54% of young Americans are splurging on luxuries such as groceries and need to learn how to cut back of frivolous expenses
But also, please do not stop buying frivolous items or else the entire economy will collapse.
One meal a day should be enough for everybody.
It’s not being broke, it’s intermittent fasting!
You only need one ration of Soylent to be a happy and productive associate of your loving company!
Anything more than that is wasted money and time you can better use to invest in yourself!
You joke but I’m already only eating 2 meals in a day
you and 39% of Americans apparently https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alarming-39-americans-skipped-meals-120000123.html
Millennials are killing the being alive industry
It’s only their biggest issue because they’ve all already had to move back in with their parents.
I go to the grocery store and tomatoes will be randomly $7? And next week it’s something else. It’s like a rolling brownout for the economy.
I heard a great point recently about how the Soviet Union was just willing to accept shortages and not try to obfuscate them. The current model of distribution will not permit shortages to be obvious, so the failures of the supply chain will just take the form of things randomly being obscenely expensive
The way we stock our grocery stores with the expectation that a third of the food will just go to waste is unbelievably unsustainable, but it’s a hell of a marketing gimmick. Feasts and cornucopias and all of that used to be special because they were rare - but in America we show you that image over and over until it becomes your expectation, and not surprisingly Americans wind up consuming way more than other cultures do as a result.
People need to stop expecting every fruit and vegetable to be available fresh year round. I shouldn’t be able to get fresh berries in the middle of winter.
Fresh fish too is such a killer. I’m sorry, but do not buy seafood if you live in the Midwestern United States, especially anything live or fresh. Frozen is slightly better, but even then think of what goes in to making that happen.
The Midwest has the great lakes. Too bad we killed a lot of the stuff in there.
Local is always going to be the best option, so it is a shame we absolutely devastated local environments to ship food halfway across the world
All of the seafood in the Midwest has been frozen and thawed back out at the grocery store. Fresh fish in the Midwest and even near the coast is a lie. 85% of all us fish consumed is imported, and it was frozen before it ever got into US territory. Many fishing boats freeze them on ship, even. The only way you can chance upon “fresh” fish is if it’s in season and near the coast you’re buying in.
its fresher flash frozen anyway.
What the fuck is the deal with butter too btw? That shit used to be a dollar per pound. Now it’s 6-8 dollars on any given week AND cows are starting to catch the fucking bird flu.
Historically, food insecurity has been the revolutionary straw that breaks regimes’ backs, even in the most repressive regimes. Wall Street is playing with fire here. We all know about the “peace, land, and bread” slogan, and you can be damn sure that it was the “bread” part that most caught the attention of the peasants.
As Lenin put it, every society is three meals away from chaos.
That’s the thing about Rome’s bread and circuses - they worked for like a thousand years.
No peace, no land and soon no bread
It’s becoming more and more real to me that just about everyone is one bad paycheck away from poverty. It sucks so much.
I have an incredible deal on rent in NYC and shop very conservatively for food. Why do I have to pay almost 30K a year, not counting any other living expenses, to just eat the bare minimum food and sleep in the bare minimum accommodations? If you gave this info to somebody living in the Soviet Union they wouldn’t even believe you because it sounds like such unbelievable bullshit that it surely would have to be propaganda.
Coupons aren’t even as effective!
I snip and cut away, use their stupid apps
And somehow only manage to save like 3 dollars!!!
For me the issue is that coupons are often for brand name items and the coupon rarely makes it more cost effective than buying store brand.
There are coupons for store brand items too- Which I use as well
Though store brand items tend to already have a reduce prices anyways.
Why pay 6.79 for a box of 8 pack quaker oats instant oatmeal when the store brand has instant oatmeal with the same number of packs for ~4.50
Additionally, many times the store brand is manufactured by the name brand anyway.
I would just get the steel cut oats in the tub. They’re better for you than the instant shit and on a per serving basis are usually cheaper.
My grocery stores used COVID-19 as an excuse to permanently remove their bulk bins. The closest store to me that still has them is a 90 minute ride on public transit, with two very timing-precise bus transfers. And I still need to walk about a mile on top of it.
I think you misunderstood me, I’m talking about the like tubular tubs of generic oatmeal that’s in the oatmeal aisle at the store. It’s pretty much the same as in every store I’ve ever been in America. It’s not a special bulk bin item that I’m aware of.
Oh, they don’t sell those here anymore, either. Or at least, they’ve transitioned exclusively to only stocking premium brands that are gluten free organic carbon neutral oats that the farmer read poetry to, for twice the price.
This is an example of what I’m talking about https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-100-Whole-Grain-Old-Fashioned-Oats-42-oz/10314925
Pretty sure it is some STEMlord’s job to ensure the coupons and couponing apps are designed with precise calculation in order to not benefit the consumer in the long run but only appear that way.
Don’t stone me but we have a decent amount of disposable income and the prices have sort of made me move away from coupons and circulars anyway. If chicken breast is 6.99 / lb. and fucking wild Alaskan king salmon is 9.99 / lb. I might as well just get salmon. When we hit Weimar inflation the extra money in my account isn’t going to help me and I’ll be grateful for the Omega-3s when I need to brawl in the streets for bread.
But I was told that inflation was gone and that the economy is going great?!
Inflation may be lowered but no one ever said anything about bringing prices back downThat’s the thing. Deflation never happened and wages were never adjusted, so the impact of inflation just stayed and is still slowly increasing
Inflation only affects the rise in prices, once the price goes up it never goes back down.
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no it’s not. Inflation is down actuallyThank goodness the rate at which calories get more expensive has gone down. Surely a reduction in how fast things get expensive means that we can now afford them despite their prices not getting lower.
you could maybe afford food again in 5 years when high prices get offset by wage growth. Thank me later
Don’t worry, the global extreme poverty line is still stuck at a realistic-grounded-in-reality $1-2/day according to very serious people doing economic “science”, so if you’re above that you’re good actually.
It’s groceries sweetheart, how much could it cost a week, $350?
My favorite thing about this dystopian nightmare we all exist in is that during the height of the pandemic, food costs basically tripled over night FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON.
started going to a certain discount eurogrocery store in the city and basically cut my bills in half. and i work at a grocery store (not that one)
shoutout to the “so over this shit” twink that haphazardly throws my food into a cart. i get it, i really do
It’s not a true eurogrocery store if the twink throws it into the cart for you. True eurogrocery stores expect you to operate at the speed of their cashiers to pack your shit away
it’s a separate cart that you swap yours for and you have to take it to a station to bag it yourself. i think it’s just for efficiency
the thing that everyone absolutely must have to live on a daily basis is a huge concern for those people now that the price of it is increasing rapidly?
news at 11
It does seem like every time I go to the grocery store these days I’m dropping $60-70 on not very fancy things
I swear to god asparagus didn’t feel like an “oof…” purchase like 5 years ago.
asparagus has always been a luxury item. you must be the ELITE!
I’ve had to downgrade to the store brand hayfever tablets that leave an incredibly bad taste in my mouth.
I did a double take at the store this week when I realized bell peppers were three goddamn dollars each. Not even organic or at an upscale grocery store or anything, just regular old peppers that I’m pretty sure I was buying for less than half that less than two years ago
ummm i am very surprised the majority are not saying HOUSING COSTS.
But that’s probably because a lot of people are just having to keep living at home with their parents forever. which i guess leaves food costs…
Or they have 6 roommates in a 2 bedroom.
