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Groceries are more affordable now than in 2019. So why are people still so mad about prices?
Market Watch via MSN ^ | 10 10 2024 | Hannah Erin Lang

Posted on 10/10/2024 5:36:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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This is an amazing piece of obfuscation. The headline tells you the cost of groceries is down. The article itself confirms grocery prices are up.

Why do people believe grocery prices are high? Trump's lies.

1 posted on 10/10/2024 5:36:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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$3.00 for a dozen eggs. Everything else is up about the same.
Who ya gonna believe, your lyin’ eyes or the left wing liers?
How do these people live with themselves?


2 posted on 10/10/2024 5:41:16 PM PDT by TStro (God created everyone equal. Samuel Colt made them polite)
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It depends on what the definition if IS "more affordable" is.
3 posted on 10/10/2024 5:43:26 PM PDT by know.your.why
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Groceries more affordable now vs 5 years ago? Not in my neighborhood. Either prices have shot up, or you pay the same, but for smaller quantities now.The general assumption of retailers is that the average customer doesn’t notice shrinkage of the product. McDonald’s is banking on it.


4 posted on 10/10/2024 5:44:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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What absolute, propaganda-laden, tripe, this article is.


5 posted on 10/10/2024 5:44:27 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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Around 2020, I saw what the wife was paying for groceries. I said, whoa, hold on, we’re not paying that. I took over the grocery shopping. Whoever wrote this article clearly has not been inside a grocery store. Everything is up. Things like meat? Forget it. I used to be able to get country-style ribs for $2 a pound. Lucky to find them anywhere for under $3.50 now. 80% hamburger was $2, maybe $2.50 a pound pre-COVID. Now $5.

I’ve resorted going to the Dented and Expired grocery store. Some real bargains there, just don’t buy too much because it’s, you know, expired, or close to expired. The media running around telling me how good I’ve got it, they’re either ignorant or lying, probably the second one.


6 posted on 10/10/2024 5:46:38 PM PDT by Big E
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Read more: Economy ranks as No. 1 issue for Republican voters, but it’s not in Democrats’ top 5, poll finds

This is because believe Kamala and her ilk’s lies that what we’re seeing isn’t real
Ran into a guy I know (pathological democrat) who believe everything the alphabet media spews. I told him he should look at other sources. “Oh, I do!” but he couldn’t name one.


7 posted on 10/10/2024 5:46:46 PM PDT by TStro (God created everyone equal. Samuel Colt made them polite)
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“And it’s easier for the average American worker to put food on the table than it was a couple of years ago.”

My ass....


8 posted on 10/10/2024 5:47:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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Oh brother.....Emporers new food.


9 posted on 10/10/2024 5:48:16 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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they really think people are stupid.


10 posted on 10/10/2024 5:48:56 PM PDT by basalt
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Do these people ever shop in a grocery store? Bread is $4.00 a loaf - A one pound pack of Oscar Meyer Beef Baloney is $8.00.

The size of everything is smaller - 8 pack of Hamburger Buns used to be 16 ounces - now 12 ounces for a higher price.


11 posted on 10/10/2024 5:49:10 PM PDT by EC Washington
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[Groceries are more affordable now than in 2019. So why are people still so mad about prices?]

WHAT A LIAR

I just paid $17.24 for a block of 120 American slices cheese (Great Value) at Walmart (before tax)

Around 2019 that was about $11.34 before tax.

18 eggs are about $4.30 last I looked at WalMart (a couple o weeks ago)

Back then I bought that for about $1.60 or so (actually found a WalMart overstocked that was selling 18 for $1.36 about 8-9 years ago

Campbell’s Chunky Soup - now $2.24 a can

In 2019 I regularly bought such cans for 99 cents


12 posted on 10/10/2024 5:49:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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https://youtu.be/SMGUji0bAxU?si=0wTNBX2FiaZqSZSL

About 20 seconds in.


13 posted on 10/10/2024 5:50:13 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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People are mad because the materials I use to do my work are up 40-50%. So it may take fewer hours of work to pay for the groceries but everything else takes way more hours to pay for. And 2.4% in increase this year is a bold faced lie.


14 posted on 10/10/2024 5:50:23 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: EC Washington

I used to be able to feed 5 people on what I can feed 2 now.


15 posted on 10/10/2024 5:50:28 PM PDT by Texas resident (Que Mala= Bad Juju.)
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But that isn’t the case for every line item on your monthly budget. Rent and other housing costs, for example, have risen at a faster clip than the average American’s pay can keep up with, economists said. A similar dynamic is at play with insurance — for cars, homes and healthcare.


Compared to the other problems they cause, food prices are that bad.............................


16 posted on 10/10/2024 5:50:47 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Hannah’s an idiot.


17 posted on 10/10/2024 5:50:54 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Sure. Better according to whom? They are NOT “better “


18 posted on 10/10/2024 5:52:21 PM PDT by madison10
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Here's the dimwit lying for the Democrats in this "article" piece of worthless election-year Democrat propaganda


19 posted on 10/10/2024 5:52:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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We don’t hate the media enough folks. Whore have more respectable jobs than a dnc media whore.


20 posted on 10/10/2024 5:52:33 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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