Grocery prices down
MARQUETTE -- Gas prices peaked last summer in Marquette at $4.27 per gallon. Since then, the cost to fill your tank is down more than $1.50.
Have you also noticed in that same amount of time that grocery prices have gone down?
"Well if it has gone down, it's been gradual and not enough to really notice," said Lynn Nowaczyk, a Super One Foods grocery shopper.
According to Super One management, most food prices are down since this time last year.
"I think pretty much everything has been dropping at a pretty decent pace. I mean, it could always be better, but we've got to take it as it comes," said Robert Delongchamp, Store Manager of Super One in Marquette.
Dairy products have actually seen the most noticeable one year drop; milk, especially.
"Right now it's running about 20 cents lower than this time last year. So where you could get it for $2.65 today, it was probably about $2.85, $2.90 a year ago," Delongchamp said.
Melissa Ledford has been a Super One employee for about three years, and she says that certain items are finally back to the low costs she saw when she started working there.
"I noticed there's some ice cream products where the prices have gone down just as I'd seen them three years ago. They haven't been that low in a long time. There's been a lot of cheese that's been on sale, too, that's never as cheaply priced as it is right now. Overall, it seems dairy prices have gone down quite a bit," said Ledford, a Super One Supervisor.
Fuel prices have a lot to do with the dropping costs.
"Oh yeah, everything is based on oil and gasoline. Everything is shipped to us on trucks. When the prices are high, everything is passed on to the consumer," Delongchamp said.
Cutting coupons, looking for store specials and buying bulk are always advised if you're looking to save a buck. Other factors that figure in to the dropping grocery prices are supply and demand, the competition's prices and the quality of the growing season for produce.
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