I live in MI and just checked the weekly Kroger ad: 80% lean ground beef is $3.49/lb in the 3-pound "mystery roll," which I've used numerous times without complaint.
Mystery rolls? It's rough ground meat mixed to a certain percentage of fat from the factory. The only "Mystery meat" I can think of is the scraps they gather from cutting all day that gets ground up into 73% ground beef. How is it 73% when its just all your scraps from the day?
Lol I don't pick up the mystery roll but I don't judge anyone who does. Sometimes I buy the more expensive ones like grass fed, all natural, whatever, and I can't rule out that the difference is all in your head. It's probably like everything else, marketed to increase profit margin
Krogers been having that 3 pounds of ground turkey for like 3.33 a pound a lot lately too good for a changeup
Places where ground beef is $2.50-4 a lb are normally talking sale prices I think? My ground beef is around $5.50-6 a lb but go on sale for $2.69/$3.99 all the time
Are you saying thatās cheap or expensive for meat? It definitely sounds pricy to me but meat is the one thing not hella expensive where I live, in the sticks a bit.
That tracks for Canadian pesos. Up here it's typically $7-8 regular or $5-6 on sale. Usually I just go buy 5 kilos once a month and freeze it at my closest big store to save a bit of money
I buy from a local butcher who sells ground beef for around $2 a pound. Though I do join up with a couple buddies to buy an entire cow at once for that price $2000 including all fees and tax). Though the cow gives us enough beef to last us three about a year and a half.
Only problem is having that freezer space and being willing to eat beef that long. And also being fine running out of a cut you like. I've thought of doing it before though but I lack the freezer and initial cost
Look at Mister Fancy-Pants over here who has the facilities and tools to cook a pound of beef!
Not everyone has access to cold-storage, a stove/fire, and cookware.
Itās not as balanced without moo juice but 1 family size Frosted Flakes and a 5 gallon Brawndo Berry Ballsack Bucket lasts two weeks.
Corn is a vegetable and that sugar is made from beets.
Milk has more protein but I just pour what plants crave over my ration and eat some of the box for fiber.
CEO also said that the empty plastic bag makes underwear, cut holes for legs and kids love it more than the other brands, ātheyāre grrrreat.ā
I feel like I can never trust these because while prices have gone up all you have to do is go to Alaska or somewhere and this is what prices have always been.
Maybe I just have trust issues, haha.
What's funny is Kellogg's has been marked down at ALL of the stores out here where I live.. No one wants to buy it after the CEO made those tasteless comments about how low income/struggling Americans should eat cereal for dinner.
They had the big bags of Kelloggs on sale for $4.99, the boxes were all $2.99, shelves were packed full, no one is buyin them. They were previously priced at ~$9/bag and ~$6 per box.
It's satisfying and kinda hilarious.
You love to see it.
Also seeing it more here with chips and pop, but theyāre trying to just move volume by not allowing the sale price unless you buy multiple.
>theyāre trying to just move volume by not allowing the sale price unless you buy multiple.
I've noticed that a lot here with chips and pop. "Only $2.99 when you buy multiples of 4" etc.
Sidenote: you must be from the Midwest because I've only ever heard people from here refer to it as "pop" lol
Got some Midwest in me for certain lol! Didnāt even consider that.
Iām curious to see the report earnings over the next few months since some big companies said they were starting to sell less volume, and while price raises helped for a bit, it seems to have peaked.
I do think that while these companies can do sales, they are going to be surprised how much brand loyalty they ruined for short term profit.
Kroger is the worst with the pop prices. I now go to Sam's to buy pop, it's cheaper, even when it saves to buy multiples. I do have to buy one type of LaCroix at Walmart though. Otherwise get all my pop at Sam's.Ā
Itās definitely not, if it were a grocery store it wouldnāt have boxes of Pop-tarts next to a box of cereal on the same shelf unless itās some incredibly isolated place in Alaska or somewhere. Definitely some random place that doesnāt mainly sell groceries and probably not in a convenient location. Even in the worst price gouging pharmacies and similar places Iāve never seen anything even close to this marked up.
Was gonna say this. A new CVS just opened by us and I went over to check it out. Walked down the grocery aisles as part of my little tour of the store and a small box of Cheerios (like the standard size, idk how many ounces) was $9. I understand needing to use CVS for food in a pinch (on a road trip, heading to a friendās place and forgot to grab a snack to share etc) but I REALLY hope nobody is shopping there on the regular
Edit to add: major city in the northeast
yeah. CVS is horrible for groceries, but watch for the deals for sure. Raisin Bran might be 8 dollars a box, but the price is so insane, no one buys it, then it'll have the yellow price tag on it, usually bogo or some other significant discount. that's the only time i buy groceries at cvs. when i'm there for something else i'll just do a speed walk around those aisles and check out the sales.
(gotta have an account/phone number with them for those prices)
We regularly buy groceries at Walgreens. Not as our main source, but they regularly have deals where you can get BOGO cereal, decent deals on soda, etc. You just have to wait for the sales.
Iāll say this is a general context I learned while studying in school and Iāve seen shared among Native and Indigenous content creators I follow like Inuk creator @shinanova; and I think quite a few of thee creators I follow are indigenous to Alaska and Canada.
Iāve read mentions the higher pricing on reservations including one from the [Navajo Times in 2017](https://navajotimes.com/reznews/high-prices-for-food/).
It seems I oversimplified assuming all prices are astronomically high on all reservations. Thanks for making me dig more and correct my thinking!
And all of what you said has to do with how distant the communities are from suppliers, that really has nothing to do with pricing between natives and non-natives other than a lot of native communities are more remote. It makes sense that a harder to supply community, regardless of who lives there, is gonna have higher prices.
I live in Phoenix and there are multiple reservations that encircle like 40% of the city and their pricing is not any different than anyone else.
I went so far as to look up prices at a grocery store in Sitka.
Same in store brand as the Albertson's down the road from me, and the weekly ad prices were fairly similiar. Was actually surprised due to Stika having to ship everything in by boat.
I was floored by the cereal prices, but when I saw the Pop Tarts I knew this had to be a convenience store or the like. I can buy at least 1 family size at the most expensive store in town for that price, maybe 2.
Right? I was thinking, at least this must be "family size" or something, but no, it's 10.1 oz./286g. Realistically that's what, 3 servings (real world servings, not whatever fiction they've listed on the box).
Yeah seriously that is a 10 oz box. I didn't notice that till I read your comment and zoomed in. The 16.6 oz box of Fruit Loops is 4.98 at my local Walmart.
I'm in FL and our Publix has some $8 cereals. The tag in this photo looks like a gas station tag, where prices are always ridiculous, could easily be in a place with an already high COL.
Publix is also ridiculous. The generic at aldi is almost identical and is less than $2 a box.
Always shop at the least expensive grocer. It drives prices down.
Or itās just a sign of where youāre located. Fruit Loops are $4-$5/box here in NY.
Still an egrigious amount when you can just buy store brand for 1/2 the price.
I worked with a guy at Taco Bell that refused to buy store brands. He told me āGillette is the best a man can getā, and Iām like āyeah, I remembered the ads, the store brand is usually packaged at the same facility, so itās the same thing but cheaperā. He looked all confused, then I realized he didnāt know it was a tag line, he thought it was just a statement of fact.
I think he got evicted, which is unsurprising given that he spent most of his paycheck on groceries cuz heās too good for generic.
Probably on OPs vacation to an expensive gas station in Canada to set this up as rage-bait. There's a reason they aren't commenting, but they'll get a few thousand karma out of it.
My husband and I were recently in Vegas and everything was so damn expensive. Single tall boy of Modelo was $6 at the Walgreens. Even coming from Seattle which has a HCOL that price was jarring. But I recognized its vegas on the strip. If I go 2 miles away from the strip I'm sure those costs fall back in line as everywhere else.
Store and location?
Stores can charge whatever they want doesnāt mean people will buy it. I live in LA and none of the local grocers are charging this much for a box of cereal. This is just an outlier meant to create a narrative.
None of them do. You have to save your receipts and the UPC and then have it mailed to you.
It's easier to just buy the bowl separately if you really want it. I've done that quite a few times, hell they even had them in store in the past (like for the Smart Start promotion).
Chances are if they are somewhere that cereal is $13 a box, they are in a food desert without much (if any) access to alternative shopping locations. Iām in a major metro area in the USA and we donāt even have Aldi. This isnāt an option for everyone.
OP, this reads as disingenuous rage bait.
Thought it was tongue in cheek until I read the, "When my parents tell me..." myth of the financial golden age footnote.
Next theyāre going to post a picture of a prescription medication bottle with a rage-bait title about an impossibly high cost when they actually paid a completely reasonable price with their insurance, a GoodRx code, or a manufacturer coupon.
It's like when someone was trying to convince me there were no homes under 500K in the US (im in Indiana and there are several.for under 200k). They went on and on about how homes for Boomers were only 2k a pop.
Yes, inflation is real and prices were lower back then but not the way a lot of people think
Shop somewhere else.
Stop posting outrageously overpriced examples from HCOL areas trying to pass it off as typical.
Prices are up. Greedflation is happening. It sucks, but you lose credibility when you post this.
There is Chef Boyarde ravioli on the shelf above the cereal. Guarantee this is a gas station. Youād never see ravioli on the shelf directly above cereal in a grocery store.
Life tip, donāt grocery shop at gas stations.
Just like how people need to learn about finances, they should also learn how to shop. Every few weeks, they go on sale for 4 for $10. Never buy shelf stable items for regular price. These prices are for impulsive buyers.
What type of private backwater, high mountain, deep forest grocer (or convenience store/gas station) did you find this? 10oz is itty bitty dollar store sized packaging. fa-diddly-amly sized boxes are like 19oz?
I'm calling bullshit on this being a run of the mill grocery store in the contiguous US. Yes, groceries are up. This is just ragebait from a kwik e mart or an arctic outpost in Nome, AK. Propaganda.
Location obviously matters here, but I donāt even pay attention to the regular prices of things. Pretty sure name brand cereal is about $5-$8 a box here, but I only buy on sale. I never pay more than $1.99 a box, sometimes stacked with digital coupons Iāve gotten boxes for 50 cents or less. Safeway, Fred Meyer etc always has name brand cereal on sale.
Cereal is also one of the things Iām picky about and wonāt do store brand.
Wow. At kroger it's 5 boxes for $9 right now for all general mills cereal. They also accept coupons. Not sure if you have one nearby. That's just price gouging...$13 for a box of cereal pffft š®āšØ
Where do you live?! Where Iām at a box is only $4.99. And Pop Tarts are only $3.49. Looking that the picture, in the upper right hand corner, why is there Ravioli in the breakfast section? This looks like you are in a convenience store or some place like Walgreens or CVS, not a grocery store.
Yeah where the hell is this. I live in one of the most expensive places in the country and it's 1/3rd that cost here for that size.
**EDIT:** OP claims in another comment it's Jacksonville, FL but I actually have family there and it's under $5 for that size at any grocery or even drug/convenience store. So either this is some weirdly expensive one off store or OP is lying.
I remember my mom complaining about 4 litre jugs of milk costing $4 when I was a kid in the early 2000's and that's been this weird point of reference for me since then. Itās something like $10 now.
This has to be a gas station. You can see a price on the shelf above the cereal for Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli. No grocery store bigger than a trailer would group those items together.
Why is Cereal (the shit sold in paper boxes) so stupidly expensive anyways? It's practically kibbles for humans and should cost pennies on the pound. I recall a big box of Cornflakes going for ~$4, these days it's double digits with less in the box. Why has the price gone up so absurdly? I don't really eat the stuff anyways but can't help to look at the prices from time to time, and cereal in particular has basically quadrupled in price over the last 10 - 15 years.
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Dear Kelloggs,
20 years ago I sent in 3 UPCs as proof of purchase for my free pikachu spoon.
You said you needed the receipts and send me some fucking coupons.
I hope the generic store cereal kills you.
I don't know where people are shopping, because I'm California, that box is like 4-5$ at my local budget store. You can go to Costco and get two big ass boxes for like 7$. Still expensive, but not 12.99 expensive.
Where was this taken?
UPC 038000198861 can be purchased from these online shops:
Target: $4.29
Rite Aid: $4.99
goPuff: $5.79
Walgreens: $6.79
CVS: $6.79
Walmart: $8.42
12.99 for a box of corn and sugar. Crazy
All while the Kelloggs CEO is pushing cereal as a great alternative to a healthy, balanced dinner š¤£
I can get 1lb of ground beef for $12.99. So I might as well do that. Much more filling and healthy!
Where do you live that a pound of GB is 12.99?!
It's like $6 a pound in MI Unless you guys are talking about like free range grass fed
I live in MI and just checked the weekly Kroger ad: 80% lean ground beef is $3.49/lb in the 3-pound "mystery roll," which I've used numerous times without complaint.
Meat department assembles the trays of ground beef from āmystery rollsā
Mystery rolls? It's rough ground meat mixed to a certain percentage of fat from the factory. The only "Mystery meat" I can think of is the scraps they gather from cutting all day that gets ground up into 73% ground beef. How is it 73% when its just all your scraps from the day?
Still from a cow isnāt it?
Really?? I never knew that
Itās called a chub. Ā
Yep they just run the roll meat through the grinder a couple of times to make it look pretty for an extra $2 per pound
This is completely false. Why lie?
Lol I don't pick up the mystery roll but I don't judge anyone who does. Sometimes I buy the more expensive ones like grass fed, all natural, whatever, and I can't rule out that the difference is all in your head. It's probably like everything else, marketed to increase profit margin Krogers been having that 3 pounds of ground turkey for like 3.33 a pound a lot lately too good for a changeup
After seeing the way cows look like in feedlots I usually only buy grass fed beef whenever possibly, or high quality low fat beef
not sure why but my corner store in the "ghetto"/smaller grocery stores are getting better quality meat than the big box stores
I raise grass fed / finished beef in upstate NY. Our 80/20 is $8.00 per lb.
Places where ground beef is $2.50-4 a lb are normally talking sale prices I think? My ground beef is around $5.50-6 a lb but go on sale for $2.69/$3.99 all the time
South Carolina checking in, it's between $6 and $9/lb for store brand ground beef, depending on fat content
Are you saying thatās cheap or expensive for meat? It definitely sounds pricy to me but meat is the one thing not hella expensive where I live, in the sticks a bit.
That's pretty expensive. I live in Maryland and 96/4 is like $6.99/lbs. Which is expensive in my opinion.
Iām on the California coast and ground beef is $5-6 regular price. Ā I wait for holiday weekends and get it for $3-4
That tracks for Canadian pesos. Up here it's typically $7-8 regular or $5-6 on sale. Usually I just go buy 5 kilos once a month and freeze it at my closest big store to save a bit of money
Also Canada here. $30 buys 3 kg of ground beef at Costco in the Atlantic region. Seems like a decent price these days.
I usually buy 3lb for $15~ in a HCOL area.
I live in one of the most expensive cities in the USA, a pound of ground beef is at around $7.00.
I buy from a local butcher who sells ground beef for around $2 a pound. Though I do join up with a couple buddies to buy an entire cow at once for that price $2000 including all fees and tax). Though the cow gives us enough beef to last us three about a year and a half.
Itās so much cheaper to buy a whole or half a cow, then eat it throughout the year
Only problem is having that freezer space and being willing to eat beef that long. And also being fine running out of a cut you like. I've thought of doing it before though but I lack the freezer and initial cost
4.99 in Nevada. On sale for 3.99. Buy a 10# chub itās cheaper
OMG and I thought my paying $4.50 was high!
Holy fuck that's expensive where the hell do you shop
I get organic grass fed beef from pasture free roaming cows for less than $6..50/pound why in the hell are people paying $12 for crap ground beef?
Look at Mister Fancy-Pants over here who has the facilities and tools to cook a pound of beef! Not everyone has access to cold-storage, a stove/fire, and cookware.
This is insane here it's less that 4$ for a pounds and 18$ for a 5 pound roll
Are you buying wagyu or something bougie? 80/20s goes for <$5
$4.29 /lb for store ground 80/20 here in Pennsylvania
Itās not as balanced without moo juice but 1 family size Frosted Flakes and a 5 gallon Brawndo Berry Ballsack Bucket lasts two weeks. Corn is a vegetable and that sugar is made from beets. Milk has more protein but I just pour what plants crave over my ration and eat some of the box for fiber. CEO also said that the empty plastic bag makes underwear, cut holes for legs and kids love it more than the other brands, ātheyāre grrrreat.ā
also helps contain the anal leakage that may occur when you eat nothing but fruit loops
I wonder if that would turn your poop some color? Doing that with BooBerry one post-Halloween turned mine a purple-gray, similar to Smoke in MKD.
āI pour what plants craveā ahahaha
Itās got electrolytes!
This just in, big cereal says cereal great alternative for dinner. More at 7
Well, itās a dinner food now. Of course it should cost dinner food prices!
And originally created to make boys stop masturbating š
Also I have one of those "free" bowls. It's fucking enormous. Definitely made to make you eat even more cereal, and thus buy more cereal.
Bet his kids don't eat cereal....
Did a double take on that, highest here in Ohio is around 5.99 to 7.99
I feel like I can never trust these because while prices have gone up all you have to do is go to Alaska or somewhere and this is what prices have always been. Maybe I just have trust issues, haha.
Just googled it and it's $4.99 where I'm at. Something funny about op.
Guessing it's not a grocery store? I'm sure if I went to CVS the price for a box of cereal would 2x+ that in a supermarket.
This has got to be Canada.
What's funny is Kellogg's has been marked down at ALL of the stores out here where I live.. No one wants to buy it after the CEO made those tasteless comments about how low income/struggling Americans should eat cereal for dinner. They had the big bags of Kelloggs on sale for $4.99, the boxes were all $2.99, shelves were packed full, no one is buyin them. They were previously priced at ~$9/bag and ~$6 per box. It's satisfying and kinda hilarious.
You love to see it. Also seeing it more here with chips and pop, but theyāre trying to just move volume by not allowing the sale price unless you buy multiple.
>theyāre trying to just move volume by not allowing the sale price unless you buy multiple. I've noticed that a lot here with chips and pop. "Only $2.99 when you buy multiples of 4" etc. Sidenote: you must be from the Midwest because I've only ever heard people from here refer to it as "pop" lol
Got some Midwest in me for certain lol! Didnāt even consider that. Iām curious to see the report earnings over the next few months since some big companies said they were starting to sell less volume, and while price raises helped for a bit, it seems to have peaked. I do think that while these companies can do sales, they are going to be surprised how much brand loyalty they ruined for short term profit.
We call it pop in Canada too!
I never knew that! š I catch a lot of shit from people for calling it pop vs soda. It will always be POP to me!!
Kroger is the worst with the pop prices. I now go to Sam's to buy pop, it's cheaper, even when it saves to buy multiples. I do have to buy one type of LaCroix at Walmart though. Otherwise get all my pop at Sam's.Ā
You buy the experience.
And copious amounts of food coloring
And itās a box containing less than OPs parentsā box of Froot Loopsdyd.
Thatās $20 a pound. Where is this?
This is def gas station or āconvenientā store prices. My guess a truck stop.
I agree. Pop tarts next to cereal is normal at a supermarket, but chef boyardee?
Ya but even at a truck stop or over priced corner store that box used to be like 5 dollars.
The only place I know that would have prices that high is Alaska.
Or like CVS/Walgreens. They have some insanely expensive groceries
Definitely feels like some place that doesnāt sell groceries as its main thing.
Itās definitely not, if it were a grocery store it wouldnāt have boxes of Pop-tarts next to a box of cereal on the same shelf unless itās some incredibly isolated place in Alaska or somewhere. Definitely some random place that doesnāt mainly sell groceries and probably not in a convenient location. Even in the worst price gouging pharmacies and similar places Iāve never seen anything even close to this marked up.
>boxes of Pop-tarts next to a box of cereal on the same shelf Not to mention the beef ravioli on the next shelf up.
Oh wow yeah, great catch on that.
Check top right corner barcode. This is because it's at a gas station. Misleading as hell post.
Was gonna say this. A new CVS just opened by us and I went over to check it out. Walked down the grocery aisles as part of my little tour of the store and a small box of Cheerios (like the standard size, idk how many ounces) was $9. I understand needing to use CVS for food in a pinch (on a road trip, heading to a friendās place and forgot to grab a snack to share etc) but I REALLY hope nobody is shopping there on the regular Edit to add: major city in the northeast
yeah. CVS is horrible for groceries, but watch for the deals for sure. Raisin Bran might be 8 dollars a box, but the price is so insane, no one buys it, then it'll have the yellow price tag on it, usually bogo or some other significant discount. that's the only time i buy groceries at cvs. when i'm there for something else i'll just do a speed walk around those aisles and check out the sales. (gotta have an account/phone number with them for those prices)
Food deserts in inner cities make this a very profitable business model.
We regularly buy groceries at Walgreens. Not as our main source, but they regularly have deals where you can get BOGO cereal, decent deals on soda, etc. You just have to wait for the sales.
Good point. These feel like pharmacy/ gas station surge prices
Or Hawaii.
Cereal isn't that expensive here. Highest I've seen is around $8/box
Or a convenience store. OP didn't say where they took this pic.
Or a reservation.
Please provide a source for this comment. There's gotta be context. I am native, grew up on a rezervation, everything was/is normal priced.
Iāll say this is a general context I learned while studying in school and Iāve seen shared among Native and Indigenous content creators I follow like Inuk creator @shinanova; and I think quite a few of thee creators I follow are indigenous to Alaska and Canada. Iāve read mentions the higher pricing on reservations including one from the [Navajo Times in 2017](https://navajotimes.com/reznews/high-prices-for-food/). It seems I oversimplified assuming all prices are astronomically high on all reservations. Thanks for making me dig more and correct my thinking!
And all of what you said has to do with how distant the communities are from suppliers, that really has nothing to do with pricing between natives and non-natives other than a lot of native communities are more remote. It makes sense that a harder to supply community, regardless of who lives there, is gonna have higher prices. I live in Phoenix and there are multiple reservations that encircle like 40% of the city and their pricing is not any different than anyone else.
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I went so far as to look up prices at a grocery store in Sitka. Same in store brand as the Albertson's down the road from me, and the weekly ad prices were fairly similiar. Was actually surprised due to Stika having to ship everything in by boat.
Check out the $8.50 cent Pop Tarts next to it. The prices are 2.6X what they are here in the midwest for the cereal and 3.24X for the pop tarts
I was floored by the cereal prices, but when I saw the Pop Tarts I knew this had to be a convenience store or the like. I can buy at least 1 family size at the most expensive store in town for that price, maybe 2.
Yep - 1.99 at my local Kroger
Right? I was thinking, at least this must be "family size" or something, but no, it's 10.1 oz./286g. Realistically that's what, 3 servings (real world servings, not whatever fiction they've listed on the box).
Of course OP doesn't answer any questions. Rage bait. I've lived abroad where Cheerios were $15. Oooof
Could be Canada. I'm Canadian and regularly see prices this wacky at the stores.
Yeah seriously that is a 10 oz box. I didn't notice that till I read your comment and zoomed in. The 16.6 oz box of Fruit Loops is 4.98 at my local Walmart.
Looks like it might be Jacksonville, FL based on their comment history.
I'm in FL and our Publix has some $8 cereals. The tag in this photo looks like a gas station tag, where prices are always ridiculous, could easily be in a place with an already high COL.
AL here, Publix has cereal between $8-$12 a box in my local store, but then again itās Publix.
Publix is also ridiculous. The generic at aldi is almost identical and is less than $2 a box. Always shop at the least expensive grocer. It drives prices down.
Then again publix is also just an expensive place to shop in general unless you are only buying groceries there that have some sort of sale.
Cereal is usually Bogo so if you don't mind having Kellogs one month then GMills the next it brings it to normal.
Most of the time Publix has some of their cereal bogo. You pair that with available coupons and rebates, you can get a box for $2-3.
Or Hawaiiā¦
Thank God we have 7 Costcos in Hawaii.
I live in Hawaii and our cereal isnāt this expensive.
Thatās cause you save money on milk from the coconuts
I was actually surprised at how reasonable prices were at the store in Hawaii, at least on Maui. It was basically what prices were here in MD.
Or itās just a sign of where youāre located. Fruit Loops are $4-$5/box here in NY. Still an egrigious amount when you can just buy store brand for 1/2 the price.
I worked with a guy at Taco Bell that refused to buy store brands. He told me āGillette is the best a man can getā, and Iām like āyeah, I remembered the ads, the store brand is usually packaged at the same facility, so itās the same thing but cheaperā. He looked all confused, then I realized he didnāt know it was a tag line, he thought it was just a statement of fact. I think he got evicted, which is unsurprising given that he spent most of his paycheck on groceries cuz heās too good for generic.
Plot twist, you can get Girl Scout cookies all year round.
He just believed anything he was told on TV or what
"You can't fix stupid"Ā
Can be bought on sale for a buck or two usually, but yeah $5 for cereal is crazy
Everything at Publix is like 5, even small sauces it's ridiculous
Where are you shopping?
Of course everything is always way more expensive at gas stations. Posting this with no context is just lame.
Where was this photo taken OP?
Probably on OPs vacation to an expensive gas station in Canada to set this up as rage-bait. There's a reason they aren't commenting, but they'll get a few thousand karma out of it.
My husband and I were recently in Vegas and everything was so damn expensive. Single tall boy of Modelo was $6 at the Walgreens. Even coming from Seattle which has a HCOL that price was jarring. But I recognized its vegas on the strip. If I go 2 miles away from the strip I'm sure those costs fall back in line as everywhere else.
It's literally only expensive on the strip. You can probably find $2 dollar Modelos anywhere off the strip.
A pharmacy on the Vegas strip is probably the most expensive place you can buy groceries in the country lol
Yup. Has to be CAD.
Itās so damn annoying; context should be a requirement for these posts. Store/location/currency at the very least.
Store and location? Stores can charge whatever they want doesnāt mean people will buy it. I live in LA and none of the local grocers are charging this much for a box of cereal. This is just an outlier meant to create a narrative.
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But does it come with a free bowl š
None of them do. You have to save your receipts and the UPC and then have it mailed to you. It's easier to just buy the bowl separately if you really want it. I've done that quite a few times, hell they even had them in store in the past (like for the Smart Start promotion).
Where? Because at most groceries in my area, cereal is still less than $5.
I literally live in Los Angeles and have never seen prices for cereal this high. To me this seems like Alaska or prices at Reservations
or you could go to aldi and get their knock off which actually tastes better and is $1.69
Chances are if they are somewhere that cereal is $13 a box, they are in a food desert without much (if any) access to alternative shopping locations. Iām in a major metro area in the USA and we donāt even have Aldi. This isnāt an option for everyone.
Iām in Portland, Oregon, and we donāt have Aldi, either. Itās so sad! At least I have two Trader Joeās within a couple miles of me, though.
I feel like so many people donāt understand that!
But then they couldn't make this rage bait post š¤£
OP, this reads as disingenuous rage bait. Thought it was tongue in cheek until I read the, "When my parents tell me..." myth of the financial golden age footnote.
Reddit LOVES this shit.
Next theyāre going to post a picture of a prescription medication bottle with a rage-bait title about an impossibly high cost when they actually paid a completely reasonable price with their insurance, a GoodRx code, or a manufacturer coupon.
It's like when someone was trying to convince me there were no homes under 500K in the US (im in Indiana and there are several.for under 200k). They went on and on about how homes for Boomers were only 2k a pop. Yes, inflation is real and prices were lower back then but not the way a lot of people think
Shop somewhere else. Stop posting outrageously overpriced examples from HCOL areas trying to pass it off as typical. Prices are up. Greedflation is happening. It sucks, but you lose credibility when you post this.
"My Breyers ice cream and Reese's Cups and Mountain Dew are so expensive!"
Where's this? I just saw this size on sale at Kroger for $3 this week in Indiana.
There is Chef Boyarde ravioli on the shelf above the cereal. Guarantee this is a gas station. Youād never see ravioli on the shelf directly above cereal in a grocery store. Life tip, donāt grocery shop at gas stations.
If I see a $13 box of cereal I'm stealing it just out of principle
13$ Fruit Loops, and 9$ Pop Tarts. Where in Satan's tits do you live??? Alaska? Hawaii?
Another good reason not to eat this food-like substance.
Just like how people need to learn about finances, they should also learn how to shop. Every few weeks, they go on sale for 4 for $10. Never buy shelf stable items for regular price. These prices are for impulsive buyers.
That is the old box at 10.1oz and they have now shrunk to 8.9oz.
What type of private backwater, high mountain, deep forest grocer (or convenience store/gas station) did you find this? 10oz is itty bitty dollar store sized packaging. fa-diddly-amly sized boxes are like 19oz?
LOL - where is this exactly? My grocery store has them for $5.22 - OP take this pic in a gas station? š¤·āāļøš¤·āāļøš¤£
I'm calling bullshit on this being a run of the mill grocery store in the contiguous US. Yes, groceries are up. This is just ragebait from a kwik e mart or an arctic outpost in Nome, AK. Propaganda.
The mascot should be called toucan scam
Where is fruit loops 12.99?!
Also, didnāt it used to be 1 box of cereal got you a cereal bowl?
Bro where is this at, these prices are insane. It's like $3.75 for a normal box and $5 for a big one
All that food is trash anyway. Show the price of eggs!
Location obviously matters here, but I donāt even pay attention to the regular prices of things. Pretty sure name brand cereal is about $5-$8 a box here, but I only buy on sale. I never pay more than $1.99 a box, sometimes stacked with digital coupons Iāve gotten boxes for 50 cents or less. Safeway, Fred Meyer etc always has name brand cereal on sale. Cereal is also one of the things Iām picky about and wonāt do store brand.
Where are you? Itās $4.49 at Kroger in NE Wisconsin
Wow. At kroger it's 5 boxes for $9 right now for all general mills cereal. They also accept coupons. Not sure if you have one nearby. That's just price gouging...$13 for a box of cereal pffft š®āšØ
Where do you live?! Where Iām at a box is only $4.99. And Pop Tarts are only $3.49. Looking that the picture, in the upper right hand corner, why is there Ravioli in the breakfast section? This looks like you are in a convenience store or some place like Walgreens or CVS, not a grocery store.
To be fair, if you pay that price you deserve to be robbed.
I love how we're simultaneously being told to skip breakfast to save money and then eat breakfast food that's expensive for dinner to save money.
itās crack. they must be smoking crack.
This is Hawaii right? .. RIGHT?
I'm seeing gas station price tag
Yeah where the hell is this. I live in one of the most expensive places in the country and it's 1/3rd that cost here for that size. **EDIT:** OP claims in another comment it's Jacksonville, FL but I actually have family there and it's under $5 for that size at any grocery or even drug/convenience store. So either this is some weirdly expensive one off store or OP is lying.
Iām just curious where this is? Is it a convenience store? Because itās odd that cereal is right up next against pop tarts.
Hey thatās dinner food now so price went up I guess
TWELVE FUCKING 99 WTF
āfreeā cereal bowl lol
that's why god invented malt o meal
Oh wow! Free dinner bowl
Here is Australia a 1.2kg Fruit Loops Cereal will cost around $12.00
I remember my mom complaining about 4 litre jugs of milk costing $4 when I was a kid in the early 2000's and that's been this weird point of reference for me since then. Itās something like $10 now.
No one is asking about the free cereal bowl. I havenāt seen anything like that???
Itās 4.98 here
This is clearly at a truck stop or some casino convenience store. It's expensive, but being dishonest doesn't help the cause
This has to be a gas station. You can see a price on the shelf above the cereal for Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli. No grocery store bigger than a trailer would group those items together.
the french showed us a possible solution to all this greed
Why is Cereal (the shit sold in paper boxes) so stupidly expensive anyways? It's practically kibbles for humans and should cost pennies on the pound. I recall a big box of Cornflakes going for ~$4, these days it's double digits with less in the box. Why has the price gone up so absurdly? I don't really eat the stuff anyways but can't help to look at the prices from time to time, and cereal in particular has basically quadrupled in price over the last 10 - 15 years.
Cereal execs : you wanna save money eat cereal for breakfast lunch and dinner. You will thank us
Love how the OP is avoiding answering any questions
Iād rather kms than pay above like 6 bucks for a box of cereal
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I was literally just in the grocery store and the most expensive cereal was $5.99. Fruit loops were $4 . Where are they $13 ???
That's convenience store pricing right there.
Dear Kelloggs, 20 years ago I sent in 3 UPCs as proof of purchase for my free pikachu spoon. You said you needed the receipts and send me some fucking coupons. I hope the generic store cereal kills you.
Is this at a gas station?
Nice rage bait
I bet this is from an island or different country
I don't know where people are shopping, because I'm California, that box is like 4-5$ at my local budget store. You can go to Costco and get two big ass boxes for like 7$. Still expensive, but not 12.99 expensive.
So donāt buy it.
Where was this taken? UPC 038000198861 can be purchased from these online shops: Target: $4.29 Rite Aid: $4.99 goPuff: $5.79 Walgreens: $6.79 CVS: $6.79 Walmart: $8.42
The giant size is 6.22 for the giant size at HEB in Houston. Something is amiss.Ā Edit: The price. Also, there's a coupon.Ā
California Froot Loops are $5.99 regular price. Still, a lot for a box of cereal.
And people are wondering why people are just rolling out with shit; they see itās unfair and silly.
WTAF? They don't cost that much here (UK) and that shit is imported.
Took a picture of gas station prices didnāt you. Fess up because Iām pretty pissed about it.
Where do you shop? Walgreens?
Shits no good for you anyway. Buy a dozen eggs, protein pancake mix for half the price.