So what incentives did the gas stations and stand alone liquor stores receive for Sunday alcohol?

Also, it’s called inflation, and it’s not unique to Bermuda or a 10% discount.

The suggestion that discounts be applied to only select food items was shouted down here and on other sites.

You follow right?

Nah!!!!!
Thyme 2 plent some carrots…..

3. It was nice of them. It didn’t hurt them TOO much (i.e. they’re still well profitable). They don’t owe anyone an explanation.

And the more expensive food is a direct disadvantage of having to import each and everything to sustain our lifestyle.

Think of all the expenses that are incurred by the grocer when the buy their stock. Think about transportation costs (i.e. airlines etc.), foreign currency purchase taxes (which have increased from 0.15% to 1% between 1998 and 2010), staffing, general overheads, payroll taxes, pension contributions, social insurance payments etc.

If you can do better then by all means set up a grocery store and sell your products at dirt cheap prices, pay your staff the average Bermudian wage as well as all the other high costs of doing business here, while at the same time ensuring that you make enough of a profit to ensure you can reinvest into your business to ensure you remain relevant.

If it is as easy as you guys say it is and that the price increases are just to enrich the store owners then you should have no problem opening up such a store and proving your conspiracy theories right.

If you do I will be the first in line. But if you do, I imagine your store wouldn’t last a year in Bermuda and I won’t be shopping there for very long.

It is what it is for a place that manufactures absolutely nothing on our own.

I usually don’t post comments because people are very rude when a person is only sharing their opinion or view.

This is my opinion:

As a person who rarely grocery shops because I can not afford to. Even after offering a day to save 10% . When I do go into these stores I often curse the grocery gods!! It is very expensive simply put!
But with that being said how bout we do in typical bermuda fashion and point the finger at the suppliers. The article did list Lindos, Marketplace and Super mart. Whom all together receive product from Butterfield and Vallis, Dunkleys Daries and BGA to name a few…
But if we go there we’d have to go to the shippers. …which would take us to the docks…. and in typical bermuda fashion we’d be talking about something else while the frigging groceries are still EXPENSIVE and people are not eating. Families are not eating!
Yes the grocery store is rammed with all yall that have 5 loaves of bread while telling me that half a loave is better than none!
I wonder what Micheal thinks as he opens his Viking stainless steel refrigerator! ! Or rest of you for that matter.
Ohh right you don’t think, cause you eating!

Man cannot live on bread alone.
Even if it is half a loaf.

Looks like the Stores still stand to benefit anyways…

ps. and its not about me living beyond my means…jus a few beans away from joining the boys on front street…um juz zayin.

However , anyone who thinks that suddenly there is no need for this in terms of people’s financial situations is sorely mistaken. The need is still very much there.

The bumpy ride is far from over and it even looks to get worse for the next few years.

I’d really like to see the programme maintained AND a whole lot of other service providers get on board.
There are now more people than ever with much less in their pockets than ever before and the merchants , and dare I say , the banks and landlords are going to have to get very creative in their ways of getting it out of the pockets of the aforementioned .

Everything and everyone’s expectations are going to have to go down by a long way just to keep the cash flowing.

A half a loaf is better than none .

Smh

C’est le Vie

I wasn’t completely satisfied with the Dept of Consumer Affairs telling me the stores had not increased their prices so I asked RB, a personal friend of mine, (you know who you are) who does product pricing for MarketPlace, I asked if the Marketplace had increased their prices because of the ten percent weekly discount, thanks for your explanation about pricing period. For those interested, she said there had never been an increase due to the additional 10%, so cynics I hear your misinformation but I’ll go with the one that holds the pricing tag gun on a daily basis. It’s amazing how we can hear and spread a lie so quickly without first going to a source for the truth. Then again some people want things to complain about so why not make up and spread untruths. Facts happen to be a lot easier to explain than opinions as well!

Bernews you are on it as usual! Well done all!