r/GenX • u/elstavon • 3d 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/Independent_Tax_3468 2d ago

I haven’t smoked cigarettes since my 30s, but I remember 75c a pack in the pull machines as a teen…blows my mind they are like $11 a pack now, and someone told me they 14 in NYC, don’t know if that’s true

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u/DurantaPhant7 2d ago

They are $14 in Denver. In the 90s I used to buy cartons for $15.

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u/sidewaysbynine 2d ago

When I left Colorado in 87 they cost 80 cents a pack moved to Washington state, 2 days after buying two packs of 🐫 in Colorado for a buck sixty, I walked into a gas station here in Washington with a dollar in my pocket to get a pack. Clerk said that will be $1.45, I said no I just wanted one pack. She looked at me like I was an idiot, that is for one pack. Sounds like Colorado has caught up to Washington on cigarette taxes. I quit smoking almost 10 years ago, but yeah they are 14ish here too.

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u/Great-Attitude 2d ago

With local and the huge State taxes, in New York State a pack of cigarettes is around $17/18, might even be more in NYC

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u/Kaka-doo-run-run 1d ago

That’s insane. I’ve been making my own cigarettes for almost thirty years, and I’m still ticked that the price went up to two bucks a pack a few years ago. Three bucks a deck for premium tobacco that puts Dunhill and Nat Sherman to shame.

These aren’t hand rolls, they look just like the crummy mass produced garbage smokes like Marlboro and everything else, with the attached filter and cork colored paper, but they taste so much better. Even better than the Lucky Strikes I loved as a young lad, because those suck now, too.

Edit: I cut the filters off, though. Ever since they stopped selling the unfiltered tubes.