“they’re trying to ease us into what they’re calling hyperinflation”
This is about as likely to be successful as trying to “ease” an entire watermelon down your throat in one bite.
Blah blah blah
Nobody knows what induces (not causes) inflation. The cause is obviously imagination of counterparties agreeing on higher price. But what induces the imagination?
There is a popular theory about money supply . . . “too much money chases too few products”. That’s another blah blah blah.
Then there is the “LAW” . . . we got taught it is a LAW OF NATURE that supply and demand determines price. Notice that does not involve money supply?
Except neither has direct control of human brains. Imagination of counterparties determines price. If there is no counterparty agreement, there is no transaction.
(Except, trashing another LAW OF NATURE that economics wants to believe in, the vast majority of goods changing hands of ownership in history has taken place via conquering nations, or inheritance or outright theft. Price didn’t decide any of that.)
I went out to the liquor store to get a pint of Guinness for a beef stew recipe. I found the Guinness (I’m not normally a beer drinker). The shelf had an area for 16 oz cans of Guinness.
But the cans I bought were 14.9 oz. So, I can no longer buy a pint of Guinness because of inflation.
The last time I was in a Home Depot I noticed there were big discounts on wheelbarrows. Coincidence?
Chapstick is dirt cheap on Amazon—and it is nonperishable.
Buy in bulk and you save a fortune now—and protect against future inflation.
I have definitely been noticing this on the Walmart website. I like the pick-up service. Anyway, the last time I shopped, I noticed a high original prices with a line through them (which I never would have paid) and then the “savings” price (which I originally paid before), At checkout they tell you the exorbitant amount you have saved. It’s unreal. . . it’s a scam.
A duck walks into a drug store. The clerk says, "May I help you?" The duck says, "I want some Chapstick, and put it on my bill."
I beat my sugar habit with cookies but I was impressed by the way they put empty space at each end of the package to make it look like there were about 6-8 more cookies in there.
The markup-markdown game has been around for as long as I can remember.
Two generations of idiots now who believe these age old historic pricing scams.
#FJB
Old sales trick. BUT... Just my observations...
I am a cheapskate. I like Dollar Tree.
First off they are now $1.25. 25 off the top inflation.
Rubbing alcohol was 90% now is 70%.
Dish soap was two quarts and is now so diluted it takes twice as much, AND now sold in 20 ounce
Cleaning products in smaller bottles.
Everything that was 16 ounces went to 14 ounces and is now 12 ounces
Ice cream... I don’t buy much but I went to get a “half gallon” and it was so puffed full of air I would say it was 50% air by volume.
Aluminum alloys for my shop up 7 fold.
Diesel still 5 a gallon.
OH WAIT. “Putin’s price hike....”
A 16oz can is now 12oz