Posted on 11/13/2024 7:03:55 AM PST by dangus
I went to the grocery store yesterday and found roast beef for $6/lb. Two weeks ago, it was $16. Heck, when I started working in a deli in 1991, it was $8. Milk for $3.19/gallon? Sharp cheddar cheese for $3.78/pound? Cream cheese for $2.26/half pound? Butter for $2.98/pound? Chicken breast for $1.99?
I've been going to Aldi's lately, so I don't know exactly how to compare to before my days of shopping Safeway online since the grocery stores shut down for the pandemic, but these prices seem pre-pandemic to me. My sister reports that where she's from, so much of everything is on 2-for-1 sales.
Have other people noticed a sudden collapse of prices?
Inflation is the growth of the money supply. High prices are simply the symptom of inflation.
Not yet, but I don’t expect a lot of drop because fuel prices need to go way down first. Fuel prices is the number one driver of food inflation because farmers use tractors to grow it and trucks to ship it.
As shipping costs come down, the prices will come down.
Nope, not at all
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