Suddenly Noticing High Retail Prices everywhere

[Anonymous]

How can potato chips be 1.67 at Aldi and 7.50 at Publix? Are they designer potato chips?

[Anonymous]

Smart Puffs were $4 a bag and the bag is about 2.5 oz lighter.

On the bright side, perhaps this will trim American waistlines. Give it three months and it will be the official administration policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smart Puffs were $4 a bag and the bag is about 2.5 oz lighter.

On the bright side, perhaps this will trim American waistlines. Give it three months and it will be the official administration policy.

I know you are joking, but not likely. People are going to move to sturdy, long lasting and filling foods. Rice, beans, canned meat and veggies. The poorest people who can’t take the cost hit are going to those types of diets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, now I can't find a stick of deodorant for less than $10.

Brooks running shoes which I like... They used to be $100-$120 tops, now they are like $170.

These aren't just like 5-10% price hikes, this is much more! It's annoying.

I'm shocked by how expensive shampoo has gotten.

Yes, I used to buy salon shampoo (but at Target and Safeway) and I don’t anymore because it’s $20 for the small bottle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been shopping online and in person recently and noticed huge price jumps on stuff that I have shopped for before. It’s horrifying. Is this the tariffs kicking in? Or is it something else?

For example an item that I want to buy for months is now twice the price at multiple vendors!

Omg you can not be this dumb of course it’s tariffs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the Fed Governors resigned today. We will get a cut soon. Prices will go down measurably. Taxes too.

Please tell the class how interest rate cuts will bring down consumer prices and taxes (which kind of taxes?) TIA!

[Anonymous]

I just spent $160 on two bags of groceries at M.O.M's this afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump was right about the problem - Americans are losing. When an American kid has no hope of going to a good university like Harvard, no hope of becoming a doctor - and if they become a doctor, they will work the same as if they were in a factory, with little autonomy and relatively low wages - and definitely no hope of working in the US's biggest industry (tech) - we have a problem. When US kids can't hope to buy a house, when we are a capitalist country with very few capitalists - we have a problem.

The problem started with allowing corporate consolidation so that small companies can't hope to compete and is only getting worse. The billionaires at the top of that consolidation aren't having money trickle down - they save it, keeping money from flowing through the economy.

We have the exact same economic policies as Calvin Coolidge did in the 1920s.
1. High tariffs
2. Low taxes on wealthy and corporations
3. Reverse immigration

By 1929, people became too poor to buy the goods the corporations were producing. That led to the Great Depression. These policies did not work then and they won't work now.

Absolutely none of this is happening

Trump is making it easier for large corporations to have monopolies

Smaller companies can't hold up against the effect of the tariffs put out by schizo Trump.

Yep inflation is Don the cons making . A recession will be his fault as well,

Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the Qatari Jet when he leaves office 1 billion of our tax dollars to refurbish it. Him so National debt grows but Trump gets a billion dollar gift

MAGA loves to be poor while billionaires increase their incomes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the Fed Governors resigned today. We will get a cut soon. Prices will go down measurably. Taxes too.

Sure they will

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the Fed Governors resigned today. We will get a cut soon. Prices will go down measurably. Taxes too.

Sure they will

If they lower rates, inflation will increase. Trump is intentionally ruining the economy.

[Anonymous]

Also, 10lb sugar Wholesome was 11 bucks on Amazon in March when I was preloading in anticipation of Lib day. As of today it is 20+.

Coffee, chocolate and EVOO are way up due to climate change. Still remember 2023 when I got 2L EVOO Italian from Costco for 14 dollars. 27 now on their website. Many others will follow. They are the canary in the coal mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been shopping online and in person recently and noticed huge price jumps on stuff that I have shopped for before. It’s horrifying. Is this the tariffs kicking in? Or is it something else?

For example an item that I want to buy for months is now twice the price at multiple vendors!

What on earth might be happening to cause that to be happening so consistently??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the Fed Governors resigned today. We will get a cut soon. Prices will go down measurably. Taxes too.

How can prices go down when tariffs are 10-40% more on every product imported into the country? Who do you think is paying for this increase in costs? Taxes are going down if you’re rich, congratulations. For everyone else, nope. And I agree that rates are guys get cut because unemployment is going up. So you get an interest rate cut to purchase a new automobile, but the cost of the automobile has increased 5,000 to cover that 50% tariff on steel and aluminum. Not winning.

[Anonymous]

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.

You’re being sarcastic, right?

$600 isn’t going to offset the harm done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, now I can't find a stick of deodorant for less than $10.

Brooks running shoes which I like... They used to be $100-$120 tops, now they are like $170.

These aren't just like 5-10% price hikes, this is much more! It's annoying.

I'm shocked by how expensive shampoo has gotten.

And toothpaste