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Sunday, November 3, 2013
New Home Storage Order Forms
A new order form for the LDS Church Home Storage
Centers is now online. 89 of the 101 home storage centers will now offer
only prepackaged items with the exception of five items still in bulk -
black beans, white beans, refried beans, dried carrots and dried onion.
You should be able to drop by whenever yours is open and purchase what
you need from the published list.
Of the 23
food items offered, 11 went down in price and 11 went up. Only bulk
white beans stayed the same. Prices would have changed whether the
facilities had or not. Please do not connect the two.
Some price
changes were significant - apple slices up 57%, milk up 20% unless you
used to buy bulk and then it's up 40%, potato flakes up 30%, sugar is up
20%, quick oats up 26%, flour up 33%. The rest of the increases aren’t
as significant.
However,
the cocoa mix went down 24%. Fruit drink mix down 20%. Refried beans
down 19%. Carrots down 19%. Onions down 18%. The rest went down in
smaller percentages. Wheat came down slightly. Unfortunately, it’s the
items with a shelf life of 5 years or less that went down in price the
most. The long term storage foods went up with only a few exceptions.
Call to
make sure your home storage center is open during the next week before
going. Some are still re-tooling and restocking supplies. Houston won't
be open until Nov. 6.
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