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Effective June this year, this is the quote from the email:

June 15th is your Last Chance Opportunity to upgrade to a Shopsmith Mark 7 or PowerPro Headstock at 2010 prices!

Which of is interesting since the price increased on 4/30/12 so the ad is out of date and or just plain wrong.

https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=10364

Ed

May be mistaken, but that doesn't change the fact that prices are going up again.

How 'bout gasoline and groceries? Yep, they are going up steadily. Inflation is here to stay and may increase with all the droughts.

Just save up until they go on sale. I'll have to wait longer now. Work to be done on the house plus some health issues showing up. So won't be upgrading. Just about learned how to use what I have. Will be content to do what I can while I can.

Guess I'll never forget when I went to the grocery store to buy a green pepper for our cook. This was in 1955. The cost of a single green pepper was $.08. I was very upset because I thought I could get a pound for $.05. Lucky I had a few pennies.

Now to the present day. -- The price of a green pepper in Wal Mart was listed at $0.88. I'd say that's a little over 10% in 54 years. Kinda compares to other things, I think.

Yes, the cost of living must have gone up some but it could not have been very much. I get a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) and it was rather meager.

Something just isn't right here.

What frosts me is when the store here in Florida are selling peppers for $2.49 per lb in March and up North in Pa where my Father in law lives they are going for $0.39 each, approx 2-3 per lb.
You can almost figure the peppers were grown here in Florida and shipped to Pa.
How can peppers here in florida cost so much more.

Ed in Tampa wrote:What frosts me is when the store here in Florida are selling peppers for $2.49 per lb in March and up North in Pa where my Father in law lives they are going for $0.39 each, approx 2-3 per lb.
You can almost figure the peppers were grown here in Florida and shipped to Pa.
How can peppers here in florida cost so much more.

This is called supply and demand Ed. Your local pepper growers shipped all the peppers to PA and you now have a shortage which drives up the price. Pay up or stop eating peppers or move to PA.

At least they don't tax Shopsmith like Gas or tobacco.
They would go out of business for sure.
When I started driving for ten bucks you could fill your tank and get a carton of smokes.
That would be over a C note now.

lightnin wrote:At least they don't tax Shopsmith like Gas or tobacco.
They would go out of business for sure.
When I started driving for ten bucks you could fill your tank and get a carton of smokes.
That would be over a C note now.

Let's see. 15 gallons at .19 plus $2 for a carton. A 5 dollar bill would have been enough.

dusty wrote:Yes, the cost of living must have gone up some but it could not have been very much. I get a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) and it was rather meager.

Something just isn't right here.

Agree!!!!! COLA's never have kept pace with inflation since I first found out about them. That knowledge was in 1959. The only groups that got COLA's that kept pace were union groups attached to Governments. State plumber's board never got behind by even a penny. Always knew I should have been a plumber. Police and city firemen also did alright.

Also looked like U.S. congress guys did O.K.

Veterans - always took a beating.