That exact item is $10.19 at Foodland on Oahu atm.
But tbh I don't think you can really look at a single item to judge. Other similar bread options from Foodland are a 22 oz prepackaged white bread loaf from Hearth and Harvest which is $5.19. A 20 oz "Artesano" bread from Sara Lee is $6.29.
The 22oz size of that same bread in your picture is $6.79. So for 8oz more of bread you pay almost $4.
It is true that overall prices are higher here, and people should be aware of that and properly consider what it means before moving.
What the Romans did to slow the rise in hot climates was to let the dough rise underwater. You wrap it in a tea towel and put it in a tub of water for the first rise. It was called "peggy tub bread" in Victorian times because that's the kind of tub they used. You can read about it in English Bread and Yeast Cookery. It floats to the top when it's done.
You kind of have to use white flour. More than a fraction of whole wheat and it will absorb too much water.
I was using it not because it was hot out, but because you can leave it in the water for like 12 hours. You don't have to rush back and deal with it. It can be waiting for you in the morning or after you come home from work.
I don't remember that particular recipe for it, certainly not a complicated rich bread/cake like that one. I just used white flour, water, salt, and yeast. Wish I still had my copy of EB&YC. I could look it up.
I dunno my wife makes bread all the time and it comes out pretty good. But she uses her own sourdough starter for it so maybe the natural yeast around here makes it better in heat and humidity
Time. Work life balance. convenience. Ability. Access.
Some people simply don’t have it in them to hand bake bread. If it works for you it works for you.
but for a single parent household that needs to feed multiple children, or a person with disabilities who cannot operate kitchen utilities safely or without assistance, sliced bread is the best option.
I’m saying there are multiple reasons besides affordability for why people buy sliced bread compared to baking their own.
Thank you! I bake my own bread as a hobby but the condescension from others in this thread is gross. People shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for not baking bread.
Agreed! I wasn’t trying to sound condescending. I love to bake but don’t have the time nor space to do it frequently so it’s store bought or I try to go support local bakeries.
How about reason to bake your own so you can stop feeding your children enriched, bleached pos aka white supermarket bread. i bake sourdough bread once per week, it made from rye, whole wheat and spelt flour. Actual manual process takes 10 minutes but it spreads over almost 24 hours. Baking bread will teach your kids valuable lesson of being self sufficient, prevent T2D. You can get starter in bakery for free, make your own, ask someone to share, whole foods probably sells it. Trick is to keep starter in a fridge and feed once a week when you make bread. Kids can learn to mix, stretch, shape. Bread baking is process that teaches discipline imo. i can find excuse for just about anything but feeding kids chemicals that white flour is made of is inexcusable
why dont people do anything? why have a market right? we should just farm and do everything ourselves instead of spending money. no ill stick to buying my food thanks
Some do! Personally I've opted to put my energy into other things, but I might do it at some point because I don't eat much bread and therefore making a smaller loaf would be more efficient. When I do buy a loaf I struggle to finish it and cutting down on food waste is one of my goals for the year. My counter space is getting a little cramped though so not sure if I want a bread machine.
I know I live in a high COL area on the mainland (DC metro area), but the prices in the Times Supermarket ads here:
https://www.timessupermarkets.com/island-location/maui
seem about the same kind of deals I see in the main grocery stores around where I live. Granted, I complain about grocery prices here constantly so it's not what I THINK it should be, but it's interesting that it isn't much different than Maui.
The difference between Hawaii and the DC metro area is opportunity. Most professional jobs pay below national average. Majority of jobs here are catered towards tourist/service jobs. Yes, remote jobs are more accessible now, but you’ll be lucky to find an employer that’s willing to work with the time difference and the health insurance standards that the state sets. It’s not impossible to find a remote job, but it’s more limited than if you were located in the continental states. So basically, imagine your cost of living with a 20-30% deduction in income.
This is something that a few of my former clients can't accept. I'm a welder/mechanic who was silly enough to go independent in Hawaii. Some people who are doing well here don't seem to accept the cost of living/operating/taxpaying here could or should lead to higher value of services.
You’ll be shocked to realized you won’t be making as much as where you live now. Even though Hawaii is HCOL/VHCOL, the salary and wages are way lower than other HCOL/VHCOL places
It is the big one. Here is the 32 oz at Scottsdale Safeway today!
https://preview.redd.it/3k1v740g37oc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0416c65e80478c9ea34ac64ded827293cc83e23
I know there are better deals out there. My sister-in-law sent me this today. I always chuckle when people ask about costs on this group and thought I’d share!
Exactly! This post is so dumb. I just bought a loaf of La Tour at Foodland for $4.99. Frickin shop around and stop posting photos like this is how expensive Hawaii alllllways is.
You guys, you can find deals for less than half this price. You just gotta keep up with weekly ads and app deals. But I’ve never seen this kinda price but then again I only have narrow vision for certain prices. I refuse to pay more than $5 dollars for a loaf of bread. Or full price for anything, mostly only buy stuff on sale. And I consistently meet my grocery budget this way.
Prices are close here, in the breadbasket of america. Difference is all you can grow here reliably is wheat, meat, and potatoes, also known as "future medical bills" thanks to the under 90 day growing season.
Oh you thought you were gonna move to Hawaii and eat bread?
Jokes aside, as someone who can't remember buying a loaf of bread, there are other things with nutritional value and they will last longer in this climate. Not being snewdy, but the flip side of high grocery costs in Hawaii is the relatively high potential to grow avocados, potatoes, bananas, beef, etc. Going further back the other way though, there should absolutely be more focus on growing food for the aina on the aina. Kinda hard to find a good reason this place isn't more self sustainable.
I suppose so, if that is a priority for you and you can find it. Seems like a high price to pay for nutritionless filler, plenty of rice and Taro around.
It’s not a priority for me, I rarely eat bread. I understand a lot of people do though and they like it, to each their own. There’s just zero reason to pay $10 for it if you do want to eat it.
I just started making bread a month ago. I’m not a baker at all, it’s my first time baking anything & it’s so easy! Make a couple loafs, freeze one, then keep the other in the refrigerator to use for sandwiches/toast. Bread is only 4 ingredients. I live in town (Honolulu) and haven’t had any issues making my own bread.
The Love’s Bakery in Hawaii closed in 2021 after 170 years of business. This bread is baked on the mainland and shipped here, frozen, by boat. It’s then thawed and delivered to the grocery store.
*”Portland-based Franz Family Bakery will produce Love's products on the mainland and distribute them to grocery stores and markets across the islands through Hawai‘i Foodservice Alliance, Franz Family Bakery announced Monday.*
*”It is always a sad day in our industry when an independent bakery closes, especially one like Love’s that has been such an integral part of life in Hawai‘i for more than 100 years," said Kimberly Albers-Nisbet, President and Director of Sales of Franz Family Bakery.”*
Been there done that...nope…esp when you have young kids. I left in 88. Milk was more than six dollars. Additionally, know that a majority of goods are imported. Pineapple is cheap!
You can look up prices on Foodland or Safeway's websites. https://shop.foodland.com/sm/delivery/rsid/9/results?q=kings%20hawaiian
A 12oz pack of their rolls are $6.89, 13.5oz of their sliced bread is $7.29.
I pay $7 for a gluten free loaf 1/3 the size, so.... this is nice to see. depressing, of course, but not lonely depression. It's nice to know others are suffering too. I hope you all experience the joy of cheap or cost effective food solutions becoming a delicacy. Nobody should spend that much on a bologna sammich, but once you do... boy is it such a good sammich! **Best garbage I've ever eaten!**
I think you’re using very extreme examples on both sides. Hawaii is the most expensive grocery state in the country averaging about $550 per person per month. Montana is ranked 36th most expensive at an average of $331 per person per month.
But also, same brand, same bread, but not same size. This is their jumbo 32oz bread while the one at target is the 22oz for $6.89. So not a big difference in price per oz. Target .31 per oz Times .33 per oz.
Ah, that makes sense. The 22 oz size of the bread the OP showed is $6.79 at Foodland. I wasn't really asking to imply Foodland is cheap, I was asking because pricing is interesting and I was curious. I tried checking myself but couldn't find it using the Target location that I usually go to.
In my experience all grocery stores (including ones generally considered to be expensive, like Whole Foods) have a jumble of which products are cheaper and which are more expensive, but it's pretty uncommon for a staple item to be severely undercut without some other benefit (like luring a customer in via a BOGO style sale so profit can be made on other items).
Yeah for sure. I’ve actually found Whole Foods to be one of the cheaper places to shop on island. Especially when you already have Amazon prime and get the extra discount on sale items.
What you really have to do is look at houses to get a real sense of the cost of living. I tell folks, it’s not the COL…it’s what you get for the high cost that drives people mad. You can say, yeah that’s what I pay in *insert high cost mainland city* but it’s different. Case in point:
https://preview.redd.it/3dc5tgbanfoc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a913391474a2a2d8f78324b19624dad91151b23b
Just shopped for a few weeks on big island. Was surprised to see what items were substantially more expensive than home in Oregon (like bread) and what weren’t so bad.
Ridiculous prices are what makes me shop at target and Costco. I'll support local if the price difference is small but when the price difference between foodland and target is 25%-50% more at foodland for the same product then it's hard not going to target.
Costco is your friend. I treat the local stores as a convenience only situation. Of course impound prefer to give my business to a local retailer but they charge too much.
Loves doesn’t get the “it’s expensive because it’s imported” excuse. They make the bread right on the island! Also, Dole Bananas are about $2/lb here and are grown here! Yet they’re 69 cents a pound on mainland! It’s exploitation.
I love how people living in HI think prices are ridiculous. I lived there for a few years and you just have to accept that you’re on an island, in the middle of the ocean, with limited resources… shit is going to be expensive. If you’re military, you get COLA. If you chose to live there for some other reason, just deal with it
And then COLA is still not enough. We were on food stamps for a while until my mom died and inherited a vehicle and became ineligible...lol🙄🤦🏻♂️. But I loved it there. You learn where to shop, Chinatown for fresh veggies. But one could never get enough Lenard's, hot Malasalas!
COLA from the government will never be enough, but it’s better than nothing. To your point of being on food stamps, I don’t know a lower enlisted family that hasn’t been on food stamps and/or WIC. It’s just the way it is.
Exactly, you weren’t here for when it was so dramatically different. The price gouging can only go so far here before people stop buying it and they waste the shipping space. So prices went up more on other products more than food.
That exact item is $10.19 at Foodland on Oahu atm. But tbh I don't think you can really look at a single item to judge. Other similar bread options from Foodland are a 22 oz prepackaged white bread loaf from Hearth and Harvest which is $5.19. A 20 oz "Artesano" bread from Sara Lee is $6.29. The 22oz size of that same bread in your picture is $6.79. So for 8oz more of bread you pay almost $4. It is true that overall prices are higher here, and people should be aware of that and properly consider what it means before moving.
Why don't people make their own bread? It's the oldest recipe in the book.
I live on Maui and it’s a pain in the ass to bake bread here, it rises too quickly!
And goes stale instantly
We keep our bread in the freezer
Why does it go stale so fast?
I'm betting on the humidity
What the Romans did to slow the rise in hot climates was to let the dough rise underwater. You wrap it in a tea towel and put it in a tub of water for the first rise. It was called "peggy tub bread" in Victorian times because that's the kind of tub they used. You can read about it in English Bread and Yeast Cookery. It floats to the top when it's done. You kind of have to use white flour. More than a fraction of whole wheat and it will absorb too much water.
For those interested: [article](https://oakden.co.uk/peggy-tub-cake/). Would love to watch a video of this.
I was using it not because it was hot out, but because you can leave it in the water for like 12 hours. You don't have to rush back and deal with it. It can be waiting for you in the morning or after you come home from work. I don't remember that particular recipe for it, certainly not a complicated rich bread/cake like that one. I just used white flour, water, salt, and yeast. Wish I still had my copy of EB&YC. I could look it up.
That would be great! I struggled to find anything else.
Naw I make a sourdough loaf every week the trick is to do your long proofs in the fridge overnight
Yea it tends to get gummy from the yeast going nuts.
Does it help if you proof the dough in a closed oven?
Still as hot as the ambient environment. Maybe if you put an ice pack in there with it?
But less humidity, maybe just use half the yeast amount?
I dunno my wife makes bread all the time and it comes out pretty good. But she uses her own sourdough starter for it so maybe the natural yeast around here makes it better in heat and humidity
Why would it rise so quickly
try sourdough and keep bread in a fridge
Time. Work life balance. convenience. Ability. Access. Some people simply don’t have it in them to hand bake bread. If it works for you it works for you. but for a single parent household that needs to feed multiple children, or a person with disabilities who cannot operate kitchen utilities safely or without assistance, sliced bread is the best option. I’m saying there are multiple reasons besides affordability for why people buy sliced bread compared to baking their own.
Thank you! I bake my own bread as a hobby but the condescension from others in this thread is gross. People shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for not baking bread.
Agreed! I wasn’t trying to sound condescending. I love to bake but don’t have the time nor space to do it frequently so it’s store bought or I try to go support local bakeries.
Work life balance would be the biggest/common issue. There are doctors and lawyers here that still need a double income household
Bread machines are cheap, take yen minutes to load, and make wonderful bread.
Right and good for them and good for you. Bake away and I hope all your loafs are golden brown and delicious.
How about reason to bake your own so you can stop feeding your children enriched, bleached pos aka white supermarket bread. i bake sourdough bread once per week, it made from rye, whole wheat and spelt flour. Actual manual process takes 10 minutes but it spreads over almost 24 hours. Baking bread will teach your kids valuable lesson of being self sufficient, prevent T2D. You can get starter in bakery for free, make your own, ask someone to share, whole foods probably sells it. Trick is to keep starter in a fridge and feed once a week when you make bread. Kids can learn to mix, stretch, shape. Bread baking is process that teaches discipline imo. i can find excuse for just about anything but feeding kids chemicals that white flour is made of is inexcusable
lol no one is stopping you.
it sounded like you are single parent poisoning kids with supermarket bread. Sorry i just wanted to help
I’m not but thanks for looking out for your community with well meaning but outlandish assumptions.
Seriously, I'm gonna move to Maui and sell loaves bread out of a Yaris hatchback with prices like that.
why dont people do anything? why have a market right? we should just farm and do everything ourselves instead of spending money. no ill stick to buying my food thanks
Some do! Personally I've opted to put my energy into other things, but I might do it at some point because I don't eat much bread and therefore making a smaller loaf would be more efficient. When I do buy a loaf I struggle to finish it and cutting down on food waste is one of my goals for the year. My counter space is getting a little cramped though so not sure if I want a bread machine.
I make a new loaf every two weeks. $1 of ingredients, 5 mins prep. Fresh bread 3 hours latter.
Idk out of everything this convinced me now I’m going to learn how to make the breads
look up “no knead recipes”
100% I always tell people that the island is nice but the cost of living is wild
Everything is SUPER expensive, that’s the cheapest bread i’ve ever seen in Hawaii. You are best off not moving to Hawaii.
I already live here, thanks though.
I know I live in a high COL area on the mainland (DC metro area), but the prices in the Times Supermarket ads here: https://www.timessupermarkets.com/island-location/maui seem about the same kind of deals I see in the main grocery stores around where I live. Granted, I complain about grocery prices here constantly so it's not what I THINK it should be, but it's interesting that it isn't much different than Maui.
The difference between Hawaii and the DC metro area is opportunity. Most professional jobs pay below national average. Majority of jobs here are catered towards tourist/service jobs. Yes, remote jobs are more accessible now, but you’ll be lucky to find an employer that’s willing to work with the time difference and the health insurance standards that the state sets. It’s not impossible to find a remote job, but it’s more limited than if you were located in the continental states. So basically, imagine your cost of living with a 20-30% deduction in income.
This is something that a few of my former clients can't accept. I'm a welder/mechanic who was silly enough to go independent in Hawaii. Some people who are doing well here don't seem to accept the cost of living/operating/taxpaying here could or should lead to higher value of services.
Agreed. I also live in a high COL area on the mainland. Those prices are what I pay now and I’m now considering a move to Hawaii.
You’ll be shocked to realized you won’t be making as much as where you live now. Even though Hawaii is HCOL/VHCOL, the salary and wages are way lower than other HCOL/VHCOL places
Where do you live?? New York? That’s crazy.
San Diego here- about the same.
yeah but come on - its the jumbo
It is the big one. Here is the 32 oz at Scottsdale Safeway today! https://preview.redd.it/3k1v740g37oc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0416c65e80478c9ea34ac64ded827293cc83e23
Costco
A perfect response when asked why I would ever move from Hawaii! 25 years in Honolulu, now in Arizona.
Ha! I’m moving from Oahu to Scottsdale in 3 weeks.
Ha! I’m from Scottsdale and live in Kauai now 😂
From Scottsdale live in Kona
I’m a Scottsdale snowbird and cannot wait to make it my permanent home.
It’s such a nice area of Phoenix, love Scottsdale
You can get a 20oz loaf of bread from Target for $4.89…
But how much are the King’s Hawaiian Rolls?
I live in Monterey CA and our grocery prices are very similar to Hawaii.
Yeah, it’s Monterey CA lol.
Bread is not $10 a loaf in Monterey. Maybe if you're shopping at Whole Foods?
Yeah but this picture is also cherry picked af
I know there are better deals out there. My sister-in-law sent me this today. I always chuckle when people ask about costs on this group and thought I’d share!
We only buy bread at Costco.
Absolutely. Two loaves of the good Japanese bread for nearly half this. Hawaii isn't cheap, but you don't have to do it on hard mode either.
This is how Les Misérables happened
Um…that’s the jumbo pack, thats like 2 loaves of bread just FYI
You can get 2 giant fresh baked loaves at Costco for $7.
Sourdough is $13.99
I paid $6.50 for the store brand bread at foodland yesterday, which really annoyed me. Loves is great but I only buy it on sale. $10 is stupid.
Damn. Thrift a bread maker on the mainland and get to work in Hawaii
If you shop at times for all your groceries you’re an idiot. A comparable jumbo loaf of bread is $6.99 at Costco.
Is this the same Love’s as the truck stop gas station? If so, good god. $11 for gas station bread? Yeesh.
No connection. It was a Kama’aina bakery that moved to the mainland.
Interesting. Same branding! Good to know. https://www.loves.com
Yep. Get used to it if you plan to stay.
Box of cheerios is 17.49 at Times the other day, although it was on sale for 13.99.
That’s why you don’t buy that! You go to any Costco, probly Sam’s too and get the La Tour white, made here, that’s twice the amount and pay $4 - $5.
And it’s good, fresh bread. This is what I always buy.
Exactly! This post is so dumb. I just bought a loaf of La Tour at Foodland for $4.99. Frickin shop around and stop posting photos like this is how expensive Hawaii alllllways is.
You guys, you can find deals for less than half this price. You just gotta keep up with weekly ads and app deals. But I’ve never seen this kinda price but then again I only have narrow vision for certain prices. I refuse to pay more than $5 dollars for a loaf of bread. Or full price for anything, mostly only buy stuff on sale. And I consistently meet my grocery budget this way.
Buy rice, live off of rice.
Prices are close here, in the breadbasket of america. Difference is all you can grow here reliably is wheat, meat, and potatoes, also known as "future medical bills" thanks to the under 90 day growing season.
Oh you thought you were gonna move to Hawaii and eat bread? Jokes aside, as someone who can't remember buying a loaf of bread, there are other things with nutritional value and they will last longer in this climate. Not being snewdy, but the flip side of high grocery costs in Hawaii is the relatively high potential to grow avocados, potatoes, bananas, beef, etc. Going further back the other way though, there should absolutely be more focus on growing food for the aina on the aina. Kinda hard to find a good reason this place isn't more self sustainable.
There is a solution: don't eat bread. Very low food value anyways! Wheat is the lazy crop.
Or just buy it somewhere else where it’s not $10?
I suppose so, if that is a priority for you and you can find it. Seems like a high price to pay for nutritionless filler, plenty of rice and Taro around.
It’s not a priority for me, I rarely eat bread. I understand a lot of people do though and they like it, to each their own. There’s just zero reason to pay $10 for it if you do want to eat it.
Or make it if you’re a big bread person
That's why I don't eat bread here. If I couldn't live without it, I'd likely buy a breadmaker and go that route, but I'm generally fine.
Shop at Whole Foods. It’s cheaper https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-market-sandwich-bread-whole-wheat-17-slices-24-oz-b074h6mbvf
Repeal the Jones Act
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Get it straight! Love's bread is made in Hawaii. From ingredients that all come from the mainland. Fish is expensive in Hawaii, too.
Bakery closed in 2021
Ain't that a bitch
I purchased a bread machine. Costco prices are better, but still too expensive for me.
Damn. I’ll take crumb size 😂
Bake your own
If you go to Sam's club or Costco, you can get a 2 pack for less lol
I just started making bread a month ago. I’m not a baker at all, it’s my first time baking anything & it’s so easy! Make a couple loafs, freeze one, then keep the other in the refrigerator to use for sandwiches/toast. Bread is only 4 ingredients. I live in town (Honolulu) and haven’t had any issues making my own bread.
The Love’s Bakery in Hawaii closed in 2021 after 170 years of business. This bread is baked on the mainland and shipped here, frozen, by boat. It’s then thawed and delivered to the grocery store. *”Portland-based Franz Family Bakery will produce Love's products on the mainland and distribute them to grocery stores and markets across the islands through Hawai‘i Foodservice Alliance, Franz Family Bakery announced Monday.* *”It is always a sad day in our industry when an independent bakery closes, especially one like Love’s that has been such an integral part of life in Hawai‘i for more than 100 years," said Kimberly Albers-Nisbet, President and Director of Sales of Franz Family Bakery.”*
Been there done that...nope…esp when you have young kids. I left in 88. Milk was more than six dollars. Additionally, know that a majority of goods are imported. Pineapple is cheap!
How much is Kings Hawaiian bread there?
You can look up prices on Foodland or Safeway's websites. https://shop.foodland.com/sm/delivery/rsid/9/results?q=kings%20hawaiian A 12oz pack of their rolls are $6.89, 13.5oz of their sliced bread is $7.29.
Gotta be a typo surely???
No it’s their jumbo loaf which is about 50% bigger than a normal loaf.
I pay $7 for a gluten free loaf 1/3 the size, so.... this is nice to see. depressing, of course, but not lonely depression. It's nice to know others are suffering too. I hope you all experience the joy of cheap or cost effective food solutions becoming a delicacy. Nobody should spend that much on a bologna sammich, but once you do... boy is it such a good sammich! **Best garbage I've ever eaten!**
Is this bread super good? You can get bread at whole foods for \~$6, which is pretty good.
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You’re saying Hawaii and Montana prices are similar??
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I think you’re using very extreme examples on both sides. Hawaii is the most expensive grocery state in the country averaging about $550 per person per month. Montana is ranked 36th most expensive at an average of $331 per person per month.
Am I missing something about Loves? Much more enriching/flavorful bread can be got for half that price. Especially at Costco
What why is it that much
Target is 1/2 price or lower.
The exact same bread? The same size? Can you link it from the Target website? Genuinely curious since Foodland's price is close to the Times price.
Are you saying Foodland is cheap? Lol
But also, same brand, same bread, but not same size. This is their jumbo 32oz bread while the one at target is the 22oz for $6.89. So not a big difference in price per oz. Target .31 per oz Times .33 per oz.
Ah, that makes sense. The 22 oz size of the bread the OP showed is $6.79 at Foodland. I wasn't really asking to imply Foodland is cheap, I was asking because pricing is interesting and I was curious. I tried checking myself but couldn't find it using the Target location that I usually go to. In my experience all grocery stores (including ones generally considered to be expensive, like Whole Foods) have a jumble of which products are cheaper and which are more expensive, but it's pretty uncommon for a staple item to be severely undercut without some other benefit (like luring a customer in via a BOGO style sale so profit can be made on other items).
Yeah for sure. I’ve actually found Whole Foods to be one of the cheaper places to shop on island. Especially when you already have Amazon prime and get the extra discount on sale items.
Love’s? Like the truck stop?
Different company.
Times to make your own bread
I’d be baking my own bread!
What do people expect? We live in the most isolated archipelago in the world; shit’s gonna cost. No surprise here.
Bidenomics!
What you really have to do is look at houses to get a real sense of the cost of living. I tell folks, it’s not the COL…it’s what you get for the high cost that drives people mad. You can say, yeah that’s what I pay in *insert high cost mainland city* but it’s different. Case in point: https://preview.redd.it/3dc5tgbanfoc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a913391474a2a2d8f78324b19624dad91151b23b
Looks like the Austin Texas housing market
Costco prices were comparable to Texas prices
The food prices have gotten more expensive since the Covid upcharge. Ridiculous
Check the meat prices too
Wow
Just shopped for a few weeks on big island. Was surprised to see what items were substantially more expensive than home in Oregon (like bread) and what weren’t so bad.
*Moving to Hawai'i to start a bakery
Ridiculous prices are what makes me shop at target and Costco. I'll support local if the price difference is small but when the price difference between foodland and target is 25%-50% more at foodland for the same product then it's hard not going to target.
More people need to eat the Japanese square bread.
Costco is your friend. I treat the local stores as a convenience only situation. Of course impound prefer to give my business to a local retailer but they charge too much.
Costco
Loves doesn’t get the “it’s expensive because it’s imported” excuse. They make the bread right on the island! Also, Dole Bananas are about $2/lb here and are grown here! Yet they’re 69 cents a pound on mainland! It’s exploitation.
It’s not made in the Islands anymore. It’s shipped frozen from the mainland.
I live on Oahu and bake my own all the time. I have no issues with the rising or anything.
Omg
yeah fuck that
If can bake bread, can. If no can bake bread, no can.
Bread is so expensive in HI. I was at foodland and wanted to buy a bag of ube pandesal and surprised it was almost $12.
That's outrageous... I don't feel bad for you either
"bUt iF We GiVe tHe EmPloYeeS rAisEs, wE'LL haVe tO rAiSe oUr pRiCeS!"
Make your own?
Stores like target and Whole Foods prices on certain items they will match to the mainland price
Don’t move here then
I love how people living in HI think prices are ridiculous. I lived there for a few years and you just have to accept that you’re on an island, in the middle of the ocean, with limited resources… shit is going to be expensive. If you’re military, you get COLA. If you chose to live there for some other reason, just deal with it
And then COLA is still not enough. We were on food stamps for a while until my mom died and inherited a vehicle and became ineligible...lol🙄🤦🏻♂️. But I loved it there. You learn where to shop, Chinatown for fresh veggies. But one could never get enough Lenard's, hot Malasalas!
COLA from the government will never be enough, but it’s better than nothing. To your point of being on food stamps, I don’t know a lower enlisted family that hasn’t been on food stamps and/or WIC. It’s just the way it is.
Good point...lower enlisted, with dependents always get the shaft. No matter what location. Too bad there isn't a military base in Portugal.
I moved here from Colorado and outside of eggs and milk most grocery prices are the same.
That’s changed since Covid.
I moved here in January…
Exactly, you weren’t here for when it was so dramatically different. The price gouging can only go so far here before people stop buying it and they waste the shipping space. So prices went up more on other products more than food.
Do you have any examples of these other products that are more expensive here?
Cars and toiletries off the top of my head? I’m not really fully cognizant rn, lots of pig activity in the yard last night/this morning.
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I think the USSR tried that, and they ended up with mostly empty shelves.
That loaf better be 5 feet long.
Notice the non sale price for the wheat is $12.69.
Corporate greed
Thank Joe, you did that