For your reference...
Key Food:
Pabst — $4.99
Natural Ice — $4.79
Milwaukee's Best Premium – $3.99
So.
Met Foods on Second Avenue near Sixth Street...
Pabst — Crap, I forget. It was more than $4.99 though.
Natural Ice — $5.19
Milwaukee's Best Premium – $4.99
So, would it be safe to assume that prices would go down the further east you go? No!
At the Associated on Avenue C at Eighth Street, the Pabst was $11.49 a 12-pack. (A six-pack of Budweiser in cans? $8.49! No Pabst in six packs.)
And at Fine Fare on Avenue C at Fourth Street...
Pabst — $6.99
Natural Ice & Natural Light — $4.99
...but the handy-dandy bro-pack of 24 is $19.99....
Bonus
The 12-packs of Natural Ice & Natural Light were just $6.59 at the Rite Aid on Avenue D...
Assume they are the same price at the Rite Aid locations on First Avenue and 14th Street. Enter at your own peril.
21 comments:
Natty ice.
This is the kind of investigative journalism you can't find in corporate rags like the NY Times and Daily News.
To add a little context to these prices, a PBR or Schaefer tall boy is $9.50 at Yankee Stadium.
Also, one of the best days ever was when I went to the auto checkout with a six of Schaefer and it only charged me $2.50. This was about a year ago though.
To be fair, the price of PBR at Fine Fare apparantly has nto chnged in well over 10 years, bc that what I paid circa 2000 when i lived around the corner.
I always buy my beer at Rite Aid. It's the cheapest option for a 12-pack.
The cheapest beer you can buy is the Trader Joe's brand. It's 49 cents a can.
Everything is more expensive at Associated.
Who cares about beer? Do a comparison study of milk or bread prices; much more useful.
“Who cares about beer?" Sacrilege! Off with their heads! Guillotine, guillotine!
@Anonymous 11:42 AM: That's crazy talk!
"Who cares about beer? Do a comparison study of milk or bread prices; much more useful."
Categorically false. Beer serves the same purpose as milk AND beer (liquid + grain) and it's much more useful, especially during difficult economic times!
@Anonymous 12:20 PM: Thanks for bringing sanity back to this thread! Cheers!
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer.
@ 12:20
Thanks for the reminder that absolutely NO FUN is allowed in the East Village any more. No beer, only milk, no bars, only shoe stores!
PS: I am being sarcastic.
PPS: Stop being such a stick in the mud
Definitely gotta love the un PC lyric "in this man’s world”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrRlXlbWCU
Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.
Ugh, gross! Your pennies are better spent down at New Beer wholesalers on Chrystie - go buy yourself something GOOD for cheap.
I'm totally happy to hear a beer price analysis! But I think a TOTAL food shopping comparison would be helpful.
Is it too crazy to even suggest? Maybe.
I recall a visit to a local bodega to purchase some half and half for my coffee -- there were no prices to be found on anything. When the clerk told me "3 dollahs" and I balked and said, "FORGET IT, you gotta be kidding me," he immediately said, "ok, TWO dollahs."
WTF?
I don't mind bargaining for a cheap pair of sunglasses on St. Mark's but food? Well, that ain't right.
Wish I would have thought about comparing other food/beverage items while at all these places!
Aunt Jemima [corn] Syrup for my pancakes was $5.30 at Yankee Deli on C on Sunday!!
Jokes on me though, because I paid it.
"But I think a TOTAL food shopping comparison would be helpful."
You mean beer isn't the total food shopping experience? Oh the things I learn at EV Grieve!
I miss Silvarios..
d'ain't
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