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[Meowingkitty]

I haven't bought anything from QVC in forever. I simply don't like there clothes. I'm more of an LL Bean, Lands End, Duluth Trading Company girl. Tee shirts, jeans or shorts. I can find decent prices and free shipping there plus they have sales. I got 2 long sleeved tee shirts and a pair of shorts for $80 including tax. The tee shirts were like $21 each. 

[Spurt]

I guess QVC passes on their overhead on to us....because I checked Dillard's website....yes, they still have their higher priced brands....BUT they also have lots of tops permanently reduced to $17 and $29.....and fall offerings still priced at $34 to $39.....Same with Macy's they do offer higher priced brands, but still a lot of tops in the $29 to $39 price range and REAL SALES---Karen Scott $8.99 and lots on sale 40% to 60% off......JCP $11 to $49 with BIG SALES....BIG REAL SALES at Kohls.....

[Foxxee]

I cut way back on QVC clothing because of quality, but I did recently buy a D&C shirt on Lunch Time Special and Linea's eyelet skirt.

The D&C shirt was priced at $64, on sale for $18.98.  Overall it's very good quality.  The plaid on one of the side seams doesn't match, but I'm happy with the sizing, fit, construction, fabric and thickness, and quality.  I would not have paid $64 for it when I can get an excellent quality Ralph Lauren shirt for $79-$89...on sale, half that.  

The Linea skirt is lovely and very well made as expected from Louis Dell Olio.  At the time, it was priced at $72, a bit higher than I think it would have been last year; however, $72 is a good price for it. 

Mostly, I've been buying clothing elsewhere and don't see prices rising as significantly as those by QVC.  For example, the sold out Ralph Lauren blazers I purchased last year were reordered for this year at the same prices.  I'm finding that pretty consistent with retailers who are trying to keep their prices down.

I think retailers with declining sales more often put their "new" clothing on sale after a month or two "possibly" thinking we can make more money selling quantity rather than trying to sell fewer higher priced items.  Think Walmart's philosophy.  They make much more money selling a lot of lower priced items than they would selling fewer high priced.  

I can't speak to QVC's quality of it's new higher priced items, but I notice prices are sometimes 20-30% higher than last year.  That's quite a bit compared to other retailers.  

A few mentioned grocery prices going up.  For some reason, in my area, they are not, and have become quite competitive with other local grocery stores often pricing food less than before Covid-19.  Ground beef prices have remained the same.  

[pitdakota]

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@RedTop wrote:
I find grocery prices quite an eye opener from month to month. My total today was nearly $30 more for the same items purchased before mid March.

Store managers are still having problems with what they order, and what gets shipped. One local manager does not see this issue improving, and feels this will get much worse this winter.

My take on his words is to buy what I need when I find it in stock.

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@RedTop, totally agree about grocery prices and availability of some products.  Last week I had planned to purchase a spiral cut ham.

Seemed like a good idea at the time.  Fix a ham and have several meals from one effort.  DH could smoke it so I wouldn't heat up the house so I was ready to go.  The only ham available in the grocery store was the  single thick slice  of ham.  No other hams of any kind.  Moved to plan B to look for a turkey breast.  Nope, not a one.  Other meats were available, but no hams or turkey breasts.

I mentioned this to a friend that has someone in her family that manages a grocery store in the area.  According to her, he has said the supply chain is still not totally reliable for many products.  Additionally, he has said it is difficult to try and anticipate the demand for the number of products because it has changed so much due to so many people working from home, kids being out of school and not in daycare over the summer, more people are cooking and not going out to eat, etc.