grocery prices? going way WAY up next month. i had to increase retail on cans of ground coffee beans yesterday. i kid you not, the Maxwell House ones went up $15 entire dollars PER unit. if you got it for $14.99 yesterday, is it literally double that today. it's about to get ugly(er)
Yet according to the FT's intrepid team just embedded in Bethlehem, PA, the local Republicans think everything's great. They only talked to one Dem (who somehow got elected mayor), but the consensus is that any remaining badness is due to Dem elites and their support for illegals and trans people.
Bout to start bulk shopping cause I peeped too. Prices are INSANE. This is not sustainable at all.
i cannot believe my eyes. and things are downsizing all the time! Went from 25 ounces down to 22, but price steady going up. the grift!!!
I was thinking the same thing when I got my groceries on Saturday. $100 for $50 worth of stuff!
The total on the receipt going up but the number of bags going down. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!
I work in grocery, can confirm. And they preach integrity gtfo
Costco’s profits going up, I imagine.
Here in Canada, last month in my area coffee jumped to $21.00 --I wish it was a joke Canada buys a lot of coffee through the US,that's why the price went up.
packaged nuts, cooking oil, that stuff went up several dollars. and LOTS of things went up ten cents. whether incrementally or all at once, they're charging more money for the same (or smaller!) item. i worry.
What an auspicious time for the administration to be sending armed troops into American cities
Trump is getting all that extra money.
The FED is. Even Trump can’t put his hands on the actual cash. He can dictate policy on what to do with it though, which is almost as good when you sit atop a party with all the spine of a jellyfish.
$30 for fucking Maxwell House? Yikes.
Does MAGA THINK THEY ARE STILL WINNING?
They’ll blame Biden.
give it a few more weeks
I doubt even this will make a difference. They were willing to overlook so many other things to vote for him a second term.
True, but this go round will Directly Affect their wallets in ways they never dreamed of, because they've been too damn ignorant of what our government Actually does and how it affects their daily lives. p.s. She Won
The thing is this time it's not going to matter if they wake up, GOP is doing their best to roll up the ladder behind them. How many of them believe Trump when he says we have to get through this part before things get better. I bet at least 35%.
....per my last skeet...this is ridiculous.
Trump never kept his feelings about Tarrifs private. Anyone who voted for Trump voted for Tarrifs.we need to be a little nicer to Brazil.
can confirm. just looked at the price of cafe bustello from jan 9 ($6.88 for a 10oz can) to now $10.42 for the same 10oz! insane
This is why I have 12 pounds of coffee in my pantry! Also have 2 handles of tequila in my liquor cabinet for the greatly anticipated taco party after the greatly anticipated event!!
I have about 3 lbs, I def did not buy enough coffee! I feel like I'm gonna regret that lol
Same. I bought about 10 pounds on liberation day (such a joke) and then forgot to replace a lot of it.
Hahaha I got my 3lbs on liberation day and I've just been holding them in my closet, but opened one recently and already regret it🥲🥲🥲
Gotta drink the coffee!!
Consider putting the coffee, especially already open bags/cans, in the freezer. Freezing keeps it from going stale :)
As a coffee enthusiast, this is disgusting.
Its also a lousy year for coffee plantations in Brazil, where a huge chunk of the world’s coffee is grown. July exports are 21% lower YTD. Also the tariff on Brazilian goods is 40% thanks to Trump, who wants his pal Bolsonaro out of the slammer.
And how does that translate to a cup of coffee at your local convenience store?
I'm guessing the price of a single cup goes up too, to account for their rising costs.
Agree. I'm thinking the price will double. Gosh, I wonder how much Starbucks will cost.....
I wouldn't consider Starbucks a 'local convenience store', so the margins are probably very different. But they are one of the brands I raised prices on, so i expect everybody sees a sharp increase in the coming weeks. 😩
I think the Starbucks price increase will exceed the convenience store price.
sbux will be able to eat some of those costs to remain competitive if they need to. Local small owners cannot
Maybe being unable to afford their coffee will wake up the MAGA maniacs.
Yea right. They fought on egg prices the entire way, now they be like “it’s just a small price to pay for freedom” fucking bullshit.
idk, coffee makes people do crazy things. wars have been fought for less.
There was that one time with the tea and the harbor...
True true.
Yep. Ten years from now it’ll still be Joe Biden’s fault.
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Dems will never leverage this for propaganda. And hence it will be irrelevant.
My company just massively raised ticket prices on our products, which all come from Central and South America, due to tariffs. Most of our clients are conservatives. I love telling them, "We're not eating that cost. YOU ARE." Followed by the most maniacal capitalist laugh I can muster.
We should always celebrate when people get what they voted for
But we are also getting what They voted for. Nothing to celebrate here, when we are all hungry and homeless because we didn't fight this.
Especially when they get it good and hard.
Me every time I send another vendor tariff price increase notice to my MAGA boss I do bookkeeping for. (Florists are fuuuucked - virtually all the flowers are imported from Central and South American countries)
Shouldn't we be rioting by now?
Roll on the Boston Coffee Party...
Dunkin’ Donuts coffee $15 for a smaller bag at my Walmart Neighborhood Market the other day. Yeesh.
I...I don't like this. Have to figure out what I eat that's imported and stock up. Off the top of my head it's coffee, canned tuna, basically anything frozen seafood.
stock up for what??? 3 years??? at the end of trumps reign, if it ever ends, you will find a planet DEVASTATED by environmental crisis that's no bloody place to go expecting cheap food
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Shrinkflation and inflation together are killing me. Tiny packages for a hell of a lot more. When did they have time to shrink everything? I swear we've gone past fun size, straight to doll size
What used to be 6 sausages in a pack is now 4. But the price didn't change at all.
Shrinkflation is a never ending cycle Costs remain to package, ship, sell but for smaller and smaller amounts
I’m in retail and seeing the same thing. It’s terrifying tbh.
Wow! If that's just the effect of tariffs then as they start to hit in earnest people are simply not going to be able to afford to eat. This is what will swing people away from supporting Trump. Simple economics. Unfortunately Trump thinks "groceries" is just a nice word. He's never bought any
Yeah, that'd be us. My family. We haven't been able to afford to stock up.
I sell cell phones. My desk is right across from a cabinet where we keep iPhone accessories. When I first started at this job back in 2023 it was $5.88 for a standard case and $10.88 for a tempered-glass one. I literally WATCHED them increase the price to $6.48 and $11.48, respectively.
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I can hear the magats whining already 🙄
and yet, many of you hashtag Resist types are the ones filling my mentions.
Wait until the masses are starving. They will not go quietly. Nor should we.
The Convicted Felon and Rapist tax on Americans
The CFART, if you will
how much would you say is tarriffs, and how much climate change?
The consumer already knows. The government lies of no inflation does not fool the shopper. We all know things cost more. And we knows tariffs will make everything cost even more. The crash of 2025 is coming... the trump depression is just around the corner.
Correct. Prices have been creeping up since Jan. and now set to explode. I'm curious to see how magats are going to swallow this one. Personally I hope they choke on it.
Here is where it gets really ugly. When inflation is widely expected, corporations tend to take advantage of that mindset and raise prices higher than their costs, increasing profits. So not only are costs rising, we will see more price gouging on top of it.
And I’m finding prices for Canadian goods produced in Canada going up the same as American goods for no other reason than corporate greed. We are trying to keep buying Canadian and some Canadian companies will happily screw us over.
Yup. I'm noticing the same!
It's the same corporate mindset. Loblaws made record profits from the pandemic inflation. No morals, no social responsibility, just maximum profit is all they stand for.
It is very disheartening.
dictatorship? prices going up? essential fundings cut? rights taken away? nothing will shake Americans though. the resistance has been feeble at best. who knew, the citizenry of a country obsessed with superheroes fighting back.
It's extra insulting because America's entire founding ethos is based on REVOLUTION and FREEDOM (while enslaving people mind). As it turns out, the most PATRIOTIC FREEDOM-LOVING AMERICANS are simultaneously fascist thugs AND giant pussies.
But not to worry, the Fed says the price increases are “transitory”. They believe the prices will only go up once. Still waiting for that proportional cost of living raise? Oh, and if the US dollar continues to conspire, prices will continue to rise.
Thanks for the heads up. Will be buying coffee today
Won't SOMEONE here think of the profits if the 0.001%??? This is all good for the oligarchy. And you don't matter at all. Get used to it. MAGA Trump is burning America to the ground.
......reply guys are the worst
Here I saw 45 bucks for a 5lb bag of chocolate. And I'm talking the fun sized kit kat, m&m, snickers type mix. And that's not gas station, that's regular big box retail. It was half that last year
As an artisan chocolatier, I’ve seen the 25lb bags of couverture chocolate I use jump from $200 to $260 in the last two months. I’m sure it’s going to jump again this month.
Drink Kentucky bourbon. Coffee is for cucks. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Dollar Tree has color coded stickers on everything so they know what to charge at the register any given day.
Onions doubled last month
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I have a local dry good store Reny's that marks down things 50% when they reach the sell by dates, I grabbed 5 bags of locally roasted coffee yesterday and some organic granola. I have reduced my grocery bill by 25% over the last 4 months shopping smarter and healthier!
What? We can't produce our own *checks notes* several billion pounds of coffee yearly in *checks notes again* Hawaii and Puerto Rico? Because they *checks notes one last time* can't physically do it without turning entire islands into coffee farms?
Yeah. And good coffee grows between 1000-2000 meters above sea level (idk what that is in imperial). You could produce some of the bargain-bin stuff that gets processed into instant coffee 😊
So let's compare notes. While we may not have the infrastructure for coffee. We do have dairy farms. Why is ice cream being *checks notes* $8 a pint?
That one is easier, dairy/beef prices have been going goofy, external stuff is a part of that goofiness, since screw worm has hit Mexico, and we REALLY want to keep it outside the U.S., so that's a lot of cattle we'd import that we won't. www.farmprogress.com/dairy-cattle...
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So, I'm disinclined to go with that logic as sound as it is. I now use the Covid comparison. Remember when, during covid, prices were down? It's not like they can't. They just don't want to. Living in the US is like living in a perpetual casino; the house ALWAYS wins.
Even if the entire island(s) were suitable for coffee growing it still wouldn’t be enough lol
Even if it was enough it takes at least five years for a coffee tree to bear fruit.
Five years, and then each year you get a hurricane season that threatens to knock the hinges off the joint.
Did some googling- If PR and Hawaii were flat, we used every inch of dirt for coffee trees, had perfect yields and only light roasted to lose the least amount of weight from the resulting beans, we could eek out ~3.8 billion pounds, which would give us a 300 million pound surplus.
See! Trump is a genius! 😂
