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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.

Yep, my portfolio more than makes up for a couple of dollars increase at the grocery store.

Except it's not like real money because it can disappear at any time. And if I try to take it out, I have to pay tax on it. So any gains are 20% less than they appear.

Inflation makes "real" money disappear slowly. Yes, I have to use quotes here because we have a fiat currency. The value of the dollar isn't tied to anything.

Yes, you can shop at Walmart instead but I think the broader message is that many people who rarely closely did comparison pricing are now having to change their behavior. I never thought of Giant as high-end grocery shopping but prices there are now literally insane, particularly for snack prices. We also have teenagers in the house and things like chips, snack foods, drinks are really crazy with high prices and less volume in each container. We are lucky to be able to absorb the prices but I have many family members who have had to radically change their grocery shopping behavior.

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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.

Yep, my portfolio more than makes up for a couple of dollars increase at the grocery store.

Except it's not like real money because it can disappear at any time. And if I try to take it out, I have to pay tax on it. So any gains are 20% less than they appear.

BS op:

Call it deflation grocery stores are lowing prices:

https://nypost.com/2026/05/25/lifestyle/kroger-slashes-prices-on-thousands-of-items/

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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.

$3.99 for 30 organic eggs?? Where are YOU shopping?

Trader Joe’s sells a dozen of organic eggs for $6, and that’s the cheapest I have found. The prices I quoted are at Whole Foods, where I’ve been shopping for nearly two decades. The prices are fairly typical of major grocery chains where I live (Safeway etc). The prices have skyrocketed.

Not organic. Organic is a choice. You are always going to pay more for it. and just for comparison if you want to go on and on about health and then talk about the price of chips and beer-i’m sure you know how that looks.

Normal 18 pack of non-organic eggs is 2.19 at Target by me in MD-I just checked the app to be absolutely sure before I commented.

The 3.99 30 pack came from food lion via instacart (In MD) just today. non organic.

Stop being condescending and ignorant at the same time. It's annoying.

It's all a choice. Like I wrote earliar- live off rice, apples, vitamins, and chicken or STFU whe it comes to selection of things you decide to put in your mouth and swallow.

Picking organic is no different than not eating... radishes.. or yogurt.... or meat... or... anytinng, including brand selection that differs from your idea. It's all a choice.

And this thread is about how choices are narrowing. Do you really not understand that? You probably could have used more education.

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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.

Absolutely. The pandemic in combination with the unneccessary war that Putin started triggered world-wide inflation problems, which Biden handled better than any other well-off country.

Still, the Trump campaign manipulated the situation and lied and, since Americans were suffering and wanted things to change, Trump was elected.

Trump then inherited the good situation set up by Biden and single-handedly destroyed it with, among other bad decisions, an unnecessary war started by HIM.

Uh? Sure, drink your kool-aid ignoring your sainted Biden flooded the country with cheap money through the IJIA and other massive stimulus spending packages we had no need for and got nothing out of it. Flood the economy with dollars, what do you get? Inflation. But you'd rather somehow blame it on Putin? Whatever.

Going back to my shopping at Whole Foods. Dairy seems consistent, yogurt and milk and oat milk are pretty much the same as the last few years. Same for cheese. Some produce remains same, others have ticked up. DeCecco pasta has jumped a dollar a box. The crackers and cookies we get are consistently same price. Meat varies. I can get a whole roasting chicken for $20, pork is always inexpensive, I just bought a nice 2.5 lb loin for $13. Beef is more expensive.

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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.

Absolutely. The pandemic in combination with the unneccessary war that Putin started triggered world-wide inflation problems, which Biden handled better than any other well-off country.

Still, the Trump campaign manipulated the situation and lied and, since Americans were suffering and wanted things to change, Trump was elected.

Trump then inherited the good situation set up by Biden and single-handedly destroyed it with, among other bad decisions, an unnecessary war started by HIM.

You can quibble about a particular bag of chips but everyone knows groceries are more expensive now. Sure, we can adjust our habits and buy store brands, cut out unnecessary items, shop in bulk etc, but apples to apples, everything is more expensive now and just continuing to rise. It’s no mystery why and it’s not because of the guy who hasn’t been the president for almost a year and a half now.

Anonymous wrote:The OP made the prices out of thin air. We can check the prices at Giant online and confirm the OP is lying, The only eggs that are $1 each nowadays are vital farms brand. Everything else is 10-50 cents each egg.

She was too stupid to realize we could all look the prices up. 😂🤭

Ok back to the pita chips - because I love those also! Best pricing for those if you have two teens is Costco. It’s $8/28oz. Giant has quickly become the most expensive grocery store near me in Fairfax. I buy a few things at a number of different stores now after price checking.

Why your food costs more:
1. Import Tariffs: Tariffs enacted on foreign food products and agricultural goods imported into the U.S.
2. Labor shortages: immigration bans, crackdown on seasonal workers
3. Higher fuel prices (Iran war)
4. Disruptions in supply chains (Iran war/Ukraine war)

You can thank Trump for all of the above.

I buy a case of craft beer (various IPA brands) all the time for 19.00-22.00 at various stores. Who would pay 30 for Coors.

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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.

Inflation two years ago was below what it is now.

The OP made the prices out of thin air. We can check the prices at Giant online and confirm the OP is lying, The only eggs that are $1 each nowadays are vital farms brand. Everything else is 10-50 cents each egg.

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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.

Yep, my portfolio more than makes up for a couple of dollars increase at the grocery store.