What are your thoughts or feelings of your grocery bill at the checkout these days?

[jack1924]

[WhiteSteve]

Is what it is. I kind of live life by “don’t bother complaining, just pay what the nice man/woman tells you to”, haha. Same with taxes. The aggravation of getting riled up about it or the effort of battling against it aren’t worth the monetary gain to me😂

All that said…. always curious how we have inflation, and now in the case of the US, it’s back down to almost what we’d anticipate had the pandemic not even happened, just normal predicted 2020-24 inflation rates…. but the goods and services never went back to normal, we’re still seeing high prices and/or smaller amounts for the same old prices we used to pay for more, aka “shrink-flation.”

That rests squarely on the corporations taking exorbitant profits to pay higher dividends to their shareholders and Bananaland salaries to their C-suite executives. That could absolutely be greatly reduced while not impoverishing anyone, and the savings can be passed on to the consumer and the actual workers who make these companies go.

[jack1924]

You know the most annoying thing is the taxes, I feel like all the prices are just a lie because we have no idea about the taxes until the payment is made lol

[WhiteSteve]

And while we’re at it, who’s getting their hands on all these “fees?”🤨 Lmao. Looking at you, TicketMaster😂

[dragoblack]

Wish i could just shop ingredients for a meal and have it last longer and be cheaper than premade frozen meals.
Buying a box of fish fillets, is cheaper than making it from scratch. Buying a premade salad is cheaper than buying the ingredients to make it. A healthy meal os more expensive than an unhealthy/semi-healthy premade one. Only time i cook a full meal, is when i cook for others.

[jack1924]

Yes, healthy choices seem to be more expensive

[Apple1996]

Thankful I'm broke enough to receive gov benefits. Without it we'd probably be struggling to afford food

[jack1924]

It shouldn’t be that way, but now it’s really difficult for most of us financially.

[strateguy632]

but that system motivates people to rely on handouts, but i go to my job.
Candace owens explained it really well, about the harm of relying on handouts.

[Iron_Man]

How much do you get a mon

[Iron_Man]

Month

[Apple1996]

@strateguy632 my husband fights for this country lol definitely working harder for the government then most people so I don't feel bad about taking "hand outs"

[dreamstar72]

@Apple1996 Tell your husband thank you for his service.

[7Phoenix7]

I am always looking at the numbers go up like,

[jack1924]

My receipt lol

[7Phoenix7]

Same lmao 🤣

[lightbulb27]

wholly snookerdoodles, the inflation finally caught up... and just like that... in 4 years.

... just like that, you're McD's cost $10?

I feel like we need 2x more inflation of junk food, and everyone to grow massive gardens and sell stuff, to lower the prices of real food. Imagine flocks of chickens flying all over your city and the streets lined with fruit trees.

then, maybe... we can make americas waist line great again MAWLGA.

[jack1924]

I doubt that

[Razp_Sorbet]

I did a grocery shop today. Things I bought
: apples, a broccoli, bananas, half a cabbage, beef mince, chicken legs, milk, butter, yoghurt, chorizo , sour cream, toilet paper, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, aluminium foil, cat food, bread, wine, pasta.
$151 🥴

[jack1924]

That’s insane lol

[Skinhead-1979]

Extortionate.

Don't get me wrong; since I started receiving disability benefits 2 years ago on top of my basic, Universal Credit (UK), benefits I cannot complain about my financial situation. I live a frugal life so my bill load is relatively low... but I do feel I have to spend an awful lot of money not to go hungry. I know I am not the best of eaters, so my diet is not that great... but I still spend a good amount of money weekly on food; still decent food, so not a lot of bags of Crisps (Chips... in the US), Treats or other 'Junk Food' (I never have 'Take Away' for example).

I know that an Asda... one of the biggest supermarket chains in the UK... increased its profit from £350 million to £1 billion in 2021, during the Pandemic; when people were financially struggling due to the lockdowns and redundancies. That's just plain corporate greed.

[strateguy632]

the fatty stuff is often cheaper than real food. but we need good quality.

[Skinhead-1979]

@strateguy632 None of our food is really made of proper food anymore; everything has been heavily processed one way or another.

It isn't just fatty stuff. Take a jar with pre-made pasta sauce for example, it's cheaper than making a pasta sauce yourself from scratch. But there are so many chemicals in there, that's what makes the flavour; in combination with high levels of salt and sugar.

It's nowadays 'difficult' to find proper chocolate. Cocoa is in such high demand that production can no longer keep up, and chocolate producers have resorted to cheaper alternatives. Most 'Chocolate' bars will state 'Cocoa Butter' as the main ingredient; but that's not chocolate. That' butter' is the fatty substance around the Cocoa bean and proper Chocolate is being of the Cocoa Bean.

I have been a chef for 22 years, and I highly prefer to cook everything with as many fresh ingredients as possible... It's that due to mental health issues I don't properly cook anymore... but would I want to cook, due to the ever increasing prices of everything, so also food, it's becoming increasingly difficult to fit proper meals into a diet.

[OfMiceandMen]

It's a rip-off. I could see why things went up during COVID due to the work force being mostly at home and production being down, but for the most part production is back to100% yet food costs etc., keep rising, what a pile.

[jack1924]

It’s a capitalist society

[Anonymous]

I often get told at the end of my grocery bills how much money I saved - I'm cruising through the cost of living increases the way I cruised through the lockdown years and I obeyed the lockdown because I love rules, rules and order - so anyways, I'm sitting pretty 😻😍 😁😈

[Opinion Owner]

Others out there must just not be working hard enough or spending on silly crap. Many losers out there. Peace all

[jack1924]

for me I am also saving few dollars but ending up paying a lot to save a little, everything now is double in price.

[Opinion Owner]

@jack1924 jack, let's take a moment and a step backwards here - life is bliss, if you just take a moment to appreciate - as I do most days - what I have versus what I have not - some are in prisons and some are miles or Kilometers from a water well - let's all be happy and absorb those price increases with smiles 😊😁 thats why I powered through lockdowns, through cost of living and rate increases + let's all be happier

[DryGermanGuy]

Meat products have gone up 15-20% over the last two years, other than that, I can't really complain. Germany is a very competitive food/groceries market, to the customers' advantage.

[jack1924]

Here in the US, customer advantage is last lol

[DryGermanGuy]

Especially in food quality. But hey, a very proud American here called my country a "nanny state" because of our strict food-purity laws. What can you even say to that.

[whereismyjohnny]

[jack1924]

Lmfao

[DishLady]

AFTER the incredulous cursing? "Choose wisely... Read everything."

[jack1924]

Lol👍🏻

[exitseven]

It is horrible. Especially fresh fruit and vegetables and meat. I cannot imagine what things will be like if Trump does not get re-elected.

[jack1924]

See my reply to @FunkyMonkee

[OtterMan68]

you think Trump's actions in 2020 had nothing to do with inflation? Record amount of money printed and signing $2.2 TRILLION stimulus into law

[FunkyMonkee]

Oh, NOW, you agree?

[exitseven]

@OtterMan68 inflation was 1.4% when he left office. Inflation started as soon as gas hit 5 bucks a gallon. It hit 5 bucks a gallon when Biden cancelled the Keystone pipeline and oil leases on federal land and declaring war on the fossil fuel industry.

[OtterMan68]

So if I light a stick of dynamite, leave the room, and someone else enters the room, and the dynamite goes off, you blame the person who was in the room for the explosion?

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 That's GOTTA be the STUPIDEST logic I've ever heard!! I guess you also believe 2 + 2 = 7, the astronauts took a Greyhound bus to the moon and Kennedy shot Oswald!

[OtterMan68]

@FunkyMonkee Trump's massive money dump https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

[OtterMan68]

@FunkyMonkee yes, I agree trump's actions led to inflation

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 Like shit, they did!!

[OtterMan68]

@FunkyMonkee so printing a record amount of money and $2.2 TRILLION in stimulus had ZERO impact on inflation?

[KittygosMeoWW]

It’s definitely gotten harder since the pandemic, I have to be more tactful when coordinating our meals and making sure everything is nutritional so we’re not eating empty calories.

[jack1924]

Agree 💯

[Sevenpointfive]

i'd rather eat the dollar i have for food. if you do this correctly, you get a meal and the dollar comes out in the morning! so it's a free meal!

[electromagnetic]

I’m thankful that I haven’t felt the crunch just yet. I do look at my grocery bill sometimes and wonder how 5 things are costing me $72 with less items

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, America is in a crisis situation.

[jack1924]

Couldn’t agree more

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@jack1924 This is why American's scared to vote Democrat and I think Bernie Sanders would have done better, but the Democrats refused to give him a try.

[jack1924]

Yeah, at that time I hated Hilary Clinton a lot lol

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yeah, Hillary Clinton had so much stuff against her

[FunkyMonkee]

Can't for trump to get back in office!!
I used to be able to go to the store and buy cart full of groceries for just over $50.00! Now, I get half a cart full and it's over $100.00!! And that's at one of the cheaper stores!!

[jack1924]

If Trump get back in office ➡️

[OtterMan68]

If you knew about economics, you'd know that printing a record amount of money in 2020 + signing a $2.2 trillion stimulus into law helped cause inflation.
Also, Trump promised a whole slew of new tariffs and trade wars if elected this year.

[FunkyMonkee]

THAT'S the way we are NOW!! You can thank your boy, Joey, for that!!

[OtterMan68]

inflation doesn't happen over night

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 Joe proved that wrong!

[OtterMan68]

So you really think what happened in 2020 had zero effect on inflation that followed. Wow

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 No, I said JOE'S inflation and money printing screwed up the economy, as well as his ending the pipeline, sending jobs overseas, giving all our oil and money to other countries and those flooding across the border.
Maybe if you actually paid attention to what's REALLY going on instead of the bullshit CNN tells you to believe, you'd know about this stuff!!

[OtterMan68]

Trump printed a RECORD amount of money in 2020 and signed a $2.2 TRILLION stimulus. You really think that had NOTHING to do with inflation?

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 Oh! Is THAT what CNN told you? In the meantime, the rest of the world KNOWS it's JOE that printed all the money making what we have less than worthless!!

[OtterMan68]

So there was no huge increase in the money supply in 2020?

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 Not until Joe took over. we didn't need it! The economy was great!! Best it's ever been!! Then Joe cheated and fucked it all up!! Now, Trump's gonna have to bust ass all over again to get it back to where it was when he was cheated out of his second term!!

[OtterMan68]

www.factcheck.org/.../

[FunkyMonkee]

@OtterMan68 And WHO does factcheck work for?

[OtterMan68]

ask the economists they interviewed. I provided facts. I showed data and interviews with economists. what have you shown to prove me wrong?

[NamerOfStars]

That while I may have dodged the insanity by fleeing Illinois, I can't dodge its consequences.

[msc545]

Capitalism attempts to normalize taking advantage of others and cheating them financially.

[jack1924]

For sure

[MrGSpotHer]

In the UK it was bad but I was going to the more expensive supermarkets I changed it to better cheaper ones now and I spend half as less for better quality and I have noticed the prices are slowly dropping down now in the local corner shops

[NathanDavis]

food is a priority at the household, so... I just get what I need, and it's just done

[douride2]

in my opinion it isn't quite as bad as many people make it out to be. Still groceries are way to expensive.

[Anonymous]

Not bad now, it's just normal
Inflation is good for business, well my business at least

[jack1924]

And that’s one other thing bad for capitalism, we never think of each other.

[Opinion Owner]

Everyone remember me because I pay the best and take but a morsel for myself

[EmmaMary]

I take very little notice, if any at all.

[jack1924]

You must be rich lol

[EmmaMary]

Fortunately financially comfortable enough in not having to worry about such things.

[jack1924]

That’s very good👍🏻

[RedInnocent69]

My grocery bill is a cunty bitch.

[jack1924]

Lmao

[Dongie]

@##$$%^^%##^&$##№#٪&*&&, and then some.

[jack1924]

Totally understandable lol

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Not happy. Groceries are far too expensive in my opinion.

[Nikki1989]

I think nothing of it.

[Iron_Man]

Expense every time

[Ms_Facesitter]

"yeah okay :) "