Sticker shock for a bottle of tonic water

[bif]

I bought a couple quarts of tonic water yesterday at the grocery store. I remember about a couple years ago it was 80 or 90 cents a bottle. It's now $2.29! Didn't the Rapist say he was gong to bring prices down? Yikes!

[hatrack]

1. At True Value Hardware yesterday - they wanted $2.98 for a box of kitchen matches.

For a box of fucking KITCHEN MATCHES.

Uh, no.

[hlthe2b]

2. Sticker shock for everything, frankly...

My Neutrogena zinc sunblock stick was $9 last year and is $15 this year. Good gawd and that is after a Google search for the best price (Walmart/Amazon is similar ).

Food--I am boring now and really only buy the same things--very rarely meat other than some chicken. But I eat healthy and damn if vegetables and fruits, grains are not expensive as heck--not to mention all the extra effort to scrub/clean/dry them during peak parasitic (Cyclospora, Cryptosporidium) and bacterial contamination season. Even beans are considerably higher in $$. I still make my own yogurt--both regular and Greek--saving myself a bundle!

Yes. Hardware and parts (car and others)--geebus! Don't get me started.

[bif]

3. Prices for just about everything have pretty much have doubled

[Arthur_Frain]

4. $7 for a bag of Cheetos these days!

You’d think he’d be on the Dept of agriculture to at least subsidize his trademark color.

[Manatee]

5. $0.97

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Tonic-Water-33-8-fl-oz-Bottle/10448545?classType=REGULAR&athbdg=L1200&from=/search

[bif]

6. Well, I don't shop at Walmart

Plus the knockoff varieties are terrible.

[Manatee]

7. I also

choose to pay more for some items. Nothing wrong with that.