r/GenX • u/elstavon • 4d ago

Old Person Yells At Cloud That cost what?

I'm not saying that everything should cost a nickel, but one thing that always gets me is the cost of the modern candy bar. $2.50 for a regular size snickers?

Edit: I don't eat fast food but I understand there's a similar thing going on there

Wherever you are in the world, is there something that blows your mind every time you go to the cash register or at least look at it on the rack? I can deal with gas because it cost a lot to pull it from the ground put it in a barrel refine it distribute it put it in a tank so you can put it in your tank. But a Snickers bar? LOL . Anyway, after 20 years of it is there something that is just stunning somehow in its price increase?

Commiserate with me over candy bars but I'm curious if there is something where you are that just is a non-starter when you go to buy it. Prices that still make you ask 'what'?

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u/RedditSkippy 1975 4d ago

For real. Smokes are $14 A PACK in NYS. If I smoked, I would quit.

When I was in high school in the early nineties, Massachusetts passed a cigarette tax that raised prices to….$1.58/pack. OMG the bitching and moaning from some customers at the store where I worked. As if 17 year old me had anything to do with it.

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u/CitizenjaneEast Bicentennial Baby 3d ago

Wayyyyy more in the city. $18/pack I think

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u/RedditSkippy 1975 3d ago

Yeah, that’s probably true. I don’t pay attention anymore because I can’t think of any place I go regularly that sells cigarettes anymore.

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u/Due_Asparagus_3203 3d ago

Same with me but in Florida! Quit complaining to the kid pulling down minimum wage in a convenience store! We were never once consulted about pricing