About $162,016.04 . . . give or take. I actually went through the whole thing (8 full-sized newspaper pages) and added up every price. It went faster around page 4, where prices tended to be in round numbers without the 99 cents tacked onto the end. (Yes, I was that anal that I added up all the cents, without rounding up.) One page came to almost a million bucks, before I caught my error.

These are the numbers from two weeks ago. I haven’t repeated the exercise. While it took a short enough time that I don’t regret doing it to satisfying my curiosity, it took long enough I don’t plan to do it again.

I have this recurring fantasy that one day, as I’m walking into Fry’s to buy some $4.99 item, some guy will grab my arm and offer me $20,000 cash as long as I spend it all in the next hour and all of it in Fry’s. When I first added up all the prices in the circular, I thought maybe I’d have to increase the amount in my fantasy.

But $20,000 would be just fine.