Comments on: Supermarket Tricks, Slotting Fees, and Our Wallets

By: How to Eating Healthy | Small Steps to Health

How to Eating Healthy | Small Steps to Health — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:56:31 +0000

[...] is that everyone wants us to be fat. It used to be that food was all that we could buy at a grocery store. Now there are thousands of edible products that masquerade as food. How is someone suppose to [...]

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Wax on, Wax off - Wax on Fruits and Vegetables | Small Steps to Health — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:59:55 +0000

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By: asithi

asithi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:47:46 +0000

@Fitness - That is it! It is not always about making a conscious choice. When the marketers are manipulating what you think you need, it is not a simple matter of supply and demand.

By: Fitness

Fitness — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:08:46 +0000

Excellent post, very detailed. I also try and avoiid shopping on an empty stomach….it’s amazing the lengths they go to to try and get us to eat..well….crap

By: asithi

asithi — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:17:12 +0000

@Scott – According to a Canadian government study*, the highest gross margin items are in-store bakeries, with 51.2%. Second are prepared foods, yielding a 50.3% gross margin.

The lowest profit margin item is milk. Milk is often priced as a loss leader since customers usually come in looking for this product.

For a restaurant, the highest profit margin is the drinks. I have family that owns a restaurant and they tell me that the fountain soda cost about 15 cents, but they charge $2.50 for each soda. And a lot of restaurants still do not offer free re-fills on their drinks.

Thanks for commenting Scott.

*Canada Agri-Food Trade Service, “Overview of the Retail Grocery Market in the U.S. Pacific Southwest”
(December, 1997)