Grocery Prices Are Out Of Control
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Anonymous
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Yeah, it is insane. I’m in a position where I can still afford things, but I resent the high prices, and my disposable income is definitely dropping.
I stopped buying Stacy’s when they crested $7/bag. I’ve bought generic pita chips and used fresh pita and veg for dips instead. I shop more at Trader Joe’s and a lot less at Whole Foods. To the extent possible, I order non-edible grocery items online from Amazon, Costco, or specialty suppliers to get a better deal—supplements, trash bags, shampoo, cleaning supplies. I also don’t mess with CVS except for in emergencies. I try to stock up on first aid elsewhere. |
Anonymous
| My parents drink soda so I try to get a 12 pack every time they visit. I was floored by the cost of Pepsi- $11! They clearly need to drink water. |
Anonymous
I remember about 10 years ago soda was regularly $4-$6 per 12 pack. |
Anonymous
This. I can walk to Giant, but now only go there for the handful of things I don't want to buy in large quantities at Costco. I never used to watch prices closely, but for much of the past year, a gallon of milk was a full dollar more expensive there. And I was floored the other day to pay $3.99 for a bag of dried kidney beans! |
Anonymous
You are proving my point that prices are so outrageous that I’d have to travel far away & change to a worse brand to save money. A few years ago a dozen organic eggs were $6.99 (vital farm for reference). Now, they’re $11.99. This is true at most grocery stores I go to for this specific brand. Deny grocery prices at your peril. As we have seen in the past, it matters. You must be in a cheap spot, but that doesn’t mean everyone is. |
Anonymous
They are having buy 2, get 3 sale. So 5 pkg for $22. Only about $4/dz. I know you are gonna complain “what do I do with 5?” Never happy. |
Anonymous
oh is Montgomery County MD considered a cheap spot now? And no-I’m not proving your point. Vital Farms is a premium brand. At 6.99 a dozen it was ALREADY too much for the majority of People. So yeah, If you are complaining that it went up significantly-I’m not disagreeing that the price went up or saying you are lying. I’m simple saying that if you could afford a dozen premium eggs at 6.99 you can afford them at 11.99 just the same. |
Anonymous
This. I have routinely seen the regular price of a 12 pack of soda at around $13. There is no way in hell I would pay that. I wait for the good sales which are OFTEN and that’s the only time I buy them-ever. For the record I grew up poor AF and we never had anything if it wasn’t significantly on sale or generic. Some of you need to learn from the poors. |
Anonymous
| Out of control!!! So expensive. The scary part is that it won’t go down. |
Anonymous
OP did not post about egg prices. |
Anonymous
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I, like many people on this board, don't really fundamentally have to worry about access to food. I need it, I can buy it. But I have been stopped in my tracks buying things I used to get for much cheaper quite a bit more recently. The pecorino wedge at Costco used to be $11-12 and now it's $21. The bollios I get from the Mexican market down the road were $75 cents a couple of years ago and now they're $1.60. Limes were commonly $49 cents a pound, now they're frequently $49 cents each. I spent $15 on a pack of chicken breasts recently, that would easily have been $8 or 9 a few years ago.
(Whenever people list specifics on this board people immediately nitpick -- "I got XYZ at XYZ for $$$ last week, you need to try harder." Yeah, sure, true, but with what leisure time are you expected to go driving around town saving a few dollars on strawberries? Especially since gas is truly out of control right now). What's the cause? There is no single cause. It's the war. It's the tariffs. It's climate change. It's the deportation of undocumented people. It's utilities. If people on DCUM are feeling it, imagine how people who are lower or middle class are feeling. |
Anonymous
| On a recent trip we stopped at a local grocery store to buy a picnic lunch. It cost $50 for the two of us. |
Anonymous
Unless you literally got a loaf of bread and like 1/4 pound of meat and cheese to go on it that’s what a picnic lunch pretty much always ran for 2. Everyone thinks a picnic lunch is a cute cheap date-when actually unless you made sandwiches at home and just brought them to a park to eat it’s just as expensive if not more than going out to lunch. It’s also economies of scale-a picnic lunch is actually going to be more expensive for 2 than it would be for 4. All those cute little prepared foods and condiments add up super quick when it’s only for 2 people. This is just not a good example. Also “local grocery store” implies one of those non chain fru-fru grocery stores that have always been overpriced since the beginning of time. |
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Anonymous
MAGA fkers don't let facts get in the way of a good story. |