I should have been at the Tuesday Community Meeting but I needed to go to David. I decided to take advantage of the time with a trip to visit a friend at the Regional Hospital and check some food prices.
This survey is not too significant other than curiosity as to how some food prices changed both in the US and here over the past year. It is in no way a survey to be taken as more than what it is. There is not question it is not representative of an average food basket in the US or Panama.
Simultaneously shocking and reassuring. (Because I live here and not in Arizona.)
Good info with a caveat. Every week most of the items you listed were on sale either at Safeway or Fry’s. We never paid close to that much for beef, pork, salmon or shrimp – usually around 1/2, and milk was almost always on sale for $1.79 a gallon. Didn’t purchase free range eggs there but the others were $.99 a dozen. If one pays full price in Arizona, yes most grocieries cost more… but the sales are so plentiful, it’s seldom needed. Fruits are the one place where it’s much cheaper in Panama.
Only people with SUPERMAN eyesight could read the above chart!!!
thanks so much for your very helpful info. will be in boquete from the 29th to the 8th. hope to see you then.
I find it funny that I have never seen a lemon in Panama and what they call lemons are actually limes. I also remember when you could buy a bag of 100 for 1 cent
Interesting. We live at the end of the food chain out west. We pay for delivery trucks to come 140 miles to town and then go back empty. David prices are considerably cheaper. Got a price on 5 liter Franzia?
Prices are VERY competitive specially when taking into account transportation costs.