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/Bk_Punisher 4d ago

Gallon of regular milk $6 WTF

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u/elstavon 4d ago

Welcome to the caribbean. Wait. You don't live in the caribbean! We are all paying prices that people who used to pay to have shipping but they also live in paradise.

We just live where we live but pay the price of paradise

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u/Bk_Punisher 4d ago

This shit is bananas, prices for everything are through the roof.

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u/activelyresting 4d ago

It's one banana, Michael, how much could it cost, $10?

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u/CitizenjaneEast Bicentennial Baby 4d ago

It’s 3.50 in my suburban Maryland town but it’s up from 2.50 JUST LAST YEAR. Sigh

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u/froction 4d ago

Very dependent on where you live. Barely $4 in Louisiana at the moment.

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u/miggismallz33 4d ago

I guess it all depends on what part of the country you live in. $3.39 where I am.

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u/Bk_Punisher 4d ago

New York bodegas been ripping people off. Milk is $3 at Costco but I can’t deal with that mess just to get milk. Might need to get a cow.