"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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Literally burst out laughing at the sight of a bottle of maple syrup for $18 at Whole Foods Market.
aug 30, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
But they will still claim that there is no inflation and the media will not question it.
aug 30, 2025, 12:32 am • 25 0 • view
It's also good to remember, a little bit of inflation is good.
aug 30, 2025, 1:14 am • 1 0 • view
Stating the obvious, and asking rhetorically…
aug 30, 2025, 12:34 am • 9 0 • view
Winter includes the Christmas time. Do people buy groceries during the Christmas time?
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 3 0 • view
Please God let it hit. Man does not live by bread alone. Let vengeance be our sustenance.
aug 29, 2025, 11:04 pm • 11 0 • view
Whaaaaat.
aug 29, 2025, 11:11 pm • 9 0 • view
Thanks a lot Biden
aug 30, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
Excuse me, but grocery stores have already jacked their prices up. They were not waiting for tariffs. Corporate greed, strikes again.
aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 7 1 • view
The bread lines cometh.
aug 29, 2025, 11:01 pm • 7 0 • view
I understand your sentiment, but don't think it's realistic to think the government will be giving any sort of handouts. More likely they'll hope we just die off.
aug 30, 2025, 1:02 am • 21 0 • view
Glad I stocked up on non perishables after the election.
aug 30, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
Glad I have a box freezer in my garage and a Costco membership for perishables
aug 30, 2025, 12:51 am • 5 0 • view
A small price to pay for the ethnic purges GOP voters want.
aug 30, 2025, 12:49 am • 13 0 • view
I am inclined to believe this but I also believed the hype in the spring from "shipping experts" that turned out to be false.
aug 29, 2025, 11:02 pm • 10 0 • view
The shipping woes are hitting now. De minimus exemption is gone.
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 am • 20 1 • view
again, i am inclined to believe you, but the news in march was "by mid-may, we will be feeling it" and "no one will be able to afford back-to-school essentials" and that just didn't turn out to be true. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/e...
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
What happened to all the “blank shipments” and supposed empty containers sitting in the port of Los Angeles? It’s counterintuitive as hell to think that wouldn’t have had any impact on the economy and yet that’s what happened.
aug 30, 2025, 12:37 pm • 3 0 • view
When tariffs were announced in early April, I was reading that we'd start feeling it by late May to mid June. Then we were told corps were eating the tariffs, inventory pre-tariff build up would delay impact, etc. Now "produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year" Next year?!?
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 am • 2 0 • view
Antiques trade and arts trade will be nearly wiped out.
aug 30, 2025, 1:30 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly this. A huge fail by most of bluesky that still nobody has reckoned with.
aug 30, 2025, 12:35 pm • 1 0 • view
They have hit many stores already. I imagine they will use that as an excuse to keep pumping them skyward.
aug 30, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
😡
aug 30, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
God, I hope not. What a disaster it would be for everyone. Another example of how this regime is lowering the standard of living.
aug 30, 2025, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
I’m sorry, but they’ve already hit my town
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
I’d love to know what ice cream shops are actually paying people $18/hr because that seems so blatantly out of touch with the reality of most people employed in the US
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
I live very close to that farm, near Tampa. I didn't believe it either, so I went to look up ice cream jobs on Indeed. Sure enough... www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5...
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
That’s one example 😮💨 most food service starts at $12 if you’re lucky and even that is on the high side.
aug 30, 2025, 1:12 am • 2 0 • view
Just based on the first page of results, $16 an hour isn't a stretch. www.indeed.com/q-ice-cream-...
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
In Florida, yes. I’m talking about a national average and the fact that a majority of the country is not offering these rates.
aug 30, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
I mean, in California we are which is incidentally where we need a huge chunk of the agricultural workers.
aug 30, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
Do you also think people are actually paying immigrant workers $16/hr? Because I’ve seen the payroll of AZ businesses (also huge chunk of agricultural workers) and have always had immigrant coworkers in the restaurant industry who are paid less than US citizen employees —
aug 30, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
these writers from big cities or blue states don’t really grasp the reality of the industry by insinuating in the beginning that it’s really so easy to find an ice cream job that pays $16/hr and that these workers make anything close to a living wage
aug 30, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
I guess I don't really understand your point. Who are "these workers"? Are you saying that, because Americans can't find $18/hour jobs, actually, they *will* take agricultural jobs that pay that? Expect you're also saying ag jobs also don't even pay that? I'm confused
aug 30, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
Referencing this part here just stating it’s not the actual reality for a *majority* of US workers (as a whole, US born or not) and that both those numbers are far higher than even the national average (closer to $7-12)
aug 30, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
I mean, as a Californian, I DO think those numbers are realistic for CA; our min wage is $16.50. CA is highly relevant to this discussion as our immigrants are being terrorized & fields left unharvested The point is that Americans aren't going to do this work for $30/hr, much less $18/hr
aug 30, 2025, 4:20 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, maybe I'm wrong and we'll see a flood of Iowans or Nebraskans or whoever who will happily fill the gaps, but I doubt it, even if they're only making $12/hr at a ice cream shop in Sioux City
aug 30, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
Excuse my error: fast food workers in CA are paid $20/hr min wage www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum...
aug 30, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
This is a lot of work just to come sideways at someone simply trying to provide better context of the average worker, as someone who was raised by a Latina working class mother and family affected by SB1070 in my childhood, and having worked in the food industry for over a decade.
aug 30, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
That's the minimum wage for Seattle. So that listing does not reflect much, no offense to you. Here's my source: www.seattle.gov/laborstandar... Odds are Robertson or the author of the article is as out of the loop as so many others, assuming places would even pay that much if not made to.
aug 30, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you ❤️
aug 30, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
Appreciate you sharing this article. I still have family members that are all in for trump. Eventually enough of his lies will be exposed beyond the Fox filter and they will join the rebellion.
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 1 • view
Wall Street until the actual moment the price increases happen:
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 am • 57 2 • view
💯
aug 30, 2025, 1:00 am • 6 0 • view
Demand for eggs will probably be down (as eating them is starting to kill people).
aug 30, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
WAIT THESE PRICES AREN'T THE INCREASED PRICES????
aug 30, 2025, 12:33 am • 100 3 • view
Ffs
aug 30, 2025, 1:11 am • 1 0 • view
Another way to hurt the poor.
aug 30, 2025, 1:32 am • 4 0 • view
OP is out of touch with reality if they think anything is cheap. Face the wall
aug 30, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean the OP are a bunch of labor economists and agriculture experts lol
aug 30, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
My groceries have doubled in price in the last 3 years none of this shit is funny at all
aug 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
who said it was
aug 30, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Hence the troops in the cities.
aug 30, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 1 • view
shits fucked
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 4 0 • view
Good god. Have you been gro shopping lately? The prices are sky-high. If they double, we'll actually have people dying of hunger. Yes, people will have no choice but to turn to processed food, as fresh foods will be out of reach for many. And trump kicked so many off Food Stamps.
aug 30, 2025, 2:08 am • 13 3 • view
I do in fact buy food
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 am • 6 0 • view
Dornbusch’s Law “The crisis takes much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought”
aug 30, 2025, 12:29 pm • 7 0 • view
The prices now are NOT the increased prices❓Grocery shopping this week was $90, I didn't but any meat/sea food/wine/beer (I don't drink) just normal shopping, fresh produce & household items. I live alone & buy pet food from Chewy so the $90 was just for me, a huge increase, it's nuts😘
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 7 0 • view
Scurvy:
aug 30, 2025, 2:42 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
Tariffs and diminishing harvests due to clima... I mean, radical woke trans leftists will do their thing, yes.
aug 30, 2025, 9:47 am • 1 0 • view
I just put in a grocery order and noticed prices are already rising, and this was *Walmart*.
aug 29, 2025, 11:13 pm • 25 1 • view
Thanks! Very interesting! Any Signals already in Producer price inflation and wholesale prices?
aug 30, 2025, 6:41 am • 0 0 • view
They are already here, and about to get worse, is what I hear you saying.
aug 30, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
They are already rising significantly!
aug 29, 2025, 11:36 pm • 16 1 • view
My Yasso bars just went from $5.99to $6.99 overnight 4 bars in a box! Going to buy at target $5.39 No more shopping at Albertsons for dessert
aug 30, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
My yogurt just went from $3.19 a jar to $4.29. (The French yogurt is amazing and it’s a snack in lieu of ice cream.) The Pepperidge Farm cookies I buy for my mom went from $3.99 to $4.59. Both of these prices changed last week…
aug 30, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Protesters are gonna have to get a mortgages before they can throw sandwiches at a cop. But interest rates are still high. It's a historic moment.
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 4 1 • view
Isn't that what they call "stagflation" - a combination of high interest rates and high inflation? It's happening in russia right now, and it looks like Krasnov will inflict it on USA as well
aug 30, 2025, 8:02 am • 3 1 • view
Well it must have turned winter 2 months ago
aug 30, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet these consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” Raymond Robertson, a labor economist at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government who has advised U.S. agencies on trade and labor policy, told Fortune.
aug 30, 2025, 1:34 am • 1 0 • view
Wut
aug 30, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Raymond Robertson isn't the only one who knows about the coming tsunami. There's a bunch of U.S. farmers who've known since early last winter.
aug 30, 2025, 1:48 am • 5 1 • view
Running off the available labor and imposing tariffs are the cause.
aug 29, 2025, 11:46 pm • 56 5 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
"You would have to pay American citizens “$25 to $30 an hour” to get them in the fields, Robertson said, an unfeasible cost for most agricultural producers." Or maybe $250 to $300 an hour.
aug 30, 2025, 1:42 am • 9 0 • view
And they will need to hire 3X as many workers to get the same poundage of vegetables per hour as when the Mexicans or Guatemalans are doing it.
aug 30, 2025, 1:52 am • 14 0 • view
All the idiots bitching about inflation last year. Where are they now? Why are the media dead quiet about the rampant inflation this year?
aug 30, 2025, 1:37 am • 49 3 • view
It seems most of the country has pivoted to caring mostly about crime and immigration, shattering the old paradigm of politics.
aug 30, 2025, 12:34 pm • 3 0 • view
I passed acres and acres of unpicked and rotted crops in Northern California last night. I think they were sunflowers.
aug 30, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 1 • view
I guess whoever wrote this is not a coffee drinker
aug 30, 2025, 12:10 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve begun aggressively freezing/pickling/dehydrating/canning everything I can get my hands on. This is gonna SUCK.
aug 30, 2025, 1:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Current price is already quite high? I see people complaining all the time.
aug 30, 2025, 1:12 am • 63 5 • view
It is higher! Even at Costco, which is my barometer for being in the shit
aug 30, 2025, 1:24 am • 6 0 • view
Yeah my Costco bill was up by at least 30% this time. Haven’t been in a few months and I about choked.
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 am • 5 0 • view
I don't buy much processed foods Vegetables and fruit are up a little. Expecting them to go up a lot more. I like tomatoes. Coffee is up $4. ☹️
aug 30, 2025, 1:23 am • 15 0 • view
The big bag of coffee beans was 20$ at my grocery store yesterday. I agree on fruit and veg, but the quality has gone down
aug 30, 2025, 2:20 am • 9 0 • view
coffee at least is going up globally
aug 30, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, just like those people who blamed Biden for everything, all I know is that the guy up top is not making it better
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
I bought enough coffee for the next 2 years
aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Same, although I did buy it before the tariffs because my seasonal fav was on clearance. My freezer is packed with coffee beans.
aug 30, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Meats are up at least 20%
aug 30, 2025, 9:53 am • 1 0 • view
I stocked up on coffee a few months ago in anticipation of this.
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
Lentils & water.
aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Tough to MAHA when you can't afford fresh produce. But, somehow, this will be Biden's fault. PT Barnum doesn't care about produce anyway since he never eats it.
aug 30, 2025, 1:41 am • 13 0 • view
At this point, this is the only thing that may wake some of his supporters up.
aug 30, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Well, my groceries are a lot higher. I’m avoiding a lot foods, even snacks, I’d normally get. And meats? Forgetttteh bouttttit.
aug 30, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view
And they thought they were voting to reduce the price of eggs . . .
aug 30, 2025, 1:36 pm • 3 0 • view
We won't even get government cheese from this administration.
aug 30, 2025, 1:18 pm • 4 0 • view