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People are pretty ignorant of costs. One of my coworkers bitches about this, but uses instacart for alot of shopping and buys dopey shit like pre-cut carrots.
by Spooky23 3y ago
People are pretty ignorant of costs. One of my coworkers bitches about this, but uses instacart for alot of shopping and buys dopey shit like pre-cut carrots.
The pandemic taught retailers that they can increase margins and people are too lazy to shop. I bought a container of strawberries for about half the cost of the local supermarket chain at Aldi. Beef is about 30% less at warehouse clubs.
Those price differences are just margin, and people tag on more with delivery services, and blame the economy for their own stupidity.
- kortilla 3y agoIt doesn’t matter why the price went up if it’s going up on average. Inflation is inflation no matter the source of the price.
- Spooky23 3y agoIf you choose a $10 commodity vs an equivalent $5 commodity, that’s not inflation. If you pay someone to fetch and deliver a commodity, that’s not commodity inflation.
- kortilla 3y agoIf all of the grocery stores collude to raise the price of milk, that’s inflation. It doesn’t matter if it was because of input costs or a desire to expand margins. The popularity of Instacart has not grown enough to account for inflation. That’s just grasping at straws to blame people and bury your head in the sand. I never use delivery services and my grocery prices have gone up 50%. There is more money chasing fewer goods. It’s simple supply and demand. Only idiots get hung up arguing if middlemen are to blame for price increases. If supply was adequate, it wouldn’t be possible for grocery stores to raise prices.