Suddenly Noticing High Retail Prices everywhere

[Anonymous]

Well Democrats want to raise taxes on businesses which will be passed right along to the price of the goods and services they sell as well as reduce employee benefits. It’s no different than tariffs. Those costs are passed onto the end consumer regardless of which party is in power.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't matter. If people can't/won't pay the higher prices then they will lower them.

The prices can only be lowered so much. When the profit margin is small to begin with, they cannot reduce the prices, they will just go out of business.

Let’s have government run supermarkets to curb inflation and make food more affordable. That’ll show’em. LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Prices for me went way up during the pandemic because a large part of my budget is food.

Recently my food prices have been stable but I have noticed huge increases in cheap consumer crap from China such as my kids clothes.

Which personally I don’t mind increasing costs of discretionary cheap plastic crap from China. We would all be better off buying less of it.


What I need are prices of essentials to stay stable. Food, fuel, energy, insurance, and healthcare.

So, food is now subject to many of the tariffs, so sorry about that.

Fuel is at least a global market although people in the upper Midwest that refine mostly Canadian oil will be seeing higher prices then the rest of the country due to tariffs.

Insurance is a combination of expected casualties plus the costs to rebuild after such casualty. Tariffs will absolutely raise insurance rates because nearly all the input costs for auto and home are increasing.

Tariffs impact just about everything.

Higher taxes impact everything as well. It all trickles down to the end consumer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well Democrats want to raise taxes on businesses which will be passed right along to the price of the goods and services they sell as well as reduce employee benefits. It’s no different than tariffs. Those costs are passed onto the end consumer regardless of which party is in power.

Business taxes are imposed on profits. Import taxes are imposed on the basis of national origin. Grocery stores don't operate at high profit margins, so tariffs will affect food prices more than profit taxes. Clothing, shoes, and consumer goods will be most affected by tariffs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prices for me went way up during the pandemic because a large part of my budget is food.

Recently my food prices have been stable but I have noticed huge increases in cheap consumer crap from China such as my kids clothes.

Which personally I don’t mind increasing costs of discretionary cheap plastic crap from China. We would all be better off buying less of it.


What I need are prices of essentials to stay stable. Food, fuel, energy, insurance, and healthcare.

So, food is now subject to many of the tariffs, so sorry about that.

Fuel is at least a global market although people in the upper Midwest that refine mostly Canadian oil will be seeing higher prices then the rest of the country due to tariffs.

Insurance is a combination of expected casualties plus the costs to rebuild after such casualty. Tariffs will absolutely raise insurance rates because nearly all the input costs for auto and home are increasing.

Tariffs impact just about everything.

Higher taxes impact everything as well. It all trickles down to the end consumer.

What’s your point. We would all be up in arms if the president just unilaterally raised taxes too (which is what he did BTW since that’s what a tariff is…a tax).

[Anonymous]

I am pretty used to high prices living but I have almost gasped multiple times this week. I feel like an 80 year old. I went to the airport and got two premade sandwiches from one of those little magazine kiosks and a premade Starbucks iced coffee and it was $27. I went to breakfast and got two omelettes and two coffees and it was $66. And other occasions. I don't know what's going on but I don't know how people are paying for this.

[Anonymous]

I also feel so elderly comparing today’s prices to when I was younger (I’m 53). Yesterday at the grocery store there were cherries for like $12 the bag, grapes for $10 per container, etc…

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Anonymous wrote:I am pretty used to high prices living but I have almost gasped multiple times this week. I feel like an 80 year old. I went to the airport and got two premade sandwiches from one of those little magazine kiosks and a premade Starbucks iced coffee and it was $27. I went to breakfast and got two omelettes and two coffees and it was $66. And other occasions. I don't know what's going on but I don't know how people are paying for this.

I don't know either. We have just stopped traveling.

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Anonymous wrote:I also feel so elderly comparing today’s prices to when I was younger (I’m 53). Yesterday at the grocery store there were cherries for like $12 the bag, grapes for $10 per container, etc…

SAME! I had a bag of grapes in my basket at the regular grocery store, not even a large bag. it was $15. So I gave them back and bought them at costco where they were still reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop whining. This is what winning looks like.

Senator Hawley is going to send every American $600 from the vast amount of tariff money the US has collected from the losers in other countries.

So stupid. The point of tariffs was to help bring down the debt not to distribute a measly sum to every American. Tariffs are just a regressive tax on the entire population.

Actually know one knows the point of THESE tariffs. Ross Douthat asked JD Vance the point of the tariffs and how success would be measured on his NY Times podcast months ago and JD Vance was unable to provide an answer. The tariffs are everything and nothing at the same time from a policy perspective. It’s all just so incredibly stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:Prices have gone up dramatically and I will be changing my habits. I recently took college aged DS out for lunch at Silver Diner, and with a 15% tip the bill was around $50 for 2 “lunch specials”.

I recently bought groceries and it was $75 for milk, bread, plain yogurt, bananas, cereal, and a few other random items that fit in 2 shopping bags.

Package shrink is a real thing, too. Manufacturers are shrinking the size of boxes and cans while raising prices. It makes following recipes difficult because a package of X is not what it used to be.

Same here. We no longer go to places like Silver Diner because it's not enjoyable to me to pay a fortune for a mediocre meal. The value proposition isn't there even though we could afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am pretty used to high prices living but I have almost gasped multiple times this week. I feel like an 80 year old. I went to the airport and got two premade sandwiches from one of those little magazine kiosks and a premade Starbucks iced coffee and it was $27. I went to breakfast and got two omelettes and two coffees and it was $66. And other occasions. I don't know what's going on but I don't know how people are paying for this.

+1 I just told DH I feel like I'm 87 because I was shocked at prices at multiple places the other day.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, even if you can afford to eat out, the value proposition has to be there. At many places, it just isn't, so we're going back to the idea that we go out to eat to celebrate an event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prices have gone up dramatically and I will be changing my habits. I recently took college aged DS out for lunch at Silver Diner, and with a 15% tip the bill was around $50 for 2 “lunch specials”.

I recently bought groceries and it was $75 for milk, bread, plain yogurt, bananas, cereal, and a few other random items that fit in 2 shopping bags.

Package shrink is a real thing, too. Manufacturers are shrinking the size of boxes and cans while raising prices. It makes following recipes difficult because a package of X is not what it used to be.

Same here. We no longer go to places like Silver Diner because it's not enjoyable to me to pay a fortune for a mediocre meal. The value proposition isn't there even though we could afford it.

NP. That’s right, these are mediocre meals we tolerate for togetherness or travel, but they’re certainly not worth the $$$.

I feel sorry for restaurant owners because many are not rich. They have to pay high labor costs, high food costs, high materials costs, high insurance costs, high rent costs.

But at the end of the day, it’s no longer worth it.