Imagine how the families that weren’t making it or just barely making it before the pandemic. A lot of people don’t even have the option to just start paying 50% more for groceries. Their only option is to buy 50% less groceries.
@@WemplesTemple depends on if you’re comparing it to current day prices, or if you’re comparing it to the amount of groceries they were able to buy before.
Or start shoplifting. I'm already considering it. I'm homeless and drowning in debt, and EBT food stamp benefits are about to be cut. I need to survive somehow.
Why aren't you discussing the BILLIONS paid out to shareholders during this time. Record profits have been reported. It's not supply chain issues, it's CORPORATE GREED!!!!
Yeah, the food companies have already been shrinking their packaging and products, and the ingredients feel cheaper, not the same quality as they were a couple of years ago
@ari banana has been "bioengineered" for almost 500 years. I will be more worried if it says it has undergone radioactive engineering for better pest resistance.
Yep, I’m spending less than before all this. I cut off lots of items, chocolate, cheeses, turkey breast, even baguette. I’m mostly eating fish with cheapest veggies I can find. I will stick to my food budget no matter what.
The problem is people can’t just not eat. Everybody needs groceries and they know it. Realistically if you can find a close out grocery store near you go to the closeout grocery store because they are buying perfectly good products at a reduced rate and reselling a much cheaper and so the company is losing out on those retail profits on those items. If there isn’t a discount grocery store near you try to find someplace like Price Rite or Aldie that is one of the less expensive supermarkets that relies more on in-house brands anyway we can reduce the amount of profits they’re making will send a message.
It would be a lot easier to lower prices, if we didn’t get all our food from about six different corporations. Literally out of 100,000 items in a Walmart store. Between six and eight companies supply all of that. So there’s a major monopoly on groceries. And if there was more competition they would lower their prices. Just saying
Also at fault is real estate urbanization, in other countries have small stores on basic needs walking distances. These small stores compete with big stores and make food cheaper and more job growth for local farmers.
@@tioswift3676 unfortunately , the sheeple are not taking multiple factors into account such as inflation, natural disasters, ect when it comes to the cost of groceries.
The pandemic gave them record profits...now they want huge increases every quarter. Kroger employee here whom didn't get paid for almost 6 weeks during the holidays. In a class action law suit . Plain and simple it's greed .
I’ve reduced my grocery spending quite a bit. I’m not going to play their games. If stores want to charge more, I don’t have to purchase it! They’re definitely getting less from my wallet.
You're a genius. I'm going to start doing this too... I simply don't need things like Kombucha or ice cream. I can make my own everything and I will. I refuse for the 1 percent to keep taking from my already low income. Even stocks, they're so committed to destroying the 99 percent. They are scared of us and until we realize that WE control this country they will continue to F us over!
What have you eliminated? For is a necessity so do you feel you were previously buying unnecessary items (cookies, soda, ice cream etc.) and if so, is that what you’ve cut back on? Or have you switched brands? Stores?
@@ascent8487 I have cut back on snacks like chips, cereals, and some name brand items. I buy store brand items more now. I only buy items I need when they go on sale like name brand items. I use store cards with digital coupons that save me at checkout. At my local Albertsons the other day I clipped digital coupons for items I wanted and they also had $5 off the purchase of $5 or more & $1 off any produce department purchase ($6 savings just clipping those two digital coupons). Stick to your shopping list. Shop the sales and stock up. 👍🏻
@@shellw.4983 Also, when available make use of local farmers market and give the money directly to the farmers and actually get food that hasn't spent 3months in cold storage...
I hit grocery outlet get a lot things 1/4 the price then overpriced grocery stores!! I have money but refuse spend silly prices on items. I will also hit Costco every month for q few items about 50 percent price grocery stores.
I’m in my early 40s and have never noticed inflation at this rate. I’ve seen a lot of news stories and articles about how grocery inflation has been at 10-12% over the past year or two, but my grocery bill is literally 50-60% higher than two years ago (and that’s WITH me paying way closer attention to sales and moving to store brands) 👴🏻
Along with that, groups of companies got together to agree to sell their goods at the same price, lower quality, and less quantity lol We are being outright robbed.
I’m a Farmer in the South… 2020 fertilizer prices/ton $500 Current fertilizer prices /ton $1,100 I had also to increase hourly salary wage on all my workers. Diesel was over $5 for a good chunk of 2022, and I use thousands of gallons a year for operating tractors, trucks, and equipment used for irrigation. Seeds, supplies, parts, materials, plants etc all had at least. 30-50 percent increase. Every service I need such as repairs, has also gone up. Expenses are draining us all out…. I’m sorry but I’m going to continue charging high prices until prices go back down. We need to eat 3x a day everyday and a lot of times we are working 20+ hours a day 7 days a week either alot of financial strain to provide food for the world…. So please buy directly from farmers or local markets. National grocery outlets like Walmart, Publix, etc are part of the problem as they are marking up foods so high and farmers are continuing to get low pay and low wholesale prices in return from them. So please I beg buy local, or from a local regional grocery chain!!! They actually support farmers and serve better quailty.
We are being price gouged, plain and simple. Every company is jumping on the boat because they can. That doesn't even account for shrinkflation. We have stopped buying a lot of things that we used to. Eventually stores will stop carrying certain items that don't sell and manufacturers will discontinue those items. I don't know how people who were already struggling are making it right now.
Caught Shoprite using potentially harmful practices regarding these three meats: family packs of older (beige & yellowed) chicken cutlets or breasts mixed in with fresher meat. Ground beef has old meat inside an outer layer of fresh or pink-slimed meat. Sirloin steaks are pink-slimed on the outside and dark on inside. And, they use dim or odd colored lighting in their stores which make the meat look more healthy. When you get the meat outdoors, beef looks brownish and chicken looks an unappetizing pale yellow-beige.
They drive the prices way up so then they can bring the prices down but not all the way back down so people feel a little relieved and don't notice that the prices are still much higher than they used to be.
And this is why theft is higher than ever. It’s sad. I saw a lady stealing in Walmart & I didn’t care. It wasn’t my business & she obviously couldn’t afford food for her & children. But I absolutely hate how the pandemic is still being used as an excuse for everything 3 years later
That’s because they put that order in a year in advance and gets delivered a month before that holiday and they put it out 2 weeks before the holidays to make sure that when it’s gone it’s gone 💁🏽♀️💁🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I think there was a shortage of New Years stuff this year, I went to Walmart and Publix (Central FL) the day before New Years and didn’t see any 2023 NY items.
@@bugloverspiderlover8490 If you mean 'gifts' or other products New Years is very low of the list compared to Christmas, New Years or Valentine's that is true. What New Years is infamous known for as the worst holiday of the year (from various stats I seen from google)for buying alcohol i.e wine, beer than any other holiday. Super Bowl Sunday is only other "holiday' that comes close to New Years for alcohol purchases and thus more DWI situations.
During the spring of 2022 Colgate, CEO Noel Wallace, basically said they were going to raise the prices on their products because they could & consumers would still buy the products!
Both my mom and grandmother were gardeners. I’ve been saying for a decade that we need to get back to basics and learn how to grow our own food. In that time I’ve taught myself how to grow organic vegetables and herbs. Buy a fruit tree that you know will succeed in your part of the country. Make sure it’s self pollinating. I’ve also learned how to make sourdough bread, can, make soap, etc. Unfortunately, we can no longer count on our government to take care of anything.
What stinks is because my SSI went up about $100, my food stamps went from $56 to $23 a month, my rental assistance and other help went down. All together, the help other than SSI went down over $150... I'm grateful for the help, but the government has some strange math thinking this SSI increase helps.
@@debbieframpton3857, you're wasting your time with that one. I come across "people" like them all the time. They never seem to realize at any moment.. any moment it could be them.
As long as there are women, consumers will buy luxuries. Men buy luxuries for women, and women buy luxuries for themselves. It's the way they're wired. I deliver parcels so I know this to be true.
PEOPLE...UNLESS YOU ARE A RESTAURANT OWNER OR MANUFACTURER WHERE YOU MUST USE EGGS...STOP BUYING THEM!!!!!! As the "sell by" dates arrive, stores CANNOT sell the product. The product then becomes trashed. Stores will not re-stock items that are not selling. The egg barons will then stop the gauging and the prices will have to drop dramatically. This coming from someone who LOVES his egg breakfasts...I've found awesome breakfast alternatives. Just saying ;-)
Keep in mind, the suppliers' suppliers aren't lowering their prices. Nor are THEIR suppliers. Nor are utilities, transportation providers, warehousing providers, service providers, and other vendors that manufacturers and distributors need to operate. Most companies have also increased wages significantly to retain employees, who are often hard to come by. Every component in every segment of the supply chain is part of the price issue, it didn't just start at the food manufacturers.
Yea we understand that, but things jumping 80 percent in 10 months ( not talking about eggs)... something is wrong with that picture. This is not all..energy and paying people more. We aren't dumb. Not for those kind of price hikes.
@@2332Stephen It's not just energy and paying people more. You're way oversimplifying it. It's the cost of materials - resin, glue, corrugate boxes, plastic. Ingredients - everything from every raw ingredient we souce, including spices, salt, sugar, meats, vegetables, flour, milk, eggs, and so forth. Components like cans and plastic bottles. Maintenance service and parts. Supplies like bracing materials and pallets. Our pallet vendor increased prices by >50%, and they cited increased lumber, fuel, labor, and transportatioon costs. Transportation is a lot more - there are driver shortages, fuel increses, and incresased demand against a smaller pool of providers. If you want stuff moved, you have to pay the premium for that to be able to source carriers. Every component of the supply chain has gotten more expensive. Now, are there people reaping huge rewards from the situation and exploiting it? Of course. But the whole chain is a giant, interactive, enmeshed array of hundreds of thousands of component parts that all interplay and interact to create the cost issue, with complex and intricate interaction among thousands of companies. It's not as simple as it might look.
@@MrStv1163 and who decides the cost of the material needs to jump 40 percent? When in reality I bet most of the materials still cost the same to produce from a year ago. I'm not saying prices don't fluctuate but funny how the prices don't go down as much as they go up. It's a sham. They blame it on the energy. The war in Ukraine, the diesel. Well the diesel has leveled off and come down since the war started and yet some prices on products jumped 40 to 100 percent and im notbtalking about eggs and bird flu. This is all productsacross the board. What are they blaming it on?. It's a bunch of bull. The prices don't come down with the energy prices. Oh no they just squeeze as much as they can out of fear and manipulation.
@@2332Stephen I'm just telling you the reality of what my company is dealing with, with our vendors. I work for a large food manufacturer. We're dealing with massive price increases from suppliers and vendors across the board.
Food prices are outrageous and really unaffordable for a lot of families…so what does the government do??? They put an end to the emergency food stamp allotments. 🤦🏻♀️
Stop shopping people. Eat beans and rice and greens. Let the greedy demons keep their foods on the shelves rotting. Boycott the stores. Let the cars sit.
I’m one person and buying groceries for only me and I used to be able to get my weeks worth for maybe 30 or 40 dollars and now it’s nearly $80 just for me!!!!😢it’s ridiculous! WHY?!!!
I`m one person, too, It averages to about $60, down in south Texas. I thank God I have a job and collect social security and have gotten cost of living increase $$ on both. Amen...oh, yea...Why? because of...Romans 1:18-32
We live in a culture of write-offs and waste. Buildings sit empty while homelessness is rampant, food is thrown out rather than sold at fair prices etc.
As a single person, there are a lot of meals cheaper for me to purchase at a restaurant. By the time I buy all those expensive ingredients, I could have just bought it already cooked. It depends on what it is.
People can also grow some of their own veggies and fruits on a small plot of yard, windowsill or balcony. If one neighbor grows tomatoes and another peppers, they could trade excess with each other. There is no reason to be held hostage by greedy CEOs.
I’m one of those people that can’t keep a succulent alive so I don’t know about that and a small little garden isn’t going to supply a year’s worth of fruits and vegetables for a family even if you traded a neighbor for her peppers or whatever
We’re definitely going to have to go back to a barter system if they don’t drop these prices. I started growing last year. This year will be my first spring/summer garden and I won’t be looking back.
As a owner operator trucker with my own MC#. We are feeling it too. Cheap rates to move freight. Trucking industry is getting ripped off too. Distributors are getting greedy with us too.
Yes! Big yogurt containers and almond milk are 1/2 of name brand grocery stores. And in the aldi finds section you find good things like a steering wheel cover I paid $2.00 for compared to the $20+ they wanted at Wal-mart. Spaghetti pasta sauces are just over a dollar , medium avocados under dollar, good ice cream treats on sale etc
As a walmart night stocker, grocery freight has not decreased by much within the last few months, we're still working as hard as we did during the holidays, general merchandise items were never really an issue during the holidays, other than figuring out where to store all the stuff that wasn't selling. Prices are high and people are still buying.
Exxon/Mobil just posted their highest profits in their HISTORY for the last quarter. Everything we buy has to travel by ship, truck or train so all those profits add to these high prices.
the more these people say inflation, the more license everyone has to overcharge and "get theirs". Just say, "because they can" when you want to say why prices are higher because at the end of the day, it is someone's choice to raise the prices. This is regional. I just bought rump roast on sale for 3.99 a pound and drumstick and thighs for 1.49 a pound and JC Potter sausage for 3.69 (on sale). when it's on sale buy two. you need to learn to shop not just go out and purchase/buy.
I got into preparedness/ long term food storage 10 years ago due to an accident that put me in a wheelchair for a year and wiped out my savings. I am in a much better situation now because of living this lifestyle. I keep a years worth of food in my house at all times. It allows me to just shop sales and stock up on items when cost are at their lowest. I strongly suggest everyone start doing this- Just buy one sale item in bulk each paycheck that your family routinely eats.
I grocery shop with the sales. If one store has a sale on meat , I'll buy the meat there an maybe onother store has canned goods on sale I'll go there. It does take a little more time but it helps save money. I have also NOT been buying from Walmart. Their prices are so high now that they are no cheaper than other stores. Don't just assume because it's Walmart that you are saving money.
But then you’re running gas ⛽️ out running from store to store 🤔🤔🤔!!!! Boy you really showed them by cashing In fuel points from the groceries that you just bought 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
And don’t forget that the stores know this that’s why one week one store will have milk cheap then at another store they’ll have butter 🧈 high but on sale a couple of cents less than store one 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
It’s fine. My family is so sick of this, our friends with land are going to start a large garden with us. We will be canning, pickling, and our other friends raise a few cattle each year. So screw the commercialized system of grocery shopping… Over it. Self reliance seems to be the way to go. Can’t imagine our troubles with China & Russia will improve things.
Then stop doing sneaky things like same size packaging less content. Or upping the prices taking advantage of the current situation stating high prices in other areas, where there are none.
No... We need to hold these companies accountable for their bs. Plus bills to help with this stuff gets blocked by republicans, getting rid of them ( vote out) would actually help us.
When high priced things don’t sell, they give them to food pantries. They get full price on the donation, making it better for them financially than marking them down and letting everyone else get a break.
It also depends what supermarkets you go to. I've been looking at the supermarket circulars to see what's on sale also. That's what I have been doing and writing down the necessary things I really need. Whole foods are kind of pricey.
Single mom with a son: Once a week, mid week, I make a trip to 2 local grocery stores. I'll find meats, poulty and such on "clearance". They clearance these items before the weekend. Nothing wrong with the items only that they are near their "freeze by" date. Discounted up to 75%! This is how I try to offset those items that are higher prices. I've cut down to 1 meal a day, atleast for now.
I have gone to the mattresses when paying for food. I've completely adjusted my food intake accordingly. Many products I used to purchase are off the table now. The products I do buy are the cheapest brands available and only when on sale. My weekly menu is extremely simplified. I don't appreciate being gouged just to make a very few people filthy rich and I do everything possible to minimize it.
2023? It started after covid - at first it made sense - now it is just price gauging. I am sick of hearing about supply/chain issues, gas prices, inflation. It hasn't mattered where I live where I go - county market, meijer, schnucks, walmart, etc. Sick of also paying "service fees". In the last year, even ordering out food has changed dramatically.
Inflation has just started. The next 5 years will be miserable. Interest rates has been near 0% for the past 14 years and trillions of dollars were printed. It will be a miserable next 5 years 😞
Top ramen Chili used to be 25 cents to 50 cents per little packet of noodles. Now it is $1.42 per little picket. Absolutely ZERO stores are ordering because of this barbaric price increase
@@jodysams7915 Why would Biden do it? He wants to win another election. Making prices go higher would not be a good strategy. I'm guessing the Republicans have a hand in it.
Eat raw oats. When I was poor, I ate raw oats right out of the bag and it constituted about 3/4 of my food intake. I also ate canned sardines and tuna fish a lot, and bananas because they were cheap, and I was as healthy as a horse.
Don’t buy , don’t play their game. Buy directly from farmers/source or buy only the basics. This will make them lose money and be forced to bring down rates
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I would bet each other on what the grocery bill would be and whoever lost had to buy dinner. Now we can't guess as easily because the prices keep going all over the place.
We have to eat -- period. We don't need to eat filet mignon, steak, prime rib, lobster, or shrimp. We don't need to buy junk food for our kids. Make healthy meals for your kids no matter what it costs for organic vegetables, organic fruit, lean meat like chicken or lean ground beef or lean ground turkey or fish like haddock, cod, tilapia, or salmon. Don't buy your steak, chicken or fish at Whole Foods where it's very expensive. Trader Joe's has good deals on vegetables, fruit and potatoes. But healthy snacks for your kids like sliced apples or carrots. Making healthy cookies for your kids is more affordable than buying cookies.
Surprisingly, I pay for less for groceries than I did back in 2019 and 2020 plus I’ve been buying more. I don’t typically go for name brands except for Soy sauce. They’ve been having great deals on non-name brand items at stores around me. Many cooperations have been price gouging but luckily not all. Buying fish has helped reduced my grocery bill as well.
@@ladizon4354 To me either Maggi Seasoning or La Bo De. La Bo De is cheaper. Maggi seasoning has to be the German or French one as the Chinese one isn’t as good. The bottle will have German or French wording aside from English.
People are forgetting about the price of diesel that is needed to fill for the semis and people that are higher in the company don’t care about shoppers
Price of diesel has leveled off or decreased slightly since the start of the Ukraine war and yet the prices of products haven't come down..let's not be silly...they blamed it on the war..yadda yadda yadda..
Packages are smaller and cost MORE! I def have been pimping out every bit of my yard into garden space. I am lucky to live in a warm climate where I can garden nearly all year.
I cannot emphatically enough encourage people who are reading this and frustrated about their grocery prices to please learn to grow food. Almost anywhere you live you can grow something to help offset these costs even slightly. I've had successful apartment patio gardens with minimal sun. Lettuce is so easy to grow. There are micro-tomato varieties (One I *love* called Orange Hat tomatoes) that can be grown in a small pot on a windowsill and produce quite a bit of little tomatoes. You don't need a lot to get started, but it is so rewarding and any little dent in the grocery bill helps. See if you can find a community garden in your area, or if you have a friend or relative with better growing conditions, maybe you can work something out with them. You can grow a surprising amount of food in an 8x4 raised garden bed! Please consider growing organically as it is much better for the soil, but even if you grow conventionally you can eat and spend less money.
@@zip376021 I work at Walmart and used to buy everything from there. Now i have stopped buying from there completely. People need to shop elsewhere, like Aldi's, ShopRite, Costco, Sams Club, Red Lion, Stop & Shop, Acme. Many of these stores are VERY expensive but they do have at times amazing sales if you plan. JUST DO IT, plan your visits.
