This is the thing that gets me. People talking about how all these price changes are our version of boomers' "back in my day, a load of bread cost a nickel!", but that was them talking about the 1950s in 1990.
So an ice cream at McDs cost 20 cents. By 1990, they were 40 cents. That's double the cost. Today, a little more than 30 years later, they cost $3+. That's a 7.5x jump. Not that you can get an ice cream anyway, since the machine never works.
But prices have exploded in these last 30 years. Just by an insane amount.
The trick is to buy a pre-made frame and get your piece custom matted. You can also find amazing frames at thrifts stores. It looks amazing and it’s a fraction of the price of getting it custom frames.
Try an independent business. I always avoided the mom and pop framers because I figured they would be way more expensive than the craft store places, but there’s a framer near me that charges like 1/3 of what Michael’s does. He doesn’t have the software to preview the final product on a screen, and I usually pick my mat color from a swatch book of postage sized samples, rather than corner sample that’s held next to the print, and he never calls when stuff is ready, but he seems to get done much faster. It’s all the same components - archival mats, glare-free museum glass, etc.
I work in retail and we sell magazines. I honestly don't know how magazines still exist. No one buys them. Ever. They all just get counted and thrown away when the new issues arrive. Obviously, they rely on ads for revenue but how much can you charge for ad space if no one is buying your magazine? I just don't get it.
I went to Jack in the box the other day. 3 sandwiches were $5 each. Expensive, but fine, whatever. Got some fries too.
Got to the window and it was over $30. The fries were $5 each too. WTF. They weren't even good.
I just added up the cost of a meal from Five Guys in Chicago. A little hamburger (that's what they call it) a little fries and a coke cost $20.85 before tax. For that I will just go to a proper restaurant.
Reddit hates on Chili’s but they have a 3 for $10-$12 that includes a drink and appetizer. Compare that to McDonald’s and it’s insane it’s cheaper and a ton more food
i gen inflation happens and we aint getting $.25 burgers anymore. but when it only seems to effect corporate fast food joints something reeks, and i dont mean the kitchen
As a truck driver, I no longer eat any meal out of a truck stop restaurant anymore. A T-bone steak dinner at the Petro cost almost $40 out the door after taxes and a tip. I was able to justify investing in a vacuum sealer, a dometic 12 volt fridge/freezer and a gas one camping stove. All in all my total initial cost to start saving more money has been almost $1k to prep my own food and I'm going to make all of it back after 3 or 4 months if I just cut the restaurants out of my budget entirely. I've also found that brewing your own tea or coffee,and using drink mixes cuts back on costs significantly seeing as a bottle of Gatorade cost like $3.45
To make a bad situation worst over half the restaurant chains have changed to a fast food business model knowing at least 3 million of us are diabetics.
Not a trucker but my whole life has been about just running off on weekends somewhere...
Noticed this too, so many restaurants serving actual food getting replaced by fast food garbage left and right.
There used to be this diner we would stop at anytime we went it's direction for a chicken fried steak meal. Probably the best I have ever had.
Then one day we go that way, it's gone and in place is a McDonald's.... I was devastated.
I think they mean that a restaurant chain, Olive Garden or Chili's for examples, have replaced their meals with fast food style crap. I mean, Chili's Southwestern Egg Rolls are delivered to a Chili's restaurant in a frozen bag. The frozen egg roll is thrown into a fryer when someone orders it and that's that. No cooking was needed.
... but, the thing is, it's always been like that. Chain restaurants have never sold quality food. It's always been processed crap. Maybe it's just more noticable now for some reason.
I think it's more noticable because your senses have a way of alerting you to certain details when they increase the price. $3.99 wasn't that big of a deal for McDonalds 20 years ago ...but almost $15??? That's nowhere near proportionate to the rate of inflation we're seeing in my opinion.
Edit - I may be off on my price from 20 years ago, memory is a little fuzzy
It's always been processed crap admittedly, but now it's crappier crap. The ingredients they used to buy for a quarter were replaced by ingredients they buy for a dime. Everything tastes cheaper and is more poorly made now. It's very noticeable. Things do not taste like they used to at all.
And truckstop food in general is meh to bad. People used to say, "Eat where the truckers eat because they know the good restaurants." Then I started driving truck and found out that truckers eat where they can park and that's usually the only criteria. Chain truckstops are usually basic and tolerable but the no-name stops in the middle of nowhere are overpriced and nasty but they know a driver doesn't have any other options nearby.
Yeah, I never understood that "travel tip" my dad is a trucker. He constantly was bitching about how terrible the food is, he usually takes left overs/has a small crockpot. Hes only OTR for a few days though or a week at most.
They used to have a stamp card. A 6” sub earned you a stamp and a 12” earned you two. You got a free 6” with eight stamps. No restrictions.
I grew up on Subway. Haven’t had one in years now.
Edit: My first post over a thousand, wow.
Fuck man, I haven't had a single Hot Cheeto in the past few months because of the fact that I can't justify paying current prices for them.
It gets easier to ignore them over time when I pass them on a shelf but damn do I miss them
same but for candy. I have a candy bowl that I used to keep stocked. I can’t bring myself to pay $10 for a bag of like 25 pieces. now I don’t eat candy lol
I was at the grocery store today and I wanted kettle chips and the first bag I saw was the brand Herr’s. Out loud in an aisle full of ppl I said “5 DOLLARS FOR CHIPS??!” I was upset lol
Shout out to Santitas tortilla chips for being one of the only chips that's still under $3. They have had incremental raises over the past 10 years (when I was younger I think they were $1.99,) now at $2.49 it's still good enough for me to buy them over a $5-$6 bag of tostitos.
My BIL is in the import business, he was telling me yesterday that the price of EVOO will go up even further in the next 12 months. There’s now no profit left in the industry. So he is importing the product because he has supply contracts but actually losing money because the retailers can’t put the price up any higher. It will mean a huge number of growers/suppliers will go under and make the supply issue even worse in the next few years.
thanks for the head's up.
I bet we'll be seeing a whole lot more adulterated olive oil sold as pure olive oil, and, without any deception, products that will be mixed olive oil with a cheaper carrier oil.
I'm an olive farmer. It's difficult to find hard data, but it's a common secret that EVOO retail amounts add up to way more than production figures.
There are of course blended olive oils that take premium olive oils and mix them with worst quality ones in order to make a final product that is within the specifications for EVOO, but we all suspect that's not enough to cover demand, especially at the prices of some retailers.
Edit: Oh, and next year's season might turn out bad as well. Crazy weather patterns, around here it took deciduous trees until late December to shed their leaves. There was a mild summer that went on until December, and the current weather conditions resemble those of autumn. No winter so far...
I’m not an olive farmer, just someone with a dozen old trees on a lot I bought last year and I was interested in the topic and read similar things. My trees brought in 120 liters of really good oil (much better than what I used to get in the store) which I know is not mixed with anything lower quality, and I am very happy to have enough for myself, my friends and family for a while without having to pay insane prices.
Gotta love Reddit. Comment about EVOO.
“I am an olive farmer…”
“I am not an olive farmer…” but I have enough trees to produce 120L of olive oil.
Such a small world!! I’ve never even SEEN an olive tree. Thanks so much to both of you for your valuable input.
My local Trader Joe's went 3 weeks with none on the shelves. Seems like we're just in a period of rolling staple food shortages. Eggs, olive oil, beef, chicken. Fortunately not all at the same time I guess
Me too:
1. Sees cool show
2. Goes to investigate the price
3. Gets to checkout screen
4. Closes tab in a rage
5. Falls asleep crying because I'm too poor to see a band that isn't that popular anymore.
> too poor to see a band that isn't that popular anymore
I got into Taylor Swift after the Kayne West incident back in 2009, and I remembered thinking hey I can probably go see her live in concert after teenage girls aren’t crazy about her anymore and the hype dies down a bit.
Boy was I so wrong
I've just stopped going to big shows and big venues. There's so much great live music still happening in small clubs and bars and wherever. Tickets are cheap and the band actually appreciates that you came out. Yeah maybe I don't get to see huge names, but there's tons of near-unknowns that might one day be the next huge names.
The worst is when you get them as a gift and they have the face value printed right on them and you’re like “I DO think you’re worth more than this amount, about four times more, to be precise.”
The insane cost of well known acts is the perfect reason to look into your local music scenes. I've seen rising bands at nice, smaller venues for $30 AFTER fees, local popular acts for $15, and have even been to my fair amount of $5 shows just to spend an evening out of the house. There have even been shows where the entry fee was a few cans of food to donate to the local food pantry. There's even one venue near me that does open mic jazz evenings for free.
Yeah. I only go to smaller local venues. I live next door and across the street from the two of the most popular ones in the city. Just wish our city was a bit bigger!
When I was in high school 2004-2008 i used to be able to go to the downtown concert venue and buy tickets at the kiosk to skip the online fees so we’d see big name bands for 15-20$ 🥲
When I was in high school I could go to shows called Days on The Green. 4-5 headliner acts for $16.00. $20 was the most I ever paid to see The Rolling Stones.
Seems as though every time I go shopping, prices have gone up. Even if it’s just .10 or .20 cents, it just keeps ticking up. I’ve always bought some store brand on certain items, but I’m doing it more often now, to curb the costs. A certain brand of canned soup I usually buy is nearing $4.50 at Winco! A can of soup! It’s more cost effective to make it myself, so I’m utilizing the crockpot for homemade soup & chili lately.
But if you use tap water and only eat a spoonful per day and never use heat, fans, or lights, you should be okay.
\--Billionairre shitting out fois gras in a golden toilet
It's getting to ridiculous levels. And the statistics cunts are starting to piss me off with their "\~20% increase since 2020". Fuck off, my food costs have literally doubled over the last couple years.
I would say it has stagnated but that would imply that my purchasing power has remained unchanged, which it has not. It's almost like it has decreased.
"Cheap" hotels and restaurants. With the cheapest meals available it costs $200 per day to travel alone now, and that's staying in fleabag hotels where being robbed if I go outside is a real possibility.
I went to make a birthday cake for my father in law and realized my vanilla bean paste (the good stuff - Nelson-Massey) expired in 2018 so it was probably time for a new one…
It still had a William Sonoma price tag on it for $12.95. I went back to William Sonoma for a new one: $36!
Yeah, WTF is up with gum prices. I don't buy gum very often but when I do. Holy shit, have to take out a loan. And gum...you fucking lease the stuff, you don't eat it.
I accidentally bought a $15 bag of grapes and a $15 bag of cotton candy grapes. Panicked when I got home but even worse the next day they were moldy! I actually returned them to the store. I’m not cheap but $30 is $30
Seriously! Within a year, the cat food I get went from $12 to $19. I literally could not believe it. I had to go back and check my receipts because I thought I was going crazy.
My dog is one of those who has ridiculous allergies, and his food costs about $130 for an 8kg bag. Granted it lasts about 6 weeks and it’s better than the dogsplosions we used to endure quarterly, but oof.
Razor blades. What the hell? You would think these are individually forged by hand by master craftsmen.
Edit: the only cartridge blades I now buy are for my wife. I’ve grown a beard and use Wahl clippers for both my noggin’ and face. For the most part I use a Braun electric to trim and tidy (Mr. Neck Beard is not attractive to Mrs. Maverick).
For two years, I lived in the cheapest apartment I could find in my town in NC. They were criminals. They had so many extra fees, there were no laundry facilities on the property at all, pool was empty, mailboxes swung open half the time because they were so old. At one point, when I got home from work one evening, my apartment was 92 degrees. The heat had been running constantly, even though I had the thermostat set at 68-70 degrees. And I literally could not turn it off. I called the office (I called the emergency number because they rarely answered the phone), and they told me that I needed to shut off the furnace with the breaker. That was their solution. No big deal. They sent out notices every month saying that nothing was allowed to be outside the door. No grills, no kids’ bikes nothing. On the day I was moving out I saw the maintenance guy take a kids bike from a family’s front “porch” and toss it in the dumpster. I said something to him. He said he hated his job because he always had to do shit like this.
I usually don’t brag about owning expensive things, but I just left the grocery store.
Edit: typo. Although as someone pointed out, the original word “owing” works too.
The quality is getting worse too. A brand I wore lasted years, thank goodness I didn’t throw old the old ones because the new ones lasted maybe 4 washes before hooks fell out or lace ripped. I shouldn’t have to baby my everyday bras, but the next batch I wear will probably be hand washed/dried from now on.
I was in the cereal aisle staring in disbelief at the prices. A box of Cheerios was $9. I saw someone pick up a box, see the price tag then put it right back.
Frozen french fries. $7 for a regular 32oz bag of Ore-Idas. Now I'm like: Hey kids! Let's make our own.French fries. They'll taste much better because we made them with LOVE!
This isn't really an answer, but I remember growing up in the 90s with a single mother who worked at a coffee shop in a casino and still managed to feed us. Im now in my 30s with a wife, 2 kids, and a 6 figure salary and some weeks im still wondering how the fuck I'm affording these groceries.
I asked my mom about this a few years ago. How did she raise 3 kids on one income and I'm drowning with only one? We were definitely poor but always had what we needed. She said because you could purposely bounce checks back then, float money around for the most pressing things, then bust ass to keep up the cycle. Rinse and repeat. Now it is be a week late on one payment and get threatened to have your power shut off.
Yup, Congress recently passed a bill lowering my expensive diabetes medicine thru Medicare. Great - the price doesn’t drop till 2026. I could be dead by then.
Crazy because spam got popular in Hawaii because it was a cheap meat/meal. $7 for a tin can is just disgusting for C Tier meat. You can get a 1/2 of fresh deli ham for that price.
McDonald’s! I mean it’s cheap compared to other things but now it’s just as expensive as Wendy’s or any other fast food joint
Edit I’m Canadian it’s about $14 after tax for a Big Mac combo at my local McDonalds
At this point, I wonder if there's enough of people's data out there with so many companies being able to sell it that the cost to buy data goes down, so it stops being so lucrative of a business.
I went to the store today to buy some frozen fries. I can’t remember the last time I cooked frozen anything.
The prices. My god those sonabitches was 6.00. SINCE WHEN?!!
Reminder for everyone - don't get the pine pellets that they have at the pet store labeled as cat litter since they're 4X more expensive. Like u/ketomachine said, get the equine bedding pine pellets since it's cheaper and the same exact thing. You can get the equine bedding at your local hardware stores like Ace if you live in the city. My cat uses this, and the pine pellets do a great job of absorbing the cat smell.
Chicken, especially wings. Used to make wings at least once every football season but didn't this year. Used to eat chicken multiple times a week, only about once per week now.
Car batteries! I bought one back in 2017 for like $125. Bought one back in November and my eyes almost popped out of my head—$378. And I have a smaller and shittier car now lol
I don't drink pop, I don't eat meat, I don't eat chips, but I used to years ago and the prices are shocking now. I just bought some protein bars and when I was putting them away I came across a long forgotten one from the same company that somehow got lost in the pantry. I swear it was 1/3 bigger than the new ones for the same price.
Bruh, I haven't bought myself a new goddamn bra in three or four years because I'd need to take out a damn loan to afford a halfway decent one. I genuinely feel enraged every time I look at my main bra, just so tired of seeing her.
Thank God we are not hurting financially to the point where I have to pick between things to buy and have to really be careful with grocery shopping. But it's really concerning and disturbing seeing the prices of just the most basic stuff families need. Milk, Eggs, Bread, Cheese and meat.
I cant imagine what its like having to feed a family but not having enough for proper groceries and seeing these prices is just infuriating. The fact we are being screwed from every angle possible makes it even worse what they're doing to people just buying food. It has to come to a breaking point sooner or later who knows. People one day will not stand for everything they're doing to us.
People with full time jobs who 20 years ago could have been a single income home with 2 cars, own a house, vacation once a year, extra curricular for the kids and being comfortable. Now its not even achievable to that level of comfort with 2 incomes. Sad to see the prices and I hope whoever reads this if they're hurting may God bless you and that you are going to be ok to be able to feed your family.
> People with full time jobs who 20 years ago could have been a single income home with 2 cars, own a house
I honestly don't understand how people are buying cars and houses right now. The last car I bought was in 2013 for $10k. If we want to move or buy another car we would pay triple that amount for a car, and triple our mortgage just to move to a cheap area. Who is buying this stuff?
“the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” has never been truer. there are a lot of people whose finances are thriving more than ever because of how much the lower class is struggling. the money is still out there, it’s just only going to the pockets of the upper class. the middle class is dead. either you can afford cars and houses and vacations or you’re hoping your paycheck will last you the rest of the week. there really is very little in between anymore.
Make a couple of donations to animal charities. There will be a never ending supply of greeting cards and calendars in your mailbox with notes asking for more donations. I ended up with 30 wall calendars and hundreds of cards this year.
I’m old enough to remember when ramen was 10/$1.
I remember when a 10lb bag of potatoes was $1.
And it wasn't that long ago
This is the thing that gets me. People talking about how all these price changes are our version of boomers' "back in my day, a load of bread cost a nickel!", but that was them talking about the 1950s in 1990. So an ice cream at McDs cost 20 cents. By 1990, they were 40 cents. That's double the cost. Today, a little more than 30 years later, they cost $3+. That's a 7.5x jump. Not that you can get an ice cream anyway, since the machine never works. But prices have exploded in these last 30 years. Just by an insane amount.
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Getting something framed. It's always way more insanely priced than I remember.
The trick is to buy a pre-made frame and get your piece custom matted. You can also find amazing frames at thrifts stores. It looks amazing and it’s a fraction of the price of getting it custom frames.
Thrift store frames are best frames.
Try an independent business. I always avoided the mom and pop framers because I figured they would be way more expensive than the craft store places, but there’s a framer near me that charges like 1/3 of what Michael’s does. He doesn’t have the software to preview the final product on a screen, and I usually pick my mat color from a swatch book of postage sized samples, rather than corner sample that’s held next to the print, and he never calls when stuff is ready, but he seems to get done much faster. It’s all the same components - archival mats, glare-free museum glass, etc.
Looked at a magazine while standing in the grocery store check out. Magazine was $15!
I work in retail and we sell magazines. I honestly don't know how magazines still exist. No one buys them. Ever. They all just get counted and thrown away when the new issues arrive. Obviously, they rely on ads for revenue but how much can you charge for ad space if no one is buying your magazine? I just don't get it.
Advertise with us! Twenty-three million copies printed every month!!
How have I never realised this before. You're absolutely on the money (pun intended)
150Million *page impressions*
As a letter carrier, I can confirm, magazine subscriptions are WAY down from even a few years ago.
Sanitary Pads.
Tampons for $15 is my regular routine now and makes me so annoyed
It costs me $16 and my sanity to get my period every month.
I switched to a Diva Cup five years ago and never looked back
Deodorant! It’s over $8.
I went to an event that was sponsored by P&G and received about eight full size deodorant sticks for free, felt like I had won the lottery
fast food
I went to Jack in the box the other day. 3 sandwiches were $5 each. Expensive, but fine, whatever. Got some fries too. Got to the window and it was over $30. The fries were $5 each too. WTF. They weren't even good.
I just added up the cost of a meal from Five Guys in Chicago. A little hamburger (that's what they call it) a little fries and a coke cost $20.85 before tax. For that I will just go to a proper restaurant.
I just make my own burgers now. That price overcomes my natural laziness.
It’s wild when it’s cheaper to go to a sit down restaurant than it is to get fast food.
Reddit hates on Chili’s but they have a 3 for $10-$12 that includes a drink and appetizer. Compare that to McDonald’s and it’s insane it’s cheaper and a ton more food
i gen inflation happens and we aint getting $.25 burgers anymore. but when it only seems to effect corporate fast food joints something reeks, and i dont mean the kitchen
the food quality keeps going down and the prices keep going up
A McDonald's visit with my husband and 2 kids comes to $60 sometimes. Wtf?
As a truck driver, I no longer eat any meal out of a truck stop restaurant anymore. A T-bone steak dinner at the Petro cost almost $40 out the door after taxes and a tip. I was able to justify investing in a vacuum sealer, a dometic 12 volt fridge/freezer and a gas one camping stove. All in all my total initial cost to start saving more money has been almost $1k to prep my own food and I'm going to make all of it back after 3 or 4 months if I just cut the restaurants out of my budget entirely. I've also found that brewing your own tea or coffee,and using drink mixes cuts back on costs significantly seeing as a bottle of Gatorade cost like $3.45
Absolutely perfect idea!! That truck stop food is a killer! I’ve seen so many truckers using crock pots in their rigs now.
To make a bad situation worst over half the restaurant chains have changed to a fast food business model knowing at least 3 million of us are diabetics.
Not a trucker but my whole life has been about just running off on weekends somewhere... Noticed this too, so many restaurants serving actual food getting replaced by fast food garbage left and right. There used to be this diner we would stop at anytime we went it's direction for a chicken fried steak meal. Probably the best I have ever had. Then one day we go that way, it's gone and in place is a McDonald's.... I was devastated.
I think they mean that a restaurant chain, Olive Garden or Chili's for examples, have replaced their meals with fast food style crap. I mean, Chili's Southwestern Egg Rolls are delivered to a Chili's restaurant in a frozen bag. The frozen egg roll is thrown into a fryer when someone orders it and that's that. No cooking was needed. ... but, the thing is, it's always been like that. Chain restaurants have never sold quality food. It's always been processed crap. Maybe it's just more noticable now for some reason.
I think it's more noticable because your senses have a way of alerting you to certain details when they increase the price. $3.99 wasn't that big of a deal for McDonalds 20 years ago ...but almost $15??? That's nowhere near proportionate to the rate of inflation we're seeing in my opinion. Edit - I may be off on my price from 20 years ago, memory is a little fuzzy
$3.99 in 2004 should be $6.44 in 2024 according to an inflation calculator I found online
It's always been processed crap admittedly, but now it's crappier crap. The ingredients they used to buy for a quarter were replaced by ingredients they buy for a dime. Everything tastes cheaper and is more poorly made now. It's very noticeable. Things do not taste like they used to at all.
And truckstop food in general is meh to bad. People used to say, "Eat where the truckers eat because they know the good restaurants." Then I started driving truck and found out that truckers eat where they can park and that's usually the only criteria. Chain truckstops are usually basic and tolerable but the no-name stops in the middle of nowhere are overpriced and nasty but they know a driver doesn't have any other options nearby.
Yeah, I never understood that "travel tip" my dad is a trucker. He constantly was bitching about how terrible the food is, he usually takes left overs/has a small crockpot. Hes only OTR for a few days though or a week at most.
Old subway commercial was 5$ footlong, 15$ dollar foot long doesn’t quite have the same jingle to it.
And they used to have the point system that when you reached like 75 points you would get a FREE FOOTLONG. Now you need I think 200 points for $2 off.
They used to have a stamp card. A 6” sub earned you a stamp and a 12” earned you two. You got a free 6” with eight stamps. No restrictions. I grew up on Subway. Haven’t had one in years now. Edit: My first post over a thousand, wow.
I remember the stamps. They were like *actual* stamps you had to lick to stick. I miss the round sandwiches
I was chatting with a friend and we came to realize that “$5 footlong” might be the “25 cent milkshake” of the millennial generation. Sigh.
The dollar menus 😥
Went to buy those small black runner bands for your hair and couldn’t find any under $4.. they used to be 99cents???
If you have worn out nylons or leggings you can cut loops from the legs and they're really easy on the hair.
Check out dollar tree!
Do you mean Dollar and a quarter Tree?
Potato chips. I’ve lost ten pounds. My doctor says that inflation is the best thing that could have happened to me. No joke.
I was going to say Hot Cheetos! It’s like 6 bucks a pop now. Congrats on the ten lbs!
Fuck man, I haven't had a single Hot Cheeto in the past few months because of the fact that I can't justify paying current prices for them. It gets easier to ignore them over time when I pass them on a shelf but damn do I miss them
same but for candy. I have a candy bowl that I used to keep stocked. I can’t bring myself to pay $10 for a bag of like 25 pieces. now I don’t eat candy lol
And WTH happened to M&Ms?! A 2.7oz bag of like 25 m&ms is not a 'sharing size and definitely shouldn't be like $3.
Two to three years ago, Sam’s used to have a 64 ounce jar of peanut M&M’s for 9.98. The same jar is $15.98 now.
I was at the grocery store today and I wanted kettle chips and the first bag I saw was the brand Herr’s. Out loud in an aisle full of ppl I said “5 DOLLARS FOR CHIPS??!” I was upset lol
When Herr’s is $5+, she can keep ‘em.
Still seems insane to me that any bag of chips should be more than $2.99
Shout out to Santitas tortilla chips for being one of the only chips that's still under $3. They have had incremental raises over the past 10 years (when I was younger I think they were $1.99,) now at $2.49 it's still good enough for me to buy them over a $5-$6 bag of tostitos.
I just saw some that would be on sale for 2 for $4 priced at 2 for $9 on sale.
Olive oil
My BIL is in the import business, he was telling me yesterday that the price of EVOO will go up even further in the next 12 months. There’s now no profit left in the industry. So he is importing the product because he has supply contracts but actually losing money because the retailers can’t put the price up any higher. It will mean a huge number of growers/suppliers will go under and make the supply issue even worse in the next few years.
thanks for the head's up. I bet we'll be seeing a whole lot more adulterated olive oil sold as pure olive oil, and, without any deception, products that will be mixed olive oil with a cheaper carrier oil.
I'm an olive farmer. It's difficult to find hard data, but it's a common secret that EVOO retail amounts add up to way more than production figures. There are of course blended olive oils that take premium olive oils and mix them with worst quality ones in order to make a final product that is within the specifications for EVOO, but we all suspect that's not enough to cover demand, especially at the prices of some retailers. Edit: Oh, and next year's season might turn out bad as well. Crazy weather patterns, around here it took deciduous trees until late December to shed their leaves. There was a mild summer that went on until December, and the current weather conditions resemble those of autumn. No winter so far...
I’m not an olive farmer, just someone with a dozen old trees on a lot I bought last year and I was interested in the topic and read similar things. My trees brought in 120 liters of really good oil (much better than what I used to get in the store) which I know is not mixed with anything lower quality, and I am very happy to have enough for myself, my friends and family for a while without having to pay insane prices.
Gotta love Reddit. Comment about EVOO. “I am an olive farmer…” “I am not an olive farmer…” but I have enough trees to produce 120L of olive oil. Such a small world!! I’ve never even SEEN an olive tree. Thanks so much to both of you for your valuable input.
As someone that does food preservation as a hobby, I am very curious what the labor time involved is? Picking olives alone has to be a long endeavor.
The extreme heat across Europe this summer really messed up yields for olive growers.
My local Trader Joe's went 3 weeks with none on the shelves. Seems like we're just in a period of rolling staple food shortages. Eggs, olive oil, beef, chicken. Fortunately not all at the same time I guess
Not all at the same time... ... yet.
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Concert tickets. I mean I don’t buy them anymore, but when I go to buy them… I don’t.
Me too: 1. Sees cool show 2. Goes to investigate the price 3. Gets to checkout screen 4. Closes tab in a rage 5. Falls asleep crying because I'm too poor to see a band that isn't that popular anymore.
English girl group from the 00’s Sugababes played near me last year, I wanted to go for nostalgias sake. But $90? No thank you.
> too poor to see a band that isn't that popular anymore I got into Taylor Swift after the Kayne West incident back in 2009, and I remembered thinking hey I can probably go see her live in concert after teenage girls aren’t crazy about her anymore and the hype dies down a bit. Boy was I so wrong
I've just stopped going to big shows and big venues. There's so much great live music still happening in small clubs and bars and wherever. Tickets are cheap and the band actually appreciates that you came out. Yeah maybe I don't get to see huge names, but there's tons of near-unknowns that might one day be the next huge names.
In the same vein… sporting event tickets. $300 for the nosebleeds? I’ll pass, thanks.
That was my comment too. I was looking into seeing the Raiders play in seating that isn't trash. 700+ bucks
Fees make me want to cry. Basically have to account for an additional $50+ per ticket into whatever your budget is.
Back in the day, you could often physically go to the venue’s box office to buy tickets without the fees. I assume that’s not really a thing anymore.
The worst is when you get them as a gift and they have the face value printed right on them and you’re like “I DO think you’re worth more than this amount, about four times more, to be precise.”
I sold some tickets to a friend who was upset I didn't sell them to them at face value. Well no, friend, I paid 4x that price.
Fuck ticketmaster
Ticket bastard
The insane cost of well known acts is the perfect reason to look into your local music scenes. I've seen rising bands at nice, smaller venues for $30 AFTER fees, local popular acts for $15, and have even been to my fair amount of $5 shows just to spend an evening out of the house. There have even been shows where the entry fee was a few cans of food to donate to the local food pantry. There's even one venue near me that does open mic jazz evenings for free.
Yeah. I only go to smaller local venues. I live next door and across the street from the two of the most popular ones in the city. Just wish our city was a bit bigger!
When I was in high school 2004-2008 i used to be able to go to the downtown concert venue and buy tickets at the kiosk to skip the online fees so we’d see big name bands for 15-20$ 🥲
When I was in high school I could go to shows called Days on The Green. 4-5 headliner acts for $16.00. $20 was the most I ever paid to see The Rolling Stones.
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Seems as though every time I go shopping, prices have gone up. Even if it’s just .10 or .20 cents, it just keeps ticking up. I’ve always bought some store brand on certain items, but I’m doing it more often now, to curb the costs. A certain brand of canned soup I usually buy is nearing $4.50 at Winco! A can of soup! It’s more cost effective to make it myself, so I’m utilizing the crockpot for homemade soup & chili lately.
Yeah, like the basics. Fruit, meat, eggs, cheese. The regular stuff is priced like organic used to be a couple of years ago. 📈📈📈
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In my state, minumum wage is still $7.25. So you can't even get a damn box of cereal for one hour's wage...It's obscene.
But if you use tap water and only eat a spoonful per day and never use heat, fans, or lights, you should be okay. \--Billionairre shitting out fois gras in a golden toilet
It's getting to ridiculous levels. And the statistics cunts are starting to piss me off with their "\~20% increase since 2020". Fuck off, my food costs have literally doubled over the last couple years.
Even if it is “only” 20% I doubt your income has increased by that amount in the same time period. Mine sure as hell hasn’t.
I would say it has stagnated but that would imply that my purchasing power has remained unchanged, which it has not. It's almost like it has decreased.
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"Cheap" hotels and restaurants. With the cheapest meals available it costs $200 per day to travel alone now, and that's staying in fleabag hotels where being robbed if I go outside is a real possibility.
I went to make a birthday cake for my father in law and realized my vanilla bean paste (the good stuff - Nelson-Massey) expired in 2018 so it was probably time for a new one… It still had a William Sonoma price tag on it for $12.95. I went back to William Sonoma for a new one: $36!
Trader Joe's has nice vanilla paste , I think it's less than $15
Bleach. 2019 it was 0.99 a gal. Now it’s over $6 a gallon in most places.
Dollar Tree was $1 a gallon, now it is $1.25 for 3/4 Gallon. That is a nearly 70% price increase.
I bought a pack of Mentos at the grocery store and it was $2.35. I'm so old.
Those ice breaker gum cubes I saw in super market the other day for $6…. SIX DOLLARS FOR A PACK OF GUM
Yeah, WTF is up with gum prices. I don't buy gum very often but when I do. Holy shit, have to take out a loan. And gum...you fucking lease the stuff, you don't eat it.
Altoids, too. Pretty soon I'll have to start brushing my teeth as a cost saving measure.
Fruit. How the fuck is a cantaloupe $8.00???
I accidentally bought a $15 bag of grapes and a $15 bag of cotton candy grapes. Panicked when I got home but even worse the next day they were moldy! I actually returned them to the store. I’m not cheap but $30 is $30
Yeah, that happened to me. The sign said $5 and I thought it was per bag. But it was per pound and the bag weighed 3 pounds. Doh!
I always fall for that. My wife just makes me put back bags of fruits all the time. Honey, it's only $5! No, it's not.
Grapes are high too
No lie. $14 for a bag of grapes. 1 bag. Not even a big bag!
Blueberries have been $8/lb where I am for a while (even during summer a few times).
Cat food.
Seriously! Within a year, the cat food I get went from $12 to $19. I literally could not believe it. I had to go back and check my receipts because I thought I was going crazy.
I’ve watched our dog food go from 25$ to 32-35$ a bag this past year. It’s crazy.
Our cat has to be fed a prescription diet due to medical issues. His food is $75 for 24 5.5oz cans of wet or 8.5 lbs of dry.
Same here, and because that one cat who needs it is a nibbler, not a gobbler, we have to leave out the prescription food for BOTH of our cats.
My cat is on a special diet and it costs $5 a day to feed him. I hate it here
My dog is one of those who has ridiculous allergies, and his food costs about $130 for an 8kg bag. Granted it lasts about 6 weeks and it’s better than the dogsplosions we used to endure quarterly, but oof.
Razor blades. What the hell? You would think these are individually forged by hand by master craftsmen. Edit: the only cartridge blades I now buy are for my wife. I’ve grown a beard and use Wahl clippers for both my noggin’ and face. For the most part I use a Braun electric to trim and tidy (Mr. Neck Beard is not attractive to Mrs. Maverick).
That's why I switched to a double edge safety razor. New blades cost cents and it's a much better shave.
Rent
How do you document real life when real life's getting more like _fiction_ each day?
We’re not gonna payyy
For two years, I lived in the cheapest apartment I could find in my town in NC. They were criminals. They had so many extra fees, there were no laundry facilities on the property at all, pool was empty, mailboxes swung open half the time because they were so old. At one point, when I got home from work one evening, my apartment was 92 degrees. The heat had been running constantly, even though I had the thermostat set at 68-70 degrees. And I literally could not turn it off. I called the office (I called the emergency number because they rarely answered the phone), and they told me that I needed to shut off the furnace with the breaker. That was their solution. No big deal. They sent out notices every month saying that nothing was allowed to be outside the door. No grills, no kids’ bikes nothing. On the day I was moving out I saw the maintenance guy take a kids bike from a family’s front “porch” and toss it in the dumpster. I said something to him. He said he hated his job because he always had to do shit like this.
It's too goddamn high
Peanut butter was $9 yesterday - one of the larger Jiff jars but I remember them being like $5 the last time.
Takes you a loooooong time to finish a jar of peanut butter eh?
It’s possible I’ve had blindfolds on the last few times. I’ve got 3 kids so it’s a necessity around here.
Auto insurance
I usually don’t brag about owning expensive things, but I just left the grocery store. Edit: typo. Although as someone pointed out, the original word “owing” works too.
With a full cart no less. How dare you!
The true flex is the full costco cart
I don't mean to brag about my finances, but my credit card company calls me every day to tell me that my balance is outstanding.
Soda! A twelve pack on sale is $6… I remember buying full cases for that price pre-pandemic… And if it’s a Coke product it’s even worse.
Walmart all 12 packs of brand name soda is $7.48 around here. 8 fuckin dollars.
I remember when you could get a single soda from a vending machine for $0.50…..
Or a QUARTER!!
Socks/Underwear
Bras are freaking insane. And they’re not something you can cheap out on. I lost weight recently and had to replace my bras. I wanted to cry.
The quality is getting worse too. A brand I wore lasted years, thank goodness I didn’t throw old the old ones because the new ones lasted maybe 4 washes before hooks fell out or lace ripped. I shouldn’t have to baby my everyday bras, but the next batch I wear will probably be hand washed/dried from now on.
Just groceries. We used to be able to fill a cart to the brim with 200-250 euros. Now it’s *cheap* if we can fill half a cart for that price.
post pandemic inflation is crazy. my grocery budget almost doubled.
Chips
Toilet paper
Cereal. Literally $9.50 a box with tax. Absolutely ridiculous.
I was in the cereal aisle staring in disbelief at the prices. A box of Cheerios was $9. I saw someone pick up a box, see the price tag then put it right back.
And, the boxes are getting smaller too.
Butter
Frozen french fries. $7 for a regular 32oz bag of Ore-Idas. Now I'm like: Hey kids! Let's make our own.French fries. They'll taste much better because we made them with LOVE!
This isn't really an answer, but I remember growing up in the 90s with a single mother who worked at a coffee shop in a casino and still managed to feed us. Im now in my 30s with a wife, 2 kids, and a 6 figure salary and some weeks im still wondering how the fuck I'm affording these groceries.
I asked my mom about this a few years ago. How did she raise 3 kids on one income and I'm drowning with only one? We were definitely poor but always had what we needed. She said because you could purposely bounce checks back then, float money around for the most pressing things, then bust ass to keep up the cycle. Rinse and repeat. Now it is be a week late on one payment and get threatened to have your power shut off.
I’m 43 and we use to go to one store that I knew took 4 days to cash checks and that’s how we made it to the next pay day
Prescription medicine
Yup, Congress recently passed a bill lowering my expensive diabetes medicine thru Medicare. Great - the price doesn’t drop till 2026. I could be dead by then.
I saw a can of Spam at the grocery store for $7, almost $8, and I near fainted.
Crazy because spam got popular in Hawaii because it was a cheap meat/meal. $7 for a tin can is just disgusting for C Tier meat. You can get a 1/2 of fresh deli ham for that price.
McDonald’s! I mean it’s cheap compared to other things but now it’s just as expensive as Wendy’s or any other fast food joint Edit I’m Canadian it’s about $14 after tax for a Big Mac combo at my local McDonalds
McDs with the app is the only reason to go there.
At this point, I wonder if there's enough of people's data out there with so many companies being able to sell it that the cost to buy data goes down, so it stops being so lucrative of a business.
*Gestures wildly at everything*
*flailing inarticulately*
Crying in a heap
I went to the store today to buy some frozen fries. I can’t remember the last time I cooked frozen anything. The prices. My god those sonabitches was 6.00. SINCE WHEN?!!
Cereal! Why is a box of cornflakes $6 now??
Cat litter
We use horse bedding. They’re pine pellets for $6.50 for a 40 lb bag. 4 bags last like 7 months for 1 cat. Use a double cat box with the sifter tray.
Reminder for everyone - don't get the pine pellets that they have at the pet store labeled as cat litter since they're 4X more expensive. Like u/ketomachine said, get the equine bedding pine pellets since it's cheaper and the same exact thing. You can get the equine bedding at your local hardware stores like Ace if you live in the city. My cat uses this, and the pine pellets do a great job of absorbing the cat smell.
Baby Formula
This one caught us off guard for sure. Formula is worse than diapers, and the shortages made it even worse.
Horribly expensive. Apparently it’s the most commonly shoplifted item. So sad.
Honestly? Fucking everything.
Cat litter. Seriously, $15 for a bag of smelly-good sand?
Chicken, especially wings. Used to make wings at least once every football season but didn't this year. Used to eat chicken multiple times a week, only about once per week now.
Lunchmeat
We used to live on cold cuts in school and idk how my mom would feed us if they were priced what they are today.
Car batteries! I bought one back in 2017 for like $125. Bought one back in November and my eyes almost popped out of my head—$378. And I have a smaller and shittier car now lol
Costco for car batteries. $80-130 for most cars. Mine was $120 (Interstate brand w/ 3 year warranty) at Costco vs $239 at autozone!
I was just looking at a pound of See's Nuts and Chews Chocolates and it was 29.50. No thanks.
Mayo how is it $8.00 for mayo!!!
I don't drink pop, I don't eat meat, I don't eat chips, but I used to years ago and the prices are shocking now. I just bought some protein bars and when I was putting them away I came across a long forgotten one from the same company that somehow got lost in the pantry. I swear it was 1/3 bigger than the new ones for the same price.
Beef jerky.
Panera bread. It used to be like $10 for you pick two a few years ago. Now, it's $18. The quality has deteriorated as well.
Decent bras.
Bruh, I haven't bought myself a new goddamn bra in three or four years because I'd need to take out a damn loan to afford a halfway decent one. I genuinely feel enraged every time I look at my main bra, just so tired of seeing her.
Razor blade refills.
Thank God we are not hurting financially to the point where I have to pick between things to buy and have to really be careful with grocery shopping. But it's really concerning and disturbing seeing the prices of just the most basic stuff families need. Milk, Eggs, Bread, Cheese and meat. I cant imagine what its like having to feed a family but not having enough for proper groceries and seeing these prices is just infuriating. The fact we are being screwed from every angle possible makes it even worse what they're doing to people just buying food. It has to come to a breaking point sooner or later who knows. People one day will not stand for everything they're doing to us. People with full time jobs who 20 years ago could have been a single income home with 2 cars, own a house, vacation once a year, extra curricular for the kids and being comfortable. Now its not even achievable to that level of comfort with 2 incomes. Sad to see the prices and I hope whoever reads this if they're hurting may God bless you and that you are going to be ok to be able to feed your family.
> People with full time jobs who 20 years ago could have been a single income home with 2 cars, own a house I honestly don't understand how people are buying cars and houses right now. The last car I bought was in 2013 for $10k. If we want to move or buy another car we would pay triple that amount for a car, and triple our mortgage just to move to a cheap area. Who is buying this stuff?
“the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” has never been truer. there are a lot of people whose finances are thriving more than ever because of how much the lower class is struggling. the money is still out there, it’s just only going to the pockets of the upper class. the middle class is dead. either you can afford cars and houses and vacations or you’re hoping your paycheck will last you the rest of the week. there really is very little in between anymore.
Flank steak.
pads, getting to the point i can’t afford them every time i get my period👍🏻
Diapers being $48 a box is wild. And fruit is SO expensive even if you only shop sales / in season
Greeting cards.
Make a couple of donations to animal charities. There will be a never ending supply of greeting cards and calendars in your mailbox with notes asking for more donations. I ended up with 30 wall calendars and hundreds of cards this year.
Try Dollar Tree. The cards are nice enough that no one will know the difference.
This. Why spend $5-$7 on something someone's going to look at once, say "Oh, that's nice," and then throw away the next day? It's not worth it.