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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.

MAGA fkers don't let facts get in the way of a good story.

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Could you lie anymore? The chips are $4.49

https://giantfood.com/product/stacys-baked-pita-chips-parmesan-garlic-herb-7.33-oz-bag/129642

What's wrong with you?

PP clearly means the big bag:
https://giantfood.com/product/stacys-simply-naked-baked-pita-chips-sharing-size-16-oz-bag/196522

What's wrong with you?

I love it when fools show themselves. It's akin to "your a moron!!!"

Anonymous wrote:On a recent trip we stopped at a local grocery store to buy a picnic lunch. It cost $50 for the two of us.

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.

On a recent trip we stopped at a local grocery store to buy a picnic lunch. It cost $50 for the two of us.

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 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.

OP did not post about egg prices.

Out of control!!! So expensive. The scary part is that it won’t go down.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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 wrote: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.

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.

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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.

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 wrote: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.

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 wrote: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.

I remember about 10 years ago soda was regularly $4-$6 per 12 pack.

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.

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.