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is no 
longer 
worth 
it because of how expensive 
it has become?
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A lot of the unnecessary products from the grocery store. I used to like to drink Powerade. Welp, price went up 60%. Don't buy those anymore. I would occasionally buy those theater-style boxes of candy. Price went up 50%. Don't buy those anymore. Bags of chips? Could have swore these were $3 a bag, not $5. Cross those off the list.
Doritos.
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ONE SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE
TWO SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE
THREE SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE
NOOOOOWWWWWWWWW
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
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God i miss the early 2000s
RETVRN
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Okay. Hi I'm bimothy hello
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where the frick are these people shopping? I live in a major city and shop at one of the nicer/more expensive grocers and they're not nearly that much.
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They're buying the large
family 
sizes.
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Shit like that has gone up an unreasonable amount for real in my experience. Different but another one that's been confusing me is Publix. I used to go there for lunch sometimes and just get something out of their deli, the prices have gone up 2x easily. They used to have chicken tender sandwiches in the hotbar thing that were $2.00/ea in 2020, they're $4.50/ea now. Probably plenty of other specific examples but on larger grocery trips I'm pretty shit about keeping up with anything, I've just noticed number=bigger.
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Loss leader deals are the most sensitive to inflation.
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Yeah, I almost added something about that in my comment tbh because I thought they were a good deal in 2020 - but its the only one I actually know the specific prices on lol. Everything there has gone up almost double I'd say, just cant remember exact numbers. Publix is fricking weird now, it has the same shit as Walmart at double the price and all you get in exchange is nicer employees and a cleaner/nicer store.
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For groceries, I haven't noticed much of a price change, other than buying less steak.
But I've always been that customer buying at sales prices. These are less frequent, so I buy more and freeze more.
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Mine have gone up substantially. You're right about shopping deals, though. I just don't have the diligence there.
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I just roll through the big store and cook accordingly for the next week or two. If you've got a large Asian store around, they tend to have great prices on rice noodles, king oyster mushrooms, vegetables, rice, whatever. Amazon is great for spices, and I probably spend more than the average household when that's factored in. It's not like I clip coupons or scan codes for it. I keep it flexible and have fun trying out new recipes.
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I consider shopping at Publix basically paying a tax to be able to check out in a remotely reasonable amount of time. Yeah there's a Walmart nearby, but you're never escaping through the one half-broken register that's open, and single baked employee working it. And the lady in front of you who wants to argue about her EBT card for 30 minutes.
Tl/dr: shut up and take my money, Publix.
Also, buy their Cuban bread, cut it diagonally for a bigger surface area; and carve out part of the middle to make the best eggs in a basket. Pro tier breakfast.
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True, depends on the Walmart I guess. There aren't any close to me where I live now, but the one closest to my parent's house is pretty nice. Well-organized, self checkout and shit. Never had problems there. The last one I lived close was straight up shit like you said, it was almost impossible to shop there. It was almost like a shittily organized warehouse.
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I got a whole cooked chicken from the supermarket the other day it was like 9$
seemed like a good deal to me
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Get a Costco/Sam's Club hookup
or go to Wegmans if you're in the northeast, pre inflation they all did $5 3 lb rotisserie chickens 
idk what they cost now but it's still prolly a better deal. 
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Convenience stores. Yes, they are that fat and lazy.
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They're that much at Safeway. Convenient stores charge almost that much for a tiny bag.
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They should call them inconvenient stores.
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Relevant pebble-side:
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I bought tortilla chips for the OU/Tx game this weekend and that shit was 6 bucks a bag so they're not wrong
Luckily I'm not poor though
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good life choice king
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Gotta get party size and crush it in one sitting
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Every major city, at least all of the ones in blue states.
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Where's that Frugalfinance or whatever post from like a month ago where it turned out the guy spent like $30 on flour... Either he accidentally bought coke, or he bought a 50 lb bag and conveniently neglected to mention it.
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Don't forget the possibility of it being some special organic gluten-free flour too.
Obviously that detail wouldn't be important to mention.
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Nice bread flour can be pricey
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I live in the boonies and a big bag of doritos costs 6.99 at the gas station, I just noticed it the other day. It's a huge bag tho like you could have a side of chips with your sandwich for two weeks with it
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In front of your fellow female employees maybe but we all know you turn on the slop vacuum at home
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Isn't McDonald's paying people like 20$/hr now?
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Wages in the bottom quartile went way up, wages in every other quartile went slightly down except top which went way down. This is what income equality looks like
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A big part of this was during the immigration ban from covid, but they're kind of still going up and I'm not totally sure why.
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Deglobalization and declining population
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Speaking of things that arent worth it Mcdonalds has become r-slurredly expensive
Trans lives matter
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I went to a taco bell drive through for the first time in years and ordered 3 things without looking at the prices and it was something like 24 fricking dollars.
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Yeah im not trying to pay 450 dollars for a big mac
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I had a bug report at a multinational client, they're like "so and so says their zero decimal currency is being represented with .00 on the end". I'm like "what backwards butt country are we dealing with that doesn't have decimal places in their money"? Well, there's your answer.
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I forget which r-slurred country it is but somewhere has three decimal places.
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Japanese food prices are so low
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Yeah but their wages are shit also
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Wait until you hear about the rent prices
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I got the 2 cheesies and a basket of fries thing months ago it was $6
I come back a couple weeks ago its now 8
maybe its's for the best that life becomes unsustainable for
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Article after article is coming out recently about there being a massive disconnect between the actual economy, and what people believe about the economy. It's genuinely weird, and genuinely worrisome, because these morons will frick up a great economic situation simply because they feel it's bad somehow. Inflation is and was minimal, wages are up, unemployment is as low as it's ever been, stock market's OK, consumer spending is fine, and so on and so forth. You have to look really deep to find anything to complain about, but these r-slurs act like it's 1973 and there are lines for gas plus double-digit inflation and unemployment. And if you say that the sky isn't falling you're a neoliberal chud shill, though no one can actually explain what exactly you're meant to be shilling for... But thinly-veiled communist agitprop about The End Times of capitalism, oh, that's organic.
As always, social media ruins everything. My favorite phenomenon is people bitching about housing prices constantly, and then it turns out 62% of millennials own a home, while 69% of boomers owned homes at the same age. Shit's fine.
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This is how I feel. I have a lot of friends buying houses and stuff during covid but a bunch of zoomers online keep talking like it's literally impossible to survive but I think they're just short on experience
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Yeah. And a double quarter pounder with fries is like $12. Frick that.
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Its just all junk food haha
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If you sort by hot, it's all fats. Sort by controversial, it's all chuds lmao.
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Ohhhhh nooooo poor people can't buy as much junk food, what a travesty
Maybe this inflation thing will be the best thing to happen to America (haha jk they'll just buy 3 bags of doritos instead of 5)
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Frick you. Dog walkings great. Excellent way to make side cash and get exercise, and being able to immediately make any dog fall in love with you is a skill I use on a monthly basis.
Clearly you've never held true power. When the dogs at the dog park won't leave your side, no matter how many times their owners call them. When the girl you have a crush on's dog breaks free and makes a break for it, and in seconds its sitting at your feet refusing to budge.
"He normally doesn't like men" she says with a giggle. "I've never seen him so friendly. How'd you learn how to do that"
"I'm a professional dog walker" you say
"Ew.", she replies. "Yeah anyway I've gotta go, come on Cooper".
But Cooper won't budge. Cooper won't even look at her. Cooper only looks at you. Cooper is your dog now.
"Come on Cooper we have to go".
"He only loved you because you fed him" you say.
"What have you done to my dog".
"He's not your dog anymore. Maybe he never was".
"Fix him or I'm calling the cops.”
"Since when was getting him fixed a priority white girl"
"What?"
"N.... never mind that's just a reference to a song"
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And yet my grocery bill is still going up because of all the things I can't opt not to buy more than making up for it.:
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Junk food. $6 for a bag of Lays? I'll eat some darn baby carrots and hummus for less. Can't remember the last time I had a Coke either.:
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Cable television:
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$6.99 USD WTF:
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most fast food:
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I honestly don't know how to survive anymore. Everything is getting more and more expensive, yet no one is getting a raise. Something has to give.:
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Without opening i assume a bunch of "life" answers
With how Ruffles has the price right on the bag, I was surprised to see it actually changes regionally. A 5.99 bag here in the Midwest is 8.69 in Seattle.
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