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Asafum ,

Literally this week I cut back to one meal a day… Groceries DOUBLED in price over the last 12/18 months…

Wages stay flat, insurance goes up, rent goes up, food goes up, electric goes up… The only things I have control over are food and electric…

return2ozma OP ,
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Do you have an Aldi in your area? I’ve been exclusively shopping there and saving a bunch.

Asafum ,

I don’t unfortunately. Part of the problem for me is limited options for shopping. Thanks for the suggestion though!

WhyDoYouPersist ,

Is this serfdom with extra steps?

Manifish_Destiny ,

Serfs had more vacation days

Xenny ,

It’s not to pay for AC… groceries are just stupid expenses so I’ve cut back. I’ve always had AC money and we’re obviously going to be paying more in AC because it’s hot. correlation does not equal causation

Drusas ,

we're obviously going to be paying more in AC because it's hot.

That actually is how it usually works.

MrVilliam ,

Yep. I switched grocery stores because of the price gouging. Now, instead of walking to Giant, I drive ten minutes to my nearest Aldi. My grocery bill is probably like 1/3 of what it was right before the switch. Every so often, we need things that Aldi doesn’t carry, so we have to go back to Giant. They have a bunch of shit locked up now, they’ve closed half of the entrances and exits, and now have a loss prevention guy at the door, so I guess that means there’s been a ton of shoplifting. Well, buying like 4 items there adds up to what a week of groceries from Aldi costs, so maybe they should blame themselves for that one.

The DoJ and FTC should be investigating corporate grocery stores for manufactured price hikes, especially because so much of it started during a pandemic and it yielded record profits for them. If you see nothing wrong with holding food for ransom from lower and middle class families for the sake of funneling more wealth to their wealthy shareholders, but you do see something wrong with people stealing food from these same greedy grocery store corporations, then you’re part of the problem. Stop defending the oligarchs like you think they’ll drop a few extra crumbs in your food dish in exchange. They don’t care about you.

workerONE , (edited )

Food is produced for people to eat so then why is it so expensive? In other countries food is affordable and it’s obvious that this is the way it should be. I see a lot of people talking about their grocery bill increasing in the last year or two, but I’ve seen a steady increase over the last 10+ years. Food has been expensive for a while.

I hope you all are cooking- rice, beans, chicken or veggies, soup, etc and not just buying frozen dinners. That stuff isn’t affordable. You can get giant bags of jasmine rice and pinto beans at Costco. They are huge and cheap.

LordCrom ,

We get those huge bags of beans, not canned. Huge bags of rice. Staples that’ll feed ya. May not be pizza rolls or frozen lasagna, but it fills ya up

ImplyingImplications ,

I’ve been on the rice, beans, pasta, and veggies diet for years. I used to brag my grocery bill was never higher than $50 a week. I now spend about $80 a week. I know that’s still nothing compared to my friends and family but I’m still pissed that even the poor people food hasn’t been spared by the price hike.

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