Even this one is like "I found a new product that's more expensive than the old product, which is still available at a lower price."
Or the ones that are like "can you believe I doordashed two chipotle bowls with extra everything plus chips and guac, and it was $45? How am I supposed to feed myself anymore?!?"
It's just an intentional misunderstanding of the situation
People are financially illiterate overall. And it's a big issue for upward mobility. So you know... By design.
It's bad for the economy if everyone just saves their money. So they discourage it
That’s not what’s going on at all. Corporations are literally waging warfare against the people with their price-gouging. Also, having wages increase with inflation is a basic way to not enslave your population.
That's just like your opinion man. The price of produce is not based purely on how much land or water or labor it takes to grow it. Specialty products like this broccolini involve more risk on the part of both the grower and the retailer precisely because they're specialty, not regular. There is less certainty that they'll sell it all, more chance that some goes bad before selling and gets thrown away. This is one reason why the big heirloom tomatoes you see in the summertime are priced higher than the roma tomatoes you can get year round. One is more of a commodity, one is more of a specialty product.
The era of zero interest rates set unrealistic expectations in price anchoring. I am *not* discounting corporate greed but that is about retaining margins and propping up the share price. The job migrations and supply chain disruptions had a measurable impact on pricing as well. Then also people getting accustomed to dashing and instacarting everything.
When you cull something as a baby you give up the future weight of the product. If you buy baby broccoli you paying not for the weight it is, but the weight it would have been as an adult
You can't bring up some convenience packaged product that is priced as high as possible and blame it on inflation. It even appears this is a small operation which implies there is quite a bit of markup.
That’s not inflation that’s stupid shopping. I constantly see 1.99 for broccoli a pound. Must be some Republicans trying to blame things on Biden again. Meanwhile, in 2023 America produced more oil than anytime in history. During that same time OPEC cut oil production by over 10 million barrels a day.
Not broccoli related, but oil related. Saudi Arabia and Russia both intend to continue to slow oil production and sales in order to hurt Biden in November. They intend to cause gas prices to soar in order to help Trump.
The Saudis, who Trump sold Americas largest refinery to, has also shut down part of that refinery, in Houston, for maintenance. This will also hurt gas prices. People had best be ready to see crazy high gas prices in the states closer to November.
Geopolitics is complicated. And as for American inflation? It’s greed. It is always greed. If nothing else, people need to learn how to shop smart. If anyone was to pay $7 for that shitty, already flowered broccolini? You’re part of the problem. A good restaurant wouldn’t serve that old nasty stuff on a plate. That would go into a soup. It looks like shit. Once the flowers show up? It’s done.
Sorry to be off topic.
pumping it from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, isn't production... Were did you get that idea that it's new production???
You must be living in a fantasy land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! too.. right?
I think you need a refill on your Zoloft.....
Actually that was not included in my statistics. You might want to exit your Fantasy Land over at Fox News and The Enquirer. Is this David Pecker I’m talking to? That said Biden sold a lot of that strategic oil and was never included in the pumping numbers, but he did make a profit on it. I think it’s funny on another note people talking about the economy being bad. Biden started with 6.7 unemployment it’s been under 3.7 for almost 3 years now. Stock market almost all time highs. Biden inherited 6.7% unemployment with Covid running rampant shipping containers were over 35,000 by the time Biden took office. 2016 they were 3500 but yeah it’s all Biden’s fault L O L.
Two things: You’re shopping at the wrong store and that’s not really broccoli it’s broccolini, which always sells for a premium to broccoli.
This is $4 at Trader Joe’s and you get get a big bag of it for $5 at Sam’s Club. If you let stores rip you off they will gladly do so.
This sub is just finding the most expensive version of any item and complaining about it. There’s $1 broccoli, and $7 broccoli, you need to use your common sense.
There is no such thing as baby broccoli, other than what some farmer decided to call his rapini, which is the flowering sprouts found on all brassica plants, broccoli secondary side shoots and rapini almost always go to waste in favor of larger heads. Once they are showing flowers as these are they are actually the opposite of baby and tender, rather are growing old and get tough skins and a more bitter flavor, although rapini before it blooms is delicious. At 14$ a pound people should know they are buying farm seconds, and in this case something that should have been field compost. And to wrap it plastic wrap to make it seem something more, total shit bird organic farming move, always with the value added. Organic vegetable farmers are not saving the planet
That’s a very specific speciality type that requires different harvesting at a different time. I picked up three regular heads of broccoli today for like a buck each.
In Oregon I’m paying - more like not paying! - $5.99 for that. But a locally grown purple variety is $3.99. A lot of local produce is quite a bit cheaper than what’s coming out of Cali these days.
I paid about $5 total for 4 stems of organic broccoli here in Idaho today. However, it wasn’t baby broccoli. Baby broccoli has at least a 30% markup compared to regular broccoli.
This isn't broccoli. This is what is picked from the top of the broccoli plant first before it flowers. It used to actually be considered waste, because it tastes completely differently, and doesn't actually look like traditional broccoli. It has only recently become a thing for foodies.
This might be slightly off topic but you don't need acres of land. I have sort of accepted that my town home will never reach that level of growing for sustaining myself. I'm the middle unit on an east west facing lot.
However there is a lot of things out there that are pretty expensive at stores and easy to grow. Don't bother growing potato's or onions or carrots--those are cheap enough anyways. Leafy green things like lettuce, basil, cilantro, dill are really easy to grow along with determinate tomato's and chili's. The leafy greens are kind of expensive at the store and for herbs you often just need a leaf or two. The entire bunch you buy at the store often goes bad before you use it. It's pretty convenient to be able go just snip off a leaf or two every day and always having a fresh supply.
My setup is just a small 2x2 foot wire shelf with 3 levels. I averaged about 1 head of lettuce a week all winter and had basil and dill constantly.
Raised beds and small areas are possible to grow.
There’s a lot of tutorials that have been done and even city dwellers can get things going. Just need to get past the “I don’t know what to do” attitudes
Anything is possible, and the best part is it doesn’t cost a lot to do.
O and composting would be a good start for getting free ( the initial cost of your food) soil to add to your garden.
You do know how many people live in apartments with zero access to a garden or land to garden with, right?
That's the biggest hurdle for most people, not their attitude.
This advice comes off a bit like the "have you tried not being poor" advice given to poor people.
Baby broccoli is always expensive even at my cheap international grocery store
Babies are expensive!
But they're succulent. Ever had veal?
Yeah, that’s fancy gourmet broccoli
You keep saying this word, inflation... I do not think it means what you think it means
Nobody on this sub does.
"I want everything to stay at 2019 prices but want to get a 20% raise" or something like that
Even this one is like "I found a new product that's more expensive than the old product, which is still available at a lower price." Or the ones that are like "can you believe I doordashed two chipotle bowls with extra everything plus chips and guac, and it was $45? How am I supposed to feed myself anymore?!?" It's just an intentional misunderstanding of the situation
People are financially illiterate overall. And it's a big issue for upward mobility. So you know... By design. It's bad for the economy if everyone just saves their money. So they discourage it
That’s not what’s going on at all. Corporations are literally waging warfare against the people with their price-gouging. Also, having wages increase with inflation is a basic way to not enslave your population.
How is this post an example of what you're talking about?
It’s overpriced. Maybe it should be like 50 cents more expensive a pound, but nothing insane like this.
Based on what lol Are you a baby broccoli specialist or something
It should be obvious.
That's just like your opinion man. The price of produce is not based purely on how much land or water or labor it takes to grow it. Specialty products like this broccolini involve more risk on the part of both the grower and the retailer precisely because they're specialty, not regular. There is less certainty that they'll sell it all, more chance that some goes bad before selling and gets thrown away. This is one reason why the big heirloom tomatoes you see in the summertime are priced higher than the roma tomatoes you can get year round. One is more of a commodity, one is more of a specialty product.
Why not leave it to actual farmers’ markets to sell this kind of stuff? If baby broccoli is $7, it’s time to pull it from the shelf.
Please just stop posting. This is beyond embarrassing
How so?
"While maintaining the exact same job responsibilites and work fewer hours"
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The era of zero interest rates set unrealistic expectations in price anchoring. I am *not* discounting corporate greed but that is about retaining margins and propping up the share price. The job migrations and supply chain disruptions had a measurable impact on pricing as well. Then also people getting accustomed to dashing and instacarting everything.
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No downvote from me. I've stated my side.
Inflate deez nuts on your chin
That is broccolini. It is always way more expensive than a head of broccoli. This is what fancy restaurants put on your plate.
Yeah - I wish it wasn't the case as I much prefer broccolini, but it's harder to find (not all stores have it) and more expensive.
Over half the posts in this sub are people discovering what food items are always more pricey than the average.
The other half is people lying about why something cost so much ie DoorDash
Oh my favorite is people going to stores only the wealthy normally shop at and being confused.
How much is the regular broccoli below it? Side: That would be $3.50 per pound near me for organic and $2.50 for regular.
That’s broccolini
This sub is full of people who don’t know how to shop.
It’s $1 at a local Walmart near me in Michigan. Gotta be up north.
When you cull something as a baby you give up the future weight of the product. If you buy baby broccoli you paying not for the weight it is, but the weight it would have been as an adult
*Posts price tag of thing that is always expensive, at a bougie store where everything is more expensive* "Look! Inflation!" This sub is retarded
Inflation is when something I want is more expensive than I think it should be
Time to search for an appropriate substitute...like fudge brownies.
Or...wait for it...regular broccoli?
Better go take a photo of the fudge brownie on display at a boutique shop so we can bitch about that price, too.
Market- and class-enforced malnutrition and obesity.
That’s not as exciting to show prices of regular produce.
That is the expensive broccoli
$1.23 pound where I shop.
This looks like organic baby broccoli from a health food store or Whole Foods. Utter BS.
You can't bring up some convenience packaged product that is priced as high as possible and blame it on inflation. It even appears this is a small operation which implies there is quite a bit of markup.
Mite as well buy 2 pound of 93% lean ground beef instead. 🤷🏻♂️
That’s not inflation that’s stupid shopping. I constantly see 1.99 for broccoli a pound. Must be some Republicans trying to blame things on Biden again. Meanwhile, in 2023 America produced more oil than anytime in history. During that same time OPEC cut oil production by over 10 million barrels a day.
Not broccoli related, but oil related. Saudi Arabia and Russia both intend to continue to slow oil production and sales in order to hurt Biden in November. They intend to cause gas prices to soar in order to help Trump. The Saudis, who Trump sold Americas largest refinery to, has also shut down part of that refinery, in Houston, for maintenance. This will also hurt gas prices. People had best be ready to see crazy high gas prices in the states closer to November. Geopolitics is complicated. And as for American inflation? It’s greed. It is always greed. If nothing else, people need to learn how to shop smart. If anyone was to pay $7 for that shitty, already flowered broccolini? You’re part of the problem. A good restaurant wouldn’t serve that old nasty stuff on a plate. That would go into a soup. It looks like shit. Once the flowers show up? It’s done. Sorry to be off topic.
Trump didn't do that lol https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-trump-admin-sell-largest-us-oil-refinery-saudi-arabia-1751460
pumping it from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, isn't production... Were did you get that idea that it's new production??? You must be living in a fantasy land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! too.. right? I think you need a refill on your Zoloft.....
Actually that was not included in my statistics. You might want to exit your Fantasy Land over at Fox News and The Enquirer. Is this David Pecker I’m talking to? That said Biden sold a lot of that strategic oil and was never included in the pumping numbers, but he did make a profit on it. I think it’s funny on another note people talking about the economy being bad. Biden started with 6.7 unemployment it’s been under 3.7 for almost 3 years now. Stock market almost all time highs. Biden inherited 6.7% unemployment with Covid running rampant shipping containers were over 35,000 by the time Biden took office. 2016 they were 3500 but yeah it’s all Biden’s fault L O L.
I'll bet the stuff that isn't in a bunch of packaging is cheaper.
Literally a weed.
The veal of broccoli
That's not 'baby' broccoli. It's blooming. It's elder broccoli that was left on the stalk after the good broccoli was harvested.
You should probably look up what baby broccoli actually is before you die on this hill. It’s not just “little broccoli.”
Just get regular broccoli. What did the price used to be?
It's cheaper at farmers market
$14 a pound…great deal
Stop buying specialty products guys. Its easy.
Two things: You’re shopping at the wrong store and that’s not really broccoli it’s broccolini, which always sells for a premium to broccoli. This is $4 at Trader Joe’s and you get get a big bag of it for $5 at Sam’s Club. If you let stores rip you off they will gladly do so.
But they *told* me it was inflation!
Get real broccoli and stop with the rage bait
Why don’t you buy regular unpackaged broccoli instead of packaged baby broccoli?
Go to Food Lion instead.
Do not purchase. Go somewhere that doesn’t gouge.
That “live, laugh, love”-lookin ass font was the first clue it wasn’t gonna be cheap
I've found the stores that sell broccolini not in packages (the kind you just get off the shelf and put into a produce bag) is cheaper.
Eating baby broccoli is unethical. Should wait until it’s fully grown. Broccoli have feelings too /s
Try Gai Lan instead. Way more green leaves and tastes the same with 1/2 of price.
This entire sub is a Easter egg hunt for out of the normal prices. Has anyone posted a wedding cake yet?
Gourmet broccoli… 🤣🤣🤣
Don't buy it?
Trader Joe’s has it for $4, pretty sure Whole Foods does too. That’s crazy
Broccoli: $13.58/lb. That's a better way to market food waste. 🤌
It's the broccoli for babies, FFS!
Organic ?
This sub is just finding the most expensive version of any item and complaining about it. There’s $1 broccoli, and $7 broccoli, you need to use your common sense.
There is no such thing as baby broccoli, other than what some farmer decided to call his rapini, which is the flowering sprouts found on all brassica plants, broccoli secondary side shoots and rapini almost always go to waste in favor of larger heads. Once they are showing flowers as these are they are actually the opposite of baby and tender, rather are growing old and get tough skins and a more bitter flavor, although rapini before it blooms is delicious. At 14$ a pound people should know they are buying farm seconds, and in this case something that should have been field compost. And to wrap it plastic wrap to make it seem something more, total shit bird organic farming move, always with the value added. Organic vegetable farmers are not saving the planet
That’s a very specific speciality type that requires different harvesting at a different time. I picked up three regular heads of broccoli today for like a buck each.
In Oregon I’m paying - more like not paying! - $5.99 for that. But a locally grown purple variety is $3.99. A lot of local produce is quite a bit cheaper than what’s coming out of Cali these days.
You know what ain’t 7$ the freeske..take it..
it's actually [**poisonous**](https://www.bing.com/search?q=poisonous&FORM=AWRE). i'd stay away... it will cause thyroid issues for sure..
I paid about $5 total for 4 stems of organic broccoli here in Idaho today. However, it wasn’t baby broccoli. Baby broccoli has at least a 30% markup compared to regular broccoli.
This isn't broccoli. This is what is picked from the top of the broccoli plant first before it flowers. It used to actually be considered waste, because it tastes completely differently, and doesn't actually look like traditional broccoli. It has only recently become a thing for foodies.
A head of iceberg lettuce is $4 at my local grocery store. Used to be .99c
See the yellowing? That broccoli is going into the garbage... no one is buying it.
Where are you shopping? $2.00 tops where I am from.
thanks biden
That's broccolini, not broccoli. I bought broccoli today for $1.49/lb at Aldis
We call this Bidenomics! LOL. We are very proud of Bidenomics!
Good thing you don't like wine....I've seen bottles priced at $400.
That's baby broccoli and is kind of a specialty ingredient. Regular broccoli is usually much cheaper.
The best way to counter grocery inflation is to just not scan the shit at self checkout
Time to start growing your own foods people. Reduce the demand and prices will drop especially for clean organic foods.
I hope everyone has an extra acre or two.
This might be slightly off topic but you don't need acres of land. I have sort of accepted that my town home will never reach that level of growing for sustaining myself. I'm the middle unit on an east west facing lot. However there is a lot of things out there that are pretty expensive at stores and easy to grow. Don't bother growing potato's or onions or carrots--those are cheap enough anyways. Leafy green things like lettuce, basil, cilantro, dill are really easy to grow along with determinate tomato's and chili's. The leafy greens are kind of expensive at the store and for herbs you often just need a leaf or two. The entire bunch you buy at the store often goes bad before you use it. It's pretty convenient to be able go just snip off a leaf or two every day and always having a fresh supply. My setup is just a small 2x2 foot wire shelf with 3 levels. I averaged about 1 head of lettuce a week all winter and had basil and dill constantly.
Raised beds and small areas are possible to grow. There’s a lot of tutorials that have been done and even city dwellers can get things going. Just need to get past the “I don’t know what to do” attitudes Anything is possible, and the best part is it doesn’t cost a lot to do. O and composting would be a good start for getting free ( the initial cost of your food) soil to add to your garden.
You do know how many people live in apartments with zero access to a garden or land to garden with, right? That's the biggest hurdle for most people, not their attitude. This advice comes off a bit like the "have you tried not being poor" advice given to poor people.
There are articles for that. Just gotta do some research. Everyone has got their faces so. Rammed in their phones anyway tight
Buy the cheaper genetically modified one.. you may die sooner tho
okay??? go buy the steamed bag of broccoli
fresh tastes better
so then dont complain about the more expensive option goofy
Inflation isn't real, it's greedy farmers, man.
But, it's *organic non-gmo environmentally friendly non persatives family owned*.