Are You a Cereal Junkie?

My grocery shopping trip has me thinking food a lot lately.

I shop at a "membership" type of store -- the prices are usually very good, especially for cereal. There have been times in the past when I've been able to pick up my fave, Post's Cranberry Almond Crunch, for as little as $2 a box. (I probably could have found a better link there if The Empty Bowl hadn't gone offline. Now the cereal enthusiast community is woefully underserved. Hmm...I'm starting to get ideas for my next blog.)

Anyway, maybe I'm just not lucking out to go at the right time...but I tend to think the economy is more to blame for the fact that the price for a little crunchy cranberry bliss now comes at no less than $3.50 a box. And that's for this little, thin, 13 oz. thing! I actually scanned most of the boxes, and couldn't find a single price for less than $3. I know there are some places that do 2/$5 sales sometimes, and I guess I'll have to start getting my cereal that way. But I know my choices will be limited to the store's whims.

I also read a Cranberry Almond Crunch review that suggested WalMart *shudder* might have good prices. I'm certainly willing to descend to that level to get my fix.

Where do you buy cereal? Have the prices gone out of sight?