Hey! I'm still waiting for the cost of my groceries to go down, and my $5000 DOGE refund... I could care duck all about a golden phone!

Indeed. Around here, fuel prices are finally on the way down. Getting
close to where they were before COVID. That was supposedly what was
keeping food, and other merchandise, prices up. However, IIRC, fuel prices were the reason before the tariffs started so who knows? :(

Mike


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Ha ha.. Love the dig on the POLITICS echo, I am not the only one who prefers the discussions in this ECHO, which for the most part seems to be more objective and almost always start with the actual news source of what the OP wishes to discuss. Vs. the Vitrolic subjective responses that basically all say, "I don't care what evidence you give me, I believe what I believe and nothing will change my mind, and you're stupid and I'm not.." I was married to someone with that mindset for 13 years, and learned to just immediately tun
out...

"There's no point in talking when there's nobody listening."

To be fair, the subject matter is supposed to be a little different. This
echo is about Conspiracies, and things that could be related to them, or
fuel for them, etc... AFAICT, that includes topics that might, and might
not, be political.

Then again, that difference does not prevent posters in the "politics"
echoes from being civil and backing up their opinions with documentation.

Mike

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Hey! I'm still waiting for the cost of my groceries to go down, and my $50

>> DOGE refund... I could care duck all about a golden phone!

Indeed. Around here, fuel prices are finally on the way down. Getting

>close to where they were before COVID. That was supposedly what was
>keeping food, and other merchandise, prices up. However, IIRC, fuel
>prices were the reason before the tariffs started so who knows? :(

When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and the cost
increase on your can of beans would go up by half a cent, if that.
But the stores all take advantage of the 'bad news' and use it to
inflate prices to ridiculous levels, often up by 50% or more, with
less chance of people complaining because they have heard the bad
news and blame it on someone else..

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Indeed. Around here, fuel prices are finally on the way down. Getting

>close to where they were before COVID. That was supposedly what was
>keeping food, and other merchandise, prices up. However, IIRC, fuel
>prices were the reason before the tariffs started so who knows? :(

When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and the cost
increase on your can of beans would go up by half a cent, if that.
But the stores all take advantage of the 'bad news' and use it to
inflate prices to ridiculous levels, often up by 50% or more, with
less chance of people complaining because they have heard the bad
news and blame it on someone else..

It doesn't help when all the news channels have talking heads on telling
people that the increase in fuel prices will cause food, etc., to "go up by
X%" -- and "X%" always comes out to much higher than half-a-cent.

Mike


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Hello Rob!

When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and
the cost increase on your can of beans would go up by half
a cent, if that. But the stores all take advantage of the
'bad news' and use it to inflate prices to ridiculous
levels, often up by 50% or more, with less chance of
people complaining because they have heard the bad news
and blame it on someone else..

I am seeing ridiculous increases on books.

Pocketbooks/mass-market are up from 11.99 to 14.99

Many hardcovers typically between 29.99 to 35.99 are now over
40$

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's
the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.




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August Abolins wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's
the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.

Of course, they're passing the profits onto the authors to offset the
higher costs of living, right?


right?



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Hello Kurt!

** On Monday 12.01.26 - 08:59, you wrote to me:

August Abolins wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's
the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.

Of course, they're passing the profits onto the authors to offset the
higher costs of living, right?

right?

Beyond the contracted "advance", I would think that authors
*DO* get an increase factored in. Afterall, their "royalty"
portion is probably based on the Sales $.

The book industry in Canada is fondly subsidized by the
government.

Cost-of-Living is not 20%-50% within one or even three years.
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When you think about it, you could double fuel costs and the cost

>> increase on your can of beans would go up by half a cent, if that.
>> But the stores all take advantage of the 'bad news' and use it to
>> inflate prices to ridiculous levels, often up by 50% or more, with
>> less chance of people complaining because they have heard the bad
>> news and blame it on someone else..

It doesn't help when all the news channels have talking heads on telling

>people that the increase in fuel prices will cause food, etc., to "go up by
>X%" -- and "X%" always comes out to much higher than half-a-cent.

Yes, and even those numbers are an average that covers high priced
stores meaning, people like me who have to shop sales at lower
priced store chains find that when they say prices have gome up
by 8%, I find the things I buy have gone up by 50% or 100% or are
no longer available in quantities that are not sold out within a
few hours (or minutes) of the week's sale starting..

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I am seeing ridiculous increases on books.

Pocketbooks/mass-market are up from 11.99 to 14.99

Many hardcovers typically between 29.99 to 35.99 are now over

>40$

But it's not necessarily "the stores" doing it. In my case it's

>the wholesaler raising *my* price based on their their MSRP.

Would most of those be coming in from the USA ?
Current Trade issues with them may be influencing that too..

Quite a day today. Like usual my shopping day was the worst weather
in several days. It didn't look too bad but the slushy stuff on
the roads was weirdly slippery even where not very deep..

I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
went out for 5 1/2 hours, about 75 minutes longer than their
repair estimate. Good thing it was still fairly warm (2c 36f)
today so that it 'only' dropped to about 11c (52f) in here so
I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of clothing,
later reading a book by flashlight under the covers in bed,
the bedroom holding heat in better than the rest of the house..

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Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
went out for 5 1/2 hours, about 75 minutes longer than their
repair estimate. Good thing it was still fairly warm (2c 36f)
today so that it 'only' dropped to about 11c (52f) in here so
I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of clothing,
later reading a book by flashlight under the covers in bed,
the bedroom holding heat in better than the rest of the house..

It seemed to me that refrigerators used to be good, unpowered, for
around 12-14 hours if you didn't open it during a power outage. My new
fridge manual says 4 hours for the fridge, 12-14 hours for the freezer.

We live in an area prone to falling trees, and have had our share of
outages. I've resorted to running an inverter off of my car, running an extension cord from the carport to my kitchen, and running the fridge
every couple of hours. The nice thing is that our new hot water heater
is tankless, and I can run it off the same inverter - the electonics
need power, but the heating is all gas.



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It doesn't help when all the news channels have talking heads on telling

>people that the increase in fuel prices will cause food, etc., to "go up by
>X%" -- and "X%" always comes out to much higher than half-a-cent.

Yes, and even those numbers are an average that covers high priced
stores meaning, people like me who have to shop sales at lower
priced store chains find that when they say prices have gome up
by 8%, I find the things I buy have gone up by 50% or 100% or are
no longer available in quantities that are not sold out within a
few hours (or minutes) of the week's sale starting..

Yeah, there are some things that I buy that nearly doubled in price 3+
years ago that have yet to start back down. I do a lot of shopping at
Kroger, which is where that happened. At Wal-mart, the increase was
less... maybe 20-40%... but the price there has also yet to go back down.

Mike

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Hello Rob Mccart!

** On Wednesday 14.01.26 - 08:05, Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

Would most of those be coming in from the USA ? Current
Trade issues with them may be influencing that too..

Most are coming from my Canadian distributors. Yet, many books
are marked: printed in USA or China.

Quite a day today. Like usual my shopping day was the
worst weather in several days. It didn't look too bad but
the slushy stuff on the roads was weirdly slippery even
where not very deep..

It seemed to be a big meltdown today. But that left the
backroads as a big bumpy mess. I happened to be following
behind a snowplow on my road this morning - the ride was
relatively smooth. But coming home tonight, I really had to
slow down to under 30km-20km/hr to minimize the bumpy racket
the wheels were having.

I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
went out for 5 1/2 hours, ...

... I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of
clothing, later reading a book by flashlight under the
covers in bed, the bedroom holding heat in better than the
rest of the house..

Yep.. when the hydro goes out here, all "productivity" stops.
I don't think I have a working flashlight anymore - I got fed
up with trying to keep the batteries fresh. I'll just use the
phone "flashlight" if I need to illuminate a path in the house.

But I do have one floorlamp feeding off a UPS (that I can
silence when the alert kicks in) ..and with just an LED bulb,
it runs for about 4hrs. The UPS just has a basic 12v 9A batt.
Maybe consider something like that so that you don't have
manipulate a flashlight.






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