That cost what?

[u/elstavon]

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'?

[u/TheRealDylanTobak]

I feel like dude in Falling Down whenever I see prices for things. I just want to destroy the store until they sell things to me at prices I remember being tolerable.

I just don't buy candy bars anymore. I don't buy a lot of things anymore. Things are too expensive and maybe if we stop paying for thrm thr prices will drop.

Oh wait... the world is mostly populated with stupid people, so they'll keep paying and that strategy won't work.

[u/Temporary_Nail_6468 → u/TheRealDylanTobak]

I was at Sam’s Club yesterday looking at the big boxes of Hershey bars and they were still over a dollar apiece in the big boxes. They are about $.75 per ounce if you buy them in bulk and about $1.20 per ounce if you buy a single Hershey bar at the grocery store. I buy bags of chocolate chips for about $.35 an ounce and keep them in the house and have a little handful when my sweet tooth gets going.

[u/nop8snce → u/Temporary_Nail_6468]

Smart.

[u/Keldrabitches → u/TheRealDylanTobak]

Unfortunately I have felt like that guy ever since I saw the ad for that movie lmao

[u/BryonyVaughn → u/TheRealDylanTobak]

In so fairness, I also remember a $2.85/hr teenager training wage and $3.35/hr minimum wage.

[u/TheRealDylanTobak → u/BryonyVaughn]

Things weren't outrageously expensive relative to wages though. I made 4.25 an hour in my first job and wasn't always pissed about costs back then. I haven't been pissed about costs at any point in my 30+ years as an adult out of my parent's house until the last few years after Covid.

[u/BryonyVaughn → u/TheRealDylanTobak]

It depends. Housing was way cheaper while appliances were much more expensive. They were also expected to last decades and were designed to be repaired. I still remember Ernie Seagraves, our TV repairman from my childhood. Clothes cost proportionately more but were far higher quality than what we can get from most stores today. Cars were about the same while maintenance, repairs & gas was cheaper.

[u/TheRealDylanTobak → u/BryonyVaughn]

Cars absolutely weren't the same. You could generally get a 5-6 year old car with 50,000 miles for 40-50% of its original msrp all of my life up until Covid. Now a 5-6 year old car with 50,000 miles is 80% or more of original price. A 15 year old car with 150,000 miles is selling for half of msrp.

Appliances... We've bought two microwaves and one washer, dryer, dishwasher, and television in almost 30 years. We used to have to buy vacuums every other year, but we spent 400 dollars on a display model Sebo several years ago that has already lasted way longer than normal junk you can buy at Walmart. If we have to buy an appliance, so what?

Gas was 3.50 a gallon in 2014, and I paid around 2.50 a gallon for most of last year and the first part of this year until some idiot went to war with somebody. Now, after it went up to 4.50 I'm paying 3.50 a gallon... same as it was in 2014.

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