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Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries
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Is it really ‘pulling back’ when consumers are priced out of those things?
Who is buying anything at this point, I mean seriously? The only thing my wife and I buy now is food, and we hunt, literally hunt for the lowest possible prices on any item before we buy anything. These people who spend 1000 dollars on a concert or 500 dollars for running shoes actually blow my mind.
I thought you literally hunt meant you and your wife are out there with rifles taking down a deer. Or somebody else’s chicken
It's sort of not a bad idea but it's also not a good idea. At least I got a neighbor who has chickens and she gives me eggs
Prices are just getting that bad.
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The people who spend a thousand on concert tickets or five hundred on shoes will be complaining about their credit card debt on Facebook next month.
It took me a while to get it through my head why people who I knew were making less than I do had significantly nicer stuff. The difference is that I own what I have. They don't.
I'm fortunate that after many years of struggle and single parenthood that I'm finally in a place with a comfortable income and free of debt except a small mortgage. Nonetheless, give or take a couple of cheap flights to go see friends a couple times a year, I still live like I'm struggling. That shit will burn into your mind if you suffer through it long enough.
Caveat: In spite of what I just wrote, I still have to work until I collapse and die at my desk. It's a pretty great future for me presently in my fifties. Only another thirty or forty years to go before I can afford to stop working entirely. Save your money when you're young if at all possible, kids.
Middle class sucks. Doing well now but I know it will take so little for it all to go to hell. Glad things are getting slightly better for you.
My wife and I are extremely fortunate in that we have a family friend rent situation that is way below market rent and both have decent income & no kids (yet). We enjoy a bit of light travel and go to 5-6 concerts a year and maybe one music festival. Outside of that we are fairly frugal. Don't eat out often, do most of our shopping at Aldi etc. That being said, we don't feel particularly well-off. And if we had a mortgage (minimum in our area with a 20 percent down payment) would be around $2k a month and a car payment, things would be pretty tight. I don't know how people are getting by at this point.. especially new families buying their first home and starting to have kids..
That's the neat part. They don't! (start families or buy houses)
Or not. Because they could just be well off.
I’m still buying things, but only because I plan for it (with the exception of taking advantage of a very short term deal with smile direct club to straighten my teeth for $1000 this week, which I had savings that could cover it). Just a few years ago I was quite comfortable and able to buy luxury items on a fairly regular basis. Today I’m working a second job to make ends meet.
People who have recession-proof employment that is who is buying stuff.