Thursday, December 9
Say it ain't so
Gasoline. Health-care insurance. Baseball ticket prices. And now: AP reports Procter & Gamble Co. on Thursday announced a 14 percent price increase for its Folgers roast and ground coffee, the biggest rise in a decade, because of sustained increases in the commodity cost of green coffee.
Did you know that here on the edge of nowhere as recently as four years ago we had no Starbucks franchises? And now, we have, um, hang on, let me count, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven? Eight? Still, we prefer Daz Bog Until they put in the huge flatscreen TV. What's that all about? We might have to return to Margie's Java Joint.
