$8 for 500g of butter! Name n shame

[Virago]

I heard a rumour that someone else may have notified TV One...

[Smifffy]

It's pretty bad business, whether supply and demand or not. WHEN things return to normal how many of their bread & butter local customers do you think will return to their business?

Their best bet is to gouge the locals for as long as possible and then sell the business cheap.

They've fucked their customers now, but they've fucked themselves long term.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I aggree, as if the demand thing was true, petrol etc could be at 6 bucks a litre with the way demand is.

I put $178 worth of petrol in a vehicle today, and paid $2.09 a litre for 91: last fill was I think $2.03 a week ago. Not sure if I got ripped or thats just the price.

My brother in law has been running his 360cu in Dodge van in and out from Rolleston with 5-600l of water in the back of it, dispensing it to those in need.

Talk about the best of times, and the worst of times.

[JimO]

If they were normal price people would complain there was none because the first person in the door buys the lot.

Supply and demand the basics of economics.

thats what i would do in a emergency...........buy 300lbs of butter

[ellipsis]

...ya cant take the twat out of twats...short minded, money oriented people abound...2.50 a litre for all grades at a sevice station near here by 2.30pm on tuesday,'cos of generator cost...like corned beef, it'll keep...on the brighter side, we stopped at the fish'n'chip shop at the Sparks Rd and Halswell Rd corner after dropping h2o off in town and the qeue outside was immense...waited a while but what a feed, the fish were bloody near whole fillets...best fish and chips Ive had in years..and just the normal old price...in his oriental english he told me 'slice fish big-people need eat well in times like this'...a few so called kiwis could take a note from his book..

[sugilite:Me]

Yeah, I hear the Honda Moto GP teams are replacing their carbon fiber fairings with the more exotic and expensive butter ones this season

[rwh]

Yeah, I hear the Honda Moto GP teams are replacing their carbon fiber fairings with the more exotic and expensive butter ones this season

Casein probably isn't the silliest thing to try - possibly more as the binder than the fibre, though

Richard

[dangerous]

latest craze... driving over piles of silt, while digging out the mother in laws place some dick in a holden was driving over the piles, ahh well left his mud flap behind this time.

[Woodman]

latest craze... driving over piles of silt, while digging out the mother in laws place some dick in a holden was driving over the piles, ahh well left his mud flap behind this time.

You didn't have to say "some dick in a Holden", just "Holden driver" would have done
we would have got the idea.

As for bumping up prices in a shop in a small town when there is a national disaster on. Good luck for the future mate.

[XF650]

This disaster is a good reminder to hang onto any decent size (food grade) water containers.
Not sure if it's normal retail or not, but $25 for a 20 litre water container (tap is extra) at Mitre 10 seems expensive.

[orsem]

...ya cant take the twat out of twats...short minded, money oriented people abound...2.50 a litre for all grades at a sevice station near here by 2.30pm on tuesday,'cos of generator cost...like corned beef, it'll keep...on the brighter side, we stopped at the fish'n'chip shop at the Sparks Rd and Halswell Rd corner after dropping h2o off in town and the qeue outside was immense...waited a while but what a feed, the fish were bloody near whole fillets...best fish and chips Ive had in years..and just the normal old price...in his oriental english he told me 'slice fish big-people need eat well in times like this'...a few so called kiwis could take a note from his book..

there was a service station not too far from ashburton charging 2.70 a litre for petrol, the robbing baskets. I can understand delays in getting resupply to stations when all ran dry after the initial surge of travellers, but to bump up prices by that much.... I certainly wont be spending money there ever again.

[Shadows]

This disaster is a good reminder to hang onto any decent size (food grade) water containers.
Not sure if it's normal retail or not, but $25 for a 20 litre water container (tap is extra) at Mitre 10 seems expensive.

Yep that's pretty normal

[FROSTY:Me]

hey guys putting it in prospective--what is the normal price for a pound of butter at a dairy? I know its shot up a bit recently at the supermarket

[fuknKIWI]

hey guys putting it in prospective--what is the normal price for a pound of butter at a dairy? I know its shot up a bit recently at the supermarket

It was .33c in '73 couldn't tell you now, milk was .04c a pint back then when milk really was milk.

[HenryDorsetCase]

It was .33c in '73 couldn't tell you now, milk was .04c a pint back then when milk really was milk.

bet having to squeeze it out of the teat into the bottle, then churn the leftovers into butter got to be a pain in the proverbial though. cost or convenience?