I have been buying Walmart French bread for about 5 months for things like French bread pizza and garlic bread for BBQs. It was always $1.00. Today it was $1.47. Not a deal breaker, but, hey, that's a 47% increase since Donnie took office. Is that included in the inflation numbers? Walmart, why a 47% not say a 25%? Just asking.
Posted by HuckleberryMiddle533
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Depends which numbers you look at. One item that I found was certain coffee bags were staying around the same price (still slightly higher) but instead of 12 oz, it was now 10 oz bags. A bag of $1 spinach doubled. It has been interesting how the cheaper items jumped up but bigger items stair stepped or have shrunk volume in the packaging.
Average bread price has been going down starting in 2024:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000702111
Welllll….. it’s kinda like this. Tariff, then the tariff handling fee(AKA Gouging) because they can.
Trump has really fkd up this one up. Its gonna put his 3 casino failures to shame as we have only just begun to see the effects of his actions.
I get those for our Friday night sail get together and make garlic bread. Same price jump here.
As long as people keep paying the higher prices, they will continue to increase. Why not raise prices if people like you absorb 47% price hikes. Hahahahahahaha
Here’s the part people don’t understand. Tariffs are multiplicative/compounding as they impact the supply chain. Steel goes up…every transportation sector cost goes up, fuel refining, refrigeration, etc. Then heavy minerals/electronic components get the tariff increases from manufacturing and delivery systems going up plus the minerals, and those are in every piece of the supply and manufacturing chain.
It’s the reason tariffs are done to provide slight protective measures for targeted domestic goods vs. broadly and at high unpredictable levels to seem like a “tough guy” instead of a sniveling weakling of a man that’s never done a days work in his life.
Noticed the same with their bagged garden salad. Was$1.69 in January, now its $2.49. I still like salad but seems excessive over 6 months.
Walmart has announced that prices are rising so fast they’re going to be doing weekly reviews.
If you google you’ll find the price has fluctuated between 1$ and up to $1.47 over the past 8 years. Ai says it’s temporary.
We all know inflation is up , we all know consumer can’t afford things , we all know grocery prices are going up insanely , we know if you loose your job it’s hard to get another job.. how in the world people are still spending , restaurants are pack , amusement parks are full , stock market isn’t coming down , prices of services isn’t coming down.. or are we selected people just keep shouting and others have lot of money to spend .. what I am missing here .. are people able to save anything ? Or they just keep spending and no saving .. I am kinda lost here
Walmart talking shit to Trump through their french bread is just savage
Their cost didn’t increase by 47%, they just want more money. (Tariffs make things more expensive but not 47%)
Who knows in this particular case, but with inflation there’s second order effects, metal tariffs affect the cost of parts for machinery energy costs, transportation costs, insurance costs, maybe people asking foe raises to cover costs, some “greedflation” on top of that all those things propagate until a new equilibrium is reach.
WM announced earlier this week that they expect prices to increase EVERY week through the rest of the year.
🤷🏻♂️ This is what happens when, as a country, we voted for a pedo criminal to lead the country. We all deserve this.
Sorry. Dont expect that payola check anytime soon.
Walmart sold radioactive shrimp recently. I don’t think I can shop there anymore.
I remember Florida natural orange juice being 4 to 4.50 back Nov 2024. Now that shits 9.00 bucks and I live in Florida