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Ghostalmedia , in What happened? Take me back
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return2ozma OP ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bfe1d63a-37af-4e8f-a4b7-ba5ceb033d2a.jpegThis is the TB closest to me in the Los Angeles area.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Could be down to their location. I mocked my gps to a place i guessed would be expensive (Long Beach CA) and got this https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6c165e7b-d4aa-467a-b57b-350b6fe25b15.png

Routhinator ,
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https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/94ee082a-c93a-40ee-bef0-69654df1e366.png

Nanaimo BC, Canada… price is in CAD. That converts to $3.32 USD

I must say I am shocked that our prices are on par with or lower than anywhere in the US. I mean the conversion rate on the California price is insane in CAD:

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/4e087dd9-7b74-410d-a8bb-523efe5b66d5.jpeg

Alexstarfire ,

I can get that as part of the build your own craving box for $6.

Crunchwrap, this, potatoes, and a drink for $6.

troglodytis , in My wife is angry with somebody at our bank.

As per my email dated…

I end all my work emails with "Thanks* and let the inflection be my own

numlok , in What happened? Take me back

Assuming this was around 1994, and adjusting for inflation, it should still be under $2. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c02344c5-0798-45bb-8f67-fe533ff86001.jpeg

ryannathans , (edited )

That’s only taking into account monetary devaluation, not inflation of goods and services (or vice versa)

afk_strats ,

What?

Monetary devaluation is an economic policy Inflation is literally the “general increase in the prices of goods and services”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devaluation

ryannathans ,

Inflation is market derived and does not include devaluation of the currency, source is your own link on deflation.

In a global economy goods and services are sourced internationally and are subject to various exchange rates. Rarely anything is ever 100% domestic

flames5123 ,

Even if every ingredient doubled in cost (same as domestic inflation) and profit is a 1/6 of the burrito, we wouldn’t even be at $4. This is corporate greed.

ryannathans ,

Seems like it’s uber eats in the second pic so yeah a lot more markup?

Energy costs many times what it did too

Zombie ,

Energy costs many times what it did too

Perhaps for the consumer, not for the energy providers

What costs more? Gas or wind? Oil or solar? Coal or wave?

There’s a premium charged for new technology, sure. To cover R&D costs, new tooling, etc, but once the machinery is made, the fuel is essentially free. The wind blows itself, the sun has its own fuel, the tides move freely

Energy arbitrarily costs more because those that sell it have decided it costs more. Aka corporate greed, which is what this post is complaining about in the first.

ryannathans ,

No, for one energy has gone up due to increased demand for fossil fuels after cutting Russian gas off

randombullet ,

You mean greed

unwarlikeExtortion ,

Monetary devaluation is the only thing that gives any thin-veiled justificstion for price increases. Anything not covered by the inflation calculator is greed.

ryannathans ,

The inflation calculation is gamed too to make numbers look smaller

BowtiesAreCool ,

The beefy 5 layer burrito was introduced in 2009/10

numlok ,

So, Ryan Gosling was 29 years old in the top picture. Damn is he a great actor.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/59495cec-86a0-4fd5-b42d-ae3c84d38a71.jpeg

mihnt ,

til he’s a year older than me

kambusha ,

Must be a method-actor.

boonhet ,

It’s stitched together, it’s not a taco bell ad, it’s a meme.

ryannathans ,

Pic 2 also looks like uber eats, not instore

ltxrtquq ,

www.tacobell.com/food/…/beefy-5-layer-burrito

Looks like the actual price is $3.79

A7thStone ,

It switches to $3.99 when I put it in my cart.

doggle ,
AWistfulNihilist ,
NecroParagon ,

I went through the drive thru last year and spent almost $20 on 3 beef chalupas. The cashier looked puzzled before she told me the total lol. The one thing I want from that place, I knew it would cost me.

Not worth it afterwards, I decided.

Goddamn I want a chalupa

Appoxo ,
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The whole supply chain increased their prices as well. Did you take that into account?

prole , (edited )

The supply chain presumably cost something in the first pic too. The prices of those things should have also gone up according to inflation. So wouldn’t they also be included in the “inflation adjusted” figure? It’s not like they were calculating what it cost without needing a supply chain.

In fact, I would think that if anything, the overall price of supply chains would have decreased as technology got better (better fuel, better gas mileage, better routes, better forms of transportation, better computer models to predict outcomes, etc).

Asafum ,

Supposedly the argument for the recent absurd food prices is because of oil prices increasing (translates to shipping costs increasing) so much with Russia invading Ukraine and everyones sanctions on Russian oil plus the disruption of wheat production in Ukraine.

And then there’s just plain old fucking greed.

explodicle ,

FWIW prices are really high now here in America too, and we weren’t relying on Russian oil.

BeardedGingerWonder ,

Oil has a single price on the global market, doesn’t matter if you’re in the US or Europe.

xthexder ,
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As it turns out, moving oil across the ocean is really expensive. Even if you can buy oil at the same price in the US and Europe, it’s still cheaper to buy it locally and not have to deal with moving it.

Homescool ,

A Ryan Gosling appearance today is enough to warrant $5 for 5 layers.

uis ,

By scaling entire price? Yeah.

Fleur__ , in Cooked
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Ahh 0 up votes, 100 comments, my beloved

Slovene , in What happened? Take me back

Well, he’s a big star now so that layer of his warm macho cheese is expensive.

chemicalprophet , in My neighbor's exact thought process

What time is polite on the ‘weekend’?

Balooog ,

10am and later, I think

el_abuelo ,

That is overly polite in my opinion. I’m happy to fire up the lawn mower after 9am.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ,

i used to work at a customer service call centre, we had a rule against making outbound calls before 9am

subtext ,

That may just be because the FTC has rules for when you can call, and it may have 9 AM because of where you live.

www.ftc.gov/…/complying-telemarketing-sales-rule

FWIW, the FTC says 8 AM is fine for calls, so presumably 8 AM is fine to start work on the weekends.

mojofrododojo ,

noon.

Got_Bent ,

Here in the Texas summer it’s about seven in the morning. Annoying, but everybody realizes that if you go out any later, you’re gonna die of heat stroke.

Letsdothis , in Don't fall for the false dichotomy. You have more than two options.

This unapologetically forward communist propaganda is freaking crazy… these kids obviously failed world history.

SmilingSolaris ,
joenforcer ,

Ah yes, a single random data point having nothing to do with the original post. You’ve convinced me.

SmilingSolaris ,

It was never about you.

richardisaguy ,
@richardisaguy@lemmy.world avatar

My brother in christ, these are all dictatorships

SmilingSolaris ,

And yet… Interesting number i’d say.

xor ,

This list isn’t by percentage with a home - it excludes people who rent, so all this shows is that nobody rents their home in China

beejboytyson ,

I was wondering how Cuba and China made it so high. I know the Chinese lie about everything.

Ephera , in What happened? Take me back

Man, I know US food is …something else, but still, what the hell is this thing?

Apparently, the 5 layers are:

  • Beef
  • Cheese
  • Beans
  • Nacho Cheese Sauce
  • Sour Cream

A.k.a. 5 times protein for no fucking reason. That’s going to taste like garbage, unless you make it entirely too greasy, too.

I guess, it being called “beefy”, that’s its whole gimmick, but that still doesn’t explain why it exists in the first place. When you could be eating something with a multitude of flavors, which doesn’t sit in your stomach like a brick either, why do you choose just a lump of meat?

heavy ,

Lol chill, it’s already billed as trash food, nobody sold it as caviar. If someone wants to eat like a raccoon, for the most part, it’s their God given right. No need to high horse it.

Unbecredible ,

…kinda but also wtf are you talking about? It’s Taco Bell, of course it’s going to be greasy as fuck and delicious.

Not delicious in the way of fresher more authentic Mexican food. Delicious in the way of Taco Bell.

.89-cents-at-midnight-delicious

danciestlobster ,

That might SOUND like 5x protein, but I am fairly confident there is a pretty minimal amount of protein at all. The beef and cheese sauce are almost entirely fat, cheese is low amount and high moisture, sour cream never had protein to begin with.

ayyy ,

Literally none of the ingredients are what you are picturing in your head. They’re not bad, just different.

Telodzrum ,

lol

.ml user

Ephera ,

lol

Sotuanduso , in What happened? Take me back

At least it doesn’t look like it shrunk too.

w3dd1e ,

It 100% shrunk. That image is misleading

turbulentMagma ,
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lightnsfw , in What happened? Take me back

I can get 2 for that around here.

TheReturnOfPEB , in What happened? Take me back

What happened to the 7 layer ?

BowtiesAreCool ,

They removed it from the menu in the last couple of years

mriormro ,
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People couldn’t afford the extra 2 layers.

RizzRustbolt ,

Ran out of dodo eggs and ambrosia.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA , in My wife is angry with somebody at our bank.
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Sucks to your regards

pedz , in My neighbor's exact thought process

Reminds me of my father. He’s up super early, like 4 am, and to him 7 am is perfectly late enough to run the wood planer on a weekend day.

Raiderkev , in My wife is angry with somebody at our bank.

The only time I use regards in a work email is me taking a subtle dig and dropping a WSB reference.

I appreciate you reaching out. If you would please refer to my previous email where I wrote out step by step instructions.it should answer all your questions. If you need further clarification, please feel free to reach out.

Regards,

Raiderkev

Zip2 , in My neighbor's exact thought process

Are you one of those damn night people complaining about us morning people getting on with stuff in the limited time window we have?

Johanno ,

When I am doing stuff at night I try to be as quiet as possible. The morning people could follow this until 11 am.

Zip2 ,

But we won’t because 11am is unreasonable. That’s a third of the day wasted.

You’re not an owl. Go to bed earlier.

Bakersfield ,
@Bakersfield@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly! All those hospital workers on the night shift can go without sleep.

Zip2 ,

Hospital workers aren’t the ones making noise late into the night and expecting everyone else to be quiet in the morning so they can have a lie in though, are they?

BlackDragon ,

A lot of us work at night. My bed time is 8am. Why exactly do you deserve sleep more than I do just because I’m on a different equally necessary schedule?

JovialMicrobial ,

Depending on location, it’s too freaking hot to be doing yard work anytime past 11 in the summer months. 9 - 11am is usually when I get my shit done.

Then again, with my neighbors have a similar work schedule to me, so I guess I’m not bothering anyone.

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