https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/business/grocery-prices-august/index.html
Recently, Applebee's and IHOP have reported an uptick in higher-income customers, who may be trading down from more expensive restaurants. And Tyson (TSN) has noticed higher demand for chicken as shoppers buy fewer pricey steaks.
I was pretty sure "Steak Culture" was thing way before "Epic Bacon" was.
In the broad sense yes, in the specific sense no. Tons of people lately have got really “into” steaks as a consumerist hobby
"When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for my revolver" amirite?
no COLA for us this year. thinking of talking union to my coworkers
Soda prices went through the roof in the last few months, luckily this doesn't affect me.
I have several older comments, I have no idea why they've been 1984'd.
Yeah pretty wild. Off sale, a 12-pack is $9. I swear they used to be $6.
I had no idea what the fuck COLA was until you said this and realizing it's a yearly thing = cost of living adjustment
yea i'm smart
Lol I got 3% and told I couldn't get a promotion because I don't make enough money so the jump would be too much.
"We don't pay you enough to consider giving you a promotion."
wtf kind of logic is that?
The kind that's made up by my boss to keep me from getting promoted lol.
Been extremely lucky with my line of work. General trend along all the regionals
In a way the loosening of the West's grip on the world has made it more equal. Macron says a lot of dumb shit but he was right in saying the age of abundance for the West is coming to a close.
For Europeans, the age of abundance might have been warm showers and air conditioning
I'll gladly be humbled if it means watching our billionaire overlords burn down alongside us.
If it doesn't mean that then FUCK THIS.
middle and upper middle class westerners consume way too much compared to the rest of the world, it's not just the super rich.
I still live in a poor region of a poor country. I also lived in a poor part of the US for a while. The difference in abundance was night and day compared to what I was used to. So much food would be consumed and then thrown out, access to water that we still don't even have, and reliable electricity that isn't so much the case here. It's true that they lack a proper social life and other benefits of an enriched life because of cost of living and how car-centric the country is. I just think sometimes Europeans and Americans underestimate how much higher their standard of living is. The poor I saw in America still had drinking water and didn't have craters in their flesh from bugs eating out of it. Being poor in the poor parts of the developed world is awful and can mentally break someone, but being poor in a poor part of the global south is the stuff of nightmares. I live it every day and I still can't get over some of the stuff I've seen.
sounds nice. what country was that?
I am so tired of neoliberal hell. I just want to enjoy my life while I'm still young and healthy :yes-honey-left:
I farm vegetables for a living. I have not been able to raise my prices by anything close to this, but the cost of inputs has gone up greatly (~30% in some cases).
:yea:
That % increase in my area was mostly by raising the loss leader items by stupid amounts
How is this not bigger news? Suddenly gas is below $3.50/gal and it’s all good? Wtf
