1970's Keg Menu

[blackpowder]

Boys, it's just so easy. Tap and go!!

[grassfarmer]

Why should this surprise anyone? Most farmers sell their production wholesale not retail. How do you think the price paid to the "primary producers" behind plastic containers to store food in, components for electronic devices or any other widget has changed since 1970? Unit cost goes down as production methods are scaled up and efficiency improves. Basic commodity production 101.

That's the game we are playing - if you don't like it move into retail and try and capture some of those higher margins instead of beating up the guy who is attempting to do just that.

[malleefarmer]

Not quite the topic but eating all the same.

A push perhaps even advertising campaingn re beyond beef etc "If you dont want to eat the real thing why eats a imitation of it" saw a sign out of a steak eatery

[jazz]

That's the game we are playing - if you don't like it move into retail and try and capture some of those higher margins instead of beating up the guy who is attempting to do just that

I don't know your angle grass but ignorance sure is part of it. FFS wholesale and retail prices are supposed to move in lockstep. Do you think the wholesale price of anything else is the same as it was 40 fing yrs ago. Food prices are 100% manipulated.

[bucket]

I don't know your angle grass but ignorance sure is part of it. FFS wholesale and retail prices are supposed to move in lockstep. Do you think the wholesale price of anything else is the same as it was 40 fing yrs ago. Food prices are 100% manipulated.

All I can say is good luck to the guy marking up the prices between the primary producer and the consumer.....when there is no primary producers left it won't work out that well...I know someone will always farm the land.....the next group of farmers won't do it for nothing....especially if grandpa left them the farm ...they will take their money and say **** it....if they are true business people...

Not sure why when I look at land prices why I stay in this bloodsucking business...

[farmaholic]

Not sure why when I look at land prices why I stay in this bloodsucking business...

I think we both know, and it isn't for the risk and stress free easy money.....pretending it is anything else is doing a disservice to........

[tweety]

I don't know your angle grass but ignorance sure is part of it. FFS wholesale and retail prices are supposed to move in lockstep. Do you think the wholesale price of anything else is the same as it was 40 fing yrs ago. Food prices are 100% manipulated.

Speaking of ignorance, do you even realize you buy retail and sell a raw wholesaled primary product? Any guesses how much of your crop input expense is attributed to staffing, trucks, and advertising to sell that retail product convincing you to buy it?

[grassfarmer]

Speaking of ignorance, do you even realize you buy retail and sell a raw wholesaled primary product? Any guesses how much of your crop input expense is attributed to staffing, trucks, and advertising to sell that retail product convincing you to buy it?

Probably not - business doesn't seem to be his strong point. Electrical utility lines either.

[farmaholic]

I see both Tweety's argument and Jazz's both are valid.
But I would bet the percentage of what we get paid out of that retail dollar has shrunk.....everything else aside.

But that's coming from a grade twelve graduate with a Master's in Ignorance from the School of Hard Knocks.

[15444]

Nephew is 16, works stocking shelves at Sobey's in Winnipeg. He is a budding environmentalist and all about being green and recycling. Just about has a stroke every night when he has to throw out the produce with blemishes and food that has hit it's best before date. They fill a dumpster every single night. And if you have a issue with throwing it out, you are fired on the spot. I wonder what wholesale food value is dumped in the bin every night. Oh yeah, retail is where the money is.

[jazz]

Lets let grass and tweety save the world. They know it all obviously. No problem with double digit inflation on the retail side and zero on the production side that will all work out in their socialist world.

And our entire RM and 3 adjacent ones were buried in 1985-89. Guess the program ran out of money before it got to your place probably because the NDP came in.

[grassfarmer]

Oh yeah, retail is where the money is.

It is when you're buying in cents and selling in dollars.

[tweety]

Lets let grass and tweety save the world. They know it all obviously. No problem with double digit inflation on the retail side and zero on the production side that will all work out in their socialist world.

And our entire RM and 3 adjacent ones were buried in 1985-89. Guess the program ran out of money before it got to your place probably because the NDP came in.

Too bad you can't understand the difference between retail products and raw wholesale products.