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So there's a place I'd go to that used to sell these real big chicken sandos and at some point they raised the price like a buck or 2. Inflation happened and it's like what to them would be a kids meal portion size and for other places would be the normal. Price hasn't gone down. Flavor is still good. 🤷♂️
In my mind a large "smos", as is the ubiquitous sandwich variety here, is 2,70.
They're now up to 5 or 6, depending on place, plus shrinkflation reduced it to a third of a baguette instead of half.
Nonsense!
Yea, we often discuss at work how expensive they've become.
But $11 in the US is insane, and that's probably not counting tips they're also expecting nowadays
It used to be like $5
In my small little town, the local shyster opened up a deli on main street just before the start of covid. The least expensive sandwich on the menu was a $14 grilled cheese sandwich. Next step up were the $16 - $18 burgers. At the time, there was nothing in town to attract people to come here to eat, and those prices pretty much excluded the vast majority of the locals from being able to afford to eat there regularly. Anyway, my family and I went one time, just to give it a chance since we like to support local business as much as we can. Needless to say we weren't surprised when the place close down within the year.
So, I'm thinking that completely randomly chosen number probably doesn't specifically hold up universally everywhere.
Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate
We're going to have to put the Arrested Development banana meme out to pasture soon.
We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.
I didn't know there was an xkcd for this. Nice! Thanks for sharing.
There is an xkcd for everything!
I expected to pay $5 for a good sandwich in 1995 and with inflation $11 sounds about right.
Double checked and yup: https://www.calculateme.com/inflation/5.00-dollars/from-1995/to-now
The main problem is that since wages haven't kept up the proportional value to the paycheck doesn't follow inflation which is why it isn't actually as simple as just looking at inflation.
I believe you mean "eleven dollars dollars".
You mean “dollars eleven dollars”.
Me. I think it's outrageous 😳
I mean, if you're going out to sit down restaurant and getting a good sandwich, I don't think that's unacceptable at all. That said, my local sub shop has amazing subs for $6-8
There’s a really popular sandwich shop in my hometown. It regularly has a line out the door. I just checked their prices and it’s 10.75 for most options so I’d say this is spot on.
This is probably perfectly true if you live near Mike ginn and eat at the same shops he does. I paid $13.50 for a chicken sandwich today and it was pretty crap.
2 - 8€ range contains bangers
2-4€ at the butcher's
5-8€ at the bakery
Different style, all delicious