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The cost of a 2 bedroom apartment has doubled over the last decade. Groceries are up 50% and I have found that the food I buy is spoiling way before the best by date, as if stores are not properly handling their merchandise due to cut regulations.
Despite getting small yearly raises my spending power has not increased at all.
Things also may be spoiling faster due to grocery stores chronically understaffing too save money (read: 🤑 📈).
A lot more spoilage happens when employees don't have time to properly sort and manage inventory.
I was in the store about 30 minutes and these had been out prior to me getting there, and were still out when I left. Never saw an employee interact with the pile. I squeezed the Tillamook ice cream container on the corner and it was significantly melted. Kind of hoping this was for disposal and not sale.
Crap is also friggin shrinking too. A bunch of packages of things I buy are now a little bit smaller than they were like 5-10 years ago.
Triple whammy: prices up, sizes down, quality down
Shrinkflation
cheapflation as well.
I got a box of ice cream pops a few weeks ago.
It had three in the box.
I could swear I've bought the exact same kind before and it had four. Not only did the shrinkflation annoy me, but 3? Something about that rubs me the wrong way, but I can't quite articulate it. It just seems like a very weird number to pick. Right? Am I alone in thinking this?
Having a prime number in the box makes fights more likely since it isnt divisible. If you are sharing, somebody is going to miss out.
I make about $800 more a month now than I did two years ago and I have way less money on hand today. This administration stole my raise from me and will continue to do so :(
I have found that the food I buy is spoiling way before the best by date
I've been noticing this too. Bags of potatoes are going soft after only a few days of purchase.
Interesting, I’m spending less on groceries and more on alcohol.
xactly.
Only just now?
The top 10% of the US account for at least half of consumer spending; this just shows that spending is slowing even for the well-off folks.
It's the next wealth tier up from up to now, I think.
And Children, entertainment, travel, housing, Healthcare.... We are cutting back on every fucking thing
"Why aren't people reproducing anymore!"
Even when large segments of the population straight-up tell politicians in simple and direct language, they willfully ignore what people are saying.
they know but the narrative needs to be maintained
for now
If it makes you feel better, you made a few pedos really really rich.
I was told that if I voted for Harris there would be inflation and high gas prices, the government would be filled with pedophiles and sexual predators, and there would be war in the Middle East (WWIII even), and it would be the demise of America’s standing in the world.
So, I’m sorry. Because I voted for Harris anyways.
My bad.
Oh wow. I cut back on groceries, ride shares and alcohol during the first Trump presidency too. Suffering does come in cycles.
IMHO America has way more Inflation than the Offical Figures.
Because the Official Inflation is matemathically related to the Official GDP (which is the Real GDP, calculated from the Nominal - in USD - GDP by deflating it using the Inflation rate, so more inflation means less GDP), it's a Politically Important number, complex to determine, with a lot of room for rigging (just change the composition of the "basket" used to calculate it, plus there's a big difference between including or not Housing costs), generally considered good if small and gets less focus than GDP (GDP Growth is widelly paraded by ruling politicians as a measure of their success, Inflation much less so), so I suspect the political pressure to make Official Inflation figures small is HUGE.
As far as I can tell that official figure has been heavilly rigged for quite a while (though I expect that in Trump's America it's worse), hence why the blue collar worker salary which could pay for a house, a car and a family of 5 back in the 60s and which according to Inflation has around the same real value as a blue collar worker salary nowadays, can't pay for anywhere close to that anymore.
(By the way, this is not just a problem in America - you can see the same in Europe - it's just that judging by the growth in housing costs, food prices and salaries in certain areas, America seems to have had way more inflation since 2008 than Europe).
but cheaper groceries is the only part of trumps platform that so many braindead folks cared about. how could they ever possibly get more expensive /s
Why are they cutting back on rideshares?
I would have expected the opposite, more riding together and reducing single person only rides.
Instead of Uber, they are taking the bus.
OK, ridesharing doesn't mean sharing rides but calling privately owned quasi-taxis.
Then it makes sense!
Thanks for the explanation!
Yes. In English (at least in the US), a bunch of friends (or coworkers, or whatever) taking one vehicle is called carpooling.
the bus
The OG rideshare
I assume it means cutting back on rideshare as a mode of transport. Not sharing the ride with another passenger, but the concept of rideshare as a way for people to share their private car, as a work vehicle.
It means uber and lyft
So rideshare means not sharing rides, but using your car to do stuff for your employer?
But wouldn't he at least reimburse you for the costs?
I believe these companies (Uber, Lyft, etc.) coined the term 'rideshare' primarily to skirt the taxi laws.
You see, they aren't technically running an unlicensed taxi business - no, no, no. When you use their app to say 'hey, I wish to go to the icecream shop on third', it lets all the other people with the app (and a car) know. If any of them happen to also be going to the icecream shop on third, they can let you know and the two of you can connect to share a ride there - isn't that nice!
These are in no way unlicensed taxis... That would be highly illegal and totally unfair to other taxi businesses that have to spend ungodly amounts of money to license their vehicles. It's just you and a stranger sharing a ride to go get some icecream...
Yes, it very much is the perversion of earlier coordinated communities that probably defined (and still earned) the name.
Here in Germany still exist "Mitfahrzentralen" which roughly translates to ride-share-centres, which allow people to offer ride-along places for specific private rides (e.g. driving from Munich to Berlin on Friday afternoon), for a share of the costs for the ride.
Yes, if your employer is uber. You’re not an employee. You’re sharing your asset. Like Airbnb is sharing your home.
Thanks, already learned from another commenter that ridesharing is apparently the term for the business model like Uber.
Confusing term.
I think the thing l was thinking of is actually named ''car pooling".
Snowflakes.
Have you thought about dow jones? Just bear some pain now so ~~you~~ billionaires can be ~~rich~~ gods in the future.
At this rate they really will start eating the cats and dogs.
I once read that not being able to make enough money to buy food is when a revolutionary happens. It's the final straw that people can no longer ignore. It has to happen on a national level.
I cut out almost everything last year. No streaming, I use Tubi for free. Cut Spotify, using Radio Garden to listen to music for free. Deleted my Amazon account, including Kindle Unlimited. I read a lot so that one was harder to ditch, but now use the library for free. Cut out almost all spending except for groceries, but no junk food, alcohol (I miss beer 😞 but $12 for a six-pack is too much) or soda. I miss that stuff but I'm old enough I grew up without online subscriptions and I can live without all that. No unneeded driving, I save my errands up and do them all in one go. It kinda sucks, not going to lie. But I can't afford to live and still let myself get nickle-and-dimed to death.
And they're cutting back on alcohol because now they can distill their own.
I'm lucky that I have supportive parents otherwise I'd be struggling to survive right now
So much winning....
I find the alcohol part hard to believe.
I quit alcohol during the 2016 election.
It was either a huge mistake or it saved my life. Probably both.