Americans are ‘hunkering down’ and buying less food as inflation bites, one grocery giant says—instead they’re raiding their freezers
Americans are ‘hunkering down’ and buying less food as inflation bites, one grocery giant says—instead they’re raiding their freezers
Instead they're raiding their freezers and pantries.
Consumers have long been warned they were going to be pushed to the “point of pain” in order to curtail their spending. It seems like we’ve finally reached it.
TL;DR - "our price gouging is starving people to death."
Not to death, at least not in the USA.
We gotta keep the slaves alive so they can continue serving us.
People in US seldom outright starving but they are surely severely malnutritioned even if they not short on money....
Right, nobody in the US is dying of outright starvation. We're dying of obesity, malnutrition and cancer from the literal garbage our food supply is made of. In the end we're unhealthy and sick and it's because of our food supply, and if something doesn't change we will start seeing actual starvation.
Yeah, this isn't an inflation problem, it's a corporate greed problem. Prices have doubled for a lot of this stuff, sure, but quantities have halved, plus the little bit that's left is packed with awful tasting fillers. Money aside, why would anyone keep buying smaller packages of worse tasting junk food?
Yes, and I truly don't think they are accounting for shrinkflation (which has been ongoing for about 8 years now) when they calculate food inflation. The amount of money they put into engineering deceptive packaging alone must be insane.
And on top of it all, the fillers are literally trash. A lot of what Americans eat is outlawed in the EU, Canada, etc. In addition to poverty that's fueling obesity, cancer, etc. It's crazy that we keep allowing this but some rich people need to be richer so I guess it's fine, eh
I was at a grocery store the other day and boxes of cereal there were going for $7+.
For cereal. Not even fancy stuff. Like, Cpt. Crunch type cereal. Of course people aren’t buying that.
Now, that’s not every store in town. But still. Even the other stores are pushing basic cereals up to $5+. It’s madness.
Here in the USA, I switched to Aldi for breakfast cereal years ago. Its still just under $2 per box for the store brand with no shrinkflation to reach that low price.
It is. My local Krogers had a display of RAOs spaghetti sauce on “Sale” for $8 a jar. Don’t shop there any more.
...inflation is bad across the shelf, but rao's has always been $9+ a jar here in texas - well, for at least the past fifteen years since i first noticed its absurdly-high price...
To be fair, RAOs is a premium brand, and was always expensive... Now it's just stupid expensive.
I pick up stuff in the store all the time and look at the price and shake my head and put it back. There are so many things that just aren't worth it anymore.
Like, any snack food at all. Don't know why they thought bumping up the price on junk, impulse food was going to hold for long. They were easily the first thing I stopped buying.
Addictive foods => addicts => guaranteed market
The box of snack size chip bags are $11 at Walmart near me, nope I'll pass
Yeah, a regular (new regular after shrinkflation) bag of chips is $5 now. No thanks.
Inflation doesn't exist, the banks need another bailout, student loan forgiveness is a bad idea, and let the poors eat cake.
-every economist
Indoor gardening, 3d printed hydroponics, homemade meals, potlucks. Let's rebuild the community that these suits destroyed.
I think people suffering are not in that position. It is up to people who able to create these networks so we can take care of less privileged with out having to check in with Daddy Sam and his corporate owners.
Giving SNAP to people to spend at walmart is a clown system but that where we are at.
Decentralize economy will take a generation to implement, minimum.
Don’t know about anyone else but I no longer shop at regular supermarkets for most of my food. It’s mostly Aldi and home prepared meals for us now. We are pretty well off financially but I refuse to pay outrageous amounts for big brand products any longer. I’d rather save the money and use it on a nice family vacation.
I've been an Aldi shopper for maybe 6 years and I remember being able to fill my cart for $60-70. Post-covid, I'm paying double that. They're still comparatively cheaper for a number of things, but the price increases have hit everything, unfortunately.
Aldi’s decision to change all of the lanes to self checkouts at the stores around me has really turned me off. I thought they would be one of the last bastions against self checkouts. The workers there were well paid and happy. I don’t really know where to shop for groceries with a conscience anymore.
I agree. I make it a point to only use the attended checkout when I go.
I swear Adli is making me sick, they don't make normal water bottles as their ingredients for it is not normal. They even have the "materials added for taste". No water bottle say that. Cereal really is coming in to be unhealthy, as I soon as I eat one box within a few days, my body won't accept anymore. There is the meat that you buy in box, I hate those things. I know it won't protect the meat, the whole thing is blocking cool air into the meat. There was never a reason to put them in the box, waste of plastic.
After like slowly getting away from Aldi, I just knew it has to be it. Only Aldi foods makes me sick, not Walmart, Target or Winn Dixie.
I'm down 50lbs so far, but that's about the only good thing to come out of this.
I'm depressed and lethargic, but I finally reached my goal weight after 20 years of living well. yay, I guess.
You mean we stopped buying crap junk and focused on nutritious real food? Good! Screw big agra and big food and they fake wheat, corn, soy frankenfood!