Prices are falling, but not for food.
Groceries remain a "pain point."
CBS News,
by
Aimee Picchi
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/14/2023 8:00:02 PM
Although inflation has fallen for seven straight months, prices for one item that is a major part of every American's budget continues to rise: the food we eat at home. Grocery inflation picked up in January, even as overall U.S. prices fell slightly from the previous month, according to federal labor data. Prices for food at home — what people buy at retailers to prepare their own meals — jumped 11.3% in January from a year earlier, the Labor Department said on Tuesday. Many households continue to feel the pinch, even as the overall inflation rate is slowly receding, thanks to lower
Reply 1 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/14/2023 8:11:36 PM (No. 1403007)
I just filled my gas tank today, and noticed that the gas had increased twenty cents per gallon since I filled up two weeks ago.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
john56 2/14/2023 8:12:52 PM (No. 1403009)
Prices are NOT falling. Maybe ( and just maybe) they aren't going up as fast,but they're still going up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
downnout 2/14/2023 8:21:54 PM (No. 1403012)
The best thing this feckless administration could do to curb inflation would be to allow the oil companies to drill. High energy prices affect everything. It wasn’t a coincidence that inflation started going up right after our veggie-in-chief cut off drilling.
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If people can't afford gas, or they want to stretch what supply they have, they can take public transportation if it is available. But the choke point to me is always going to be food. That is the devious and nasty way they will try controlling the public eventually. Plenty for them always though. Explains why Bill Gates has become such a big landowner as well. Buying up viable farmland then leaving it fallow keeps the supply of food stuffs in short supply.
This is all deliberate, and evilly so.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
watashiyo 2/14/2023 8:22:10 PM (No. 1403014)
Supply and demand issue. Consumers stop buying hard goods and they are more focused on feeding themselves. Food costs are up and non-essential goods are down.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
formerNYer 2/14/2023 8:37:36 PM (No. 1403030)
I'm surprised the Commie Broadcast System didn't blame DJT, they blamed for everything but the current crap-for-brains-in-chief.
They even blame climate change and they wonder why nobody listens to them anymore. Hey, CBS if I want to be lied to I'll call my first wife.
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#5 hit the nail on the head inflation is down because the things they use to measure inflation don't include any of the things you HAVE to buy. So, since the prices for things which people HAVE to buy, energy, food, housing, are up, people are buying a LOT less of the things which they use the price of to track inflation.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/14/2023 9:50:43 PM (No. 1403074)
Gasoline came down just a little. What else came down. Not my car insurance or my home insurance, or my fuel bill or electric bill, definitely not my food bill.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 2/15/2023 12:13:19 AM (No. 1403149)
In our area gas was $3.14 this morning. This afternoon it was $3.45. Nothing is going down. I like El Cheapo potato chips for a snack. They were $1.10 for a Pringles style can. Now they are $1.60. Even chicken, formerly pretty reasonable, is through the roof. I love fast food chicken but will not pay those prices. Even a political hack can see that nothing is coming down, if they bother to look.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/15/2023 4:02:17 AM (No. 1403188)
It's not the price of the food that concerns us as much as the quality, near future availabity and the ongoing efforts by bad actors in this country attempting to destroy chicken farms, making good farm land unavailable for use by farmers and the chicken feed campaign to restrict the production of eggs. Something evil this way comes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/15/2023 4:07:42 AM (No. 1403189)
Also, Biden continues to cite inflation around the world to justify the inflation here. As #3 states, Biden's war on fossil fuels is what caused the whole worldwide mess. Closing down pipelines, restricting drilling and causing refinery "accidents" is the root cause behind all of it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/15/2023 8:11:25 AM (No. 1403290)
For "seasoned citizens" regardless of an 8% cola, they are feeling pressure just to survive paying for food. rent. taxes and the like. The Vegetable who is 80 years old ought to have to live under those constraints. He live in a world of confusion and delusion with his handlers telling him what to do and say.
Even when others in government make their reports, NOTHING is ever bad-- just more lies to cover up the latest scandal or failure-- never held to account!
Always a distraction from the distraction that was the distraction from the real distraction of the current distraction to avoid the last distraction prior to the distraction before the coming distraction that will distract from all the other distractions.......
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
kangus 2/15/2023 9:33:46 AM (No. 1403372)
From $095 gallon to $4.16 a gallon for propane, gas was at $1.85 now at $3.68. There is no battery powered tractor, you can not feed livestock without fuel, you can't deliver anything with out fuel yet the anti-carbon freaks that can not show any sea level raise or temperature raise other than with 'computer' simulation (garbage in and out) are making a fortune (Al Gore and buddies).
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/15/2023 9:36:54 AM (No. 1403376)
Prices, like taxes and utility rates, will not come down significantly, if at all.
During the zeroe's admin local businesses in my area began adding "gasoline delivery fees" to their sales. When gasoline prices declined those costs did not disappear - only the billing statement did.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/15/2023 5:55:56 PM (No. 1403764)
Covid put many small groceries out of business. Now the big guys can raise the prices. Atlas Shrugged.
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Article blames anyone and everyone for grocery prices except the real culprit - Biden.