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>end of 2024
>egg prices $9/doz
>gasoline prices $3.85/gal
>cocoa prices above $8000/ton
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>trump elected
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>one year later
>eggs $2/doz, sometimes $1/doz on sale
>gas prices $2.65/gal national average
> cocoa prices below $4000/ton
Where were you when you realized the only reason food was unaffordable was because of Democrats?
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>>21906818
The price of gasoline/diesel fuel is core to price inflation in general. If trucking food from distribution centers to stores is expensive, then grocery stores have to raise their prices. If trucking costs drop, then food costs stop going up or maybe even decline a little.
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>>21906782
I remember talks of price fixing, which wouldn't do anything except make sure farmers just stop growing as much food or raising as much livestock
Very funny
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>>21906782
With cocoa prices returning to previous lows, it is going to be interesting to see if Lindt will go back to cocoa and remove the soy lecithin. My guess is two things will happen:
1) They won't
2) The cost of existing products that still contain cocoa in place of soy lecithin will remain at the same price
There was all this hand-wringing about "gee whizz that cocoa is just so gosh darn expensive now we have to derive something from soy" but there will probably be nothing said about this
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>>21907809
I just saw lettuce at 3.79 a head. Granted, it was H mart and their produce prices can be a bit...bipolar, but I bought a bunch there for 1.50 like 3 weeks ago. Where the fuck are you at though? Jalepenos are usually 99 cents to 1.39/lb in Denver, less if ytou go to the Meximarts.
>>21908182
Frankly, I'm fucking surprised organized criminals haven't taken up on the market for cheaper groceries, we kind of saw the market spring up in cities like San Francisco when tweakers and fenty addicts were selling shit from drugstores for half price for drug money. But, eventually, do you think it would go like that for other groceries? I half expect in 15 years pop up markets with stolen groceries are going to be a thing.
>>21906782
Didn't last year's coffee and cocoa harvests get fucking raped for some reason by climate or droughts or some shit?
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>>21907825
Democrats pounced on the egg prices meme when it was high to blame Trump even though it was obviously temporary due to avian flu culls. You don't get to complain now that Trump rubs low prices in your face
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>>21906782
About 26 years ago
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>>21906782
>cocoa price back to normal
>chocolate still costs double or even triple that it was a couple years ago
>that's now the "new norm" for it so there's no need for companies to bring it back down because they've seen it still sells
>they can just laugh to the bank as their profit multiplies itself automatically
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