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Brace yourself: Grocery prices are about to go through the roof — again
whnt.com/ ^ | 2/8/2022 | David Lazarus

Posted on 02/10/2022 3:19:25 PM PST by Kartographer

They blamed COVID-related supply issues, as well as high labor costs and rising expenses for fertilizer and other farming necessities. Goldman’s forecast is the latest gut punch for U.S. consumers grappling with rising costs for practically everything, from rent to food.

It also serves as a shot across the bow of election-minded politicians who already know inflation will be perhaps the single biggest issue going into the November midterms.

For working families, another 6% increase in grocery prices would make it even harder to get ahead. Since the start of the pandemic, food costs have jumped by about 11%. Wages over the same period have declined by 1.2%.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: inflation; oodaloop; preppers; shtf; stagflation
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To: mylife

you know who really gets screwed? retired folks on a fixed budget


Screw you. You need to quit poisening the narrative and just die already. We don’t want accomplished, loyal, patriotic fogies in our midst. /sarc


21 posted on 02/10/2022 3:52:04 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Kartographer

Again.

5.56mm


22 posted on 02/10/2022 3:52:44 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Kartographer

The Tri-Tip we buy at Costco went from $12 to $20 and 2/3rds the size, that is DOUBLE what it was!!


23 posted on 02/10/2022 3:53:32 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Kartographer

Perfect news for the Great Reset! The little people of flyover country will eat cockroaches imported from China:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ZTsDfjAp0


24 posted on 02/10/2022 3:53:44 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Kartographer

Food and energy inflation is felt by everyone, acutely.

Except the very rich.

This will kill Democrats.


25 posted on 02/10/2022 3:57:29 PM PST by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Exactly—old timers like me remember what inflation did to Jimmy Carter.

He was hated by everyone—it was beyond politics.

Every single bill went up and up and up and up—even the dullest of the dull figured out what the problem was....

The technique of blaming Company X or Company Y does not work when all prices are rising for everything...


26 posted on 02/10/2022 4:01:19 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Kartographer

40-year high inflation is an “attack on our democracy.”


27 posted on 02/10/2022 4:02:15 PM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“The 2 pound brick of cheese on sale usually goes for $5”

Do you have a time machine? How is this possible?


28 posted on 02/10/2022 4:07:33 PM PST by KingLudd
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To: DIRTYSECRET

$5 Friday at Safeway. Tomorrow: Butter - 2 lbs. for $5.00.
Actually got butter a few weeks ago for $.97. Same with Tillamook Ice Cream. These were specials if you are signed up with Safeway 4 U.


29 posted on 02/10/2022 4:12:30 PM PST by Inspectorette
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To: Kartographer
Revelation 6:6 New Living Translation (NLT) And I heard a voice from among the four living beings say, “A loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley will cost a day’s pay. And don’t waste the olive oil and wine.”
30 posted on 02/10/2022 4:19:52 PM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: mware
13 lb spiral uncured ham $80.51

Wymin and muzzies affected most,,,,wait
31 posted on 02/10/2022 4:21:09 PM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: 4Liberty

That’s great.. and sadly seems true


32 posted on 02/10/2022 4:21:46 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Little Debbies cakes 2 for 4bucks....two weeks ago.
Today, 2 for 5bucks.


33 posted on 02/10/2022 4:27:15 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: TomGuy

Apt. gas bill way up....

Me, too. Have an apt. Retired. We’re the poor relations on FR. Inflation destroying our financial lives is not a matter of abstract theory to us.


34 posted on 02/10/2022 4:27:29 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: TexasGator

6 pack of coke at Austin Walgreen’s now 7bucks.
Beer is about 8bucks a six pack.


35 posted on 02/10/2022 4:28:44 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: 4Liberty

That’s funny.


36 posted on 02/10/2022 4:32:17 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Kartographer

Putting trillions of new dollars into circulation diluted their value so we need more of them. Politicians should not have any control over the money supply.


37 posted on 02/10/2022 4:39:24 PM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: mylife
you know who really gets screwed? retired folks on a fixed budget

Fixed income is a funny term. Most people are on fixed income unless they work by commission.
38 posted on 02/10/2022 4:43:05 PM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: Kartographer

I’m pretty sure I can stretch my “can of soup with an Italian sausage link” from one meal to two, and I know I can drink more water from my Berkey filter while consuming far fewer recreational beverages. I may be wrong, but I think maybe I was made for difficult times. I suspect I’m about to find out.


39 posted on 02/10/2022 4:55:21 PM PST by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: Kartographer

Just came back from the grocery. OMG! They’ll need a skyscraper to have room for the inflation in prices.


40 posted on 02/10/2022 5:10:21 PM PST by EinNYC
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