“My iPhine retails for about $800 for instance. Could you have imagined an $800 telephone 5 years ago? 10 years ago? Chicken, btw, is up too. and I just paid $60 for two decent name brand polo shirts. Wal mart is the biggest deflationary force in America but their prices are reflected in the quality of their goods. You got what you paid for so you didn’t really pay less, you just got less.”
You are buying BRANDS, not things. You can get a great smart phone for a LOT less than $800. Hubby and I went shopping at Walmart for an ENTIRE business-casual wardrobe and spent less than $300 for 6 complete outfits. (Including shoes, socks and undies) He looks awesome. (The only downside is that he sometimes bumps into another guy wearing the same shirt or tie. They laugh it off and blame their wives.)
This is like a guy who insists on buying brand-new Harleys complaining about the price of motorcycles.
I could easily spend $10,000 on one evening gown.
But I don’t.
Because that’s stupid.
My daughter went wedding dress shopping and was giggling her head off at the $5000-20,000 dresses. Her entire wedding won’t cost $5000 (including the rings, cake, pictures and the dress)
Don’t blame the free market because you don’t know how to shop with a frugal nature. That’s on you brother.
Have you even looked at Goodwill? You can get name-brand clothes at 1/10th of the price.
($60 for a freakin’ shirt. That’s insane.)
wal mart, as I said, is the largest deflationary force in America but, as I also said, you get what you pay for. Wal Mart constantly forces its distributors to cut costs and that is how they make a profit. Those cost cuts almost always come in the form of compromises in quality so yes, you pay less but you buy less. I have bought wal mart clothes that didn’t last a year, items that were broken when I opened the package, and too many items that now reside in a garbage dump somewhere. Wal Mart sells junk. Harley Davidson’s, btw, hold their resale value unlike the jap bikes. that is true of many high quality US made products.
You sure are right on that...shop ebay for clothes and salvation army carry clothes that still have the tags on them and some are designer clothes.
I also never buy clothes unless they are on sale. (for me sale is 50% off) I once got a great pair of jeans at Salvation army with tag, never worn designer label for 5 dollars as they had an in store sale after 6pm with all clothes 5 bucks for those in the store...they fit like they were made for me...