I was in a long check out line yesterday because only one person was working. Someone behind me asked the cashier if she had any help and she said, "just my manager but she's in the back working on something else." The person behind me said, "God Bless you for working because nobody else seems to want to. We've got that idiot, Biden in office so now I have to buy my groceries here to afford to eat. We need Trump back and everyone's afraid to say it. Well, I'm not afraid, I'm saying it to you all!"
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I want to take a minute to clear something up for any readers here: Dollar Tree is not a good place to go if you are struggling to afford groceries.
Their business model is weirdly small portion sizes and lots of processed products with long shelf life.
For many prices, if you do the math, you'll find buying the smaller portion Dollar Tree sells ends up being more expensive per serving than buying the bigger portion a grocery store sells.
Instead, if you are struggling to afford groceries, you should be shopping at a regular grocery store, but avoiding the "center aisles." You should be shopping for only the raw essentials: lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, and things like flour and plain rice. You should intentionally be avoiding things like boxed rice "kits," frozen meals, and, of course, things like chips.
Dollar Tree isn't a good place to go, but a place like Save A Lot can be. They sell real food (meats and produce), but their prices are lower than a Kroger or Publix. The meat and produce is lesser quality, but that's the cost savings.
Aldi's is a better alternative. Their store brand items (most of the store) are excellent, good produce and meat. And their prices are great. I can get two full bags of groceries there - nearly all produce and meat and staples - for less than what I'd pay for one bag at Walmart or Martins. Other than a rare Food Lion, those are the only grocery stores here. Walmart has jacked their prices up so much - more than the other stores - they are noticeably losing customers here.
We have some nice direct at the farm farmstands here but they've become chi-chi tourist attractions and are often more expensive than any.
I like Aldi’s. Been shopping there for years. I live in Appalachia now where they’ve been smacked down by globalism since Clinton signed NAFTA, so people who were poor are even poorer. I leave my cart free of the quarter chains. I used to get coffee beans there for 3.50 a bag; now the product is $5.95, still cheaper than other grocery stores. Olive oil has gone from 2.99 to 5.99. So Aldi’s is affected too, but still better. I also see lots of elderly folks there.
Aldi's generally seems OK, but be aware that (like most stores) a lot of their food contains bioengineered ingredients.
Just FYI, when I came out of Aldi's the other day, there was a punk teenager in the cart bin pocketing the quarters people had left behind. I'll tell you what I'm addicted to at Aldi's - I don't care for their ice cream, which is more air than cream, but I inhale their mango ice cream bars. Num!
I hear you on the price increases. My husband has little to no issues with cholesterol and is a cheese-a-holic. We used to pay .69 for an 8 oz block of cheese before Xiden took office and now those same blocks are now 1.89 if you're lucky. I'm not sure where the economists are getting their numbers but isn't that almost a 300% increase?
Needless to say, I'll be taking a class next week on making your own cultured cheese.
More than that here. I have an oversized live-in rat at my house too. heh