• AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can rarely find a pound of ground beef for under $9 now unless buying in massive bulk. Even produce has gotten insanely expensive in the last few years. Sometimes the raw ingredients are so expensive it’s cheaper to buy the processed shit… Idk how anyone less fortunate can stay sane in the grocery store. Buying raw ingredients and cooking isn’t a cheat code to save money.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know where you are but a one pound package of 90% lean ground beef at my supermarket (Kroger) in Denver is $4.97

      Same store, Gardein® Ultimate Plant-Based Burger Patties, package of 2 (8oz total) is $4.99

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        1 year ago

        I’m in the SF bay area. Like I get that it’s high cost of living and high wages, but even so doesn’t justify such a huge price difference. I guess just some pretty crazy price gouging

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          The people that work in your grocery store need to afford to live in your high cost of living area, too. That means the stores have to pay them more which means they have to charge more. The same goes for the drivers that deliver the groceries to the store, the people that work in the warehouses of the suppliers, etc. It’s higher cost of living all the way down.

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            1 year ago

            The same store was doing fine on half the price of groceries three years ago. How can the poor mega corporation grocery store ever survive? Doesn’t anyone ever think about the poor stock? And no, wages haven’t doubled since then

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          You aren’t looking hard enough. California has decent prices on lots of food because the farm is only hours away. There’s no $9 ground beef unless you get it from the farmer’s market. Also, just go to Berkeley Bowl.

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            I go to Berkely Bowl for niche ingredients I can’t find anywhere else, and the produce is often cheaper and better quality, but meat seems roughly the same and everything else in the store has at least a $1 markup. Also I’m not going to sit in an hour of traffic after work just to maybe save a buck on meat while immediately offsetting that saving in the gas it took to get there. It’s not always as easy as “just go to Berkely Bowl bro”.

            Prices have objectively increased in the last three years that can’t be attributed to COL increases or inflation. The only thing left is profit.