These days, I do quite a bit of our grocery shopping, and I’ve come to notice when prices are out of whack or quality is super-bad. The most obvious example has been the President’s Choice coffee I buy at No Frills. Prices for the same tub range from $9.99 to 18.99. They change weekly, and perhaps more often than that and they move around with no rhyme nor reason. I imagine some corporate executive rolling the dice for coffee prices every morning.

Cat litter is another item with insane pricing. The basic tub of clumping cat litter has soared over the past couple years from $5.99 to a whopping $8.99 at the No Frills. Was there some kind of catastrophic decline in clay mining or something like that?

I was in my local Sobey’s store a few days ago when my eyes were drawn to the 99 cent limes which appeared to be in sad shape. I had just bought some beautiful, juicy limes a couple days before at another store for 69 cents. I thought they were expensive. A couple weeks earlier the same store was trying to sell some dried out mushrooms so far gone they were cracking. I wondered what would happen with the limes so I snapped a picture to remind myself to look next time I was in the store.

That was today. Price was still $.99 each. I’d say it was the same batch of limes but a little further gone. More of them are yellow. Some of them were starting to get hard and others were too soft. I’m guessing they’ll hold out another few days at $.99 until the whole lot is spoiled. Wrong and strong!