• thelazywriter
    9•2 years ago

    0.1 miles per gallon. From the store to the car this thing costs over $150 to operate.

    • @[email protected]
      11•2 years ago

      Just imagine all the inches people save by parking as close as possible to the door and driving for 5-10 minutes just to get that FIRST parking spot.

  • @[email protected]
    11•2 years ago

    I just went grocery shopping. We went to a regular store for about 10 items to make a homemade soup, and then went to Aldi for the rest. The 10 items cost the same as all of the stuff we got at Aldi

    • Maeve
      8•2 years ago

      It’s regrettable that I can’t complete my shopping at Aldi, and I’m not impressed with certain products, but the $4 Belgian chocolates I bought on a whim are divine. Also I got a gallon of milk there for $2.51, but the almond and oat milk were more than that for a half gallon. Also regrettable because I need to lay off the milk.

      • @[email protected]
        8•2 years ago

        We managed to make it work because my fiancee hates shopping around. The prices everywhere else are insane, so we completely changed our regular meal rotation to fit what Aldi sells. I totally agree though, some of their items aren’t very good and others are still too expensive

        • Maeve
          2•2 years ago

          I too have adjusted my meals when I’m able to make an Aldi’s run. Agree with the rest, too.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    Grocery stores know that when people are struggling to afford to eat, they try to save some money by going for the cheaper brands, which are typically owned by the store. Since the store control all the prices, they are able to jack up the price of everything, making their customers go “wow, food is expensive, better try to bargain hunt more”, and suddenly you’re not buying the competitor bread, now you’re buying Western Family / No Name, and they profit both from the price hikes AND because they grow their market share on first-party goods.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

    It’s fucked up that they are allowed to both make AND sell the same products on the same shelves as their competitor’s goods, but that’s because our antitrust sucks.

    There is NO downside for the store when they make you starve, you still gotta eat to live so you’ll pay anything, and these things are all owned by the same handful of megacorps.

  • Virtual Insanity English
    2•2 years ago

    AUD$6.10 for a gallon of the cheapest possible milk I can find within 30km/20 miles here in Australia.

    USD$4.00 even… Again for the cheapest possible 12 pack 1L UHT generic milk.

    If you want something from the supermarket fridge you’re gonna to need to start at multiplying that by 1.5 to 2x .

    So USD$8 /gal might be fairly typical here.

    • Drusas
      2•2 years ago

      My preferred eggs are still nearly $10 per dozen, so it sure doesn’t feel like it.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        God damn son. They were up to 4 or 5 where I live, they’re back down to like 1.20ish now. I feel bad for you man.

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            Usually local farms will sell eggs for much cheaper than the supermarket. Hell, i drive around and there’s 5 farms within 10 minutes where I can pick up a dozen for $2. Most are free range.

            Our flock of 5 gives us way more than we need. We end up pickling them and still giving dozens away to friends.

            $10/doz is the price you pay when you either want to tell people you pay $10/doz or you’re not wanting to admit to yourself that you may have fucked up so you just keep doing it.

    • @[email protected]
      5•2 years ago

      Don’t worry, supposedly there’s been another outbreak of avian flu and so maybe egg prices can get jacked up again.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•2 years ago

    Remember:

    Inflation isn’t real, they raise the prices without raising the wages and cry crocodile tears that they couldn’t afford to raise wages as they live in self pity in their previous-year model yacht.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      I’m genuinely convinced we’re very close to systematic collapse in the countries later into the capitalism boom. It’s maybe 5-20 years out but most of us will watch it unfold

  • @[email protected]English
    17•2 years ago

    I was waiting for my cosin the other day at a bus stop… he arrives, he’s eating a burger. I asked how much he paid for it, he said $3. I just came back from a computer store and bought a 32GB flash drive. Guess how much that thing cost me… you guessed it, $3.

    So, basically, a flash drive that I’m gonna use in the next 3 or 4 years is the same price as a burger that I’m gonna eat and shit out in the next few hours or so.

    IDK about everyone else, but that seems whacked to me.