Consumers have long been warned they were going to be pushed to the “point of pain” in order to curtail their spending. It seems like we’ve finally reached it.

  • garretble@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was at a grocery store the other day and boxes of cereal there were going for $7+.

    For cereal. Not even fancy stuff. Like, Cpt. Crunch type cereal. Of course people aren’t buying that.

    Now, that’s not every store in town. But still. Even the other stores are pushing basic cereals up to $5+. It’s madness.

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      1 year ago

      It is. My local Krogers had a display of RAOs spaghetti sauce on “Sale” for $8 a jar. Don’t shop there any more.

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        1 year ago

        …inflation is bad across the shelf, but rao’s has always been $9+ a jar here in texas - well, for at least the past fifteen years since i first noticed its absurdly-high price…

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      1 year ago

      Here in the USA, I switched to Aldi for breakfast cereal years ago. Its still just under $2 per box for the store brand with no shrinkflation to reach that low price.