I swung by the Food City on 12th Ave the other day to grab chicken thighs, and noticed the price was $4.99 a pound there. Then I drove 10 minutes to the Mexican market on Alameda and saw the exact same pack for $1.89 a pound. That's a $3.10 difference for the same thing, and I've been getting ripped off for months. Anyone else notice their regular store is marking up basics like crazy?
I locked $10k into a 1-year CD at 8% last year in Phoenix, thinking I was a genius, but after 3.7% inflation and 22% tax bracket I barely broke even. Should I just throw the next $5k into dividend stocks or am I missing something obvious?