Why arent grocery prices lower right now?

[joelbc1]

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Wonder if drill baby drill can fix all this?

There was a video I saw somewhere last month where a leading foot economist was talking about soaring food prices (worldwide) and he, with facts and data, made a very strong argument that world weather conditions and animal diseases were the chief culprit for soaring prices….Draught has taken much of the grazing land for animals out of production over the past 10 years or so, asa result, producers have had to REDUCE the size of their herds to stay in business, animal diseases (avian flu) have also been a major contributor to meat and poultry shrinkage that results in HIGHER retail prices….this shrinkage also adversely affects the supply of slaughter houses for beef, pork and poultry that in turn creates a reduction in “supply” at the retail level…that causes prices to RISE! So, it’s not so much “politics” as it is simple “supply and demand economics” that have sweated these higher prices…..disease (Covid, avian flu), weather conditions and simple business decisions made by producers are the culprits here…..for those who want a dose of truth.

 

[Bulldogs1974]

Ah yes. Huey and chis said our inflation was due to Trump so he is to credit for the fact ours was better than most of the world.

You and northern do like your knots.

 

[Fan In Black]

So you're a legal to drink 8 year old?

so you are one of them socialism's that tries to tell mericans what to eat? freedom of speech libtard.

 

[ButtersHawk]

so you are one of them socialism's that tries to tell mericans what to eat? freedom of speech libtard.

 

[Hans81]

Great thread, never been discussed on here before. Can't wait to get this figured out!

Buy less junk food & your overall grocery bill will be lower. 😉

 

[ThorneStockton]

I do think Doobi deserves credit for honesty. Most everyone would have just figured he's especially stupid, a dullard. But he admitted that he fried his brain through methamphetamines and now posters - myself included - will often rub his nose in it.

Yeah, I realize he comes off as a child who thinks he's clever, but the response should be to treat him with kid gloves, not the addiction angle.

 

[fakenewsking]

Not sure I have been to a grocery store or market in years. I think they will 100% drop so fast once Trump is back in office. Wife said broccoli is $17 a kilo and lettuce is almost $12. Salmon, tuna, and other seafood is still around $3 a kilo. Typhoons blow as they destroy most of the fruits and veggies, making them all expensive. But once Trump is back in office the typhoons stop and cheap fruits and veggies again. This would also happen if anyone is in office.

 

[SL Hawk Fan]

 

[ericram]

She's dodging her creditors she owes about 20 million on her failed campaign after she blew through a billion dollars.

Like your leader pays his bills.

 

[DooBi]

I do think Doobi deserves credit for honesty. Most everyone would have just figured he's especially stupid, a dullard. But he admitted that he fried his brain through methamphetamines and now posters - myself included - will often rub his nose in it.

Yeah, I realize he comes off as a child who thinks he's clever, but the response should be to treat him with kid gloves, not the addiction angle.

Yes because that is so much easier than actually using your brain and having a conversation. Good on ya.

 

[noleclone2]

 

[FranklinHawk]

America needs to open up their damn eyes…and sharpen their math skills… food prices are on the whole trending lower over the past several months. Too many Americans have chosen the “ woe is me” pity card and decided to feel sorry for themselves as opposed to figuring this shit out for themselves. Good phuquin’ luck America… tell me what to think when shit really gets bad…those days are coming!

You can say that again!

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Ummm, this is still HBOT/HORT/HROT right??

C'mon...be honest. None of you debase yourselves to the point of wandering down to the servants' quarters and quizzing them about the cost of groceries.

 

[Tenacious E]

I see multiple threads asking how Trump is going to lower prices. Harris promised to do the same. She's in the Whitehouse right now. What aren't prices lower now?

Don’t you work for HyVee? You tell us. If you sense unfairness in the question, explore that feeling and apply it to your own question.

 

[Flie]

I see multiple threads asking how Trump is going to lower prices. Harris promised to do the same. She's in the Whitehouse right now. What aren't prices lower now?

Harris wasn't going to suddenly lower prices. Neither will Trump. That's why you see democrats asking how Trump will lower prices. That issue is what got him elected and we know it is BS.

Hope that helps. The actual solution is what's been happening. Feds raised the interest rates to kill inflation, inflation dropped, and we now need sustained low inflation with steady wage growth to get to the point where income vs groceries doesn't feel as painful.

This is basically the "she says she's gonna do all these things; why aint she doin em now?!?" talking point I saw before the election.

 

[Flie]

Ah yes. Huey and chis said our inflation was due to Trump so he is to credit for the fact ours was better than most of the world.

Trump is partly responsible for the inflation that we had. Funny how it gets blamed on Biden when rising inflation was under way when he took office. Reminds me of when Obama was blamed for the stock market crash that started under Bush.

 

[ThorneStockton]

Yes because that is so much easier than actually using your brain and having a conversation. Good on ya.

Fittingly you've missed the point. The having a conversation part with you is like one with a child. Comprehension is difficult to achieve, it requires patience.

A lot of posters don't have that patience and would rather just insult you.

I think you deserve credit for being honest and taking the abuse with grace. I know some posters - Bleeder? Whoever it was that left - was particularly nasty.

 

[ft254]

Fuel/oil prices were a major driver of production costs and inflation. It will take time for lower energy prices to affect production of food and the cost of plastic.

WTF? Food inflation on production costs of plastic!

How about checking the financial bottom line of the vendors, suppliers and others in the chain.

Grain prices are and have been at ridiculously low levels. Oil prices are based on the global market. We drill, import and export oil, but you know this.

BTW, can you explain the wisdom and credibility of tariffs on food produce while eliminating the labor to produce it domestically.

 

[ft254]

Buy less junk food & your overall grocery bill will be lower. 😉

Junk food and vaccine causes autism. The Right's new Hunter laptop.

 

[doughuddl2]

Fuel/oil prices were a major driver of production costs and inflation. It will take time for lower energy prices to affect production of food and the cost of plastic.

Biden drove the prices up with $5 gas. I don't ever see them going down much if even any.

Hamburger was $3.58lb when Trump left. It's now $5.58lb. Freaking 2 bucks!

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

What was the reason for inflation in your opinion?

I worked hard and paid through the nose to get my degree in economics from Iowa. I'm not passing out my knowledge to HBOT for free. However I have a Venmo account if interested...

 

[doughuddl2]

America needs to open up their damn eyes…and sharpen their math skills… food prices are on the whole trending lower over the past several months. Too many Americans have chosen the “ woe is me” pity card and decided to feel sorry for themselves as opposed to figuring this shit out for themselves. Good phuquin’ luck America… tell me what to think when shit really gets bad…those days are coming!

Spoken like a true White Male Elitist Dude for Harris.

 

[ft254]

Biden drove the prices up with $5 gas. I don't ever see them going down much if even any.

Hamburger was $3.58lb when Trump left. It's now $5.58lb. Freaking 2 bucks!

When Biden took office ships were backed up in harbors, supply chains non-existent. GM and Chrysler bankrupt. Banks needing bail outs. Grocery stores and warehouses with empty shelves and floors.

When he took office.

Wise up.

BTW, grocers set retail prices for meat.

 

[drew_hawk]

Derp derp derp

OP tries so hard.

OP must have had some time to kill during the "Tracker" commercial breaks.

 

[joelbc1]

Spoken like a true White Male Elitist Dude for Harris

“White make elitist”..little boxes, little boxes …

 

[joelbc1]

Biden drove the prices up with $5 gas. I don't ever see them going down much if even any.

Hamburger was $3.58lb when Trump left. It's now $5.58lb. Freaking 2 bucks!

I paid $2.50/ lb a couple of weeks ago at Fareway..sorry! You have to be a smarter shopper if you want to save money..and again… when hamburger is $5/oound, who is getting that money… it ain’t the produce! It ain’t Biden..the way America produces meat for its people is corrupt and Corporate greed is the primary factor in meat prices today…

 

[The Tradition]

They are better. If you didn't go out and get a better job during the worker shortage or demand a wage increase at your current one, then that is on you. Don't let the facts get in the way of your narrative.

According to that chart, things got better and better during the Trump years and not so much during the Biden years....

 

[sober_teacher]

According to that chart, things got better and better during the Trump years and not so much during the Biden years....

Notice how that downward trend started before Trump? I'm tired of Trump getting credit for a nonexistent economic turnaround.

Also notice how that's been improving the past couple years? I wonder what was happening in the two years that was causing the spike?

 

[globalhawk]

I worked hard and paid through the nose to get my degree in economics from Iowa. I'm not passing out my knowledge to HBOT for free. However I have a Venmo account if interested...

This is dumb.

 

[RicoSuave102954]

WTF? Food inflation on production costs of plastic!

How about checking the financial bottom line of the vendors, suppliers and others in the chain.

Grain prices are and have been at ridiculously low levels. Oil prices are based on the global market. We drill, import and export oil, but you know this.

BTW, can you explain the wisdom and credibility of tariffs on food produce while eliminating the labor to produce it domestically.

LOL - The illegals in our major cities like Chicago, Denver, NYC aren't picking fruit or harvesting crops, what they are doing is dealing drugs, committing crimes and living in hotels that you are paying for.

 

[Sharky1203]

I see multiple threads asking how Trump is going to lower prices. Harris promised to do the same. She's in the Whitehouse right now. What aren't prices lower now?

WTF? Trump isn't in office yet. He has make zero policies. Biden/Harris are in office. It would be their policies currently controlling the markets.

Unbelievable. Just when I think I have heard about every stupid comment on here, here comes another stupid ass post. I really worry about the future of our country.

 

[joelbc1]

I see multiple threads asking how Trump is going to lower prices. Harris promised to do the same. She's in the Whitehouse right now. What aren't prices lower now?

Doobi…Harris was never “in the WH”…she works from the Executive Office Building it the WH is the RESIDENCE for Joe Biden… not the VP. And surprisingly DooBi, the VP works for the President and his agenda…

 

[DooBi]

WTF? Trump isn't in office yet. He has make zero policies. Biden/Harris are in office. It would be their policies currently controlling the markets.

Unbelievable. Just when I think I have heard about every stupid comment on here, here comes another stupid ass post. I really worry about the future of our country.

Lol might want to read that again before you call other people stupid. I was asking why Biden and Harris aren't doing anything now that they promised they would do if elected.

 

[DooBi]

Doobi…Harris was never “in the WH”…she works from the Executive Office Building it the WH is the RESIDENCE for Joe Biden… not the VP. And surprisingly DooBi, the VP works for the President and his agenda…

No shit Sherlock. It's ok if you don't want to acknowledge the point by focusing on minutiae.

 

[Sharky1203]

Lol might want to read that again before you call other people stupid. I was asking why Biden and Harris aren't doing anything now that they promised they would do if elected.

Oh, I've been asking that for the past 4 years.

 

[alaskanseminole]

I see multiple threads asking how Trump is going to lower prices. Harris promised to do the same. She's in the Whitehouse right now. What aren't prices lower now?

Because it's a leap year.

 

[joelbc1]

No shit Sherlock. It's ok if you don't want to acknowledge the point by focusing on minutiae.

What point?

 

[joelbc1]

What point?

You just don’t snap your finger and get rid of inflation…too much “free money” was given away with no strings attached…taxes are too generous for the rich and it takes time to work thru this stuff…any moron knows this…Trump will have his shot soon… abs we will be watching..the opposite of inflation is recession..

 

[ping72]

Biden drove the prices up with $5 gas. I don't ever see them going down much if even any.

Hamburger was $3.58lb when Trump left. It's now $5.58lb. Freaking 2 bucks!

Actually it’s gone from $3.97 to $5.59.

 

[joelbc1]

Actually it’s gone from $3.97 to $5.59.

My question is why? Who is making the $$here?
Are slaughter house workers suddenly making “big money”? Or are the farners/ ranchers lying about how much they are getting paid?