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[quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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