• @bokherif
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    212 days ago

    Let’s forget corn and look at other groceries. Where I live, half a gallon milk is $5, a loaf of bread is $6.5, potatoes are $3 a pound, dozen eggs are $6 and so on. Grocery prices only rose about 200% in the past 4-5 years. I used to get loads of food for $100, now everytime I do a grocery run I pay at least $70-80.

    • Vaggumon
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      712 days ago

      That is based fully on where you live. I just got home from the grocery store.

      1 Gal Whole Milk: $2.69 1 Dozen Large Free Roaming Chicken Eggs: $2.89 2.5 lbs 80/20 Ground Beef: $7.86 5lb bag Russet Potatoes: $2.56 5lb bag Satsumas: $7.85 1 Loaf Whole Grain Bread: $3.12

      But at the same time, I did see that a 12 pack of Pepsi was $9, 1/2 gal Tropicana Orange Juice $5.50. I didn’t get these things, but they were more then they used to be by a significant margin.

    • socsa
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      412 days ago

      This is selective. A dozen eggs at Aldi near me is $3.50. There is no loaf of bread in the store which is $6.50. According to my grocery log I have kept over the past ten years, process are up about 20% since 2020.

    • @frostysauce
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      212 days ago

      Are you buying, like, Fairlife milk, Ezekiel bread, and the most organic, freest rangiest eggs on the shelf?

      • @bokherif
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        112 days ago

        Believe it or not these are the most basic ass things you can buy in a grocery store in NoVA.

        • @frostysauce
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          011 days ago

          Oh, the most expensive things on the market are representative of the country as a whole… 🙄

          • @bokherif
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            211 days ago

            I mean I wrote about basic necessities. Not sure what you’re smoking, but you can’t deny everything got a lot more expensive.