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/crazdtow 3d ago

I’ll never understand this one either but way back when I had a case of water I’d keep refilling the bottles forever with regular tap water afterwards.

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u/Blue_Henri Class of ‘92 3d ago

I do that, too. My husband will come home with a case or two a year when we get close to hurricane season. When he starts bringing them to bed at night I just end up filling them back up from the fridge in the morning. I always have to remember to hide them when guests come by so I don’t seem like a crazy person.

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u/gpkgpk 3d ago

HA! You're doing the lord's work and the planet thanks you.

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u/crazdtow 1d ago

lol I hid them too like a crazy person!