Grocery Prices Are Out Of Control

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pay $5.49 for a bag of the pita chips at Harris Teeeter. I just checked the app and that’s the current price. As a matter of fact, it shows they’re BOGO today so about $2.75. Did you buy the large 16oz bag instead of the typical size? Those are $9.99. I don’t buy things like this unless they’re on sale. Inflation is crazy so I now buy more generics and keep track of typical prices for foods I buy frequently. I have not found any one chain to have across the board cheaper prices. One store is cheaper on milk, another on eggs, another on produce. It’s a pain to chase the best prices.

Yeah, uhhhh, I buy the biggest bag because we are a family of 5 and two of those are a 15 year old boy and a 17 year old boy. Have you ever seen what a 6ft 2, 205 pound teenage boy will eat? It's honestly wild. We grilled 6 pounds of boneless chicken last night and had salad, four artichokes, 3 cups of rice and he ate about 4 pounds of food. That was his 4th meal of the day. Some of you are just clueless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I pay $5.49 for a bag of the pita chips at Harris Teeeter. I just checked the app and that’s the current price. As a matter of fact, it shows they’re BOGO today so about $2.75. Did you buy the large 16oz bag instead of the typical size? Those are $9.99. I don’t buy things like this unless they’re on sale. Inflation is crazy so I now buy more generics and keep track of typical prices for foods I buy frequently. I have not found any one chain to have across the board cheaper prices. One store is cheaper on milk, another on eggs, another on produce. It’s a pain to chase the best prices.

Yeah, uhhhh, I buy the biggest bag because we are a family of 5 and two of those are a 15 year old boy and a 17 year old boy. Have you ever seen what a 6ft 2, 205 pound teenage boy will eat? It's honestly wild. We grilled 6 pounds of boneless chicken last night and had salad, four artichokes, 3 cups of rice and he ate about 4 pounds of food. That was his 4th meal of the day. Some of you are just clueless.

I guess this evens out with all the hair and skin products I have to buy, plus all the Starbucks and Lululemon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I pay $5.49 for a bag of the pita chips at Harris Teeeter. I just checked the app and that’s the current price. As a matter of fact, it shows they’re BOGO today so about $2.75. Did you buy the large 16oz bag instead of the typical size? Those are $9.99. I don’t buy things like this unless they’re on sale. Inflation is crazy so I now buy more generics and keep track of typical prices for foods I buy frequently. I have not found any one chain to have across the board cheaper prices. One store is cheaper on milk, another on eggs, another on produce. It’s a pain to chase the best prices.

Yeah, uhhhh, I buy the biggest bag because we are a family of 5 and two of those are a 15 year old boy and a 17 year old boy. Have you ever seen what a 6ft 2, 205 pound teenage boy will eat? It's honestly wild. We grilled 6 pounds of boneless chicken last night and had salad, four artichokes, 3 cups of rice and he ate about 4 pounds of food. That was his 4th meal of the day. Some of you are just clueless.

I have two teenage boys. They know that if they ask for chips they have to wait a day or two because i’m ordering them from walmart delivery where it is quite literally half the price or more over the grocery stores. I have walmart+ and I highly recommend it to everyone. We can’t get all our stuff there but for that stuff it’s so worth it. I would never pay so much for chips.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree. A few years ago we used to be a $300/week family and could do mostly organic for that, and now we’re at $450 for the same stuff.

Crackers (which I don’t really buy, but noticed) are $6/box. Bread is $8/loaf. Eggs are $12 for a dozen. We pay $8-$9 for half a gallon of organic milk.

Where are you seeing these prices????? I pay $4 a loaf for my fancy bread loaf and I bought 30 eggs for 3.99 today (regular price) and I typically buy the 18 pack from target for 2.50ish.

Also curious to see where that poster is shopping. I paid almost $9 for a gallon for organic milk at Safeway. Not half gallon.

And I paid 3.79 for 1% milk at Giant (gallon). Who is forcing you to drink organic milk?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trump! MAGAs must be so proud.

He ran on a campaign of lowering food costs and now…this. And yet we hear nothing but crickets from the magas

Food costs were already artificially low on the backs of poorly treated migrant workers. They weren't going to go down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Groceries are up for sure, but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the increases we are paying in health insurance premiums/deductibles/copays, and homeowners and car insurance. All way more expensive and covering way less.

I don’t know why it isn’t being discussed more. It’s hitting me way harder than groceries.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coors seems optional.

Of course it’s optional, but the fact remains that-= costs are still high. Is it OK that we have to cut back because things are optional? Why didn’t MAGA cut back and not complain during the Biden administration because everything is optional?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pay $5.49 for a bag of the pita chips at Harris Teeeter. I just checked the app and that’s the current price. As a matter of fact, it shows they’re BOGO today so about $2.75. Did you buy the large 16oz bag instead of the typical size? Those are $9.99. I don’t buy things like this unless they’re on sale. Inflation is crazy so I now buy more generics and keep track of typical prices for foods I buy frequently. I have not found any one chain to have across the board cheaper prices. One store is cheaper on milk, another on eggs, another on produce. It’s a pain to chase the best prices.

I just checked my local Harris Teeter and the 16 oz Stacy's pita chips are 9.99. The $5.49 bags are somewhat small at 7 oz, about 3 servings, maybe 4 if you make them small -- not the size you would buy if you have a family. And it's cheaper per oz to buy the larger size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Groceries are up for sure, but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the increases we are paying in health insurance premiums/deductibles/copays, and homeowners and car insurance. All way more expensive and covering way less.

I don’t know why it isn’t being discussed more. It’s hitting me way harder than groceries.

Same. And UTILITIES. And before anybody says something I set my summer temperature at 82° and my winter heat temperature at 60.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Groceries are up for sure, but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the increases we are paying in health insurance premiums/deductibles/copays, and homeowners and car insurance. All way more expensive and covering way less.

I don’t know why it isn’t being discussed more. It’s hitting me way harder than groceries.

Stock market gain lessens the pain for us.

I hold a lot of stocks myself, but be honest. Do you sell a few shares of Amazon each week in order to fill up your tank? Because I know I don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from my weekly grocery trip at the Giant in Potomac Yard. A bag of Stacy's pita chips was $11. Conventional Giant brand baby carrots were $3. Radishes were $3 a bunch. A case of garbage domestic lager (Coors, Miller) is THIRTY DOLLARS. I lived on $30 a week in college in the late 90s.

Two years ago, the chips were $6, and the carrots and radishes were routinely $0.99.

What the hell is actually going on? Where is the money going?

Things were not as cheap as you recall during the biden administration. In fact, the inflation 2 years ago was hortible and one of the reasons why trump was elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from my weekly grocery trip at the Giant in Potomac Yard. A bag of Stacy's pita chips was $11. Conventional Giant brand baby carrots were $3. Radishes were $3 a bunch. A case of garbage domestic lager (Coors, Miller) is THIRTY DOLLARS. I lived on $30 a week in college in the late 90s.

Two years ago, the chips were $6, and the carrots and radishes were routinely $0.99.

What the hell is actually going on? Where is the money going?

Things were not as cheap as you recall during the biden administration. In fact, the inflation 2 years ago was hortible and one of the reasons why trump was elected.

It was a lot better than this. Trump made promises he failed to keep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pay $5.49 for a bag of the pita chips at Harris Teeeter. I just checked the app and that’s the current price. As a matter of fact, it shows they’re BOGO today so about $2.75. Did you buy the large 16oz bag instead of the typical size? Those are $9.99. I don’t buy things like this unless they’re on sale. Inflation is crazy so I now buy more generics and keep track of typical prices for foods I buy frequently. I have not found any one chain to have across the board cheaper prices. One store is cheaper on milk, another on eggs, another on produce. It’s a pain to chase the best prices.

Yeah, uhhhh, I buy the biggest bag because we are a family of 5 and two of those are a 15 year old boy and a 17 year old boy. Have you ever seen what a 6ft 2, 205 pound teenage boy will eat? It's honestly wild. We grilled 6 pounds of boneless chicken last night and had salad, four artichokes, 3 cups of rice and he ate about 4 pounds of food. That was his 4th meal of the day. Some of you are just clueless.

First, you choose to have three kids so stop complaining and yes, many of us have teen boys. You can pick cheaper foods. We aren't clueless, you are. Artichokes are what $3-4 each? 6 pouds fo chicken... too much, do more veggies.

[Anonymous]

I just checked the Wegmans app and the large size of Stacy’s pita chips, the 16 ounce size, is only $7.49.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from my weekly grocery trip at the Giant in Potomac Yard. A bag of Stacy's pita chips was $11. Conventional Giant brand baby carrots were $3. Radishes were $3 a bunch. A case of garbage domestic lager (Coors, Miller) is THIRTY DOLLARS. I lived on $30 a week in college in the late 90s.

Two years ago, the chips were $6, and the carrots and radishes were routinely $0.99.

What the hell is actually going on? Where is the money going?

Things were not as cheap as you recall during the biden administration. In fact, the inflation 2 years ago was hortible and one of the reasons why trump was elected.

It was a lot better than this. Trump made promises he failed to keep.

Prices were lower but the inflation rate is why we have the prices today.