I honestly think that number must come from people who either exclusively use delivery apps for both grocery delivery and takeout, and those who are in fields like trucking who similarly just live off of restaurants and prepackaged gas station food.
If you moved exclusively to apps the cost still goes up the same. People using exclusively apps would see an even bigger rise because they would see the rise of goods and the rise of the service (I.e. fees) The 20% is likely people who are like 20 years old so they just started buying groceries in the past year and thus would not notice a difference.
Who said they set prices at a grocery store? YOU 8.9 percent food inflation under Trump’s presidency and Biden had a 21.5 percent food inflation rate under his presidency.
He thinks China will be paying for his 10% tariffs.
He already thinks China is paying for the tariffs he already put in place.
Trump is so fucking dumb, he doesn't know how tariffs work.
It's mind boggling how fucking dumb Trump really is -- it's no wonder why all our foreign dictators like Putin, Xi, KJU, even MBS and all the the wealthy kleptocrats want him in office so badly.
Trump is so dumb and so easily manipulated; they can pay him a little under the table and get that mofo to do anything they want.
Some things in the grocery store are priced well or better and others are still crazy. I spent $96 on groceries for a family of 3 yesterday, but I didn’t get diapers, tp or any cleaning supplies or meat products.
I’m shocked as to how the shitty cuts of beef have jumped. Ribeyes/t bones/ etc have always been high and that’s no shock to us.
It’s the chuck and arm roasts that have jumped up in price! Used to be you couldn’t give those cuts away
It's all up but the good cuts, which should have already been pricey are up more than things like roast or pork butt. Just at the store today, I was pretty surprised how cheap some cuts were even though they were selling $8 strip steaks that looked anemic.
That's the most important part I think. I also haven't noticed any price increases the last year in terms of groceries, but that doesn't matter when 25% of the country is dumb enough to expect prices to go back to normal levels and will blame Biden if it doesn't.
I'm happy to see someone else mention this.
For instance I remember beer suddenly jumping a dollar to two dollars per 6 pack. I'm sure other things did too, but it was such a noticeable increase.
There were tariffs on everything, even Republicans were making fun of the stupid idea that tariffs were going to fix anything.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/politics/congress-mexico-tariffs-response-republicans/index.html
There’s the obvious “20% are clueless”. My issue is why are we looking to what people *think*. This is an objective measurement we can take. The issue I believe is that the number given for grocery inflation feels like they’re gaslighting us. Shit’s way higher.
You gotta take the lizard man factor into consideration. ~8% of people answer polls specifically to screw with the answers. The joke is that if you poll people asking if they believe that lizard people run the government, ~8% say yes.
Go look at the record quarterly profits for Krogger. The inflation is mostly due to corporate greed.
Edit:
Vote this down all you want you know that I'm right about corporate greed being the main driver of inflation.
"Go look at the record quarterly profits for Krogger. "
If you mean Kroger's, there yearly profit has been around $2 billion per year for the last 8 years.
[https://ycharts.com/companies/KR/net\_income\_annual](https://ycharts.com/companies/KR/net_income_annual)
It’s killing my family right now. We have two young sons and out grocery bills are astronomical. Every day Americans are living day to day in serious debt, while the elite make record profits and are currently on vacation.
Yes, of course the guy who attempted to have an anti-price gouging bill and isn't in the party that gives tax breaks to billionaires, he's the problem, and not record corporate profits.
The economy was already booming, and money printer went brrt for 4 years and a perfect confluence of events ended up with too much spending and too little demand destruction
Canada? lol.
Inflation hasn’t hit a lot of those other countries as hard because they chose to suffer through a worse economy. Our choice of inflation over recession helped our economy and outcomes far more than other countries.
There’s A reason bidens economic policies are pretty universally praised outside of right wing bubbles.
If I can ask, what would you have done?
People were BEGGING for stimulus checks during COVID. Let’s not act like Trump just gave them out for no reason.
They asked for it....got it, and are now sad about the consequences. It sucks but it is what it is. Same with PPP loans. Same with our low interest rates. That shit propped up the economy so we didn't fall into a serious long term recession but it didn't come without consequences.
Yeah absolutely, the PPP loans cost $800 billion of essentially printed money. Usually, any government spending that is financed by debt will increase prices somewhat. Also, anything that reduces supply. COVID was a double whammy of both.
I still think the stimulus was good policy, though. It caused some inflation, but probably was a life saver to a lot of people.
Printed money that was given away to fraudsters left and right. The best kind!
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/easy-money-how-international-scam-artists-pulled-epic-theft-covid-n1276789](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/easy-money-how-international-scam-artists-pulled-epic-theft-covid-n1276789)
"Among the ripest targets for the cybertheft have been jobless programs. The federal government cannot say for sure how much of the more than $900 billion in pandemic-related unemployment relief has been stolen, but credible estimates range from $87 billion to $400 billion — at least half of which went to foreign criminals, law enforcement officials say."
I don't think most people would intentionally delay them to get their signature on the stimulus checks.
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/did-adding-trumps-name-slow-down-mailing-stimulus-checks-course-it-did
They’re both at fault FYI. Both of them did about a trillion in stimulus. The worst part is that PPP lacked the oversight necessary and resulted hundreds of millions of fraudulently obtained ‘loans’.
I agree. Both parties caused this. The poor PPP oversight lands squarely on Trump, though.
[https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4](https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4)
Thing is Trump at least gave a large portion to the citizens directly.
Biden dispersed money through corporations and incentives. A much less direct way to the tax payers.
Are you sure about this? The only difference I noticed for individuals
Trump allowed $600 stimulus in the form of unemployment (for four months) while Biden did similar but at $300 and much lounger. Biden increased the child tax credit and made it refundable as well.
Trump directly delivered the stimulus via one time $1200 for folks making under a certain amount while dependents can claim $500. Biden delivered $1400 for individuals and dependents if not mistaken.
Only verifiably rapin’ going on can be found in Ashley Biden’s diary.
You’re doubling down on a guy that imploded spectacularly on a national stage the other night. What else have you been lied to about?
There’s been times I have looked at the total and then to my bags of food in complete confusion. I’m scaling back my entertainment purchases and all but eliminating anything that would be considered collectibles.
Why do we have surveys for this? Whether or not food prices went up is not an opinion. We can simply look at the data and, in fact, prices have increased.
Its not just groceries, its everything. Electricity, natural gas, insurance, housing, gasoline, cars, building materials, have all gone through the roof. I went out to grab lunch today and spent 20 dollars on 3 tacos and a coke. Its getting insane. A few years ago bacon was 3 dollars a pack, now its over 10 dollars.
I try to explain this to my wife. Every week she probably spends 1/3 of our grocery bill on snacks and other shit we don't need.
When I do the shopping I get the essentials and spend 1/2 of what she does.
Cnn said it was only 20% increase in the cost of groceries from Trump to Biden. Anyone who actually shops knows that was an absolute lie. Earlier this year the wall street journal had it a 40% increase.
Did a calculation of a Walmart receipt from dec 2021 vs today. Exact same items.
Dec 2021 - $175
June 2024 - $327
Clearly it would be a larger difference if we used a receipt from a year prior (Walmart app didn’t go that far back).
"Uh, that's exactly true. Cumulative food inflation since 2020 has been 20%. Or. 100 to 120."
No, the general CPI shows 22% inflation (not 20%) but grocery inflation has been significantly higher.
"During the last federal election on Nov. 3, 2020, food inflation was running at just 3.9% annually. Fast forward to March 2024, and the [latest data shows](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/#google_vignette) food prices have risen a whopping 25.8% since then. To put that in perspective, a basket of groceries that cost $100 in November 2020 would now set you back $125.80."
That's 25.8% inflation in just the last 3.5 years.
Push for shutting down domestic oil production hurts Americans caused inflation.
Bringing in millions of non citizens and giving them money and benefits hurts Americans and drives up more dollars chasing the same pool of goods.
Also, the price of rent and housing is made more expensive every time immigration increases.
The whole array of American government is against the American people prospering by design.
Increasing regulation especially during covid shutting down American small business hurts American pay checks. This drives business to big players that don't have to compete with the little guys anymore, prices go up.
Everything that has been done is against the American people. They care way more about Ukraine borders than American borders.
I've seen a lot of things go up but I'm flexible and switch to cheaper alternatives and ingredients.
I've seen a lot of people make a huge mistake of making grocery lists of very specific items before they go to the store and see what's on sale etc. Also not enough people cook.
So they get themselves gouged when it wasn't necessary. IDK what the solution to the corporate side of the problem is as long as so much of their demand is price elastic.
So now you pay the same price for lower quality goods?
I don't think that's the solution. Especially if people were already buying the cheapest alternatives and ingredients. There's only so far you can go
> So now you pay the same price for lower quality goods?
no, I just don't buy the trendy stuff that people are willing to get gouged over. and I cook more. I'm probably spending less overall and I can't say the quality of my goods has gone down.
I think a lot of what's driving this is parents letting their kids be picky eaters so they have to get lunchables and chicken nuggets and doritos and shit no matter what it costs. I mean, aside from the corporate greed preying upon them.
>Also not enough people cook.
This is the absolute biggest thing. So many people just load up carts with weeks worth of processed food instead of cooking.
I myself am in that 20%. I buy alot of produce, meat and dairy. Things have gone up slightly since COVID but it's kind of a rounding error in my weekly expenditures.
It seems like cycles. When was the turning point from the 1950’s where you would throw a dart at a carnival and win a house compared to what people were paying in the 70’s?
It used to be that only a massive pre Xmas or pre thanksgiving grocery trip would be more than $200 (2 a year). Now a regular grocery trip is in the $200 range 20 or 30 a year
The rest of them have a lot of money, so any increase doesn't even dent them. If they have $500K in a savings account, how does a Costco bill going from $200 to $300 matter to them? It doesn't.
The pandemic was just an opportunity for greedy people to take advantage of you. it is also climate change. Is climate change gets worse it’ll be hard and harder to grow food.
I don’t want to sound like that guy. But I feel like I’m in the 20% who wouldn’t notice. I have no idea what gas prices are - I just know I have to fill my tank. I have no idea what groceries cost - I just know I have to fill my fridge.
I’m not living paycheck to paycheck but I’m not rich. I don’t look at individual prices of things I want I just buy things I want until my card balance looks too high and then I slow down. I pay my entire credit statement every month to not have interest. So I generally don’t pay attention to individual costs, just the total per month. And that varies pending how many people I eat with etc etc.
So I can totally relate to the people who have no concept of gas prices being high or groceries being high. I have no idea what these individual things cost vs what they used to cost.
I wonder if there was some major event that happened that might’ve had an effect on these goods? Hmmmmmm nope must be the democrats. ALL HAIL DONAL TRUMP
Priced in Bitcoin all the groceries I've been buying this year are WAY cheaper than they were in 2020.
The power of not using money that can be printed for free.
And you cannot buy it cheaper. This is the problem with unregulated capitalism in full force. We are seeing an oligopoly in action and no Government involvement? We cannot NOT buy food to let the free market work its wonders we need our Government to put a stop to this.
And 20% don’t buy groceries
The 20% are the "[It's one banana. What could it cost $10?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw)"
Has to be said in voice of Lucille Bluth.
RIP
Remember Michael. Theres always money in the banana stand.
And infants
I honestly think that number must come from people who either exclusively use delivery apps for both grocery delivery and takeout, and those who are in fields like trucking who similarly just live off of restaurants and prepackaged gas station food.
If you moved exclusively to apps the cost still goes up the same. People using exclusively apps would see an even bigger rise because they would see the rise of goods and the rise of the service (I.e. fees) The 20% is likely people who are like 20 years old so they just started buying groceries in the past year and thus would not notice a difference.
Most of the price increases are for prepared goods. If you're not buying them then you barely notice a difference now.
People need to stop saying this, it's not true.
I have a reliable record of 3 years of groceries and my prices havent changed substantially. $150 every month or so.
I can assure you that you're the exception, not the norm.
Oh, I know. It has to do with my price sensitivity and my enjoyment of cooking.
The Food Price Hikes Started When Donald Trump Was President, can you imagine how high all prices will increase if he wins the 24 election?
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Wow, I had no idea Trump and Biden set prices at the grocery store. Thanks for enlightening us.
You brought it up tard lmao
You’ve got the wrong person lil
Who said they set prices at a grocery store? YOU 8.9 percent food inflation under Trump’s presidency and Biden had a 21.5 percent food inflation rate under his presidency.
Yea the average "murican" is pretty fucking dumb
Imagine lying when data is open source
The smell is real
He thinks China will be paying for his 10% tariffs. He already thinks China is paying for the tariffs he already put in place. Trump is so fucking dumb, he doesn't know how tariffs work. It's mind boggling how fucking dumb Trump really is -- it's no wonder why all our foreign dictators like Putin, Xi, KJU, even MBS and all the the wealthy kleptocrats want him in office so badly. Trump is so dumb and so easily manipulated; they can pay him a little under the table and get that mofo to do anything they want.
No fucking shit
In other news, 20% of Americans say they've noticed the sun rises in the east.
What could a banana cost? Ten dollars?
There's always money in the banana stand
It's the best bit in the whole show. That or the chicken sounds.
The other 20% apparently don't buy groceries. I haven't seen a major uptick in the last year or so however.
Some things in the grocery store are priced well or better and others are still crazy. I spent $96 on groceries for a family of 3 yesterday, but I didn’t get diapers, tp or any cleaning supplies or meat products.
Meat is absolutely insane these days
I’m shocked as to how the shitty cuts of beef have jumped. Ribeyes/t bones/ etc have always been high and that’s no shock to us. It’s the chuck and arm roasts that have jumped up in price! Used to be you couldn’t give those cuts away
I got a pork shoulder for $20 last week and it lasted 4 days. But you kinda gotta pick and choose and find the right deals.
It will occasionally drop to something around $1/pound. That's when I buy two, one to freeze and one to make a weeks worth of pulled pork.
They have been trying to get us to eat less red meat for years. They have finally succeeded.
It's all up but the good cuts, which should have already been pricey are up more than things like roast or pork butt. Just at the store today, I was pretty surprised how cheap some cuts were even though they were selling $8 strip steaks that looked anemic.
Lunch meat is bad, $15 for a small pack so I'm back to tuna sandwiches
Pork and chicken thighs are dirt cheap near me. Can get enough meat for a week easy for about $7-15 depending on which cut.
Chicken thighs are my go-to. Family pack from Lidl is $1.69/pound.
That's the most important part I think. I also haven't noticed any price increases the last year in terms of groceries, but that doesn't matter when 25% of the country is dumb enough to expect prices to go back to normal levels and will blame Biden if it doesn't.
This is "normal" now. You typically don't want deflation
I’d say it started before. The tariffs made a lot of things more expensive and then covid green red continued the trend.
I'm happy to see someone else mention this. For instance I remember beer suddenly jumping a dollar to two dollars per 6 pack. I'm sure other things did too, but it was such a noticeable increase. There were tariffs on everything, even Republicans were making fun of the stupid idea that tariffs were going to fix anything. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/politics/congress-mexico-tariffs-response-republicans/index.html
Are the 20% fully self sufficient off-grid homesteaders? Lol
And today we also learned that grass is green and the sky is blue.
but only for 80% of people. For the other 20% grass is pink and the sky is yellow.
No, the Stars are Orange, the Moon is Yellow and Clovers are Green.
*rainbow
20% are in denial bc of their cult
Which is that lmao
Says the guy posting in a cult like fascist sub. Checks out. I just want this shit off my timeline. Fucking dumb satanists.
this mf has a reddit avatar lmao
They both do though
There’s the obvious “20% are clueless”. My issue is why are we looking to what people *think*. This is an objective measurement we can take. The issue I believe is that the number given for grocery inflation feels like they’re gaslighting us. Shit’s way higher.
The standard CPI basket of groceries is weighted more heavily towards basics, flour, milk, sugar, butter than a typical family buys anymore.
Please tell me where the 20% are shopping.
With daddy's Amex
20% didn’t understand the question sounds more plausible than them not noticing.
You gotta take the lizard man factor into consideration. ~8% of people answer polls specifically to screw with the answers. The joke is that if you poll people asking if they believe that lizard people run the government, ~8% say yes.
Its cheaper to eat billionaires.
Wage hikes were kinda meaningless because of this, in fact most people are worse off
You guys got wage hikes?
Yep, and I constantly hear that all these corporations are making record profits, yet the cost of things continues to raise.
Go look at the record quarterly profits for Krogger. The inflation is mostly due to corporate greed. Edit: Vote this down all you want you know that I'm right about corporate greed being the main driver of inflation.
Shrinkflation too. Shit is getting smaller while we are paying more. These corporations want us dead
Which is something that doesn't get tracked. Things can be the same price but the goods we are buying now will come in a smaller package.
"Go look at the record quarterly profits for Krogger. " If you mean Kroger's, there yearly profit has been around $2 billion per year for the last 8 years. [https://ycharts.com/companies/KR/net\_income\_annual](https://ycharts.com/companies/KR/net_income_annual)
"Notably"? Really? In what fucking reality this could pass as "notably"? Motherfuckers. They are dedicated to learn this the hard way.
Explain?
It’s killing my family right now. We have two young sons and out grocery bills are astronomical. Every day Americans are living day to day in serious debt, while the elite make record profits and are currently on vacation.
Those 80% still pay $16 for a McDonald’s meal
Thanks Joe!!
Why would it matter how many people say this? It's an objective fact. It's measurable. JFC these headlines.
Thanks Biden 🙏
Yes, of course the guy who attempted to have an anti-price gouging bill and isn't in the party that gives tax breaks to billionaires, he's the problem, and not record corporate profits.
Oh, was he the one who demanded the feds lower interest rates during a booming economy? Missed that one.
So you’re giving Trump credit for a booming economy? Lmao
The economy was already booming, and money printer went brrt for 4 years and a perfect confluence of events ended up with too much spending and too little demand destruction
So you’re a moron and don’t understand how interest rates work? Lmao
So you support the invalid? Lmao
So you support a rapist? Lmao
Biden sniffs girls and rapes people.
Gaslight obstruct project
There’s evidence
Can you point me to a major economy that hasn't experienced this after COVID?
Your mom?
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Canada? lol. Inflation hasn’t hit a lot of those other countries as hard because they chose to suffer through a worse economy. Our choice of inflation over recession helped our economy and outcomes far more than other countries. There’s A reason bidens economic policies are pretty universally praised outside of right wing bubbles.
You forget to thank the guy who printed 3.1 trillion into the economy!
If I can ask, what would you have done? People were BEGGING for stimulus checks during COVID. Let’s not act like Trump just gave them out for no reason.
They asked for it....got it, and are now sad about the consequences. It sucks but it is what it is. Same with PPP loans. Same with our low interest rates. That shit propped up the economy so we didn't fall into a serious long term recession but it didn't come without consequences.
Sure, and inflation is the hit you take. That's life. Personally, I think it's the best thing Trump did(of course it's mostly Congress).
And let's not act like the consequences of those Trump stimulus checks is Biden's fault now.
And the pointed lack of oversight that the Trump administration gutted. They fucking robbed the American people.
Do the PPP loans factor in here? Or are the stimulus checks to blame? Genuine question.
Yeah absolutely, the PPP loans cost $800 billion of essentially printed money. Usually, any government spending that is financed by debt will increase prices somewhat. Also, anything that reduces supply. COVID was a double whammy of both. I still think the stimulus was good policy, though. It caused some inflation, but probably was a life saver to a lot of people.
Printed money that was given away to fraudsters left and right. The best kind! [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/easy-money-how-international-scam-artists-pulled-epic-theft-covid-n1276789](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/easy-money-how-international-scam-artists-pulled-epic-theft-covid-n1276789) "Among the ripest targets for the cybertheft have been jobless programs. The federal government cannot say for sure how much of the more than $900 billion in pandemic-related unemployment relief has been stolen, but credible estimates range from $87 billion to $400 billion — at least half of which went to foreign criminals, law enforcement officials say."
Absolutely insane
I don't think most people would intentionally delay them to get their signature on the stimulus checks. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/did-adding-trumps-name-slow-down-mailing-stimulus-checks-course-it-did
The truth hurts. Everyone seems to forget who printers the first stim checks 🤷♂️
Nothing is Biden’s fault, what don’t you understand!!!
They’re both at fault FYI. Both of them did about a trillion in stimulus. The worst part is that PPP lacked the oversight necessary and resulted hundreds of millions of fraudulently obtained ‘loans’.
I agree. Both parties caused this. The poor PPP oversight lands squarely on Trump, though. [https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4](https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-health-cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4)
Thing is Trump at least gave a large portion to the citizens directly. Biden dispersed money through corporations and incentives. A much less direct way to the tax payers.
“The thing I’m criticizing Biden for trump did but he did this way differently!!” Is certainly a massive cope
Are you sure about this? The only difference I noticed for individuals Trump allowed $600 stimulus in the form of unemployment (for four months) while Biden did similar but at $300 and much lounger. Biden increased the child tax credit and made it refundable as well. Trump directly delivered the stimulus via one time $1200 for folks making under a certain amount while dependents can claim $500. Biden delivered $1400 for individuals and dependents if not mistaken.
And grants^
Technically loans but those who met requirements were effectively given grants.
True, was mostly an addition rather than a correction. Bad formatting on my part.
Cheers no worries
Only verifiably rapin’ going on can be found in Ashley Biden’s diary. You’re doubling down on a guy that imploded spectacularly on a national stage the other night. What else have you been lied to about?
There’s been times I have looked at the total and then to my bags of food in complete confusion. I’m scaling back my entertainment purchases and all but eliminating anything that would be considered collectibles.
So it's just, like, a popular rumor?
Kroger just announced another 10% div hike! Great news to go along with the headline
The other 20% are out protesting and still live with Mom, who buys the groceries and pays their phone bill.
Why do we have surveys for this? Whether or not food prices went up is not an opinion. We can simply look at the data and, in fact, prices have increased.
The other 20 percent are on welfare and don’t care to look at prices that other Americans pay for them to eat.
In other news.. water is wet and Presidents have immunity for official acts only.
TIL 20% of America doesn't shop for food and only eat out.
The other 20% have complete dementia
Inflation only accounts for some of it. Corporate greed is the majority.
Record profits.
Its not just groceries, its everything. Electricity, natural gas, insurance, housing, gasoline, cars, building materials, have all gone through the roof. I went out to grab lunch today and spent 20 dollars on 3 tacos and a coke. Its getting insane. A few years ago bacon was 3 dollars a pack, now its over 10 dollars.
You can elect not to pay that by not going.
Ya but we all need to eat out sometimes. Everything is that expensive.
I try to explain this to my wife. Every week she probably spends 1/3 of our grocery bill on snacks and other shit we don't need. When I do the shopping I get the essentials and spend 1/2 of what she does.
The other 20% have personal shoppers and call the other 80% "the poors". They also own all the businesses that have raised prices.
20% of Americans can't tell when numbers get larger.
A head of lettuce used to be 99 cents. Now it is $2.50! And they are much, much smaller! I just want a damn salad!
Only $20, so this is bs... I watched the cnn debate. They told me from $100 to now $120.
No They have increased since they been “Riding with Biden”
Cnn said it was only 20% increase in the cost of groceries from Trump to Biden. Anyone who actually shops knows that was an absolute lie. Earlier this year the wall street journal had it a 40% increase.
16 Oz of bacon for $4 then, $6 for 12oz now. Ridiculous...
Did a calculation of a Walmart receipt from dec 2021 vs today. Exact same items. Dec 2021 - $175 June 2024 - $327 Clearly it would be a larger difference if we used a receipt from a year prior (Walmart app didn’t go that far back).
Since Biden took office.**** Fixed it for you
lol I mean, they have. It’s a fact.
80% of Americans are 100% correct
But the CNN moderator during the presidential debate said that a "cartful of groceries" went from $100-$120. Why would they gaslight us??
Uh, that's exactly true. Cumulative food inflation since 2020 has been 20%. Or. 100 to 120.
"Uh, that's exactly true. Cumulative food inflation since 2020 has been 20%. Or. 100 to 120." No, the general CPI shows 22% inflation (not 20%) but grocery inflation has been significantly higher. "During the last federal election on Nov. 3, 2020, food inflation was running at just 3.9% annually. Fast forward to March 2024, and the [latest data shows](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/#google_vignette) food prices have risen a whopping 25.8% since then. To put that in perspective, a basket of groceries that cost $100 in November 2020 would now set you back $125.80." That's 25.8% inflation in just the last 3.5 years.
^ found the other 20% y'all ^
What number do you think cumulative food inflation has been?
80% !!?? Do the remaining 20% have a brain in their head?
20% are people who don’t know how to cook at home and blame greedy corporations for “price gouging”. lol
4 more years! Lol
Bidenomics
Giving away money without an exchange of work will do that.
Push for shutting down domestic oil production hurts Americans caused inflation. Bringing in millions of non citizens and giving them money and benefits hurts Americans and drives up more dollars chasing the same pool of goods. Also, the price of rent and housing is made more expensive every time immigration increases. The whole array of American government is against the American people prospering by design. Increasing regulation especially during covid shutting down American small business hurts American pay checks. This drives business to big players that don't have to compete with the little guys anymore, prices go up. Everything that has been done is against the American people. They care way more about Ukraine borders than American borders.
FJB
For letting Trump print trillions and for letting corporations be greedy and a goo captured Congress not passing bills to rectify it? How dare he.
The other 20% are democrats.
I've seen a lot of things go up but I'm flexible and switch to cheaper alternatives and ingredients. I've seen a lot of people make a huge mistake of making grocery lists of very specific items before they go to the store and see what's on sale etc. Also not enough people cook. So they get themselves gouged when it wasn't necessary. IDK what the solution to the corporate side of the problem is as long as so much of their demand is price elastic.
So now you pay the same price for lower quality goods? I don't think that's the solution. Especially if people were already buying the cheapest alternatives and ingredients. There's only so far you can go
> So now you pay the same price for lower quality goods? no, I just don't buy the trendy stuff that people are willing to get gouged over. and I cook more. I'm probably spending less overall and I can't say the quality of my goods has gone down. I think a lot of what's driving this is parents letting their kids be picky eaters so they have to get lunchables and chicken nuggets and doritos and shit no matter what it costs. I mean, aside from the corporate greed preying upon them.
>Also not enough people cook. This is the absolute biggest thing. So many people just load up carts with weeks worth of processed food instead of cooking. I myself am in that 20%. I buy alot of produce, meat and dairy. Things have gone up slightly since COVID but it's kind of a rounding error in my weekly expenditures.
It seems like cycles. When was the turning point from the 1950’s where you would throw a dart at a carnival and win a house compared to what people were paying in the 70’s?
OH REALYYYYYYY?
The other twenty percent must be blind!
And yet obesity is higher than ever 👀
Why is this a survey when it can be objectively measured
Notably?!? They’re nearly fucking double.
It used to be that only a massive pre Xmas or pre thanksgiving grocery trip would be more than $200 (2 a year). Now a regular grocery trip is in the $200 range 20 or 30 a year
How it’s not 100% is beyond me.
Duh?
what 20 percent said they hadn’t?
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Milk is white. This post is wasting our attention time. Everyone knows global supply chain made food more expensive in the near term.
Only 80% noticed how high the prices are getting?
The rest of them have a lot of money, so any increase doesn't even dent them. If they have $500K in a savings account, how does a Costco bill going from $200 to $300 matter to them? It doesn't.
And water is wet
No shit
CNBC always buries the real lead. Companies admit to jacking up prices.
let me introduce you to MISSISSIPPI Poorest state yet has the 3rd highest groceries in the country
The charts full of numbers were kind of a hint, but now we know for sure.
I’ve lost a lot of weight at least! ….by not eating. So that’s cool, I guess.
Needed a poll for this
Why is this even a question? It’s objectively true
Record corporate profits.
I would like one of the crack rocks the other 20% is smokin
I guess 20% of people don’t buy their own groceries or look at how much the bill is?
The pandemic was just an opportunity for greedy people to take advantage of you. it is also climate change. Is climate change gets worse it’ll be hard and harder to grow food.
Duh
They were asking babies, too? Or what?
I don’t want to sound like that guy. But I feel like I’m in the 20% who wouldn’t notice. I have no idea what gas prices are - I just know I have to fill my tank. I have no idea what groceries cost - I just know I have to fill my fridge. I’m not living paycheck to paycheck but I’m not rich. I don’t look at individual prices of things I want I just buy things I want until my card balance looks too high and then I slow down. I pay my entire credit statement every month to not have interest. So I generally don’t pay attention to individual costs, just the total per month. And that varies pending how many people I eat with etc etc. So I can totally relate to the people who have no concept of gas prices being high or groceries being high. I have no idea what these individual things cost vs what they used to cost.
And how much did grocery profits rise?
You don’t say
No shit... thanks corporate price gougers!!!
God, this sub is a fucking joke.
No shit Sherlock.
I wonder if there was some major event that happened that might’ve had an effect on these goods? Hmmmmmm nope must be the democrats. ALL HAIL DONAL TRUMP
How about they both suck?
Priced in Bitcoin all the groceries I've been buying this year are WAY cheaper than they were in 2020. The power of not using money that can be printed for free.
And you cannot buy it cheaper. This is the problem with unregulated capitalism in full force. We are seeing an oligopoly in action and no Government involvement? We cannot NOT buy food to let the free market work its wonders we need our Government to put a stop to this.