Posted on 05/15/2025 3:38:33 AM PDT by Adder
CNN dismissed President Donald Trump’s claims about falling grocery prices just weeks before government data confirmed the sharpest monthly decline in food-at-home costs in nearly five years.
The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed the food-at-home index dipping 0.4% in April — the steepest drop since September 2020 — with egg prices alone falling 12.7%, the biggest one-month plunge since 1984. Those numbers landed Tuesday, the same day CNN Business conceded the president’s previous claims about egg prices are “true now.”
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Gas prices are the main indicator.
$3.47 here down from over $6 at their high.
The delusional are always shocked when Truth crashes through the delusions.
What most people have failed to do is change their paradigm relative to prices.
Store-bought bacon? Haven’t bought it in 6 years because I like what I make at home better and it just so happens homemade is about half the cost anyway. And since I don’t care for woke entertainment, I have more than enough time to make it even if most of the process is waiting for the cure to do its magic.
And as for eggs.....never paid more than $5.00 to the lady down the street for 18. And having learned how to waterglass them, we keep about 6 dozen on hand. The side benefit being that they no longer have to take up fridge space.
Not hard to report based on where they started.
Here in the Houston area:
Kroger® Grade A Large Eggs
UPC: 0001111060903
Located in DAIRY
$3.99
$0.33/each
HEB
Sunups Grade A Large White Eggs
12 ct
$4.10
each ($0.34 / ct)
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