Aldi version of Cheerios is $1.29 a box.

And even if you're paying $5/box, that's like 50 cents a bowl. Unless you're really struggling, that's pretty cheap.

I buy when it's on sale and don't buy when it's not.

I agree with you. It is so expensive now! I will wait for it to go on sale.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't bought cereal since the kids have been out of the house because I'm obsessed with it and will eat an entire box for dinner if it's around. Has it really gone up that much?

I live in NYC so the pricing might be a bit higher at baseline, but I usually shop at Trader Joe's and went into a regular grocery store a few days ago. I specifically got sticker shock from the cereal (which I don't typically buy anyway) - it was $7 a box.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, how much SHOULD cereal cost? I just paid $4.99 for a box of Cheerios. That seemed okay.

$3.00 or $3.50 tops.

Based on what metric? Why should it be cheaper?

I’m sure you can get it for less at Costco or someplace like that.

PP, if you are happy paying $5 a box for cereal, nobody is stopping you. Enjoy. For many people, that is too expensive. As I noted earlier, most brand cereal goes on sale frequently enough that you can plan and not spend more than $3 per box. And, as others have noted, you can generic cereal for even less.

A large size box of cheerios at my grocery store is $4.99. It has, purportedly, 8 servings. The generic version is $1.59. A gallon of milk costs $4.19 but for 16 servings so lets say $2.10 for the amount of milk you need. A bowl of name brand cereal therefore costs .89 cents a serving. For generic it is .46 cents. Virtually no other food is as cheap as cereal.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I haven't really been buying cereal because the sales aren't good. My neighbor gave me some stuff she got from the food bank that she couldn't use which included a 7oz box of rice krispies-since when do rice krislpies come in a 7oz box!?

I wonder if it was packaged for one of the dollar stores. They have funny sizes of certain national brands, I guess so they can sell national brands for around a dollar.

Anonymous wrote:You need to figure out when your favorite cereal goes on sale (likely every 6 weeks). Buy enough when it is on sale to last until the next time it is on sale. Don't buy cereal at full price.

Yes, cereal goes on sale, you just need to wait and watch.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this satire?

It's a meme. Keep up.

Whatever happened to that guy? Did they eventually lower his rent or what?

Cereal has been too high since 1995

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how much SHOULD cereal cost? I just paid $4.99 for a box of Cheerios. That seemed okay.

$3.00 or $3.50 tops.

Based on what metric? Why should it be cheaper?

I’m sure you can get it for less at Costco or someplace like that.

PP, if you are happy paying $5 a box for cereal, nobody is stopping you. Enjoy. For many people, that is too expensive. As I noted earlier, most brand cereal goes on sale frequently enough that you can plan and not spend more than $3 per box. And, as others have noted, you can generic cereal for even less.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, how much SHOULD cereal cost? I just paid $4.99 for a box of Cheerios. That seemed okay.

$3.00 or $3.50 tops.

Based on what metric? Why should it be cheaper?

I’m sure you can get it for less at Costco or someplace like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Way too overpriced in my opinion.
Only a matter of time until most people abandon cereal all together.
Highway robbery. Taking advantage of customers for a few extra bucks will hurt the cereal companies long term.

Cereal is junk food anyway.

Get out of this thread now.

Anonymous wrote:Way too overpriced in my opinion.
Only a matter of time until most people abandon cereal all together.
Highway robbery. Taking advantage of customers for a few extra bucks will hurt the cereal companies long term.

Cereal is junk food anyway.

Anonymous wrote:OP, how much SHOULD cereal cost? I just paid $4.99 for a box of Cheerios. That seemed okay.

$3.00 or $3.50 tops.

Anonymous wrote:OP, how much SHOULD cereal cost? I just paid $4.99 for a box of Cheerios. That seemed okay.

How big is the box? If it wasn’t family size that’s high.