'Home Alone' fans shocked by almost 250
percent increase in grocery prices since
iconic shopping trip
Fox News,
by
Madeline Coggins
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/9/2023 2:44:33 AM
After being left alone for the holidays, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister famously went grocery shopping in the 1990 classic "Home Alone," purchasing a large haul of food and everyday household items for under $20.
With today's prices, however, McCallister would need a lot more in his piggy bank and Americans are taking notice.
Items including a half gallon of milk, a half gallon of orange juice, a TV dinner, bread, frozen mac and cheese, laundry detergent, cling wrap, toilet paper, a pack of army men and dryer sheets cost the character, played by Macaulay Culkin,
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plomke 12/9/2023 3:31:15 AM (No. 1613605)
Thanks Joe!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/9/2023 4:41:51 AM (No. 1613618)
'Member when you could order a McDonald's burger, fries and drink and get change back from your dollar? Now it's $18 for a Big Mac meal....For this you can thank every Dem and RINO who didn't see any problem with spending the country into oblivion over the last 50 years. Damn you all!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OhioNick 12/9/2023 5:01:43 AM (No. 1613627)
Groceries don't cost anything if you strolled across our open border. And by the way, how exactly does Joe Biden get away with giving away so many freebies to invading non-citizens?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/9/2023 5:03:12 AM (No. 1613628)
Twenty dollars barely gets you a bag of medium grade dog food. Thirty trillion dollars in debt is not just a government spending spree, it's a country killer. Worst of all, we have nothing to show for it except a bigger government full of morons and criminals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 12/9/2023 7:44:35 AM (No. 1613692)
"...now Marty, I want you to go across the street, go in and get a Pepsi. Here's a fifty."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/9/2023 8:57:47 AM (No. 1613737)
Was looking at the debt clock the other day and they had a graphic showing the value of the dollar since its initial creation back in 1913. It is worth only 3 cents now. Don't know if it's true.
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cor-vet 12/9/2023 9:52:39 AM (No. 1613778)
But the people responsible for this inflation, have stolen enough to be untouched by the higher prices! I'm betting that most of the political and the mega-rich have never seen the inside of a grocery, and some accountant pays their gas and utility bills when they arrive.
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Pinkpanther 12/9/2023 10:21:17 AM (No. 1613800)
The prices never go back down either. Look at the price of a large bag of dog food as shown on the movie “National Lampoons Christmas Vacation” vs now. The price has tripled since the 1980s. Stolen elections have consequences and if the dems cheat and steal this election we better do something about it or that’s the nail in the coffin of this country.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/9/2023 11:04:02 AM (No. 1613831)
This is the result of the Feds authorizing the conglomeration of corporations further decreasing competition. There were once hundreds of grocery chains in the USA, but today, sadly, there are but a few. A lot of competition keeps prices at their lowest. There has been a steady consolidation of not just grocery stores, but distributors, wholesalers, and even farms/ranches/stockyards/etc., resulting in fewer and fewer "entities" controlling major segments of the entire nation's food supply. All of this has happened as Americans slept. It's time for the Courts to retrieve their, "Trust Buster Hammer," and go to town on all these conglomerates.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimBob 12/9/2023 12:26:08 PM (No. 1613868)
Off-the-chain Government spending is the underlying driver.
As I understand it, every 'fiat' (value set by agreement) currency in history has eventually failed via inflation.
Every. Single. One.
In our case, I saw inflation take off in the early 1970's when the Arabs quit fighting amongst themselves long enough to set up OPEC. The price of a gallon of gasoline went from 29.9 CENTS to up to around a dollar. This tripling of fuel prices increased the cost to produce and transport everything, and things did not settle down again until the prices were more-or-less back in proportion to each other..... and the value of the Dollar was reduced to about 1/3 or so of its previous value.
Prices were pretty stable when Trump was in office -remember inflation was BELOW the Fed's 'target rate' of 2%- until The HairSniffer's handlers got their evil mitts on the levers of power. Their first thing was to start choking off the fuel supply, and just like in the '70's, the cost of production and transport took off, the price of everything took off, and the result is that the Dollar is worth less and less every day.
Combine this with their off-the-chain spending..... "A Billion here, a few Billion there"..... does Congress have any ability to stop this? It seems the Administration just dishes out Billions of dollars at their whim, deliberately wrecking what little value the Dollar has left. The Media won't report it, but it is obvious that the evil Administration is carrying out Lenin's instructions:
"The Surest Way to Attack the Capitalist State is to Debauch the Currency."
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