Why are Hot dogs so $$$$$

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,395
    edited September 2011
    heiney9 wrote: »
    Your two year comparisons are irrelevant since you moved from the Midwest to Cali. Costs more out there, period!

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited September 2011
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Walmart is the devil

    Wait, I thought tone controls are the Devil ?!? :confused:
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,715
    edited September 2011
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Los Angeles... The effing baggers and cashiers are represented by the AFL-CIO/Teamster's unions. Makes everything in the stores some 30% more expensive than it should be.:mad:

    Okay, lets just go to Merriams-Webster OnLine:

    Definition of HYPERBOLE:

    extravagant exaggeration (as ?mile-high ice-cream cones?)
    ? hy?per?bo?list \-list\ noun

    Example of HYPERBOLE

    "Los Angeles... The effing baggers and cashiers are represented by the AFL-CIO/Teamster's unions. Makes everything in the stores some 30% more expensive than it should be."

    Origin of HYPERBOLE

    Latin, from Greek from hyper- + ballein to throw at DEVIL, inspired by or possessed by the spirit of ............ SATAN ! :eek:


    Dang, that Merriam-Webster is very up-to-date !!!



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    ....better throw in a disclaimer, too ....

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,715
    edited September 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    Just got 4lbs. of Ballpark Beef hot dogs at Costco today for $9.43, IIRC. Their ground beef is 93% lean at less than $2.00/lb. Gas was $2.43/gal. Join up!:smile:

    You do understand they're union ? :rolleyes:


    ANY-WHO .... good ol' Farmland hotdogs .... 100% guaranteed to contain Mechanically separated chicken, pork, and/or beef.
    $ 0.99 a pack.
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited September 2011
    ...NO MATTER what....a pound of dogs should not cost the same as a pound of 93% beef hamburger. I always wait til they are on sale. It's the principal of the thing. Beef dogs are all the scraps that are left over. Chicken and turkey dogs I wouldn't buy at even a buck a pound. They are rubbery and tasteless in my humble opinion.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2011
    Could be supply and demand. If not many people are buying hot dogs then the price should be higher than if everyone was buying hot dogs.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited September 2011
    Considering whats in a hotdog, they should practically give them away. The price of hotdogs in and of itself is still fairly cheap considering what everything else costs these days. Heck, I tip the pizza delivery guy more than what a pack of dogs costs.

    Want to know how to bring the price of hotdogs down ? Stop buying them.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited September 2011
    dee1949 wrote: »
    ...NO MATTER what....a pound of dogs should not cost the same as a pound of 93% beef hamburger.

    Maybe they are putting the same things into both these days. :eek:
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited September 2011
    Just like call girls.....lips and a$$holes aren't cheap....I guess...ask Charlie Sheen
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2011
    The cost of anything has nothing to do with its quality. Why everyone, espeically the relatively smart people on here, still buys into that myth is amazing to me.

    Capitalism works by people trying to get the most money they possibly can. The people who sell hot dogs will sell them for the maximum amount that people will pay. You're paying it, they're selling it. Period.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited September 2011
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    You do understand they're union ? :rolleyes:


    ANY-WHO .... good ol' Farmland hotdogs .... 100% guaranteed to contain Mechanically separated chicken, pork, and/or beef.
    $ 0.99 a pack.

    What's yer point about Costco being union?:confused: I prefer union over slave manned Wallyworld!
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited September 2011
    Work in a grocery store .... I wish the wages were going up as fast as the price of da hot dogs !!
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  • fbm211
    fbm211 Posts: 1,488
    edited September 2011
    Hey,Lets not forget Nathan's hot dogs.I love em but not at at 5.99.
    I wait till thier buy one get one free then buy 4 packs and that will usually last till the next sale.
    I also second the boars head dogs and not just because I can get em at cost.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited September 2011
    What do you guy's do with the extra buns ? Still can't figure that one out.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,273
    edited September 2011
    tonyb wrote: »
    What do you guy's do with the extra buns ? Still can't figure that one out.

    Serve for 40 dogs:biggrin:
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2011
    It's just bread. Put something else on it. Throw it out. Feed it to the birds. Freeze it for next time.
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  • mole'
    mole' Posts: 3,160
    edited September 2011
    prices have gone up a ton....

    i always look for the sales.

    this last week Vons had a sale on untrimed TriTip for $1.99'lbs limit 2

    i went back and got a few of them.

    i also have a good friend that works at Albertsons, he gave me his second workers rewards discount card. saves anywhere from 2% to 25% off the total bill. it comes in handy....

    and i WILL NOT buy meat from Walmart.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited September 2011
    Meat processing plants, read up, you'd be surprised on where it all comes from,and goes. Not too much difference between brands. A Tyson chicken is the same from a national grocer, or Walmart, so I don't see the negativety on Walmart. A Walmart branded meat however,I have no friggin' idea where that comes from, nor do I want to know.
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  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    edited September 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    The cost of anything has nothing to do with its quality. Why everyone, especially the relatively smart people on here, still buys into that myth is amazing to me.

    Greed works by people trying to get the most money they possibly can. The people who sell hot dogs will sell them for the maximum amount that people will pay. You're paying it, they're selling it. Period.

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2011
    Who gives a crap if it's greed or not? You're the consumer, make your decisions on whatever criteria you feel like.

    Companies are in business to make money, not to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. If you want to start a commune where you and all your friends share processed meat products at a "fair" price, no one's gonna stop you.
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited September 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Who gives a crap if it's greed or not? You're the consumer, make your decisions on whatever criteria you feel like.

    Companies are in business to make money, not to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. If you want to start a commune where you and all your friends share processed meat products at a "fair" price, no one's gonna stop you.
    Yep, and the purpose of a business is to make a profit. That is the motivating factor for creating and running a business. I wouldn't bother starting or running a business if I wasn't going to make profit, and I doubt you would either, Gimpod.
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  • bsoko2
    bsoko2 Posts: 1,449
    edited September 2011
    Quality, Costco!
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited September 2011
    We just got a brand new Wegmans store in our area, that place has prices all over the map! $1.99/lb. ground beef plus cheeses & salami for $19.99/lb. BTW, IIRC Costco sells Nathan's dogs for around $3.00/lb. or thereabouts.:smile:
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  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    edited September 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Who gives a crap if it's greed or not? You're the consumer, make your decisions on whatever criteria you feel like.

    Companies are in business to make money, not to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. If you want to start a commune where you and all your friends share processed meat products at a "fair" price, no one's gonna stop you.
    BeefJerky wrote: »
    Yep, and the purpose of a business is to make a profit. That is the motivating factor for creating and running a business. I wouldn't bother starting or running a business if I wasn't going to make profit, and I doubt you would either, Gimpod.
    I have no problem with someone making a profit. I don't work for free nor do I expect anyone else to but where do you draw the line at what's fair 500%, 1000%, 10000% markup ?.

    You should care about the excessive greed running rampant in this country it's destroying it.

    Back to hot dog's I don't care what they cost I don't eat them they make feel sick.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited September 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    The cost of anything has nothing to do with its quality. Why everyone, espeically the relatively smart people on here, still buys into that myth is amazing to me.

    Capitalism works by people trying to get the most money they possibly can. The people who sell hot dogs will sell them for the maximum amount that people will pay. You're paying it, they're selling it. Period.

    I half way agreed when I first read this but now I don't. It is supply and demand as you illuded to, however, keep in mind that without some form of quality you have little demand, therefore more supply causing a lower price.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited September 2011
    fbm211 wrote: »
    Hey,Lets not forget Nathan's hot dogs.I love em but not at at 5.99.
    I wait till thier buy one get one free then buy 4 packs and that will usually last till the next sale.
    I also second the boars head dogs and not just because I can get em at cost.

    Hebrew National and Nathan's are pretty much what I buy when I have to buy. They're always at a premium price...but then again...we don't eat that many Hot dogs so it's sort of an occasion. Other than that, there are local places that make really great dogs throughout the U.S. Even 'up here' where salt pork and frying is the secret process.

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited September 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »

    Capitalism works by people trying to get the most money they possibly can. The people who sell hot dogs will sell them for the maximum amount that people will pay. You're paying it, they're selling it. Period.

    Ahhhhhh.....if life only worked like we read in a text book. Great book definition of Capitalism, but there is no "pure" form of Capitalism so your black and white responses aren't fully grounded in reality.

    There are other forces that don't allow for pure Capitalism to reach the full, idealized definition you learned about in school.

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited September 2011
    All this profundity is making me sleepy!:rolleyes: Keep it on tubes or tube steaks, otherwise this thread's in the crapper!:biggrin:
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2011
    heiney9 wrote: »
    Ahhhhhh.....if life only worked like we read in a text book. Great book definition of Capitalism, but there is no "pure" form of Capitalism so your black and white responses aren't fully grounded in reality.

    There are other forces that don't allow for pure Capitalism to reach the full, idealized definition you learned about in school.

    H9

    We're still just talking about selling hot dogs right?

    I'm sorry if my one sentence distillation of a hugely complex economic system wasn't perfectly accurate.
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited September 2011
    As someone mentioned I do remember the days of 89cent hot dogs, 89 cent buns, and 99 cent six pack of pepsi or coke. Made for some great 4th of July fun.
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