The current price of sugar.

[Ben Brewcat]

$.48 a pound (50 pounders) at Costco in Colorado

[doc25]

About $11.00 for 10 kg (about 22 pounds). On sale this week at Coop $6 something for the 10 kg bag with the coupon and $7.?? without coupon. This is Saskatchewan Canada.

[Chick]

Sugar come sin 4# bags around here, not 5#.

[BEES4U]

Sugar price update:
7/11/09
I bought 100 pounds of C & H Pure Cane sugar at Smart and Final.
It was $12.49/25 pound sack. $12.49/25 = 0.4996/pound

Smart and Final's store brand was $11.99/25 pound sack. --o.4796

Albertson's was on sale at $12.00/25 pounds sack.
$12.00/25 = 0.48 per pound
Regards,
Ernie

[TwT]

2 weeks ago I bought 200# (50 four pound bags cane sugar) for $1.32 a bag =.33 cents a pound at a local store called Bell's. yup it was on sale

[TBHKeeper]

Hi

Sugar here (Northern Indiana) today was $1.99 for 5 lbs... (at 'Martins grocery') which is the better general 'sale price' we can hope for. Martins is similar to Kroger for those not familiar with that chain. They also seem to slap 50 lb bags a bit in some places here too... so its better to get the ones that don't give wife a hernia bringing them home.

Aldi's is about the same price here too.

Don

4 TBHives
2 Langstroths
1 Nuc

[Trapper]

Walmart 5lb. for 1.50

[Chick]

Walmart and the rest of the grocery stores here, only have 4 pound bags. Are you guys sure you are buying a 5 pound bag?

[Chick]

Why did you buy the C&H over the store brand, if the store brand was cheaper?

[BEES4U]

only have 4 pound bags
I noticed the 4 pounders about a year ago.
i think they are taking advantage of some people do not know the difference.
Ernie

[BEES4U]

Why did you buy the C&H over the store brand
The sugar in sugar beets has to be highly refined to make a quality sugar.
Pure cane sugar is a superior product.
I started a somewhat long thread dicussion about sugar about two years ago.
The C and H didn't cost that much more than the store brand.
Ernie

[Chick]

This is not a new thing. When the price of sugar went up, back in the late '70's - early '80's, the producers started putting in 4# bags. That way, the price per bag stayed the same, but the amount of sugar was less. They did the same thing with coffee. If you will notice, coffee doesn't come in 1, 2 or 3 lb cans anymore. A 1# can is now 13 oz and a 3# can is actually 2lb 7oz. They are not the only ones either. Feed companies are doingthe same thing. You are now seeing corn and dogfood showing up in 40lb bags, instead of 50lb bags. I'm sure there are other examples.

[Chick]

So, you are saying that the C&H was cane sugar and the store brand was sugar from Beets?

[Chick]

Just interested to know if there is a significant difference or reason that I need to know about. To me, sugar is sugar, and whatever is the cheapest, gets used. Of course, all the sugar that I have seen, is marked Pure Cane Sugar.

[BEES4U]

yep!
So, you are saying that the C&H was cane sugar and the store brand was sugar from Beets?

Ernie

[Chick]

Cane sugar here is 44.8 cents a pound, with the normal price. Sugar is cheaper per pound, in the 4# bags than in the larger bags. It is all Pure Cane Sugar.

[Buz Green]

Fifty cents a pound at the local Safeway when it's on sale (and it's always on sale). Mostly the 5# bags are 2/$5 and the 10# bags are $6.19. Sometimes the 10# bags are $5 and the 5# bags are $2.99 ea.
Denver CO area.

[Chick]

At 2.99 a bag, thats 59.8 cents per lb, and at 2.50 a bag, that's 50 cents a bag. Thats for 5 lb bags, all bags are 4 pound bags here.

[BEES4U]

July 15, 2009
Smart and Final $12.49/25 pound bag of C & H.
Albertsons: on sale at $12.99 with a savings of $3.50
Ernie

[swabby]

Associated Grocers is a deep south chain. They had 10# for $3.79. Bought 120#