Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)

  • Aneb@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.

    • indomara@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Yeah that’s what’s so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.

      I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.

      • guldukat@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Wife and I both work, everything is carefully calculated to have us constantly worry about bills and unexpected expenses. If one of us misses 1 day of work there is 1 bill that won’t be paid, which means multiple phone calls from bill collectors. A lot of them are super fast about sending to collections. I no longer fret about my credit score.