My wife works at Walmart as a contractor, restocking magazines and books. She says Chicken prices are not only rising fast but even becoming a little scarce (cooked chicken available is sporadic, she said a package of frozen chicken breast now $25).
And yet, inflation is officially 8%? LOL!!!
The GOP needs to spell it out for people, higher prices at the pump and th grocery stores are due 100% because people voted for Democrats instead of Republicans.
The orange juice I used to buy is now $5.49 for a gallon of the store brand, and the OJ is from concentrate. I know of a store that sells it for $3.00 a gallon, and have been buying it there for a while.
They hide that the key driver for food costs has been the huge jump in energy costs, most impactfully in the form of diesel and fertilizer.
And that has been an intentional, self-inflicted wound from Biden’s first day in office.
Several months ago that was the case here. Since, they’ve expanded offerings, added bone-in chicken thighs and breasts, which are more in line with the old prices and stock has evened out. They do still have days where they don’t have enough stock for rotisserie chicken.
I’ve switched to bone-in chicken thighs for most things and dare I say, we’re actually saving a little bit over what we used to spend on boneless chicken. I’m able to get a large package for around $8 and that is two dinners for my family...can’t really beat that.
Of course, everything else is still rising. And things like the Walmart frozen vegetables quietly started adding ‘may contain wheat’, because they’re cheaping out on the processing. That one hurts, because those were cheap and convenient and I’m allergic to wheat.
Five dollar eggs, and 6.49 for a pound of butter. Butter.
If Dems hold onto the Senate, then the voting/vote counting process was seriously messed with.
CNN is using the central banker number and that does not translate to Joe and Jane American.
In simplistic terms if a dollar is worth 8% less than it was 2 years ago (due to government policy) and the energy and labor cost 10% more to make an item and transport it to market (due to government policy) those things stack!
Add in higher operating/labor costs for retailers and that is factored in to the price passed on to the consumer.
All of this is cumulative.
The media parrots the central banker numbers, but that is not the number that you and I are dealing with. That number is only the beginning of the pyramid and for those at the bottom (almost all of us) we are getting crushed.
The “consumer” is paying for the hits all the way up the chain from the mom and pop or big box store all the way up to the Fed.
That is real inflation and it is NOT in the single digits.
Chicken has doubles in price.
Oatmeal has, too.
Fortunately, oatmeal keeps well.
The local Walmart Grocery currently has 18-count of regular eggs at $5.36.
A couple of years ago, that same 18-count was running about $1.25.
But as soon as that Inflation Reduction Act kicks in ...
CNN pushed the BS that inflation was ‘transitory’. They’ve always been cucks. So F’em.
Wonderful, as eggs are my number one most consumed food…
Supermarket last week wanted $4 a dozen for eggs… not anything special nor brown, not cage free, just regular eggs
Walmart still had em around $2 which was still close to 100% higher than they were before the illegitimate administration took over
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“Tremendous opportunity.”
Just buy electric food...
The chicken rack at Aldi is often 2/3 empty and curtained off, the rest is sparse. Meat including pork and beef is sparse.
81 million alleged votes later....
A dozen eggs last year at Aldi were a dollar and change, up or down week to week—sometimes 89 cents. Eggs at Aldi this year are $2.40 or $2.50 a dozen, so far. Pound of butter $4.00.
Thank goodness the price of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey has fallen ( sarc.)
Corn lickah is going way down. ( sarc.)
Looking forward to getting regularly pickled.( double sarc.)