You think that’s a temporary condition then or the price of chips is never going back down?
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most people don't think about potato chips in terms of cost per pound, they think of them as cost per bag. potato chips have always been expensive.
and no, the price will not come down from here
Don’t all the charts roughly look like this? Spiking with every QE? Just trying to understand if your rancher’s price just hasn’t spiked yet?
i buy direct from him so there are no middle man fees (distributors, grocery stores, ad/marketing firms, etc.) taking a cut along the way. and he's local so shipping/transport isn't a cost either. he owns his own processing facility too.
also the key is buying in bulk, which gets you some fancy cuts but also a bunch of lesser known cuts and roasts (which normally don't sell and just get turned into ground chuck by factory farms), plus a lot of ground beef.