I genuinely think anyone that complains about inflation with respect to groceries (not talking about input costs for business owners or even high end consumer goods) is just retarded, bad with their money, and refuse to accept the economic class they're in. I live in Canada and I bought from walmart
>1 lb Ground turkey, 2 different 125g packs of salami, 2 500g bags of frozen shrimp
>4L Milk, a block of butter, a swiss cheese wedge, a large container of plain greek yogurt
>2 loaves of bread, a box of crackers
>12 apples, 2lb grapes, 15 mandarin oranges, a cucumber, grape tomatoes (dont feel like checking weight)
>1 jar of raspberry jam
>wet cat food
and it was $130.91, the cat food was $25 so im feeding myself for 2 weeks for $106. Sure i have certain staples like rice on hand but even with iNfLaTiOn i never spend more than $300 a month on food. and this is CAD

I get it, you dont want to cook, you dont want to eat vegetables but for fucks sakes so much decent food is so affordable that to complain about food prices is a slap in the face to your ancestors that survived famines and grain shortages. Buy glass containers, start a recipe book, feed yourself for less than $4 per meal

idk tell me if your experience is different, id love a break down of your grocery bill if youre open to sharing

Tonight's the perfect night for a little excitement. You game? emyzeth

>>936324252 (OP)
$130 for that little food is insane. You are an idiot and are simply too young to remember when shit was 1/3 this expensive.

Everything is over 2x as expensive as it was 20 years ago yet wages have only gone up like 25% since then.

>>936326855
$15 minimum wage in my province -> less than 10 hours of work to feed yourself for 2 weeks

>>936324252 (OP)
clearly you are not responsible for a mortgage, insurance, water, electricity, pay annual taxes, then taxes on property, attempt to have a savings account, pay for incidentals like appliance replacement, fix an automobile, or routinely pay for gas..

BECAUSE IDIOT PRESIDENTS THAT MISMANAGE THE ECONOMY (LIKE JOE BIDEN, OR GIVE FREE HOTEL ROOMS/CELLPHONE/MEDICARE/MEDICAIDE TO ILLEGAL ALIENS THAT I PAY FOR, ARE FUCKING INCOMPETENT MORONS...

You are hallucinating for thinking that's a fair price for that food

>>936324252 (OP)
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>>936327684
no mortgage, i dont pay utilities or property taxes. my situation is pretty lucky because I have roommates but I do pay rent, i have paid 1/5th of a washer and dryer, i am constantly fixing my shitboxes, and i spend more on gas than food a month. you americans think gas expensive, buy it here. 6 months ago it was 1.76 PER LITER.

Motherfucker every president mismanages the economy because the people that vote are retarded. Biden was retarded, trump is retarded, im retarded, youre retarded, (because im a canacuck) trudeau was retarded, poliviere is retarded, and carney is retarded. the fact of the matter is that the government does not invest in affordable housing to increase supply and public transit to foster economic activity and get workers to their jobs. the real problem though is that every one of us wants to live in a single family home so thats largely what developers want to build. consumers are the problem. they eat out, they want the best of the best healthcare and housing and personal transportation and food. they consume more than they should.

>>936327836
see attached, tell me what is overpriced

>>936327334
>I'm not starving to death
>Therefore everything is fine
>Who cares if I can never buy a property or a new car with these wages
>Who cares if boomers could afford a new house, new car, and support a family of 5 on a single income at a job that didn't require a college degree and retire with comfy savings

>>936324252 (OP)
Inflaion only occurs in failing countries. If the gov managed things everything should say equal. What most fail to understand is, if you break things down by working hrs. A house used to be 5-10 yrs of your salary now its 400 yrs. 5/hr for a 50k house vs 7.50/hr for a 400k house that needs repairs

>>936327836
look i know you think youre getting a steal and properly feeding yourself when you get a family sized box of eggos for $12 and a variety of $1 lunch meats but a) how many calories do you think my groceries comes to? you can very easily feed yourself over 2 weeks with the foods that i bought and a few staples i have on hand; and b) with the exception of the cat food and the grapes, everything is very fair priced when you consider it is CAD

>>936329298
bitch not starving was the highlight of many prior generations' existence. this is the best of times in that you can not own property, not have shiny things, but you still get to comfortably feed yourself and subsist. YOU ARE A SLAVE, WE ARE SLAVES. we are the slave class that have fought over thousands of years to get just these conditions, some semblance of a legal environment that protects our property from tyranny and crime so that we may have a slim chance of achieving an upper middle class existence. im not saying it couldnt be better, im not saying it couldnt be more fair, but capitalism, industrialization, and modernity as a whole has brought us so much abundance that less than a quarter of my weekly labour goes towards food. youre mad you dont get to own the house your parents or your grandparents owned, that you dont get to buy a new car. these are luxuries. think about how many cars already exist, why buy a new one when you can make use of the existing supply, our resources and productive forces can go towards something more pressing than making another RAM 1500. everybody acts like renting is shameful and apartments are shameful so then developers build single family homes because thats what the market is after and then we've used the most amount of land to house the least amount of people and all of the people who just want their own independent housing but cant afford the current rental market are left behind. we are the problem because our expectations are too high, drive a shitbox, rent a shitbox, eat cheap, thats where we were placed in life

>>936329720
i wont deny that the cost of a single family home is outrageous. supply and demand. when the cost is lower, too many poor (or poorer) people think they can maintain a house but then cant afford it, think they can rent it and make a profit but then mismanage the enterprise, or whatever other retardation they get into, but they'll sign the papers on the spot just to become housepoor because the white person dream is to own a single family home. thats your castle. so the market has to price these people out because allocating these assets to them is inefficient and wasteful. furthermore, single family homes are an inefficient use of space (as much as i do love them) so there will never be a sufficient supply for an arbitrarily large population, which further drives the price up. if we built substantially more and if the majority of poor people understood the risk in home ownership and were by and large averse to that risk, prices would go down and only a few ambitious brokies would venture to buy a single family home. Unfortunately the cultural, governmental, and economic landscape exists as it does but this dream is not sustainable just in a economic sense, putting aside environmental concerns

Let's chat and see where things go... I don't disappoint. emyzeth