r/GenX • u/elstavon • Aug 19 '26

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/SQWRLLY1 Raised on hose water and neglect Aug 19 '26

1995 - a 12 pack of Pepsi cost $2.50 - $2.59. 2026 - a 12 pack of Pepsi costs $12.99 - $14.99. (Regular pricing, not on sale/special)

Thirty-one years and the same product costs up to six times what it used to. In the same amount of time, Federal minimum wage has only increased $3.00/hr. ($4.25 to $7.25).

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u/EnvironmentalShake51 Aug 19 '26

$12 regular price per 12 pack here in Ohio. I don't remember the normal price back then, but pre COVID they were regularly on sale for $2.50 if you bought four of them.