I wonder, could it be because prices of everything except gasoline have jumped 60% in the past 2-3 years for no real reason?
An easier way to say it is:
When you’re half dead and need to be fed: liquid bread!
I’ve seen some alcohol go up a fair bit… a bog Jim Beam pint used to be $9 around Denver and now is $11-14 at many places, and a lousy half pint of Vidal Sassoon or whatever (oh, Paul Masson) went from $4 to $6. Depends on the state and the store though I guess.
Beer has definitely gone up in price. Grain prices have gone up a lot since the start of the Ukraine war. Was just talking to some brewer friends about their grain bills for beer and cost per keg at my local taproom.
Whiskey has just been going up in price for the past decade. I did just pick up a handle of Beam for the holidays and I doing remember it being that crazy expensive at Argonaut
This still boggles my mind. My Old Spice pomade jumped from $4-$5 for 2.6 oz container to $10 for a 2.4 oz container and I’m supposed to go about my day thinking this is how things should be right now? Granted it’s somewhat of a luxury item and there are various other products that are similar or even worse that are more of a necessity, but it proves my point in how much products have jumped in price for no fucking reason other than greed.
It’s because of avocado toast according to boomers (definitely not because of wealth inequality and the top 200 net worth individuals owning 30% of all American wealth and squeezing the living shit out of the middle class)
Only a year? Look at mister fancy pants paying off his credit cards.
lol
Hey look, an article about me
Doesn’t help that even great credit scores give cards that have a rate of 17%+. That’s insane. It shouldn’t be a surprise since the CC companies want us in debt so they make money. I mean, duh.
