Did you see Trump waving Tic Tacs around? Lol. (Look it up if not...)
Last night I got Sashimi with a sushi order and it was through the roof expensive.
Made me think about real inflation and what is just bonkers expensive since the money printing of say, pre pandemic until now.
What's the funnest CPI?
- Eggs (this is the 🐐)
- Sashimi
- "Nice" toothpaste, not the regular kind
- Parking tolls
- Pokémon Card pack
- Bagged ice from the corner store
- Library late fees (kidding, my local library still charges 10 cents per day)
- Politician hush money fees? Lol.
What do you got?
Doordash fees.
Austin's public libraries have stopped charging late fees:
I wish they cited their sources but it's certainly plausible.
I've heard the same thing from other library systems, too. It felt counter-intuitive at first, but I could definitely see it being true!
Wait... I just envisioned a beautiful system.
Imagine if libraries worked off of V4V incentives.
Every citizen wishing to use the library pays up some Sats. If they return books on time - balance stays the same. If late, sats begin to be donated at a split to the library/other citizen library users with books out on loan. If return early... your balance is now owing some sats to you - which you can then choose to donate or hodl.
Basically like Stacker News. 😳🤯
Fix the money, fix the world.
Some parallels to a deflationary money like Bitcoin is it incentivizes V4V while fiat usually feels punitive.
Totally, it's thisnwhich will fix the world
That's quite interesting. Game theory at play.
The thing is, at 10 cents per day... it's not really a fine at that point. A few days late is 30 cents. (face melt emoji).
I know "doordashflation" as a buzzword for people missunderstanding what inflation is. Because Doordash was like Uber for years and years cross financed by VC to get customers hooked on it before making an actual working business out of it. Having a private taxi for a Burrito was never as cheap as it seemed because someone else payed for it.
Yeah good points. Using prices to measure inflation is a vague proxy - which was sort of my point. It's all a house-of-cards built on a facade of an illusion.
My real contention is when a business raises prices roughly in-line with inflation and then the un-informed public eats up the rhetoric the government/media propaganda machine feeds them, which is: cOrPoRaTe gReEd and gOuGiNg.
Lol. I switch between the food delivery apps to get the free service charges. Last I paid it was a $3 or 4 fee I think. Or something along those lines. I would guess it's creeping up to 6.99 or 7.99.
Always get the deals
I practically live off of Heinz baked beans, and a can of beans (being virtually always €1,00 per can ever since I've started consuming them like my life depends on it) briefly hit an ATH at €1,25 per can a good 3 - 6-ish months ago (my memory tries to suppress this traumatic experience, excuse the rough estimate).
It's now steady at €1,19, meaning a freaking can of beans got 19% more expensive within a freaking year!
And don't get me started on dog food... The walk through the grocery aisles are getting more traumatic by the month.
EDIT: I think that I was thus surprised / shocked / pissed the first time I saw the price tag reading €1,25 that I sweared out loud between the aisles.
Pet food can be wild
$9 six inch
(my most recent, and probably last, Subway sandwich)
In high school, the local sub sandwich joint had a $3.95 meatball footlong special once per week.
Now you're paying more than double for half.
This math hurts my soul.
I think you can still buy hot dog and a soft drink at Costco for $1.50
Yes, you can. They're losing money on it. Also they've done a lot to keep that cost so low.
One of the things is that they now no longer allow non-members to buy this deal. Also, they have their own hot-dog factories, and they switched from Coke to Pepsi (Pepsi is cheaper).
I remember 5 bucks for 12 inches
Maybe it was 6 bucks
I have been to subway once in the last 2 years and I remember saying to myself, I'm not coming back
It was "5 dollar footlong". That was their slogan in the early 2000s
That's right!
Remember Quiznos?
My review: good sandwich but too expensive
😄
https://notthebee.com/article/subway-proposes-699-footlong-deal-franchise-leader-urges-stores-do-not-participate
$6.99 footlong revolt
Same
9 dollars at subway is unconscionable
🤯
Right. But the actual unconscionable thing is all the fiat money printing.
😪😳🧐
https://notthebee.com/article/subway-is-on-the-way-out-come-see-the-fascinating-economic-discussion-in-the-comments-about-why-its-happening
It's a good discussion about why Subway is about to go under
Do strippers still get dollar bills or do people give 5’s now? That would be a funny one. I haven’t been to a strip club in 15 years so I don’t have firsthand knowledge but it would be a funny one to use as a gauge.
Could be a day where they have a QR code projected on a screen. When zaps are the standard
I guess there is only one way to find out
Grocery Outlet steak prices
Steak prices 🤯🙈😠
I'm a big fan of chocolate chip cookies.
In Spain, the package from the supermarket brand last year was €0,89, today is €1,35.
Please send me some SATs, I eat two cookies with milk every night!
Cookieflation.
I'm curious to know the history of cocao commodity price.
https://m.stacker.news/46274
That's why my cookies are going to the moon!
Almost quadrupled!
This is amazing. I need this website.
The price increase is caused by a cocoa supply shortage. Would that be prevented by using Bitcoin instead of fiat as currency?
https://m.stacker.news/46311
Big Mac index
Tequila seems resistant to inflation lol
BMI is real!
Margaritas for the win
Sack of food from Taco Bell 20 use to get u 20 items now u only get 4
I got this from a book called The Hard-Boiled Egg Index: Surviving Zimbabwe’s
Hyperinflation, by Kudzai Joseph Gumunyu. Apparently 3 hard boiled eggs in USD was used as an index.
Here's a quote:
https://m.stacker.news/46316
Ignore the part about Biden, focus on the price increases
Milk seems 'relatively stable'