By Amanda Hill The Baby Boomers have been called America’s greatest generation. They’ve weathered decades of ups and downs and have lived to tell the tales. Marketers drool over the Baby Boomer demographic—revered for their purchasing power by sheer volume. But, the times, they are a changin’… Move over, Baby Boomers. Here come the YEMMies. [...]
By Amanda Hill I keep a close eye on food prices—mostly for my own family's budget, but also for Texas Farm Bureau's Grocery Price Watch. I wonder, though, how many shoppers know why food prices increase. If you watch the news, you've probably heard stories about how the devastating U.S. drought—a drought that caused billions of [...]
By Amanda Hill Trader Joe's or Walmart—does it make a difference? I recently came across an article (via the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance Facebook page) that said, although Americans say they prefer high-end grocery stores like Trader Joe's or Central Market, they are more likely to shop at Walmart, Aldi and other low-cost stores [...]
By Amanda Hill Good news, Texans. The latest Grocery Price Watch survey by Texas Farm Bureau reports that we paid less for groceries in the first quarter of 2012. The price of a basket of 16 food staples (including fresh produce, milk, bread, meat and more) dropped by 64 cents—from $45.62 in November 2011 to [...]
By Amanda Hill Science is an amazing thing. Think about some of the advancements we’ve made in the past 100 years: new medicines have advanced the average lifespan from 49.2 years at the turn of the century to 77.5 years in 2003; cars don’t just take us from point A to point B, but they [...]
