went to buy a couple hundred feet of garden hose. whipped into lowes and the price was outrageous. went down the road to ace, same thing. whipped into dollar general and guess what-----------it was even higher!
common thread was-- fuel prices have driven up prices on everything.
well, after cussing everyonethat would listen, my point was that in each case, the hose was coated in months of dust. now if months of dust had settled on the hose, it told me one thing-- gas prices had nothing to do with price of product going up 300-400 PERCENT. greed did that! my opinion is since everyone can use the excuse of fuel rising to raise prices, they have free reign to rip me off.
lets look at this. a semi loaded with product has to pay a 30% increase in fuel costs, so the market rises 40 % to account for energy costs. OK, no prob, but when the retailer does an across the board price hike of 400%, i will never buy from them again!!!!! and everyone is using the same excuse!
BTW, yesterday, on the way home from getting parts, i passed a house that had around 600 feet of garden hose at the curb for garbage------------yep, i loaded the hoopty and am now watering my garden with free hose. i will watch the market to see if shares dropped. anyone wanna take the odds?
OH, got a really nice rain today, sure am glad i didnt drop my drawers for the jacked up hose. POETIC is it not?