Grocery Prices Are Out Of Control (Page 5 of 12)
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Originally Posted By thesquidliest: That will not happen quietly. Also, what could the gubmint possibly promise in return for confiscating all that 401k money? Because once that happens, Americans writ large will lose faith in the federal government and that could cause existential crises. it sure won't. It'll happen all of a sudden at gunpoint and the majority will cower down and accept it. They'll get exactly what my grandparents and great grandparents got on the first go around. Fucking nothing. |
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Originally Posted By skankwhisperer: Inflation man - what a ride! Eventually it all begins to add up. Every year the inflation rate is above the rate of increase of your income just compounds the impact. Its gotta be 30% since COVID. I reckon we got a long way to go yet. How exactly do the populations manage in other countries with very high inflation rates? They get poorer over time and eventually the electricity stops flowing. Then they buy Chinese solar panels and batteries to keep the refrigerator running. |
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Originally Posted By Glock031: And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Originally Posted By Glock031: Originally Posted By himarker: He has given us the highest diesel prices in history. And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. If we could just combine covid with bombing Iran, we'd end up at normal prices. 
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Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Do I need to post the reciept? For fucks sake, I feel like my mother is shaking her finger at me about how I spend my money with some of you guys. Did I load up on prepared junk food that will kill me? NO. Mostly organic meats & veggies with meal ideas prepared at home. The sweetest thing I bought was an 8 pack of ginger ale & a box of fucking graham crackers. You should have at least bout those Ghirarldeli double fudge brownies!! I love those and just $2.70... 
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Originally Posted By Glock031: It's all part of the master plan. We don't fall for that BS shit anymore. You see these people didn't say a F'ing thing when Biden was president and groceries and gas was even higher. Pepperidge farm remembers. Oh and don't forget they voted for DJT three times but_ Originally Posted By Glock031: Originally Posted By McGuy: I mostly buy meat on sale and bag it and freeze it for future meals. Yes things have gone up, especially since 2020, but it's really not that big a percentage of my cost of living. Property taxes and insurance, on the other hand, have taken a big painful jump. eta: Guessing this is another one of those threads that exist just for the N_Ts to converge on. It's all part of the master plan. We don't fall for that BS shit anymore. You see these people didn't say a F'ing thing when Biden was president and groceries and gas was even higher. Pepperidge farm remembers. Oh and don't forget they voted for DJT three times but_ |
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Originally Posted By EMP: Have two teenage sons who are gym rats. Originally Posted By EMP: Originally Posted By Anastasios: How in the fuck does anyone spend $600+ on a single trip to the grocery store?! Have two teenage sons who are gym rats. |
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Originally Posted By zaskar017: I wasn’t telling myself “this is affordable” but I sure as shit wasn’t worried about how much it’s costing me in the mid to late 90s when it was $1 or less depending on location. It’s like something happened 25 years ago and gas/oil has been a constant financial strain or something… https://i.imgur.com/zwickNR.png Originally Posted By zaskar017: Originally Posted By XNARC: I guess just human nature….but there was never a time in my life when I said, hey this, gas, meat, bread, electricity, water, beer, pussy, ammo, is really affordable I wasn’t telling myself “this is affordable” but I sure as shit wasn’t worried about how much it’s costing me in the mid to late 90s when it was $1 or less depending on location. It’s like something happened 25 years ago and gas/oil has been a constant financial strain or something… https://i.imgur.com/zwickNR.png Wait till you see the calculations not in dollar denominated prices, but in hours of work to buy given unit. That strips the emperor almost naked. |
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Originally Posted By Glock031: And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Originally Posted By Glock031: Originally Posted By himarker: He has given us the highest diesel prices in history. And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Yeah, the lowest gas prices in decades was ALL because of Trump, not because government basically grounded everyone to the house for half his term, shutting down businesses and putting out restrictions. Well... wait... that came from Fauci, who was working under Trump for his administration... so I guess you could say that Trump was "responsible" for them in a round-about way.
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Originally Posted By 1775: Iran has shit to do with Israel. We went after Iran for the same reason we made moves in Venezuela, to cut off China's oil. They were also damn close to a nuke. According to the IAEA they were storing 60% enriched uranium which is pretty damn close to a bomb. Does Israel benefit from it? Absolutely. But to think Israel was the main reason is short sighted 
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Originally Posted By Glock031: It's all part of the master plan. We don't fall for that BS shit anymore. You see these people didn't say a F'ing thing when Biden was president and groceries and gas was even higher. Pepperidge farm remembers. Oh and don't forget they voted for DJT three times but_ Gas out here right now is the highest its ever been. |
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Originally Posted By JLAudio: The only criticism I have is that you need to stop using your debit card for grocery and daily purchases Use a cash back credit card. Even the Capital One Quicksilver card (which I now hate because they are on Discover's network instead of visa) gives 3% cash back on groceries and 1.5% back on everything else. That cash back really does add up over time and If you are diligent on making payments (the phone app makes it so easy) it doesn't cost you a penny, in fact you save or make money. 💯 All 3 of my main cards I use are cashback. It adds up. |
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Originally Posted By MaxFenig: I delivered ten loads of groceries for Walmart today alone. I can see the amounts spent by each customer. I have numerous repeat customers who are spending anywhere from $4-$700 a WEEK ON GROCERIES depending on how many kids they have. I don’t care if the OP mentioned Trump or not. He and the rest of our worthless ass government has fucked the American people and they tired of it. You’re about to see major political changes and not for the good. Its gonna make Cambodia look like Kansas. |
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$600/week? That's wild. We buy in bulk and store brand everything. Shit is more expensive, but I guess we're fortunate enough that its not even close to being an issue. We spend around $300/week these days, with two boys who eat as much as I do. We also started hitting Aldi, they're significantly cheaper on a lot of things. |
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Originally Posted By Glock031: And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Originally Posted By Glock031: Originally Posted By himarker: He has given us the highest diesel prices in history. And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. It just sort of happened for no reason I guess...... |
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Originally Posted By Dano523: Still trying to figure out how the inflation rate is only 3.4%, when everything imported has at least a 10% tariff tax on it to start with. none of the refund checks have gone out from first round of tarriffs, and cost of living is a hell of lot higher than just the 3.4% from the same time last year. But hey, strait of Hormuz is closed, strait of the Red sea is closed, SA just had its pipe line to red sea straight destroyed and shut down it oil production that is driving the price of crud up even more, but someone instead of dealing with such, is off in Ireland golfing. P.S Unifiy Ireland is petty much stating to bring back the Troubles, with putting UK back in control. What do you mean tariff refund checks haven’t gone out? Consumers expecting to get refunds are ridiculous. The importers have gotten refunds. $115 billion, per Gemini. |
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It sucks. I've said it before, but we could just about buy a Denali with what we spend in groceries a month for a family of 3.... We're spending $300+ a week. Electric is up too. Everything is really. Knew this was gonna happen with the covid scam, but it doesn't seem reducing inflation is a priority for our government through these last 2 administrations. Its more revenue to the fedgov right? Why should they have to stop doing what they love just because the pleebs are struggling? 80 years of global policing. 80 years of selling out the middle class to globalism. 65 years of the war on poverty. 20 years of GWOT 18 years of welfare migration. 2 years of lockdowns 6 years of inflation. 6 months of short term pain at the pump. Spreading democracy. Flatten the curve. We're all in this together. Ukraine is a good deal. A drop in the bucket. Iran cant have nukes. Won't cost the taxpayers a dime. Its gotta stop. Our goverments spending habits matter. The value of the dollar matters The debt and deficit matter. Honestly, an attempt at austerity on Trumps behalf would have been a nice gesture. Our government needs to step the fuck back and stop trying to "fix" everything. |
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My wife buys almost all the groceries so I’ve honestly been out of touch with where prices are. This past weekend she complained about grocery prices for the first time so it must be getting bad. We may be odd but we both have individual bank accounts and retirement accounts. We don’t really pay attention to each others accounts we just each have bills we pay. I asked if she needed some cash and she said no but it’s getting ridiculous. |
| The stuff I buy hasn’t really gone up in price.Bone in skin on chicken,flash frozen vegetables and brown rice.I occasionally buy pork chops.I don’t buy anything in a box or can really. I could save a few pennies buying fresh produce but I’ve learned to cook with the frozen stuff just fine plus it’s convenient. |
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Originally Posted By Marie: What do you mean tariff refund checks haven’t gone out? Consumers expecting to get refunds are ridiculous. The importers have gotten refunds. $115 billion, per Gemini. Originally Posted By Marie: Originally Posted By Dano523: Still trying to figure out how the inflation rate is only 3.4%, when everything imported has at least a 10% tariff tax on it to start with. none of the refund checks have gone out from first round of tarriffs, and cost of living is a hell of lot higher than just the 3.4% from the same time last year. But hey, strait of Hormuz is closed, strait of the Red sea is closed, SA just had its pipe line to red sea straight destroyed and shut down it oil production that is driving the price of crud up even more, but someone instead of dealing with such, is off in Ireland golfing. P.S Unifiy Ireland is petty much stating to bring back the Troubles, with putting UK back in control. What do you mean tariff refund checks haven’t gone out? Consumers expecting to get refunds are ridiculous. The importers have gotten refunds. $115 billion, per Gemini. Why is that ridiculous? Even if it's fraud by the importer or carrier. Example... I bought a Japanese chef knife. I paid a bunch of tariff to whatever carrier it was to reimburse them for the tariff cost so they would deliver it to me. So you're saying that they will get reimbursed the money that I already paid them, and they aren't required to refund me the money? They are profiting off the tariff? |
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Originally Posted By Glock031: And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Originally Posted By Glock031: Originally Posted By himarker: He has given us the highest diesel prices in history. And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Gas prices being low 7 years ago won't help someone freezing this winter because they can't afford oil and don't have the physical ability/resources to heat with wood. |
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Originally Posted By BoSanders: The stuff I buy hasn’t really gone up in price.Bone in skin on chicken,flash frozen vegetables and brown rice.I occasionally buy pork chops.I don’t buy anything in a box or can really. I could save a few pennies buying fresh produce but I’ve learned to cook with the frozen stuff just fine plus it’s convenient. Our family eats healthy and cooks or prepare our own stuff too, but no one eats nothing but bone in chicken and brown rice everyday. No one not even professional body builders. |
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Originally Posted By Trempel: I don’t know what 75% of that stuff is, but that looks like a lot of stuff for $600+. Not seeing that much of a problem. Originally Posted By Trempel: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Originally Posted By livfreely: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Do I need to post the reciept? For fucks sake, I feel like my mother is shaking her finger at me about how I spend my money with some of you guys. Did I load up on prepared junk food that will kill me? NO. Mostly organic meats & veggies with meal ideas prepared at home. The sweetest thing I bought was an 8 pack of ginger ale & a box of fucking graham crackers. I would love to see the receipt out of curiosity. I have a family of 5 for 4 days a week, and 2 for the rest. We spend $250/week on groceries. I buy Organic whenever it’s available Paper was 2' long but here it is. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184848-3826990.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184909-3826995.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184945-3826997.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185032-3826998.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185056-3827000.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185123-3827003.jpg I don’t know what 75% of that stuff is, but that looks like a lot of stuff for $600+. Not seeing that much of a problem. Amanda, is that you? |
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Originally Posted By FDC: Gas prices being low 7 years ago won't help someone freezing this winter because they can't afford oil and don't have the physical ability/resources to heat with wood. Originally Posted By FDC: Originally Posted By Glock031: Originally Posted By himarker: He has given us the highest diesel prices in history. And In his first term he gave you the lowest price gasoline in decades. Now what's your point. Do you think it's going to stay priced like this forever. Gas prices being low 7 years ago won't help someone freezing this winter because they can't afford oil and don't have the physical ability/resources to heat with wood. There's a real empathy disconnect here, they don't care. As long as "Well, I got mine, I can afford it, if you can't, you must suck somehow" is prevalent, they won't understand how elections get lost. Sure... I got mine. But if someone challenged me to do so, I would NOT want to take part in the "can yousurvive today challenge", where someone would take everything off you but $20k in the bank, you're unemployed, drive a 15 year old beater, and have to find a place to rent or buy and get a good job and start building again in September 2026. I'm doing well because of my past choices and past economies. Not this one. Decades of being able to stack away savings into investments (because life was much more affordable then) have let me piggyback onto the corporations of Wall Street and their profits, which will let me coast to the end. |
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Originally Posted By DDiggler: Yeah, the lowest gas prices in decades was ALL because of Trump, not because government basically grounded everyone to the house for half his term, shutting down businesses and putting out restrictions. Well... wait... that came from Fauci, who was working under Trump for his administration... so I guess you could say that Trump was "responsible" for them in a round-about way. Those gas prices where the lowest in decades before COVID, and COVID was not half his term but the last year. |
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Originally Posted By lygxis: Too many labelled organic. Originally Posted By lygxis: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Originally Posted By livfreely: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Do I need to post the reciept? For fucks sake, I feel like my mother is shaking her finger at me about how I spend my money with some of you guys. Did I load up on prepared junk food that will kill me? NO. Mostly organic meats & veggies with meal ideas prepared at home. The sweetest thing I bought was an 8 pack of ginger ale & a box of fucking graham crackers. I would love to see the receipt out of curiosity. I have a family of 5 for 4 days a week, and 2 for the rest. We spend $250/week on groceries. I buy Organic whenever it’s available Paper was 2' long but here it is. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184848-3826990.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184909-3826995.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184945-3826997.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185032-3826998.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185056-3827000.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185123-3827003.jpg Too many labelled organic. I don't like to disparage my wife about "organic". I see the attraction & it may have some validity but I can't stand paying more for it. Especially when it to easy to roll a tomato into a different bag with the organic label. The .gov will tell you that organic product production is tightly controlled but much like any commodity, if a dollar is involved, it's ripe for abuse. |
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Originally Posted By careyvonhasselhoff: Biden isn't the one currently wearing a diaper. Originally Posted By careyvonhasselhoff: Originally Posted By AZ_M1: I blame Biden the pants shitter for this. Biden isn't the one currently wearing a diaper. Biden gave us 20% inflation, damaged our oil and gas industry and let in 20+ million illegals. What he did to America can not be easily fixed. |
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Originally Posted By Tirador223: I heard Eisenhower was responsible. Makes about as much sense as the above. Originally Posted By Tirador223: Originally Posted By AZ_M1: I blame Biden the pants shitter for this. I heard Eisenhower was responsible. Makes about as much sense as the above. Biden gave us 20% inflation, damaged our oil and gas industry and let in 20+ million illegals. Don't be a libtard. |
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Originally Posted By lygxis: Too many labelled organic. Originally Posted By lygxis: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Originally Posted By livfreely: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: Do I need to post the reciept? For fucks sake, I feel like my mother is shaking her finger at me about how I spend my money with some of you guys. Did I load up on prepared junk food that will kill me? NO. Mostly organic meats & veggies with meal ideas prepared at home. The sweetest thing I bought was an 8 pack of ginger ale & a box of fucking graham crackers. I would love to see the receipt out of curiosity. I have a family of 5 for 4 days a week, and 2 for the rest. We spend $250/week on groceries. I buy Organic whenever it’s available Paper was 2' long but here it is. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184848-3826990.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184909-3826995.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_184945-3826997.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185032-3826998.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185056-3827000.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/381345/20260913_185123-3827003.jpg Too many labelled organic. Yeah buying beef, organic produce, name brand laundry detergent adds up. Shit's expensive though. The older I get the more I understand why my grandma clipped coupons. If I save $10 every week at the store thats $500 a year. |
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Originally Posted By Turtle556: Biden gave us 20% inflation, damaged our oil and gas industry and let in 20+ million illegals. Don't be a libtard. Trump has and continues to spend us into oblivion and mires us in wars we have no business being involved in. Don’t be myopic. |
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Originally Posted By DDiggler: Why is that ridiculous? Even if it's fraud by the importer or carrier. Example... I bought a Japanese chef knife. I paid a bunch of tariff to whatever carrier it was to reimburse them for the tariff cost so they would deliver it to me. So you're saying that they will get reimbursed the money that I already paid them, and they aren't required to refund me the money? They are profiting off the tariff? Originally Posted By DDiggler: Originally Posted By Marie: Originally Posted By Dano523: Still trying to figure out how the inflation rate is only 3.4%, when everything imported has at least a 10% tariff tax on it to start with. none of the refund checks have gone out from first round of tarriffs, and cost of living is a hell of lot higher than just the 3.4% from the same time last year. But hey, strait of Hormuz is closed, strait of the Red sea is closed, SA just had its pipe line to red sea straight destroyed and shut down it oil production that is driving the price of crud up even more, but someone instead of dealing with such, is off in Ireland golfing. P.S Unifiy Ireland is petty much stating to bring back the Troubles, with putting UK back in control. What do you mean tariff refund checks haven’t gone out? Consumers expecting to get refunds are ridiculous. The importers have gotten refunds. $115 billion, per Gemini. Why is that ridiculous? Even if it's fraud by the importer or carrier. Example... I bought a Japanese chef knife. I paid a bunch of tariff to whatever carrier it was to reimburse them for the tariff cost so they would deliver it to me. So you're saying that they will get reimbursed the money that I already paid them, and they aren't required to refund me the money? They are profiting off the tariff? Consumers who shop at big retailers such as Walmart and Target expecting to get tariff refunds is ridiculous. If you ordered something from overseas and you’re not the importer of record on the customs clearance, you are not entitled to get the refund directly. For a lot of smaller stuff, the carrier (FedEx, for example) is the IOR on the clearance. They’re the ones who get the refund directly from the Feds and you have to deal with FedEx (or whoever) for refund. But if you ordered a knife, it probably got hit with the Section 232 metal tariffs, not eligible for refunds, and didn’t get with the reciprocal tariffs, which did get refunded. |
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