Grocery Prices Are Out Of Control (Page 2 of 12)
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Originally Posted By Tirador223: I heard Eisenhower was responsible. Makes about as much sense as the above. It does seem silly on the surface but it takes time for inflation inducing policies to reach the consumer. We’ve been dealing with higher costs for over 2 years. The Biden administration isn’t 100% at fault through. Inflation is normal in our economy but they easily doubled it. We’ll never go back to where we were either, unless we experience deflation and producers allow that deflation to reach us vs their own pockets. Inflation will most likely continue but thanks to Biden we’re maybe 10 years ahead of where we should be. |
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We grow a large garden, have fruit and nut trees and chickens. It isn’t a massive savings, but it pays, and we eat better and spend time together, outside, getting meaningful work done. There are local beef, pork, chicken producers we buy from. Might be time to tear up that back yard and start growing food. I don’t know how this ends. |
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I have a pile of daughters from Newborn to driving age. My grocery /housegoods bill is over $2500 a month. Hell I think I spend around $200 a month for toilet paper and feminine products. Thats with a full greenhouse and chickens on the homestead. My kids ate every fig, blackberry, strawberry, guava, jaboticaba, raspberry, blueberry and grape we grew this year. I’m dying over here. |
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Originally Posted By redseven11b: I'd jump in the time machine in a second if I could  Originally Posted By redseven11b: Originally Posted By Jay561: I just want to go back to the early 00s and 99 cent per lb ground beef. Being poor was easy then. I'd jump in the time machine in a second if I could Yep. Pretty sad when a pound of ground beef costs more than a pound of live ME lobster... both boat price and most of retail places. |
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Originally Posted By cranberry1: That's why this war with Iran is stupid thank the Israelis for this bullshit ,gas goes up and so does everything that needs to be delivered . I won't argue this point, even in my industry, costs to produce, deliver & install materials on a construction project are heavily determined by the price of fuel/distance to the job. My site contractors take a beating every time diesel takes a jump. Their on my projects 12-18 months with heavy equipment running bidding a job at 4.00 a gallon then it jumps up 2.00+ dollars for weeks. |
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Originally Posted By byron2112: You gotta shop around like granny did with her coupon cutting and binder fulla savings. No more just grabbing whatever you want... unless you like burning money. I wondered most of my childhood about Grandma's "junk room". The damn door would barely open it was so full of common household stuff like ziplocks of all sizes, foil, plastic wraps, a mountain of sewing supplies, it was almost like walking through a forest of "junk" to a 12 year old. That woman however grew up as a teen in the Great Depression, had to be plucked by boat out of their home on stilts that sat in the Mississippi River multiple times. No AC. No refrigeration. Hell she remembered when they first got electric lights. A world very few of us would recognize. I would give a great deal to sit for just an hour of what she could teach me. |
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Originally Posted By Anastasios: How in the fuck does anyone spend $600+ on a single trip to the grocery store?! I had 6 bags this morning at Publix, $177.32. - stuff for kids lunches - stuff for dinner - breakfast stuff for the week - some fruits and veggies - coffee - milk - cat food - laundry detergent Should get us through mid week and I'll be back. I've got buddies with growing middle school and high school dudes - they eat probably $400-500 a week easy. |
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Originally Posted By FVMC: Only gonna get worse. Diesel is over 6/gal. I wouldn't be surprised to see ~$9/gal before EoY. Unless something drastic happens. Which it probably won't. Even if something happens right this second, it would take weeks/months for prices to fall. Grocery prices will more than likely never fall again. Sirloin tips/strips were 9.99/lb (sometimes 6.5/lb on sale) last September. They increased to 15.99 before the iran thing. They're still 15.99 right now. That won't last long. I haven't bought them since they went up. Not worth 16/lb. $11 for diesel in Europe right now, but food is less expensive than US. Will attempt to get pics from supermarket this week (all closed today). |
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Originally Posted By The_Like_Button: I have a pile of daughters from Newborn to driving age. My grocery /housegoods bill is over $2500 a month. Hell I think I spend around $200 a month for toilet paper and feminine products. Thats with a full greenhouse and chickens on the homestead. My kids ate every fig, blackberry, strawberry, guava, jaboticaba, raspberry, blueberry and grape we grew this year. I’m dying over here. I swear females eat the most insane variety of things, (prob why they live longer). Females in my household will stock 100's of random things. Meanwhile, I'm looking for meat, cheese and bread, and I'm good. Don't even get me started on toilet paper, LOL |
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Originally Posted By RogueSpear2023: Biden really fucked things up Trump is just matching inflation Deficit increased about 7.7T in trump’s first term. 8.5T for FJB. TRUMP round 2 is at 3.8T so far. Clearly all on FJB’s shoulders. At least be consistent. |
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From another thread, but my reply fits here too. Originally Posted By InflectionPoint: Been saying it for months. FDJT can’t shut his ignorant mouth and diesel is over $6/gallon nationwide and ground beef is $8/lb. It’s going to be a bloodbath. All of the Trump ball garglers are always “polls are bullshit”. It’s the economy stupid. OK, where the F do you guys shop? Locally owned cash and carry.. 80/20 for $4.99, etc etc. and these have been fairly consistent (as consistent as a commodity can be).   Food is expensive if you're a tard, but life is too, at that point. Walmart order from today:  
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| I spend $100-$150 a week at aldi for family of 3. It gets expensive because I only feed my child organic food. $600 for a cartful is retarded. You have to live within your means. No steak. I only buy ground beef, and only maybe 2 lbs a week because of the insane cost of beef. |
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Originally Posted By theguymontag: I’m still buying at Costco, and we’re still doing well. Beef, chicken, pork, fruits and vegetables, usually minimally processed snacks for us and the kids. SWAG about $750 to Costco for food and gas for the month. I just got whole ribeye at Costco marked down. I took it home, got out my meat cutting stuff (sharp butcher knife and a cutting board I made so I could cut steaks to equal thickness), washed my hot little hands and proceeded to cut 24 steak dinners out of that thing for around 175$. Then I got out my food saver and a roll of bag material and i spent about a half hour bagging them for the freezer. Sub 10$ steak dinners, with a little over an hour's work. |
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Originally Posted By byron2112: We need another 20-30 million illegals to fix this... as a side benefit they're much more law abiding than native Americans I've been told.. I remember being fed that crock of shit years ago. How Mexicans are gonna save CA because they're so religious and conservative 🙄 Spoused by fucking retards that never grew up around Mexicans mind you... |
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Originally Posted By bafordman: Are wages keeping up with inflation? That’s amazing. If something went up $10 due to inflation, I sure am thankful for that $10.01 raise I got.  They’re statistically the same number, but it’s all bullshit because the inflation number doesn’t include fuel or food. |
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Originally Posted By sanausnol: I honestly don’t know. For our family of 5, the weekly groceries come to around $300-350 and that is for groceries in Alaska. I guess if it is a much larger family or you have to have name brand for everything you buy it would be higher? Yeah, I have 5 kids. 3 of the kids are in their teens. The oldest has moved out. One 11 year old. So, 6 of us run about $350-375 per week, depending on what sundry we buy. That cost isn’t just food, it’s all necessities included. We typically shop at Meijer. Mostly whole food ingredients, veggies, fruits, etc. No prepared foods or meals at all. We cook every meal at home now, because eating out costs too much. Even fast food is $50+. A mid tier restaurant is over $100 easy, before tip. Not worth it. |
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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. No but he fucking owns this mess. It won't be fixed in 15 minutes, the damage to this nation is very deep, well beyond grocery prices. l |
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Originally Posted By FZJ80: We grow a large garden, have fruit and nut trees and chickens. It isn’t a massive savings, but it pays, and we eat better and spend time together, outside, getting meaningful work done. There are local beef, pork, chicken producers we buy from. Might be time to tear up that back yard and start growing food. I don’t know how this ends. Yep, I sell pork and beef direct to consumer. You buy the animal (or portion of it) from me. Then go pick up your meat from the butcher and pay the processing fee. Last cow I sold was averaged out to about $5.39/lb for my customers. Hogs are being processed right now, but should be in the $5/lb range as well give or take a couple quarters. It’s a good deal for me and the customer. I get full price, cut out the middlemen and they get good wholesome beef/pork from my farm for a very fair price. Fuck the big packing companies. |
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Originally Posted By cosmo05: No but he fucking owns this mess. It won't be fixed in 15 minutes, the damage to this nation is very deep, well beyond grocery prices. l Now address the 8T in deficit spending Trump created in his first term. They both share the blame. Trump is in charge now and has done nothing but exacerbate the issues with his mouth and ignorance. |
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Originally Posted By Finslayer83: I had 6 bags this morning at Publix, $177.32. - stuff for kids lunches - stuff for dinner - breakfast stuff for the week - some fruits and veggies - coffee - milk - cat food - laundry detergent Should get us through mid week and I'll be back. I've got buddies with growing middle school and high school dudes - they eat probably $400-500 a week easy. Eat the cat in a stir fry and stop buying cat food, follow me..... |
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Originally Posted By Anastasios: How in the fuck does anyone spend $600+ on a single trip to the grocery store?! they eat quality food they need other items too Buying for a couple weeks I single pack of quality beef is 60 bucks four galllons of milk is 20 bucks couple packs of butter and eggs 20 bucks Boneless chicken is like 4 bucks a pound Moderate / "fairly decent" eating Good proteins, fresh produce, snacks, variety $1,400 $1,800 a month for a family of four official USDA Food Plans (Cost of Food at Home reports) so 600 every two weeks for a family of four is below average |
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Originally Posted By Finslayer83: I had 6 bags this morning at Publix, $177.32. - stuff for kids lunches - stuff for dinner - breakfast stuff for the week - some fruits and veggies - coffee - milk - cat food - laundry detergent Should get us through mid week and I'll be back. I've got buddies with growing middle school and high school dudes - they eat probably $400-500 a week easy. Publix is higher than giraffe pussy. eta But I will co-sign OP's premise. Food and fuel/energy prices are just ignorant across the board. Trump better be glad the Dems are batshit crazy because but for that fact, the mid-terms would be a bloodbath. (and they may be anyway) This fucking thing in Iran should have been done 2 months ago. And can anybody tell me why the Houties are still even a factor? The fucking Saudis are worthless. 
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| For those of you for whom things constantly go over your head, the point of the OPs post was to make a metaphor for things being out f control price wise. He was not looking for you to tell him where to buy chicken for $1.29 a pound, which secret store to go to, or for tips on coupons. |
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Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: We usually buy groceries in smaller amounts during the week since plans change frequently as my wife is the sole care taker of her elderly mother. \We went shopping at wally world for this weeks grocery allowance. A couple of years ago we filled up a cart to the brim at Pubilx & spent $360.00+, which was the most we had ever shelled out in one trip. Well this trip wasn't much different as far as the type of food we purchased & the grand total for the same cart was $636.97 A new record.  From now after this food is gone we be eating pepper soup. There was a time when companies were content to make good money by selling good products at reasonable prices. Now they want ALL the money, by selling the shittiest products at the highest prices. And if you don't like it, they don't care. |
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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. No shit...my property taxes have doubled since 2023 and of course insurance follows suit with the increased home "appraisal" value. What a vicious circular scam job... |
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Originally Posted By EvoXGunner: That was the 1980s Originally Posted By EvoXGunner: Originally Posted By JLAudio: This is the Golden Age of America That was the 1980s Early 1970s had the highest ratio of "average income" to "average cost of living" . If you want to see the small window of time when we started getting screwed, and how it's gone since, look through every graph on https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/. One of them would be enough, but they have graphs examining this phenomenon from every angle possible. |
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Originally Posted By Anastasios: How in the fuck does anyone spend $600+ on a single trip to the grocery store?! Buy a bunch of stuff at regular Publix prices. 
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Yep... I got married in June 2024, and I've been monitoring my budget since long before that. The first year or so for three of us would hit around $1k per month. The wifey and I tried shopping at a few different places and found that Aldi does save quite a bit, though they don't have everything we need. So we get some things from HEB, most of the rest from Aldi, and sometimes things from Walmart or Target. Anyway, I think that budget is now $1.5k. And my income hasn't kept up. Pathetic raises the last few years. I'm actively looking for another job now. |
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not sure if regional around here prices seem much more reasonable than during Biden.. eggs - 1.59/dozen steak - back down to 24.99/lb for filet, was up to over $50, tenderloin tips 14.99/lb chicken prices are back to good and also chicken is available again after the whole gap overall everything seems pretty normal |
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Originally Posted By intercooler: If you went to a different grocery store other than Publix, you’d probably save 30% Publix is a rip off Originally Posted By intercooler: Originally Posted By Plank_Spanker: We usually buy groceries in smaller amounts during the week since plans change frequently as my wife is the sole care taker of her elderly mother. \We went shopping at wally world for this weeks grocery allowance. A couple of years ago we filled up a cart to the brim at Pubilx & spent $360.00+, which was the most we had ever shelled out in one trip. Well this trip wasn't much different as far as the type of food we purchased & the grand total for the same cart was $636.97 A new record. From now after this food is gone we be eating pepper soup. If you went to a different grocery store other than Publix, you’d probably save 30% Publix is a rip off Publix is a shop the specials and you will break even. Their meat department alone is so much better than a lot of the others in my area. There are some chains that aren’t in the area I’d prefer. Ingles may be a bit cheaper but it’s processed food hell and the meat department is the same prices and shit quality. |
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Originally Posted By byron2112: You gotta shop around like granny did with her coupon cutting and binder fulla savings. No more just grabbing whatever you want... unless you like burning money. There's some truth to this too. My Mom in the 1970's and 80's did this religiously. Here, the Randall's (aka Safeway) deli has Cheap Chicken Monday - 8 pieces of dark meat, fried, baked, grilled or spicy fried - for $5.99, and they usually have at least one brand of bacon on sale for $3.99. We hit them every Monday for just that, can get up to 4 meals out of that $5.99. |
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