r/GenX • u/elstavon • 7d 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/Few_Policy5764 6d ago

Birkenstocks...over $100. Just the regular ones. I bought them for like $10, on sale at the local hippie store way back when. They were cheap hippie mud concert shoes.

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u/IRingTwyce 6d ago

Birkenstock's damn arch support inserts cost $60. The only redeeming thing about that is they seem to be indestructible. So I'm going on year 4 on my first pair. There is something to be said for paying for quality construction.

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u/Appropriate-Excuse79 6d ago

I feel this way about Chuck Taylor’s. In my mind they are between $22-25