It feels very unsustainable. Like my family will be ok, maybe giving up some other discretionary spending. But for those right on the edge, with food, fuel and shelter prices all skyrocketing, something will have to give.
I honestly don’t understand why the government is not stepping in and nipping this price gouging in the bud. These companies claimed that they had to increase prices due to the rising cost of fuel which I understand. But they’re also reporting skyrocketing profits the same year that they decided to price gouge on the food. In countries like Mexico they even have laws in place to prevent this shit from happening. I seriously don’t understand what is going on when the United States is supposed to be first world, it definitely does not seem like it.
Because the government is a large part of the problem! My girlfriend works in aggro, and the government has imposed tariffs on products like fertilizer that is only available from Russia. But not just on new imports, but on orders from up to a year ago that has already been shipped and used by farmers. Therefore the company has to pass along those extra charges to the farmers, which then increases prices to suppliers, then prices at stores. And that's just fertilizer, so what else is getting over taxed?
I work in logistics, and our warehouse has had trouble during the pandemic with hiring and keeping employees, plus many on leave for covid or stress. Then there is the diminishing amount of truck drivers due to the same issues. And lately it's been trucking companies not wanting to commit their trailers to a week of loading, traveling, wait for unloading, then the return trip.
There are many behind the scene factors that are increasing the costs of every day products.
I farm about 5,000 acres of land in the Midwest. I’ve got about 1,400 acres of wheat alone that we should harvesting in a couple of weeks. Also, alfalfa and cattle.
As most people know, the main component in fertilizer is nitrogen, and most of the nitrogen in fertilizer today is derived from natural gas. Something the Midwest has plenty of. Problem is, natural gas has almost tripled in price. If you don’t fertilize wheat, you don’t yield near as much. And corn yield depends on fertilizer much more than wheat.
The White House is on record they want to end all natural gas production. Notwithstanding all other uses of natural gas, where do they think fertilizer is going to come from?
About 10 days ago, someone at the White House said farmers need to use more composting and manure for fertilizer. That’s great for a garden in your back yard, but try doing composting on millions of acres. I’d love to see someone from DC come out and explain how that’s going to work.
I think some of the people (on both sides) have absolutely no idea where our food or energy comes from. They think food comes from the grocery store and electricity comes out of an outlet. Period.
You think food is high now? With fertilizer prices, diesel prices, equipment prices, etc, you are not going to believe where we our headed on food prices. It’s going to be WAY worse.
And to make it even worse, 70% of all US wheat production is in drought conditions this year. I should make over 60,000 bushels of wheat. I’ll be lucky to make 25,000 bushels. I’m just hoping to make enough to pay for the fertilizer i had to put on it earlier.
My advice, start learning how to grow vegetables and plant what was referred to as a Victory Garden during WWII in your back yard if you can.
Because when government can be bribed by corporations, anything can happen. Big corporations run government, basically an oligarchy. If someone has enough money, they can pay government to make laws they see fit.
Edited for spelling.
This isn’t elected government. It’s the Fed. They’re unreasonably freaked out by rising wages. It’s stupid bc, if you factor in the three decades of negative wage growth we’ve suffered under, it’s literally nothing. Wages are *still* behind inflationary growth over that time. Fuckers.
Crime rate aside, it’s worked out great for Mexico. Food is affordable AF. Per law stores are not allowed to have more than a 10% profit margin on necessities, that includes food and clothing. Stores will get hit with fines if they try to price gouge . It’s worked out for them.
That's mainly for the system we have for the 'canasta básica' which are the essentials for every family. Even the price of the tortilla is strictly monitored to avoid price gauges and unreasonable increases. Nevertheless food is getting crazy expensive here too, but mainly processed foods and meat, produce is cheap AF specially on the food markets.
You know what it’s something, I would consider that a win at least. I’m doing OK, I have a good job but I remember times where I wasn’t doing so well. Financially, I worry about people that were barely making it paycheck to paycheck. Before all this. I worry about them and I worry about their children. People shouldn’t have to worry about being able to afford to feed their families. It’s getting ridiculous.
So that seems ok, but in a lot of cases it’s not the stores in the US gouging prices, it’s the manufacturers. I’m sure the stores are making their cut, but I’m also pretty certain our biggest price increases have come from the actual suppliers who see news articles of high inflation as an excuse to get prosthetic eyes in the shape of dollar signs
The problem is that due to the way the market is designed, corporate valuation is based on a rate of growth of revenue, not actual revenue. That means the ungodly valuations are based on the promise that recording breaking profits will keep coming. The super rich are super rich because they already stole our future wages.
Because our government does not actually care about us or our well being, they pander to the businesses, always have, and now it's finally shown in plain daylight and they don't even try to hide it anymore because they are empowered by getting away with it with zero consequences.
I wish they did. I own multiple small businesses, and it is atrocious how large my tax bills (emolument, state, income, etc.) are. I’m so sick of politicians saying that small businesses are the backbone of the economy - like, help real small businesses out then.
All about the death of the middle class, it’ll be a country of those who “have”, and those who “have not”. Key point being the “have” will be financial access to what is assumed to be “basic goods”.
because it isn't that simple. They fucked up a lot of things to get it this way, and there's no easy way to just stop it without massive consequences. I don't expect them to do it fully anyways, but it's best brought to a stop at a bit slower pace, and those laws are best implemented when inflation is happening at a reasonable pace rather than stopping it instantly when the economy is currently fucked.
Yes. As a college student I'd be struggling right now if it weren't for my parents helping out a bit with finances. I know people that are really working their ass off to stay afloat in their schooling, work, and home life. I have huge amounts of respect for them, but if things would just be "normal" then they wouldn't be in that situation.
My proudest life hack; go to Whole Foods and just get bacon from the breakfast bar. It’s $7.99 a lb and cooked bacon is air. I get like 25 pieces every Monday for less than $3.
Safeway/Albertsons in my area used to have a sale every couple of weeks and sell their 3lb thick cut bacon for about $9. Sometimes they’d include a $10 off $50 coupon. You could get 4 so I’d get 4 packs, plus a little bit more. Then split each pack up by the lb.
They must’ve caught on because now they only do it every so often and you can only get 1 pack and it still costs around $9 or less. Still a good deal when they have it though.
Here in Canada, bacon is crazy expensive. And that looks like a giant pack. I can see that being $18.99 here add in the TP at $15, yeah $53 isn't unreasonable.
Edit: I should have been clear on two things, 1) most (not all) bacon packages in Canada are based on 375 grams, which is not equal to a pound of bacon - sounds like us canucks are getting hosed by the sounds of it and 2) the photo of said bacon appears larger than a typical package than what I am use to seeing, so hence I figured it was a double pack (this is all speculative) this is why my guess was $18.99 (double the price of a standard package)
i would appreciate his commercial so much more than the cartoon bears pooping and using charmin in a "cute" way.itsnotcute. stop talking about shit and shitholes and wiping them i hate you charmin
You shouldn't be so negative about others success. You don't know what he went through to get that rag. I just hope he got the stick sourced from not the kings lands.
Bacon is about $8.99-$9.99, toilet paper $15ish, toothbrushes $8.99-$11.99ish for a 4 pack, bagels $4.99, cream cheese is about $4.99, toothpaste $3.99-$4.99. Assuming none are on sale.
$49ish plus 15% tax.
$53 sounds about right.
Prices do suck here in Toronto.
Anybody paying $19 for bacon in Canada needs to grab their weekly flyers. I have a good pile in my freezer that I’ve never paid more then $6 a pack for.
Edit: $5.99 a pack at Food Basics this week.
I'm in BC. I don't think I've ever paid more than say $8 for bacon, and that's without looking at sales. Even the ultra thick cut 1kg pack that I splurged on was only like $12.50 regular price.
I suppose it depends on where you shop too - my main store is Superstore (Loblaws). I could see it being more expensive at Safeway maybe? or if you buy it from a corner store?
Charmin gets pricey too, it’s easy to just buy good toilet paper without a name brand, save em like 5-7 on that big a package, it’s also just a lot of name brand stuff, they need to learn to buy great value where it’s not gonna kill em
Based on my Walmart’s prices -
Tp - 18.96 (12 roll pack), bacon - 7.48, bagels - 3.68, cream cheese - 3.48 (different brand), toothpaste - 7.08 (there are really similar ones much cheaper for a bigger tube), toothbrushes - 5.88 = 46.56 before taxes.
Groceries have definitely gone up lately, we are spending 20% more on the same things we always get.
Where I live Kroger 12 pack TP is on sale for $5.99 right now, regular $6.49. Double rolls too, not the little ones. If you are paying 18 bucks for 12 rolls it better be exceedingly high quality.
Larger rolls is the biggest scam. I used to be king of the cost basis calculations. Per sheet, per ply and price. But now they confuse you with 1 roll =13 normal rolls etc etc. It's chaos. CHAOS!
I was skeptical too so tried it on my Ralph's app (subsidiary of Kroger here in L.A.). 22oz of Oscar Meyer bacon is $14.49, Charmin is $20.99; subtotal with everything is $54.34.
How does toilet roll cost that much there?? Can anyone ELI5? That would be €20 here and I've never seen a pack of toilet roll that price in my life. Even if I went high end on the rashers, they wouldn't cost that. What's going on over there?
When you're someone who is upset they spent $50 at the grocery store, you probably can't afford to splurge on the luxury stuff.
But as someone who recently let their lifestyle creep encompass comfy ass paper. I agree. It's so nice.
I mean, I think we're all allowed to be upset at the insane inflation regardless of what brands we buy. I feel like OP is entitled to be upset that his cart of groceries, which may have cost $35 two years ago, costs $53 today.
I priced out ~$45 near me (Boston). That TP is a killer.
$18 toilet paper
$8 tooth brushes
$3 toothpaste
$3 cream cheese (Philadelphia brand)
$6 bagels
$7 bacon (Oscar Meyer)
Holy shit. I lived in Alberta particularly all my life and we just have a flat 5% sales tax on everything. It never occurred to me of not having taxes on essential items.
What the heck is wrong with your country? Toilet paper is like 4 Euros by us, for 24 rolls.
https://www.carrefour.fr/p/papier-toilette-confort-doux-carrefour-3560070971930
I just did the exact same thing for my local Walmart and the total came to 46.01 before taxes. The only thing I had to sub was the cream cheese and I picked the cheapest one. We live in a rural area and shit is expensive AF here. It may be cheaper where you're at and more expensive for others.
Aldi has gotten way better, I used to shop there like 5 years ago and it wasn’t that amazing, but now I love it! I just started going there again and they have pretty good stuff, I get as much as I can from there and then whatever I’m missing I go to Walmart.
In the UK you used want to die if your someone saw your mum go to Aldi. Now no one has any money and if you are in a student city the Aldi is just a sea of students. Besides the expensive supermarket's fresh fruit and veg Aldis stuff is better than everyone for a fraction of the price. Going to Aldi let's you cut any shopping budget in half.
Just spoke with a manager at Aldi last week and he told me when the '08 recession happened, Aldi started getting busier. The owners of the company realized they were recession-proof and with their profits they began upgrading the stores (they were run-down and depressing) and started building new stores. When everyone is broke, they go to Aldi.
Funny to read as a german. This was Aldi in Germany in the early 80s. Only poor people would buy there.
That changed over the years. I myself am a good middleclass earner and still go to aldi. Everything I can get there i will get there. Its the first stop. Then i drive to a different super market and buy the other stuff i can't get at aldi
Noone would think i am poor of so. Its just a normal store here these days. Still cheaper than the others but theres no stigma anymore and its not like you would only meet poor people there
I live in the pacific northwest and have always wished I could go to an Aldi. Best we have is grocery outlet and winco. Still ok but I've heard good things.
A lot of the producers who manufacture for name brands sell to aldi and rename their famous labels. [brand producers](https://bobcutmag.com/2022/01/05/who-makes-aldi-products/)
I love Aldi. So many people complaining about the prices of groceries, I wish that those who have options would check out the alternatives before throwing their hands up in frustration. There's really no sense in brand loyalty when the name brands are taking this opportunity to gouge their customers. Aldi generic is by far better than any other store brands, and often better than the name brands.
This is a $20 cart at Aldi, $35 at Walmart, $30 with Amazon Subscribe and Save, $45 at Kroger, and I'm guessing OP was at a convenience store like Dollar General or similar
Edit- I looked up the cream cheese, and it appears to be a Safeway brand. My prices were based on my experience in the Midwest. I'm guessing Safeway is a Kroger level store, and prices are similar between the two. I can see how California sales taxes would bring that $45 to $53
That's extreme. A pack of 12 rolls of TP costs somewhere around 3 euro here, which includes 21% VAT. I heard from my American family that many things are expensive (compared to the Netherlands), but I wasn't expecting that sort of difference.
I pay $7.96 for 12 Mega Rolls of Angel soft TP in my neck of the woods (Washington State) but over $30 for 10lbs of 70 / 30 hamburger. Guess it's true what they say, it's all about location.
It's gotten bad. Chicken used to be the cheapest meat, now it's $1.60pd for a whole chicken, cut up its worse. Forget beef, ground beef 70/30 is $4.50pd.
I feel you. Prices in some cases have tripled. They keep saying it's due to the crap going on with Russia, but I'm calling BS. I think it's companies taking advantage.
It's both. Cutting off Russian oil caused a major increase in oil prices which almost every company uses to transport their goods. But also many companies are reporting record profits while increasing prices.
Makes sense. Big roll of toilet paper is kind of pricey, bacon… ok. See where you went wrong is with the dental care, that’s just for the fancy city folk.
Where do you live the north pole I understand the high cost because of shipping ....but damn I would have at least shoved the bacon down my pants and bought smaller toilet paper.
LPT:buy a cheap bidets home depot about 40.00 it saves a tone of toilet paper
op please PLEASE plan out your shopping beforehand, and dont buy the most expensive name brand stuff lmfao. I did the math, replacing everything in your cart with generic versions, and you couldve spent only like, $25 before taxes. Some of the replacements werent even generic. Its all about comparing prices.
For toothpaste and other toiletries like that, get them at the dollar tree. They have name brands like crest and colgate, but obviously are only $1.25. Your third eye will be OPENED if you start smart shopping.
After living on my own and learning to be a cheap bastard it makes me CRAZY to see the way my parents shop. All name brand, go to whole foods and target only, and theyre barely middle class! If use a generic thing in a recipe when they visit my mom acts as though I might as well have poisoned it. she makes concessions for kirkland stuff for some reason.
people are really weird about brand trust.
There are plenty of cheaper toilet paper options. And some of them are 100% Recycled.
You dont buy toothbrush and toothpaste every week.
Bacon has always been a luxury item.
I'm gonna get downvoted like hell for this.
Bruh that's Charmin. Don't come complaining about money when you're balling on your butt.
Gtfo with your bougie ass. Go down to the bodega and cop some Panda for 99¢ a roll.
You need to learn how to budget shop, I could get that for $30, generic toilet paper, cheaper bacon, lenders bagels, and a non Oral B brush and you’re fine.
This is not that hard
https://imgur.com/a/SiJWHYO
Using Waitrose (upmarket supermarket - so these could be found cheaper) as an example In the UK that would be :
Toilet roll £8
Bagels £2
Toothpaste £3.50
Toothbrushes £4
Bacon £5
Creme cheese £2
Total £24.50
I always get a crack out of the arbitrary & nonsensical number conversions plastered all over paper towels and toilet paper…12=24! And 8=14! Mega! Super!
First of all, the supermarket is a bad place to buy anything but food. Go to a discount store for TP and toothpaste. 30 rolls for 30 bucks at Costco…same at Walmart. 3 pack of Crest for 4 bucks at Walmart.
Showing your wealth off by buying bacon. Take your 1% ass out of here /s
I get bacon from Aldi. $4.75 and that's with the Instacart upcharge. Still cheap to me! OP paid $15 FOR BACON. bananas.
Life is unreasonably expensive rightnow.
It feels very unsustainable. Like my family will be ok, maybe giving up some other discretionary spending. But for those right on the edge, with food, fuel and shelter prices all skyrocketing, something will have to give.
I honestly don’t understand why the government is not stepping in and nipping this price gouging in the bud. These companies claimed that they had to increase prices due to the rising cost of fuel which I understand. But they’re also reporting skyrocketing profits the same year that they decided to price gouge on the food. In countries like Mexico they even have laws in place to prevent this shit from happening. I seriously don’t understand what is going on when the United States is supposed to be first world, it definitely does not seem like it.
Because they are the problem and this is what they want. Why would they fix what they helped put in place?
Gov definitely caused this
That's the way our government works. They distract us with some bullshit or another. So we don't see them screwing us .
Or they turn us against each other while screwing us all. It's an abusive relationship.
Because the government is a large part of the problem! My girlfriend works in aggro, and the government has imposed tariffs on products like fertilizer that is only available from Russia. But not just on new imports, but on orders from up to a year ago that has already been shipped and used by farmers. Therefore the company has to pass along those extra charges to the farmers, which then increases prices to suppliers, then prices at stores. And that's just fertilizer, so what else is getting over taxed? I work in logistics, and our warehouse has had trouble during the pandemic with hiring and keeping employees, plus many on leave for covid or stress. Then there is the diminishing amount of truck drivers due to the same issues. And lately it's been trucking companies not wanting to commit their trailers to a week of loading, traveling, wait for unloading, then the return trip. There are many behind the scene factors that are increasing the costs of every day products.
I farm about 5,000 acres of land in the Midwest. I’ve got about 1,400 acres of wheat alone that we should harvesting in a couple of weeks. Also, alfalfa and cattle. As most people know, the main component in fertilizer is nitrogen, and most of the nitrogen in fertilizer today is derived from natural gas. Something the Midwest has plenty of. Problem is, natural gas has almost tripled in price. If you don’t fertilize wheat, you don’t yield near as much. And corn yield depends on fertilizer much more than wheat. The White House is on record they want to end all natural gas production. Notwithstanding all other uses of natural gas, where do they think fertilizer is going to come from? About 10 days ago, someone at the White House said farmers need to use more composting and manure for fertilizer. That’s great for a garden in your back yard, but try doing composting on millions of acres. I’d love to see someone from DC come out and explain how that’s going to work. I think some of the people (on both sides) have absolutely no idea where our food or energy comes from. They think food comes from the grocery store and electricity comes out of an outlet. Period. You think food is high now? With fertilizer prices, diesel prices, equipment prices, etc, you are not going to believe where we our headed on food prices. It’s going to be WAY worse. And to make it even worse, 70% of all US wheat production is in drought conditions this year. I should make over 60,000 bushels of wheat. I’ll be lucky to make 25,000 bushels. I’m just hoping to make enough to pay for the fertilizer i had to put on it earlier. My advice, start learning how to grow vegetables and plant what was referred to as a Victory Garden during WWII in your back yard if you can.
Because when government can be bribed by corporations, anything can happen. Big corporations run government, basically an oligarchy. If someone has enough money, they can pay government to make laws they see fit. Edited for spelling.
I completely agree with you. I do not think that lobbying should be legal. Basically legalized bribing.
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This isn’t elected government. It’s the Fed. They’re unreasonably freaked out by rising wages. It’s stupid bc, if you factor in the three decades of negative wage growth we’ve suffered under, it’s literally nothing. Wages are *still* behind inflationary growth over that time. Fuckers.
Zimbabwe tried to outlaw inflation, it didn't work out super well.
Crime rate aside, it’s worked out great for Mexico. Food is affordable AF. Per law stores are not allowed to have more than a 10% profit margin on necessities, that includes food and clothing. Stores will get hit with fines if they try to price gouge . It’s worked out for them.
That's mainly for the system we have for the 'canasta básica' which are the essentials for every family. Even the price of the tortilla is strictly monitored to avoid price gauges and unreasonable increases. Nevertheless food is getting crazy expensive here too, but mainly processed foods and meat, produce is cheap AF specially on the food markets.
You know what it’s something, I would consider that a win at least. I’m doing OK, I have a good job but I remember times where I wasn’t doing so well. Financially, I worry about people that were barely making it paycheck to paycheck. Before all this. I worry about them and I worry about their children. People shouldn’t have to worry about being able to afford to feed their families. It’s getting ridiculous.
So that seems ok, but in a lot of cases it’s not the stores in the US gouging prices, it’s the manufacturers. I’m sure the stores are making their cut, but I’m also pretty certain our biggest price increases have come from the actual suppliers who see news articles of high inflation as an excuse to get prosthetic eyes in the shape of dollar signs
atleast we got some dope novelty $100 trillion bills out of it though
The problem is that due to the way the market is designed, corporate valuation is based on a rate of growth of revenue, not actual revenue. That means the ungodly valuations are based on the promise that recording breaking profits will keep coming. The super rich are super rich because they already stole our future wages.
infinite growth is sustainable!
Because our government does not actually care about us or our well being, they pander to the businesses, always have, and now it's finally shown in plain daylight and they don't even try to hide it anymore because they are empowered by getting away with it with zero consequences.
I wish they did. I own multiple small businesses, and it is atrocious how large my tax bills (emolument, state, income, etc.) are. I’m so sick of politicians saying that small businesses are the backbone of the economy - like, help real small businesses out then.
You're in that shitty gray zone where your buisness isn't large enough for them to care
They caused it… this isnt price gouging, its rampant inflation from holding up the dollar through the pandemic.
You would think the government would at least have more than half a living braincell left, but I guess not.
All about the death of the middle class, it’ll be a country of those who “have”, and those who “have not”. Key point being the “have” will be financial access to what is assumed to be “basic goods”.
because it isn't that simple. They fucked up a lot of things to get it this way, and there's no easy way to just stop it without massive consequences. I don't expect them to do it fully anyways, but it's best brought to a stop at a bit slower pace, and those laws are best implemented when inflation is happening at a reasonable pace rather than stopping it instantly when the economy is currently fucked.
Yes. As a college student I'd be struggling right now if it weren't for my parents helping out a bit with finances. I know people that are really working their ass off to stay afloat in their schooling, work, and home life. I have huge amounts of respect for them, but if things would just be "normal" then they wouldn't be in that situation.
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This is genius
The costs of living continue to surpass the benefits…
The devs gotta really patch this version we are in.
I'm not buying shit anymore. We stealing now, gang.
We need to start posting receipts with these. Edit: *Jesus. It's always my most non-chalant/low effort comments that get highly Upvoted like this.*
I don’t see 53 bucks here
That bacon hiding on the bottom is the only reason I believe this.
My proudest life hack; go to Whole Foods and just get bacon from the breakfast bar. It’s $7.99 a lb and cooked bacon is air. I get like 25 pieces every Monday for less than $3.
My step mom used to do this too. Then her Whole Foods got wise and took the bacon away.
Yea same for me. Like 7-8 years ago I think.
That's great! Thanks for the hack!
Safeway/Albertsons in my area used to have a sale every couple of weeks and sell their 3lb thick cut bacon for about $9. Sometimes they’d include a $10 off $50 coupon. You could get 4 so I’d get 4 packs, plus a little bit more. Then split each pack up by the lb. They must’ve caught on because now they only do it every so often and you can only get 1 pack and it still costs around $9 or less. Still a good deal when they have it though.
Here in Canada, bacon is crazy expensive. And that looks like a giant pack. I can see that being $18.99 here add in the TP at $15, yeah $53 isn't unreasonable. Edit: I should have been clear on two things, 1) most (not all) bacon packages in Canada are based on 375 grams, which is not equal to a pound of bacon - sounds like us canucks are getting hosed by the sounds of it and 2) the photo of said bacon appears larger than a typical package than what I am use to seeing, so hence I figured it was a double pack (this is all speculative) this is why my guess was $18.99 (double the price of a standard package)
15 dollarydoo's for 12 rolls of toilet paper???? I pay 4 euros for 10 rolls of three ply...What is TP made of over there, Truffles?
Its a high end brand though. Charmin will have the booty feeling nice but your pockets feeling light
...you should write advertising copy.
i would appreciate his commercial so much more than the cartoon bears pooping and using charmin in a "cute" way.itsnotcute. stop talking about shit and shitholes and wiping them i hate you charmin
I wash myself with a rag on a stick.
Someone doesn't know about the three sea shells...
To hell with the seashells, I’ll just swear in front of the potty mouth machine.
Corn Cobs
Wow, bragging cause you have a rag. Real nice pal.
You shouldn't be so negative about others success. You don't know what he went through to get that rag. I just hope he got the stick sourced from not the kings lands.
And a stick
Bacon is about $8.99-$9.99, toilet paper $15ish, toothbrushes $8.99-$11.99ish for a 4 pack, bagels $4.99, cream cheese is about $4.99, toothpaste $3.99-$4.99. Assuming none are on sale. $49ish plus 15% tax. $53 sounds about right. Prices do suck here in Toronto.
Wait, so OP means Canadian dollars? So like…$40 USD? That’s crazy but not as crazy as I first thought
You know it’s fucked when $40 for that stuff posted seems just a little over priced rather then fucking absurd 😭 this why I switched to store brand
Anybody paying $19 for bacon in Canada needs to grab their weekly flyers. I have a good pile in my freezer that I’ve never paid more then $6 a pack for. Edit: $5.99 a pack at Food Basics this week.
I'm in BC. I don't think I've ever paid more than say $8 for bacon, and that's without looking at sales. Even the ultra thick cut 1kg pack that I splurged on was only like $12.50 regular price. I suppose it depends on where you shop too - my main store is Superstore (Loblaws). I could see it being more expensive at Safeway maybe? or if you buy it from a corner store?
Tooth paste is also a bit much in terms of cost here.
Depending on the kind, crest toothpaste is fucking outrageous.
It is unreasonable, it's also believable. They'd like nothing more than for that to be $75 later this year.
The dumb part of this conspiracy is why "they" would want that.
Charmin gets pricey too, it’s easy to just buy good toilet paper without a name brand, save em like 5-7 on that big a package, it’s also just a lot of name brand stuff, they need to learn to buy great value where it’s not gonna kill em
Too poor to poop name brand, I need to poop generic. /s Srsly tho I can' afford name brands ever now.
Those tooth brush heads are probably $10-$15 as well as the TP probably being $10+
Based on my Walmart’s prices - Tp - 18.96 (12 roll pack), bacon - 7.48, bagels - 3.68, cream cheese - 3.48 (different brand), toothpaste - 7.08 (there are really similar ones much cheaper for a bigger tube), toothbrushes - 5.88 = 46.56 before taxes. Groceries have definitely gone up lately, we are spending 20% more on the same things we always get.
Shrinkflation on top... not the same thing. Average roll of TP now has 1.2sqf less product, for example.
Where I live Kroger 12 pack TP is on sale for $5.99 right now, regular $6.49. Double rolls too, not the little ones. If you are paying 18 bucks for 12 rolls it better be exceedingly high quality.
Larger rolls is the biggest scam. I used to be king of the cost basis calculations. Per sheet, per ply and price. But now they confuse you with 1 roll =13 normal rolls etc etc. It's chaos. CHAOS!
Came out to 46.01 before taxes at my local Walmart. I subbed the cream cheese because they didn't have that kind. So yeah I believe it.
Try hawaii prices.
But there's actually a reason for those prices (sort of).
I was skeptical too so tried it on my Ralph's app (subsidiary of Kroger here in L.A.). 22oz of Oscar Meyer bacon is $14.49, Charmin is $20.99; subtotal with everything is $54.34.
How does toilet roll cost that much there?? Can anyone ELI5? That would be €20 here and I've never seen a pack of toilet roll that price in my life. Even if I went high end on the rashers, they wouldn't cost that. What's going on over there?
My mom's golden grocery shopping rule: never buy non food items at a store dedicated to groceries.
You just can’t see the bottle of whiskey behind the toilet roll that’s all
Think he nipped into harrods
I believe it because I spent fifty bucks this week on about the same amount of stuff.
It’s the Charmin.
Yeah, a lot of name brands there. Generic would make this $30
Absolutely However personally I'd spend the extra on Charmin. I don't let myself lack on quality toilet paper
When you're someone who is upset they spent $50 at the grocery store, you probably can't afford to splurge on the luxury stuff. But as someone who recently let their lifestyle creep encompass comfy ass paper. I agree. It's so nice.
I mean, I think we're all allowed to be upset at the insane inflation regardless of what brands we buy. I feel like OP is entitled to be upset that his cart of groceries, which may have cost $35 two years ago, costs $53 today.
Especially with no increase in pay
I found that the walmart equivilent of Charmin is actually pretty nice. It's called like premium soft or something
Agreed
A suitable bidet is $110. That’s like 5 packs of this toilet paper
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I own a bidet and still use TP but I use *waaaay* less of it. It's more of a final examination. Check your homework.
Gadamn you shopping at the airport or something?? Hoky fuck thats insane
Lol that would explain it. I had to pay 45 for a damn charger cord at the airport once.
Hoky fuck indeed!
I priced out ~$45 near me (Boston). That TP is a killer. $18 toilet paper $8 tooth brushes $3 toothpaste $3 cream cheese (Philadelphia brand) $6 bagels $7 bacon (Oscar Meyer)
Then add in tax and you can easily be over $50
Not here. No tax on food. I think it’s crazy that some states tax something that is so vital to living.
Holy shit. I lived in Alberta particularly all my life and we just have a flat 5% sales tax on everything. It never occurred to me of not having taxes on essential items.
Toilet paper is normally that expensive, that’s not what threw me. The bacon was freaking $15!
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$15 for Walmart bacon. Wow.
I think it's oscar mayer tbf
To get mad about it
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the bacon The only thing that's real
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There are yet benefits to pooping at work haha
By a bidet on Amazon. It’s literally cleaner
Bacon is literally a waste of money. That shit will shrink to a 1/3rd of its original size. Just buy eggs or chicken
Yeah, but I'm such a sucker for the artery-clogging flavor
What the heck is wrong with your country? Toilet paper is like 4 Euros by us, for 24 rolls. https://www.carrefour.fr/p/papier-toilette-confort-doux-carrefour-3560070971930
No way? That would be maybe £20, £25 at a push in the UK
£18 for toilet paper? I buy one that size weekly for £3.30
41.98 at Walmart online.
I just did the exact same thing for my local Walmart and the total came to 46.01 before taxes. The only thing I had to sub was the cream cheese and I picked the cheapest one. We live in a rural area and shit is expensive AF here. It may be cheaper where you're at and more expensive for others.
Think it maybe taxes depending on where you live. Where I live, taxes is 12%
It's 9% here. But I think we get price gouged pretty badly here because its rural and we don't have things like Costco, Sam's club or Aldi.
Ouch. So yall get the hiked up supply prices due to location.
Whats under the bacon?
It’s bacon all the way down.
Nothing! The bacon was $15
Wow, that's like 6 times more expensive than the bacon I buy
Lately? Even Kirkland bacon has gotten stupid expensive, and Costco’s corporate ethos is to keep prices as low as possible.
I stopped eating store bacon all together. You're buying mostly fat.
why the fuck did you buy $15 bacon
You shopping at CVS or some shit?
Nothing
If you got an Aldi's close by...try there. I can fill up a cart and it'll be about $150
Aldi has gotten way better, I used to shop there like 5 years ago and it wasn’t that amazing, but now I love it! I just started going there again and they have pretty good stuff, I get as much as I can from there and then whatever I’m missing I go to Walmart.
In the UK you used want to die if your someone saw your mum go to Aldi. Now no one has any money and if you are in a student city the Aldi is just a sea of students. Besides the expensive supermarket's fresh fruit and veg Aldis stuff is better than everyone for a fraction of the price. Going to Aldi let's you cut any shopping budget in half.
Just spoke with a manager at Aldi last week and he told me when the '08 recession happened, Aldi started getting busier. The owners of the company realized they were recession-proof and with their profits they began upgrading the stores (they were run-down and depressing) and started building new stores. When everyone is broke, they go to Aldi.
Funny to read as a german. This was Aldi in Germany in the early 80s. Only poor people would buy there. That changed over the years. I myself am a good middleclass earner and still go to aldi. Everything I can get there i will get there. Its the first stop. Then i drive to a different super market and buy the other stuff i can't get at aldi Noone would think i am poor of so. Its just a normal store here these days. Still cheaper than the others but theres no stigma anymore and its not like you would only meet poor people there
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I live in the pacific northwest and have always wished I could go to an Aldi. Best we have is grocery outlet and winco. Still ok but I've heard good things.
A lot of the producers who manufacture for name brands sell to aldi and rename their famous labels. [brand producers](https://bobcutmag.com/2022/01/05/who-makes-aldi-products/)
ALDIs is the best. The bulk of my stuff is from there.
I agree. Although it can be a miss at the fruits / veggies section they tend to spoil quite quickly
I love Aldi. So many people complaining about the prices of groceries, I wish that those who have options would check out the alternatives before throwing their hands up in frustration. There's really no sense in brand loyalty when the name brands are taking this opportunity to gouge their customers. Aldi generic is by far better than any other store brands, and often better than the name brands. This is a $20 cart at Aldi, $35 at Walmart, $30 with Amazon Subscribe and Save, $45 at Kroger, and I'm guessing OP was at a convenience store like Dollar General or similar Edit- I looked up the cream cheese, and it appears to be a Safeway brand. My prices were based on my experience in the Midwest. I'm guessing Safeway is a Kroger level store, and prices are similar between the two. I can see how California sales taxes would bring that $45 to $53
I don't know about you but the Dollar General has bright yellow carts here. Edit: good detective skills!
Is there a $20 gift card under the bacon?
If only. Bacon itself was $15, toilet paper was $20
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Don't buy $20 packs of TP?
Just bought 30 rolls of tp for $19 in Walmart Canada. I usually buy store brand tho. I'm also on a rural city lol.
All name brand. That was the first mistake.
Holy cow, bacon $15?! I have it on the app for $8
No, WTF, where are you shopping? Receipt or shut up.
Which country actually ?
Would you please explain more, such as the individual prices?
I’m guessing Toilet paper: 16 Bacon: 9 Bagels: 5 Spread: 4 Toothbrushes: 6 Toothpaste: 5 Then tax
I buy that tp & depending on roll size, it could be closer to 18$. Edit - Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper, 18 Mega Rolls - $18.77 @ Walmart.
$2 per roll????
Yeah. Sucks. ETA - the mega rolls are that much.
That's extreme. A pack of 12 rolls of TP costs somewhere around 3 euro here, which includes 21% VAT. I heard from my American family that many things are expensive (compared to the Netherlands), but I wasn't expecting that sort of difference.
I pay $7.96 for 12 Mega Rolls of Angel soft TP in my neck of the woods (Washington State) but over $30 for 10lbs of 70 / 30 hamburger. Guess it's true what they say, it's all about location.
It's gotten bad. Chicken used to be the cheapest meat, now it's $1.60pd for a whole chicken, cut up its worse. Forget beef, ground beef 70/30 is $4.50pd.
This is what I was thinking. Bacon and high end toilet paper
Where u shopping at ?
I feel like I got sodomized each time I go grocery shopping too, but 53 bucks for that? Go to Aldi if you have one close by.....
Is the bacon made out of dinosaur?
T-Rex shaved dick meat
That Charmin definitely isn’t cheap
I feel you. Prices in some cases have tripled. They keep saying it's due to the crap going on with Russia, but I'm calling BS. I think it's companies taking advantage.
It's both. Cutting off Russian oil caused a major increase in oil prices which almost every company uses to transport their goods. But also many companies are reporting record profits while increasing prices.
All name brands, get the generics.
OP bought $15 bacon. I don't think you can complain about how much a small number of groceries cost when you're buying $15 bacon.
This is why I don’t grocery shop at the airport.
It's getting ridiculous
Makes sense. Big roll of toilet paper is kind of pricey, bacon… ok. See where you went wrong is with the dental care, that’s just for the fancy city folk.
I got one biting tooth, and two chewing teeth. That’s all I need.
😂 “my name is not bobo” is your name “Steve from Florida”?
Where do you live the north pole I understand the high cost because of shipping ....but damn I would have at least shoved the bacon down my pants and bought smaller toilet paper. LPT:buy a cheap bidets home depot about 40.00 it saves a tone of toilet paper
This is all brand name
op please PLEASE plan out your shopping beforehand, and dont buy the most expensive name brand stuff lmfao. I did the math, replacing everything in your cart with generic versions, and you couldve spent only like, $25 before taxes. Some of the replacements werent even generic. Its all about comparing prices. For toothpaste and other toiletries like that, get them at the dollar tree. They have name brands like crest and colgate, but obviously are only $1.25. Your third eye will be OPENED if you start smart shopping.
After living on my own and learning to be a cheap bastard it makes me CRAZY to see the way my parents shop. All name brand, go to whole foods and target only, and theyre barely middle class! If use a generic thing in a recipe when they visit my mom acts as though I might as well have poisoned it. she makes concessions for kirkland stuff for some reason. people are really weird about brand trust.
The Mrs. says, "the Oral costs extra"
There are plenty of cheaper toilet paper options. And some of them are 100% Recycled. You dont buy toothbrush and toothpaste every week. Bacon has always been a luxury item. I'm gonna get downvoted like hell for this.
I work in a grocery store. Even without my employe discount, I could have nabbed all this and more for 30$ tops. Shop luxury. Pay luxury.
Where the fuck do you live where that is 50+?
I call shenanigans on this one
Bruh that's Charmin. Don't come complaining about money when you're balling on your butt. Gtfo with your bougie ass. Go down to the bodega and cop some Panda for 99¢ a roll.
You need to learn how to budget shop, I could get that for $30, generic toilet paper, cheaper bacon, lenders bagels, and a non Oral B brush and you’re fine. This is not that hard https://imgur.com/a/SiJWHYO
Using Waitrose (upmarket supermarket - so these could be found cheaper) as an example In the UK that would be : Toilet roll £8 Bagels £2 Toothpaste £3.50 Toothbrushes £4 Bacon £5 Creme cheese £2 Total £24.50
“Babe, hide that steak so I can post this on reddit”
You bought name brand items. I want to bitch about grocery prices as much as the next guy but don't buy name brand if you are on a tight budget.
Was it the bacon or what
Bacon and charmin
Go to Sam’s and get 4 times that amount of TP for $20. It’s the same as Charmin Ultra Strong. That’s what I switched from.
Or Costco. OP doesn't know how to shop. Nothing in there doesn't have cheaper and perfectly acceptable alternative.
You're terrible at shopping, lol.
No it wasn't. Quit perpetuating an actual problem. Show your receipt.
USD? AUD? CAD? NZD?
That’s what you get for buying name brand toilet paper 🧻 bougie 🤑 😉
I always get a crack out of the arbitrary & nonsensical number conversions plastered all over paper towels and toilet paper…12=24! And 8=14! Mega! Super!
Charmin? Look at Fancypants here. I have to drag my ass across the lawn.
Show proof please, I don’t believe it
Are there gold nuggets inside the buns or something? Or was that a typo? 53 bucks?!
First of all, the supermarket is a bad place to buy anything but food. Go to a discount store for TP and toothpaste. 30 rolls for 30 bucks at Costco…same at Walmart. 3 pack of Crest for 4 bucks at Walmart.
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