Thursday, July 9, 2009

I went out for a visit out to the CostCo in Everett this morning.  We regularly hit the warehouse store on delivery-day (Neve knows someone who knows someone) to see if we can grab some bulk essentials.  I was among the door-busters and headed straight for the rice and canned-goods (along with everyone else). All the price signs were handwritten and caused a lot of people to pause.  Prices had taken a huge jump – try 50-60%.  Things weren’t cheap before, but this was crazy.  People were milling around the place either dumbfounded or shouting prices at the gods.  Most of the food items (the only reason anybody was really there) also had their prices listed in Euros, Pounds, and Canadian Dollars.

Things were looking to get ugly when the crowd turned to demand answers from a manager.  I decided we had enough beans for now and headed out.

I should have seen this one coming.  A note to our CSA/farming contacts in the west of the state confirmed that they are still willing to deal in BerkShares and even Champies.  Sounds like we have some conversions to do before the dollars in our bank account fall too much in comparison with those two local currencies.