I can’t believe the prices on snack cakes in stores today; like candy bars, I simply refuse to buy them at those prices (as I get older I crave them less and less, like fast food). I don’t know what impact unions have on those prices, but I’m sure some of it is the underlying commmodities used as ingredients and a big part of it is the unreported inflation driving everything up.
I heard a deli owner complaining about them, as they sit on his shelves taking up space and don’t move until their expiration nears and a bright orange discount sticker is placed on them. I loved this stuff when I was younger, and could buy it with my paper-route money; I couldn’t imagine many 12 year-olds have the kind of money to buy them now.
Our children will definitely not have the standard of living we had, while we will never have the standard of living our parents had.
That is true.
Our parents use to give us a dollar when we went to school, even though we had free lunches. We got into the habits of buying a BOX of Little Debbie brownies (it was about 79 or 99 cents or something like that) and a bunch of cans of generic soda (they were like 10 cents a can).
We’d walk across the street and feed the empty cans into the automated canbank and take the change back to the store for more soda.
lol.
We didn’t watch TV and play video games all day back then either, so we weren’t too unhealthy.
We can’t believe the prices on anything on the grocery store shelves these days. $4.00 per pound for hamburger!
Fuel cost are the reason for the price increases of all food items over the last couple of years.