obama that a TRILLION is one MILLION MILLION!!!!”

Paris Hilton quote! "Wal Mart whats that? do they sell walls there"?                                                                                 

But low and behold on the Simple Life when they had no money, (by then she knew what a Wal Mart was) they needed a mirror or something, and the first thing out of her mouth was Wal Mart, LOL

Well, at least she should be happy with the price of arugula lately.

You know, when I need advice on economics, I always consult a journalism professor.  (sarcasm off)

Ever notice journalists seem to think they are the smartest people around?  It's an attitude they pick up from moron profs like this. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

P.J.

I did the BOGO on the Ball Park Franks at Publi too, great deal! Did you get the 2 for 4.00 on the Georgia cantaloupes? I am just being silly...I didn't know you lived in the South. Perhaps Ms. Shell doesn't need to find bargins, I on the other hand love a good bargain. Ms. Shell can get off her "high horse" any time.

I've been in a committed relationship that has lasted for more than 39 years now. My wife knows the combination to the gun safe, and I'm not allowed to go to Argentina. I do, however, remember how sometimes in earlier days I would go to drinking establishments on 'Ladies' Nights'. As an unabashed fan of Adam Smith, I figured that it would be less costly to meet and greet women in such a cost-cutting environment.

I guess in today's planned economy we are not allowed to get something for nothing, although that was pretty much my objective in the old days. I don't know how much Ms. Ruppel Shell thinks a little bit of her time is worth, but I presume it is sold at a market-clearing price and that she has never had to discount at closing time.

It's obvious that this "expert" on consumer pricing has never shopped in person before or she would have realized that most "discounts" are used so retailers can get older products off the shelf.  By lowering prices, that product has a better chance of being sold before it reaches it's expiration date or become obsolete..  This means that by lowering it's price, an older product will get sold and a newer product will replace the older one as demand continues for that product.  Thanks to this product turnover,  the people who actually CREATE those products (that's those lowly workers she seems so concerned about) will continue to have a job.

But I guess it's more important to feel good about paying top dollar for a small selection of products than to buy a lot of cheaper alternatives and help people maintain their employment.  Right, Ms. Shell?

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