Just went to Coles - 10.80 a kilo so i went across the road to Spud shed and 5 dollars a kilo.
I remember a year ago where you could get tomato's for around 3 dollars a kilo at Coles.
There's your 4 percent inflation.....
5 dollars at Spudshed is still a lot more than they were selling them a year ago where you could buy them for around 2 dollars a kilo.
Shop around.
The low inflation rate is a joke.
Not sure what you are trying to say but here is the Coles link.
As i said 10-80 a kilo for loose tomato's which is daylight robbery.
Browse Tomatoes | Coles
I thought i already told you guys that you only need roughly 250 geckos 250 skinks a few hundred crabs and half a stack of ply to imprison them all in and a bunch of solar gardening lights. You just jam those all in the ground inside the pit that attracts all the bugs for them to eat and all you gotto do is dress up as an eagle and scare them then rake up the tails the crabs eat whatever tails you dont and you just rip the claws off when theyre nice and rusty.
What about this dont yas understand? Do i need to draw a picture? Throw a few starfish in there if ya got fussy kids tell em its chicken
Real rap tho the tomato growers in australia all live in grass mansions absolutely beutiful houses ive never seen anything so well manicured in my life. Got fed beers as a kid while getting shown around the biggest grower in countrys joint bags and bags of snowpeas too kinda funny i havent been able to afford them since from free as a child to out of reach as an adult
But yeah dont eat the bugs theyre for the lizards and crustaceans just eat those guys instead its not rocket science they all grow back making me a autarkic **** talking machine 
all hail the future
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Not sure what you are trying to say but here is the Coles link.
As i said 10-80 a kilo for loose tomato's which is daylight robbery.
Browse Tomatoes | Coles
Do you genuinenly have a problem posting links? None of your links ever appear and I thought it was just the dodgy ones, but posting a link to Coles should be fine. But there is nothing.
Or did the Mods somehow limit your ability to post links to deter you from linking to the dodgy ones?
If you haven't noticed, none of your 'links' ever appear as links and no one can access whatever it is you are trying to link to.
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Not sure what you are trying to say but here is the Coles link.
As i said 10-80 a kilo for loose tomato's which is daylight robbery.
Browse Tomatoes | Coles
The graph was to show that tomato prices vary seasonally and, like most horticultural commodities, trending up. Much of this is due to the steadily rising cost of fossil fuels and fertiliser, as well as climate change making some agricultural regions unsustainable. For example, the minimum rainfall required to grow wheat has moved around 50 km to the west.
Ironically the potato marketing board worked to stabilise prices to protect growers and consumers. Spudshed worked tirelessly to shut that bureaucracy down. Now the number potato growers is WA is greatly reduced.
Imagine what you might learn if you read MSM or listened to actual experts instead of inane drivel?!
e.g. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/why-aussie-produce-is-more-expensive-than-canned/103401334
Let me get this right and i hope all the others on here get it right too.
The exorbitant cost of tomatoes is in part due to climate change.
And we should all read from the MSM and listen to the experts.
I just hope japie pays attention to your advice.
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Select to expand quotePcdefender said..
Let me get this right and i hope all the others on here get it right too.
The exorbitant cost of tomatoes is in part due to climate change.
And we should all read from the MSM and listen to the experts.
I just hope japie pays attention to your advice.
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I can see tomatoes at Coles by xmas costing 15 to 20 dollars a kilo. There's your 4 percent inflation lol.
Now if you had said a year or two back Coles would be charging nearly 11 dollars a kilo you would be called a wild CT by the usual suspects on here.
Climate change - you simply can't make this **** up.
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I can see tomatoes at Coles by xmas costing 15 to 20 dollars a kilo. There's your 4 percent inflation lol.
Now if you had said a year or two back Coles would be charging nearly 11 dollars a kilo you would be called a wild CT by the usual suspects on here.
Climate change - you simply can't make this **** up.
Don't be like that, making **** up is your special skill.
www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/data/weekly-commodity-price-update/australian-horticulture-prices
Select to expand quoteremery said..
Would I have done better buying Tomatoes over Bitcoin in 2016?
Wait until you see the grain production estimates for WA this year. (spoiler, less than half of 2023)
Select to expand quotemyscreenname said..remery said..
Would I have done better buying Tomatoes over Bitcoin in 2016?
Hodl drs and Buy the tomato .... dip
I just got a rates notice last week.
My rates have gone up 4.5%... because of 'the cost of living'.
Seriously, does no one look at this and see why this is happening? Everybody is putting things up in price because of 'the cost of living' as a justification. You know what; that is what is creating the cost of living.
I would be far more accepting if councils turned around and said 'operational costs this last year went up 4.5% so we need to adjust rates accordingly'. Instead they are pre-empting it which creates the problem.
Did everyone's wages go up 4.5% this year to compensate for 'cost of living'?
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I just got a rates notice last week.
My rates have gone up 4.5%... because of 'the cost of living'.
Seriously, does no one look at this and see why this is happening? Everybody is putting things up in price because of 'the cost of living' as a justification. You know what; that is what is creating the cost of living.
I would be far more accepting if councils turned around and said 'operational costs this last year went up 4.5% so we need to adjust rates accordingly'. Instead they are pre-empting it which creates the problem.
Did everyone's wages go up 4.5% this year to compensate for 'cost of living'?
That's just awful Karen.
Select to expand quoteShifu said..
Been out of town for a while mate?
On the other side of the plate perhaps 
Select to expand quotekato said..Shifu said..
Been out of town for a while mate?
On the other side of the plate perhaps
Where did you get Shifu's post from? Am I filtering him too? That must make three.
No point creating another topic with the same name if there is already one there. I am not bothered discussing right wing gender issues anymore and myscreename and crack and talk are no doubt sending each other poems.
Does no one see why we have this cost of living problem? Are we as a population just going to merrily go along until we realise that housing prices are just a ponzi scheme and now things are a little bit unfair for the current generation?
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Where did you get Shifu's post from? Am I filtering him too? That must make three.
No point creating another topic with the same name if there is already one there. I am not bothered discussing right wing gender issues anymore and myscreename and crack and talk are no doubt sending each other poems.
Does no one see why we have this cost of living problem? Are we as a population just going to merrily go along until we realise that housing prices are just a ponzi scheme and now things are a little bit unfair for the current generation?
Interesting, I bought in '82, then bought and sold in '88.
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Interesting, I bought in '82, then bought and sold in '88.
I give up. What does the graph show and what is your point regarding it?
I bought in 2001 and was lucky that at that point interest rates were low and prices still were. My parents bought in about 1987 and interest rates were around 17% at some point.
^not making a point. Other than things a cyclic. Soon after I bought my first place interest rates went up to 17 percent. Sure it was a struggle but nowhere near the struggle young people are faced with today with a need about 4 times the average income to pay for an average house. Having said that, I think there are a number of expenses that young people today see as "essential" that we saw as "luxuries".
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Does no one see why we have this cost of living problem? Are we as a population just going to merrily go along until we realise that housing prices are just a ponzi scheme and now things are a little bit unfair for the current generation?
Instead of living a few blocks from the beach, maybe consider moving to a cheaper area a few suburbs away from the beach. That will help with the cost of living and your rate rise of 4.5%
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Select to expand quoteFormulaNova said..
...My rates have gone up 4.5%... because of 'the cost of living'....
Is the rise because of the increased value of the property or the rate at which rates are charged on that value. Or both ?
Funny, eggs and chicken still seem to be pretty cheap, but I haven't been able to find any bugs to replace the crazy expensive lamb.
I tried the local ALDI, thinking with their slogan "good, different" I'd be sure to find some. But still nothing.
Looks like I'll have to wait until I next holiday in Asia before I can get grasshopper
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Funny, eggs and chicken still seem to be pretty cheap, but I haven't been able to find any bugs to replace the crazy expensive lamb.
I tried the local ALDI, thinking with their slogan "good, different" I'd be sure to find some. But still nothing.
Looks like I'll have to wait until I next holiday in Asia before I can get grasshopper
hah! I think PM is buying it all in advance as he knows it is going to be the next big thing 
I saw that they eat tarantulas in Cambodia. They can have them. I guess if its a choice of vegetarian or tarantula-eater I think I know my choice,
Select to expand quotemyscreenname said..FormulaNova said..
Does no one see why we have this cost of living problem? Are we as a population just going to merrily go along until we realise that housing prices are just a ponzi scheme and now things are a little bit unfair for the current generation?
Instead of living a few blocks from the beach, maybe consider moving to a cheaper area a few suburbs away from the beach. That will help with the cost of living and your rate rise of 4.5%
I hope I don't come across as a bitter person like you are sounding. I am a generally easy-going happy person in real life, even though it may or may not come across online.
As for rates, the example was for a house I have in Katanning WA. I came across an older rates notice from 2022/2023 where they said that they were putting up the rates by 5.4% due to 'cost of living'. I think the theme is 'we will keep raising them ahead of inflation because we can'.
Still, I am happier with that than when I got a rates notice from Sutherland council in NSW. Their approach to Covid and all the job losses and problems people were having was written on their rates notice as something like "well, we know lots of people out there are doing it tough, but we can't help with anything, and you can contact these other government groups"... Which was doubly annoying when a work colleague did a sales pitch there and was told that "we have lots of money here to spend on IT at the moment".
As for rates where I am living, like most places it doesn't vary much across the entire area and is based on land value or rental value.
The point I was trying to make though was that if inflation is such a big problem, why are all these places outpacing it by increasing their costs in advance of inflation? Everyone seems to have their hands out 'because of inflation' but are actually causing it.
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Having said that, I think there are a number of expenses that young people today see as "essential" that we saw as "luxuries".
You know, I can't say I blame younger people. If you look around and think that houses are $1.5 million and I am earning $100k before tax, is it ever going to happen? They seem to be going up everyday.
If I were stuck in that trap I would probably think that buying a new car, or the latest iphone, or eating out more was justified as house ownership was beyond reach and my rent kept going up.
I think most people here on this forum are older so will be out of that problem, but I don't think it is good for society to have this separation.
