When its said inflation is down it doesnt mean for example the price of milk is back to what it was a month ago, it means it didn’t increase as much this month as it did last month.
Two three-inch-wide frozen Maryland-style crab cakes in a cardboard box one-half-inch deep, six inches long three inches wide price is twelve dollars and ninety nine cents at Publix. You can’t haggle. Who the hell do they think is going to buy that thing?
The pain relief section at Wal Mart has bare shelving over eighty percent of the length of the aisle. You used to see that kind of thing only in newsreels of the 50’s showing you the “benefits” of communism in Moscow supermarkets.