Posted on 08/06/2024 9:46:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
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And rising credit card debt. We're heading into a recession with the consumer already tapped out. Recipe for a serious downturn.
We use the Walmart app to make purchases for pickup on occasion. My wife, on a whim, looked up a purchase from 2021. It was for almost $66. She then asked to make a re-purchase of all items. The new total to re-purchase the same items was $108. For those of you in Rio Linda, that’s a 63.63% increase in the overall cost for those items (mix of eggs, toiletries, packaged goods, dairy, fruits and vegetables).
I’ve noticed how grocers try to hide inflation. They’ll have promotional discounts on popular items for a few weeks, but when the discounts end, the “real” price is slightly higher than before.
I’m a paper hoarder and save receipts, so I can actually see the trends in rising prices for years.
I love skim milk. I drink 3 gallons a week. A gallon of skim milk costs 3 times what it did 3 years ago
I drink Almond milk......................
To each his own
I’m sure the investors will try to rescue Harris by getting back into the markets today. I want Americans to suffer economically until the election is over. Otherwise it will be a Dem victory from the great unwashed.
Has anyone else noticed enterprises closing up shop near them?
All the Rite Aids in the state of Michigan are closing.
Many Big Lots, too.
A big pet supply place closed up near me to go with the already closed Denny’s next to it.
Any place that closes has employees out of work and not going out to eat or to the movies or buying back to school items and clothes. Ripple effect.
That sort of thing shows a slowdown even if TV people don’t mention them.
Is almond milk more expensive?
And we are heading into what I call “Layoff” season.
When companies lay people off at the end of the year to cut back on their biggest expense, payroll.
Slightly. But has less calories and unfortunately protein as well...........
“...if we are repeating the 1970s—as I’ve long feared—we could be looking at a much worse catastrophe that could take a decade to dig out of.”
We are in a completely different paradigm than we were in the 70’s, one from which we’ll never recover as a nation. We have a critical mass of brainwashed Gen Y’s and Gen Z’s up and coming to take over all the decision making with a hyper-racist, irrational, anti-science, anti-religious, woke world view. No one can survive under that.
I go through a few gallons of whole milk a week for myself.
Pricey drinking habit.
It is pricy but I love it. My wife bitches about me wanting junk foods but she never complains about the milk. Great wives are cool about that.
The economic effect of the civil war that has already begun.
three to four whole almonds in each 8-ounce glass
And no one but China to manufacture the phones that tell them what to do and think.
I’m sure the investors will try to rescue Harris by getting back into the markets today.
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Looks like the Kamala Krash is already over. Markets up bigly today. Looks like it’s President Kamala.
How do you milk an almond? Those must be awfully small nipples.
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