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Plumber working on my mother's sink, while I was with her (she is 84) she was watching NBC news.
They were talking about grocery prices, and people struggling... on and on.
And here it came - it's the Tariffs fault. Showing people talking about suffering through grocery shopping, and them DAMN TARIFFSS!!! GGRRRRR!!!
Lying sack of shits. Grocery prices shot to the frigging moon for the past 5 years!!!!!!! With horrible inflation in 2022 and 2023. But Noooo.... it's the Tariffs!! Never once mentioned that 99% of the increased prices we are paying are BEFORE the tariffs.
 
Plumber working on my mother's sink, while I was with her (she is 84) she was watching NBC news.
They were talking about grocery prices, and people struggling... on and on.
And here it came - it's the Tariffs fault. Showing people talking about suffering through grocery shopping, and them DAMN TARIFFSS!!! GGRRRRR!!!
Lying sack of shits. Grocery prices shot to the frigging moon for the past 5 years!!!!!!! With horrible inflation in 2022 and 2023. But Noooo.... it's the Tariffs!! Never once mentioned that 99% of the increased prices we are paying are BEFORE the tariffs.
Oh, so you say grocery prices aren't going up? Well, you must shop at dollar general for groceries. Today on sale ground chuck 80/20 $5.99 a lb up about $2.00 per pound from last year and that's if you bought 3 Lbs. Last year avocado's were 5 for $5.00 today 3 for $5.00. I can get our receipt out what we paid for the groceries today and list every GD item. Again don't know where you shop but just about everything in Publix and Walmart's here are up. So what is the reason?

The media isn't lying you are.
 
Plumber working on my mother's sink, while I was with her (she is 84) she was watching NBC news.
They were talking about grocery prices, and people struggling... on and on.
And here it came - it's the Tariffs fault. Showing people talking about suffering through grocery shopping, and them DAMN TARIFFSS!!! GGRRRRR!!!
Lying sack of shits. Grocery prices shot to the frigging moon for the past 5 years!!!!!!! With horrible inflation in 2022 and 2023. But Noooo.... it's the Tariffs!! Never once mentioned that 99% of the increased prices we are paying are BEFORE the tariffs.
NBC is a China-First network.
 
Oh, so you say grocery prices aren't going up? Well, you must shop at dollar general for groceries. Today on sale ground chuck 80/20 $5.99 a lb up about $2.00 per pound from last year and that's if you bought 3 Lbs. Last year avocado's were 5 for $5.00 today 3 for $5.00. I can get our receipt out what we paid for the groceries today and list every GD item. Again don't know where you shop but just about everything in Publix and Walmart's here are up. So what is the reason?

The media isn't lying you are.
Are you stupid?
Nearlly all of the price increases we are paying happened in 2021-2023. Almost all of it.
STFU
 
Plumber working on my mother's sink, while I was with her (she is 84) she was watching NBC news.
They were talking about grocery prices, and people struggling... on and on.
And here it came - it's the Tariffs fault. Showing people talking about suffering through grocery shopping, and them DAMN TARIFFSS!!! GGRRRRR!!!
Lying sack of shits. Grocery prices shot to the frigging moon for the past 5 years!!!!!!! With horrible inflation in 2022 and 2023. But Noooo.... it's the Tariffs!! Never once mentioned that 99% of the increased prices we are paying are BEFORE the tariffs.
How do you sleep at night. Oh right. Ignorance is bliss.
 
Oh, so you say grocery prices aren't going up? Well, you must shop at dollar general for groceries. Today on sale ground chuck 80/20 $5.99 a lb up about $2.00 per pound from last year and that's if you bought 3 Lbs. Last year avocado's were 5 for $5.00 today 3 for $5.00. I can get our receipt out what we paid for the groceries today and list every GD item. Again don't know where you shop but just about everything in Publix and Walmart's here are up. So what is the reason?

The media isn't lying you are.


Ever consider higher shoplifting rates, along with stores insurance costs from that and other crimes?? Corporate profit margins as well? Especially when retailers were raising prices BEFORE any tariffs went into effect, yet still blamed their greed on tariffs
 

How do the lying media even sleep at night?​


Generally speaking I suspect their answer is along the line of something like this:

On a mattress from Serta.
 
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Are you stupid?
Nearlly all of the price increases we are paying happened in 2021-2023. Almost all of it.
STFU
Pay attention. $5.99 a pound for ground beef is spot on. We actually import a significant amount of feeder cattle out of Mexico. And just the threat of tariffs has driven the price of calves through the damn roof. Avocados, again, spot on. Mostly from Mexico, and interestingly enough, one of the highest volume sku's at Walmart, behind bananas. Know of any banana farms in the US?

The dirty secret know one is aware of. Some of the price hikes have nothing to do with tariffs, but tariffs provide cover for the manufacturers. Do you not what the profit margin of a grocery chain is? Three percent, and that is three times what it was back in the old days. But food manufacturers, like Cargill, JBS, General MIlls--25%. They have immense pricing power, in all reality, they are oligopolies. The consolidation within the industry has been insane.
 
Pay attention. $5.99 a pound for ground beef is spot on. We actually import a significant amount of feeder cattle out of Mexico. And just the threat of tariffs has driven the price of calves through the damn roof. Avocados, again, spot on. Mostly from Mexico, and interestingly enough, one of the highest volume sku's at Walmart, behind bananas. Know of any banana farms in the US?

The dirty secret know one is aware of. Some of the price hikes have nothing to do with tariffs, but tariffs provide cover for the manufacturers. Do you not what the profit margin of a grocery chain is? Three percent, and that is three times what it was back in the old days. But food manufacturers, like Cargill, JBS, General MIlls--25%. They have immense pricing power, in all reality, they are oligopolies. The consolidation within the industry has been insane.
Again - STFU.
Beef prices has declined since January 2025
All of the massive increases were in 2024.
Now I understand why they lie so much - because morons believe them!!!!!!!!


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Again - STFU.
Beef prices has declined since January 2025
All of the massive increases were in 2024.
Now I understand why they lie so much - because morons believe them!!!!!!!!


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What did I say about calve prices? I mean seriously, I am a category manager for the largest wholesale distributor in the country. Meat and Seafood. I work with this stuff every single day. Your ******* chart is priced in Brazilian Real, you dumbass.

Beef rose to 301 BRL/15KG on August 5, 2025, up 0.69% from the previous day. Over the past month, Beef's price has fallen 1.49%, but it is still 28.25% higher than a year ago, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity.​


 
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What did I say about calve prices? I mean seriously, I am a category manager for the largest wholesale distributor in the country. Meat and Seafood. I work with this stuff every single day. Your ******* chart is priced in Brazilian Real, you dumbass.

Beef rose to 301 BRL/15KG on August 5, 2025, up 0.69% from the previous day. Over the past month, Beef's price has fallen 1.49%, but it is still 28.25% higher than a year ago, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity.​




Beef Prices, by your own chart, has risen about 40% during Biden presidency.
And only wanting to talk about the 10% increase this year, NBC didn't mention the 40% under Biden - once.

And besides that - this wasn't about BEEF - it was about groceries as a whole.

And this is because of what tariff exactly?
And you better back it up
 
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Beef Prices, by your own chart, has risen about 40% during Biden presidency.
And only wanting to talk about the 10% increase this year, NBC didn't mention the 40% under Biden - once.

And besides that - this wasn't about BEEF - it was about groceries as a whole.

And this is because of what tariff exactly?
And you better back it up
And they keep going up, why?
 
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