Ex-inflation, there is no inflation

[UPDATED Oct. 8 2005] At the risk of incurring the contempt of part-time coffee maven and full-time non-inflation finder Barry Ritholtz – on grounds, respectively, of taste and plagiarism – my trip downstairs to the Battery Park City Gristede’s today came up with another example. About two weeks ago, I bought a 10 oz can of Café Bustelo for $3.99; today they’re charging $3.99 for a 6 oz (that’s SIX OUNCES (definitely shouting)) vacuum-packed brick. That’s a (put down the 2 carry the 3, takes socks off for additional counting facility…dammit, runs Excel) 40% INCREASE IN TWO WEEKS (shouting, again).

While I wouldn’t put it past the slimy toads that run Gristedes and several other of the skeevier supermarket chains in New York to have made another of their regular pricing foul-ups, it’s just lucky there’s no inflation. This starts to make that Starbucks bottled water – the brand is Ethos, with the ethos being if you’re stupid enough to pay $1.85 for 21 20.8 fl.oz of Pennsylvania spring water, we’re smart enough to sell it to you – look like a good deal. I wonder if they do caffeinated?

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[Barry Ritholtz]

I had a 4.0 GPA in college . . .

ex- B's and C's