Why is protein powder so expensive now? I used to get 5lbs of whey for $30-35!

[JPL79]

I like the quality of today's protein better.

Good point. While inflation and raw material cost hikes are the primary reasons for today's price's, protein is as advanced as ever too. Lot's of R&D costs involved.

Notice beef is up around 50% just in the last 2 years? Corn prices are way up. Things are just getting much more expensive. Cheap food is going to be a thing of the past.

[Velatsaraptor]

He is actually correct speaking from a straight economics point.. From this standpoint though, probably not. If supply goes down, producers lower price to initiate more buying at a lower price to maintain the same profit they would at a high supply and higher price.

For this standpoint, because the companies know that we are gonna buy powder if it is 35 or 45 anyway, they would be stupid to charge 35 instead of making that extra 10 dollar profit.

This here is why I absolutely hate Econ class

yeah im takin econ too. when i read it i get mind ****ed but if you draw out the stuff on graphs it not too bad. supply and demand graph solves this pretty easily.

this illustrates the current situation

[Hansolo261]

i have drastically lowered my intake of whey in the last year due to pricing. What i do now is search all internet sites and all brick and mortar stores for clearance and close date products and I pretty much buy whatever i can find and try and limit myself to no more than 2 shakes per day.

[fitnfirm]

me too, but 10 days to get to me....... I guess I'm so used to 3 days shipments. But it is great prices.

Stop paying full price. Earlier this week there was a thread about good deal on the former version of myofusion, and I grabbed 4 tubs @ $30 each.

Also picked up some LCP for $20

[namean]

I wanna know why one company sells their 10lb bag for $75 & another company sells theirs for $100 with basically the same ingedients. Ridiculous.

[bake51]

Stop paying full price. Earlier this week there was a thread about good deal on the former version of myofusion, and I grabbed 4 tubs @ $30 each.

Also picked up some LCP for $20

If you could PM me about where you got these deals that would be great! Thanks

[tnubs]

x100 on the PM these deals

[velocityrob]

me too, but 10 days to get to me....... I guess I'm so used to 3 days shipments. But it is great prices.

^This.

Not nuthuggung, but I'm spoiled by 2-3 day shipping from BB.com. When I go elsewhere the blowout deal, I know it'll be over a week for delivery.

[Falomyr]

Well protein prices do go up because of the supply and demand market. Protein is a basic and at times attractive supplement that people would get off the shelves out of initiative. No need for rep/sales talk. Bought off the shelves like a staple.

And yep, sad to say companies do take advantage and just jack up the prices and blame "inflation". The thing people are doing now is to look for other better prices brands. Thats the best way to handle it because prices do go back down, or great offers are bound to arise to get customers coming back again.

[Source7769]

Im pretty sure it was gatorade, which is owned by pepsi, so he is correct.

if they did its pretty much going to be expired i work for the company and nothing new came out except for that garbage pepsi next they bought out the rtd muscle milk a couple yrs ago

[cbyerlee]

Good deal on Trutein if you look around

[onlyGrace]

Good deal on Trutein if you look around

PM me that info please!

[kinkoshinkai]

Supply and demand is a small part of it. Two other HUGE contributing factors are the major food brands that are now "adding" protein to their products and can buy in larger bulk, keeping THEIR prices down but making the more niche market (bodybuilding supplement) brands pay a higher price. That, and the giant leap in gas prices. It all has to be transported and the companies pay twice as much in gas to transport it now as they did 3 or 4 years ago. That's a huge part of the price increase.