US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds

ThatRobGuy said:

It'd be satirizing if it was a semi-bogus premise that was exaggerated for comedic effect.

The examples I posted are real.

We all saw the slew of vandalized gas pumps with these stickers
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And the polling results I mentioned were from Ipsos (they're a reputable polling organization)



The thread was presented as being about people claiming to be stressed over grocery prices. Your post was the first one that mentions anything about Trump lying about promises...yet you mentioned that's what was being pointed out by the thread.

Are you suggesting that any negative economic indicator being discussed in a thread should just be considered a default segue into "Trump's a liar"?

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So what? He's not lying about it any more than the Democrats did, and for much the same reasons. It was Biden who told us, in effect, "The economy's great (and it was) so what are you complaining about?"

ThatRobGuy said:

How much of this is valid concern, vs. being worried because it's being hyped up and people assume it'll go even higher?

I say that because of the numbers you mentioned.


For instance...

If a normal trip to the grocery store was costing someone about $125. That price going to $128.15 (the 2.4% increase) doesn't exactly seem like an earth shattering amount of money. Especially considering that the prices of some other things have gone down in ways that are likely offsetting a good chunk of it. (Gasoline is down about 7%, apparel is down about 2%, communications costs are down 1.5%)

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When Biden was in office, I was spending 100 a week on groceries. Now I'm spending $200 plus twice a month . 100 plus at least twice a week. So, it's more expensive now. And eating out is more expensive.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:

When Biden was in office, I was spending 100 a week on groceries. Now I'm spending $200 plus twice a month .

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That was meant to be tongue in cheek I presume...

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BCP1928 said:

So what? He's not lying about it any more than the Democrats did, and for much the same reasons. It was Biden who told us, in effect, "The economy's great (and it was) so what are you complaining about?"

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Ultimately, I think the bigger lies are coming from the pundits who get people whipped up into a panic and report gloom and doom on the food prices.

The reality is, you'd be hard pressed to find a year when there wasn't at least 1 or 2 food and non-food items that were more expensive than the year prior. Thus is the nature of an inflationary economy.

So there will always be those couple things a pundit can point to in order to say "See, this president is terrible for the economy, XYZ now costs $5, under our guy a few years ago, it was only $4"

In this instance, people are zeroing in on some standout items like beef and eggs, but with regards to groceries as a whole, general food costs in 2025 are only minimally higher than 2024 and are moving more or less in line with overall inflation.

BCP1928 said:

The people you satirize aren't feeling the pinch themselves, that's just your usual sycophantic whitewash. What is being pointed out is that the grandiose promises made to the working class by candidate Trump were lies from the beginning, and it's beginning to be too late to blame it all on Biden.

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The tariffs aside, it’s “Biden’s economy” until October 1.