Bought three days of food on Sunday for $80. Four boxes of ready rice, two chicken breasts, two Italian sausages, one steak, french beans, brussel sprouts, and some asparagus. They can eat my ass with this cheap grocery narrative.
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I operate on a beans and rice budget; shit like an 6 ounce can of tomato past went from $0.60 to $1.00. Same sorts of price increases go for rice, beans, garbonzos and other canned/dry non perishables. Flour has gone up. Sugar has gone up. Don't even get me started on the price of meat. Produce has gone up, A bulb of garlic cost $1.00 now, and where it used to be 30-50 cents. Green onions $1.50 when they used to be $1.00. Seeing similar price rises in cilantro, fresh corn, cucumbers, potatos, onions. I started making stuff from scratch to save money . . . aaaannnnd it's gone.
Our grocery budget is up at least 50% in the last few months. Food is becoming stupid expensive.
Yeah, my youngest just headed off to college so I was hoping to at least get a break in food prices but nope. My grocery bill for only me is essentially the same as when I also had a starving teenager to fill up
Hope you like corn and soy beans. We grow a ton of that and no other country is buying it from us.
If Trump says the sun's shining, there's probably an eclipse.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. - George Orwell, 1984
I work in a grocery store, I can tell you straight up that the orange bitch is lying.
I shop in grocery stores and have the same knowledge.
It's a banana what can it cost?
Tariffed bananas or bananas made in Pennsylvania by union labor?
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It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
- George Orwell, 1984
do Americans buy it?
Well, they're not buying groceries.
Weird, the child rapist in chief says it's cheaper. Are you calling the orange unregistered paedophile a liar?
He's the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. Traitors are liars by definition.
indeed i am. He's an orange lying piece of shit.
Bold faced, obvious lie.
He might believe it; it's not like he's ever set foot in a grocery store.
Literally yes.
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He’s never stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. Facist old pig.
I’m sure there would’ve been one or two occasions where he may have stepped into a (likely closed) one, in order to survey before demolishing it to build one of his gaudy towers or failed casinos.
He had never even heard the word grockery before 2025
Do we buy it? We can't afford to buy a god damn thing!
I love that this easily quantifiable metric is so split along partisan lines.
Literally everything is. It's insanity. Politically conscious People's opinions in this country now have their entire reality dictated to them by their party of choice.
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partisan lines
Ah, you mean between people who accept objective reality as fact and people who don't.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it's on the Republican's enemy list.
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
These are the people who love the emperor's new clothes.
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We've always been at was with Eastasia.
A year ago I wondered what all the fuss about raising grocery prices was all about this year I know.
The people claiming prices are the same or lower either are lying or their butlers are picking up the groceries.
This dipshit believes anything anyone tells him. And the only people telling him things, are the sycophants he surrounds himself with. Of course he thinks everything he's doing is making everything better. They're all afraid to tell him anything else.
To believe it would be to deny reality. Can someone please tell republicans that you can’t just say thing’s to make it true.
They seem to have gotten away with it so far. They have no reason to stop making up alternate realities until their constituents stop believing them
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I always believe what someone who has never even been inside of a grocery store their entire life has to say about grocery prices!
Bully pulpit power is real. This guy can fart and make his followers thank they did it. There are some serious flaws in human psychology and if you are enough of a dick to want to hack them, you can go far at the exeof others.
So they polled people on subjective opinions instead of looking at the data? Wtf kind of reporting is this?
It's useful in the sense that people vote on what they feel the facts are, not the actual facts. Crime statistics might be trending down, but if there's a ton of crime stories in the news people feel like crime is up. There's similar dynamics at play when it comes to inflation and other economic indicators.
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Quick check of the community forums and you've got at least 50% of people either denying prices are too damn high or they're justifying it with "Buh my Trump!".
Americans can't afford to buy shit, not even the literal kind. That's rather the point.
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Before Trump and COVID, soda was maybe $5.99 for a 12-pack. It's $9.99 now. That's a simple gauge
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war is peace, austerity is properity, up is down.
Americans probably can't even afford his lies.
Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that [groceries] are easier to afford
In what currency, Trump coin?
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He’s a moron who has likely never set foot in a grocery store in his life. He didn’t even think people actually use that word.
But it’s irrelevant. The president has very little control for making prices go down. Too many market forces to contend with. He has quite a bit of control on making them go up with his stupid ideas of tariffs however.
Thank goodness we have a 25 gram increase in our chocolate ration!
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