This is going to have an asterisk because I’m in a fairly remote area on vacation. Like, in the Upper Peninsula, not a lot of grocery competition.

But we went to get some food for the week at this grocery store today, and I was staggered by the prices, many of which were crazy out of step with what I’d pay in my home state at a random Walmart or similar chain. The smallest Lucky Charms was over $6; the largest was on sale for $4 and change but only if you had the store loyalty card. If you use the store loyalty card it doesn’t auto-discount anything, you have to use the credit card reader to scroll the available coupons and try to pick the ones relevant to your cart.

Normal sized Starbucks whole bean bag was $17. Extra big one was like $27. Of course I bought neither.

Twizzlers in the big bag was two for $8. Fuck off lol.

They extrude corn syrup and artificial flavoring for pennies and will do anything to increase or maintain profit margins as people can less and less afford luxuries like sweet treats with 0 nutritional value. They’re going to price us all into diets with their inflexibility and greed.

But I did :'(

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