FriedRiceNSpice
Captain
Dude, do you live in the US? If you do, then you should not even have to ask that.
American Economics Thread
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broadsword
Brigadier
There is Lala Land and there is Sleepyland.
For a long time while I was in US, food inflation was minimal for me (I left in April 2020).
I got olive garden pasta pass for 3 years in a row (one of them is a yearly pass, j just ate there pretty much every single day).
There were also app deals like McD premium sandwich for a dollar.
I think Costco hotdog is still the same price if you want to say US has no inflation. But there are in general far less deals than before.
There were also movie pass that allow people to watch a movie per day for 9.99 per month. I saw a movie every single day whenever possible.
I think the level of deals is far less now due to inflation. Last time I was in US in Oct 2023, I was still able to sign up new McD account to get some new user deal. However it does get smarter in not letting multiple devices logging on different accounts unlike years ago. The deal is also not as good. But it did feed me for almost a week (I had free breakfast from hotel) so I just eat one more meal in addition of hotel breakfast
I got olive garden pasta pass for 3 years in a row (one of them is a yearly pass, j just ate there pretty much every single day).
There were also app deals like McD premium sandwich for a dollar.
I think Costco hotdog is still the same price if you want to say US has no inflation. But there are in general far less deals than before.
There were also movie pass that allow people to watch a movie per day for 9.99 per month. I saw a movie every single day whenever possible.
I think the level of deals is far less now due to inflation. Last time I was in US in Oct 2023, I was still able to sign up new McD account to get some new user deal. However it does get smarter in not letting multiple devices logging on different accounts unlike years ago. The deal is also not as good. But it did feed me for almost a week (I had free breakfast from hotel) so I just eat one more meal in addition of hotel breakfast
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
We don’t have Dollar Trees around my area but they’re owned by the same company that runs the Dollar Store so I assume they sell the same stuff. I use to buy cheap snacks like cookies there. There were these chocolate wafers separately sealed two per package six total in box. One day I buy them and there’s suddenly one less. I believe they removed another since. Same box as always but now two less than the box can fit.
Improvements in technology also artificially lower the official CPI numbers. Beginning sometime in the late 1990s, US official CPI calculations started incorporating hedonic quality adjustments.
Consider the example of televisions. TVs are far better today than they were 20 years ago. With the hedonic quality adjustment, .
The average TV sold in 2004 cost ~$400, so according to official BLS inflation numbers for TVs, people should be spending only $14.65 on TVs of the same quality today. Of course, there are no TVs costing $14.65 today. In fact, the typical TV sold today likely cost more than the typical TVs sold in 2004.
FriedRiceNSpice
Captain
Family dollar, dollar general is much worst than dollar tree! Dollar tree was used to be one dollars until a few years ago. Everything 1 dollar. Yes. They did cut the portion over time, even before the recent inflation (to be fair)
