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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (8 children)

54% of young Americans are splurging on luxuries such as groceries and need to learn how to cut back of frivolous expenses

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    One meal a day should be enough for everybody.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (29 children)

    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

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    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.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [+] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    Coupons aren't even as effective!

    I snip and cut away, use their stupid apps

    And somehow only manage to save like 3 dollars????!!!

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But I was told that inflation was gone and that the economy is going great?! shocked-pikachu

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    brandon no it's not. Inflation is down actually

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Please heed our call Mr. Kelogg. People are demanding sawdust-enriched cereals.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    It's groceries sweetheart, how much could it cost a week, $350? how-much-could-it-cost

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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....

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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

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    [+] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)
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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It does seem like every time I go to the grocery store these days I'm dropping $60-70 on not very fancy things

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I would have thought housing would have been the highest.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    More than half of people under 30 live with their parents now.

    And I'm not saying that's necessary a bad thing, that's a norm in most parts of the world. But we aren't really socialized that way. People are living at home with parents who harangue them daily about not getting a good enough job and who aren't planning on leaving their home to their children.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    i can't afford the avocado toast at the cafe down the street anymore so now i have to make it at home.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

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    right-arrow cool-zone

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Literally every other day Im spending 40-50 dollars at the grocery store on bullshit. I mean like 18 of that is beer but

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