US Online Grocery Prices Plunge the Most on Record in August

First it's look everything is getting cheaper and don't worry about what you're actually seeing at stores. Now you are telling me how to spend my time. Lol, no thanks. I will continue doing what I feel like doing and that is browse Reddit when I'm at the gym or taking a shit.

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Prop-a-ganda-ist647@reddit

Are you trolling? Be honest

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Simple-Dingo6721@reddit

Your username checks out. Be honest.

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Prop-a-ganda-ist647@reddit

What? Unpack that one for me boss

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Simple-Dingo6721@reddit

Your Orwellian invalidation of one’s lived experience is corroborated by your conformist focus on the consensus of the status quo.

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Prop-a-ganda-ist647@reddit

Okay, so I gather from your knowledge that I have a conformist focus on consensus around the status quo. For my learning please help me understand: 1. What status quo am I invested in upholding here? 2. How did I try to get the other user to conform?

I’ll get to the “lived experience” bit after.

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Attilashorde@reddit

Why would I be trolling when I made a factual statement? I replied to the post that I didn't believe stuff was getting cheaper. I used an example from my experience and that seems to have somehow upset you. You probably need to seek therapy if you care so much about how others feel but that would be what I would do you do you 👍

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lukabrazi3@reddit

What the bell is an online grocery store.

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silversatire@reddit

Either an online storefront or an online marketplace. Aldi, for example, is very upfront in its disclaimer that prices on the website are more expensive than the price in store. If you're online shopping through Instacart or Uber or any of that group, you're probably paying a 30% premium or so compared to going to the store.

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agent_flounder@reddit

Online only.

And as soon as you see the graph in the article ... You see the big drop was preceded by a big spike. So prices are back to where they were before the spike.

Total bullshit article.

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agent_flounder@reddit

Screenshot from the archive link posted in the comments:

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alternative5@reddit

Your individual anecdotal experience dosent invalidate a trend or aggregate evaluation of data from across the country. While we mean you and I( I live in SoCal and Groceries have on average remained the same) the rest of the countrt might be having a reduction on these goods. If you want to attack something, attack the methodology used to accrue the data if you dont like the conclusion drawn.

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daviddjg0033@reddit

I noticed food prices dropping. 90% of the cost of big agriculture food production is fossil fuels: from fertilizer to pesticides to refrigerating trucking to grocer or restaraunt supplier and the leg home. I am curious to see what food prices drop and if any nation states decide to hoard grains during this period of deflation

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Emergency-Freedom140@reddit

What period of deflation? Where TF do you live? Is it on planet Earth?

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daviddjg0033@reddit

Gas prices are down. Grocery prices started coming down last month. The month before, fast food, which I do not eat, started $5 meals again. I live in Miami area Florida

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Absinthe_Parties@reddit

They are down because the election is coming up. cant have expensive gas and groceries if you want your party to stay in command. Watch them spike again after they announce the new president.

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daviddjg0033@reddit

Contrary to popular belief, the president has little influence in global sweet light crude markets. The gas prices would be even lower if we had more refineries- and you have to have down time to service these. Carl Icahn bought negative oil futures for delivery during the pandemic because he own refineries. The US is pumping more oil than any other - more than Saudi Arabia (if you had gas lines every other day your last name letter was the ticket) you would have never thought the US would become the king. We discovered Shale oil from ND to PA to CO/NM/TX. The US pumped more barrels of oil in the past several years than all of history combined.

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IJizzOnRedditMods@reddit

Just bought groceries for my family of 4 and I'm calling bullshit

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AdditionalAd9794@reddit

It's online sales, and by plunge they mean a %3 drop

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IJizzOnRedditMods@reddit

I only buy online and I'll start cumming with excitement when it hits 30%

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ShittingOutPosts@reddit

Up 50%, down 3%.

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ShittyStockPicker@reddit

I’d believe that. I got a 50% discount t on pork belly because it was marked wrong at Costco, though. Amazing get!

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ShittingOutPosts@reddit

Nice find!

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stabthecynix@reddit

Just make sure you do it on the mods. 👍

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IJizzOnRedditMods@reddit

They'll all look like Venkman after he was slimed

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DoktorSigma@reddit

I'm afraid that you should see a doctor if you're jizzing green stuff.

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Girafferage@reddit

I would see that as more of a time to worry than be excited.

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chicagotodetroit@reddit

Same. Walmart's eggs are 3x as much as they were a couple weeks ago.

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arrow74@reddit

I've seen some stuff going down lately, makes me nervous a crash is coming. But what's going down has been inconsistent

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cansado_americano@reddit

Way is adobe tracking grocery prices?

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Sink-Frosty@reddit

I'm tired of big media blatantly lying about the state of the economy.

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Andr1yTheOne@reddit

Where do I do online grocery shopping lol

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CostofRepairs@reddit

Bullshit. Walmart: $6bags of Doritos? $4 for 4# of store brand sugar?

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Green_Protection474@reddit

I'm calling major BS

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AWE2727@reddit

Who buys groceries online? Really that's a thing? WOW! 🤯

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skyflyer8@reddit (OP)

It's been around, but really took off in popularity with covid. The prices are typically atleast a little higher than if you actually went to the store though, so I usually hear that people do it out of convenience/time saving or some have said it helps them avoid impulse purchases at the store.

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TodaysSJW@reddit

It’s a Bloomberg article. Consider the source and who benefits from a fake story like this.

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ResolutionMaterial81@reddit

More Jedi Mind Tricks?? 🙄

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DoktorSigma@reddit

"There are not the high prices you're looking for"

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ResolutionMaterial81@reddit

Exactly!! 💯 🤣

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Raddish3030@reddit

My grocery bill don't agree with you.

I'm guessing everyone else ain't suddenly saying they are getting pre 2020 quantity, quality and cost.

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DoktorSigma@reddit

Hey OP is just the messenger. MSM lying through its teeth is a kind of intel too. :)

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LazyCoffee@reddit

What is this BS?

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jugo5@reddit

Looks like all that government threatening and decreased spending finally did its thing.

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Strange_Lady_Jane@reddit

Do better, Bloomberg.

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Confident-Belt4707@reddit

Whole foods went down for about 2 weeks and then shot back up

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speedx10@reddit

Bullshit I sell my bones to buy apples.

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TheShadowuFear@reddit

Aldi raised a bunch of their prices in OH. Sign of the times. Their thr cheapest place to shop...

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oceanwave4444@reddit

..False lol

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wordstrappedinmyhead@reddit

Archive link in case anyone is paywalled: https://archive.is/LAfSE

And yeah, the article is bullshit. They're looking at ONLINE grocery prices, not what people are paying in stores. "Online grocery shopping accounts for about 12% of the national total."

And a 3% drop when prices on stuff is up 50%-60%-70% is laughable.

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beginner75@reddit

Stop buying junk food .

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CapablePrize4352@reddit

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Groceries have gone up a negligible amount for me but I buy all whole foods (but not organic or anything fancy). Learning how to cook with whole foods will save anyone not just on food but on healthcare bills too