Heard ice helps but you gotta watch the water.

That $2,300 catch after only 20 minutes is wild, but I feel you on those 3 weeks of manual checking. I've been there squinting at faded receipts and wondering why I bother. Glad the OCR actually paid off for you instead of just being another tech rabbit hole.

Comparing 1982 prices to now is kind of unfair, since wages, farming, and how food gets to the store have all changed a ton since then. Pretty sure if she were shopping today she'd be spending a lot more than $120 too.