The Economy

$4 for a 2-liter Coke Zero Sugar.

That shouldn't have happened until about 2040.

 

It's around $2.65 here.

 

I saw something today I almost never see. Two stations, across the street from one another, with a 31-cent difference in price.

I pulled into this Murphy place I often go to that was selling for $3.09, casually look at the 7-Eleven across the street, and it's selling for $2.78.

 

You should see the split in our town. Indiana has more taxes, so at times the Indiana side is 50 cents more than the Ohio side.

You can see the sign of each from the other.

I’m assuming the Indiana station is only in business because some on each side are insistent on only shopping on their side of the state border.

Yes, I do live in a sitcom.

 

And they say you can't put a price on avoiding a left turn against traffic.

 

In Florida, buy Coke, go broke.

 

I did not ask the question precisely enough. Currently the Fed creates money and injects it into the financial system though the commercial banking system. Are you telling me under your proposal commercial banks would replace the Fed and create money? Absent the ability to create money then the money supply is finite and largely controlled by whatever the reserve requirement is. Who would determine the reserve requirement?

 

The Walmart store brands are our friends.

 

It's Diet Dr Thunder almost all the time now.

Walmart did "roll back" the Coca-Cola and Pepsi 2-liters to $1.98 for a few weeks, but it's back up to $2.65 now.

 

Virtually every time I go to Publix there is a Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal on 12-packs of some soda brand family. Sometimes it is a Buy 2 Get 2 on the RC/7 Up section, which allows me to stock up on Sun Drop.

 

A decade ago they would have "BOGO" signs plastered all over the store.

No more. Because now they almost always make you buy two to get one free.

Which still is too expensive most of the time.

6 liters of Diet Dr Thunder is $4.26.
6 liters of Diet Dr Pepper in a Buy Two Get One Free special at Publix is $8. STILL almost twice as expensive.

I miss North Carolina's Harris-Teeter and their Buy 2 Get 3(!) Free deals.