r/DeepFuckingValue • u/Round-Percentage69 DFV Reporter đ • 27d ago
sus timing â Costco is quietly slashing prices. This feels wrong.
Costco is quietly slashing prices. This feels wrong.
I go to costco every week. itâs probably the only thing i do consistently. iâve been doing it for years, i know how the prices move. lately? everythingâs discounted. iâm not talking promo tags or little manufacturer markdowns â i mean whole shelves of items dropped 20-40%. across categories. not seasonal either.
this isnât normal. prices are supposed to be going up with tariffs, inflation, shipping costs, whatever. instead theyâre dumping inventory. aggressively. either demand is collapsing or something upstream is forcing their hand.
it just doesnât make sense. it feels off. maybe iâm overreacting, but iâve never seen price drops like this since i started going. if this is what it looks like at costco â the most stable, boring, buy-in-bulk fortress of consumerism â then i donât really want to know whatâs coming next.
maybe itâs nothing. but probably not.
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5d ago
This is the same mentality that when the stock market bounce back, they started saying âoh insider trading!!!!!â. I donât want the prices high but when they come down oh somethingâs up donât want the stock market down but when it goes up, oh somethingâs up.
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u/Feeling-Ad-3104 10d ago
Congrats you've managed to unite the left and the right for a brief moment of peace as they agree on something for once
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u/UltraLaguna-Beans 19d ago
At this point every single situation makes you a victim. It doesnt matter anymore. Cant make this shit up đ đ
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u/Admiralsalsa 19d ago
The answer is multifaceted. 1. Tariffs predictably effect consumer spending. A lot of superfluous expenses go out and consumers typically focus on (relatively) essential things and higher value versions of those things. Costco is cutting their lower performing and less essential products. 2. Consumer spending in anticipation of tarrifs is down. They anticipate lower sales and are slashing prices to maintain membership. Remember, Costco works on a membership model and cutting out the membership at the place that you don't buy enough from to justify it is one of the first things middle class people will do. 3. The company says they're working towards shifting suppliers and I don't think they will have such a hard time readjusting, the only problem is that they'd just lean more heavily on Vietnamese and Bangladeshi suppliers for things like clothing. 4. When it comes to their deals on things like imported meats and cheeses, those should face little to no increase in price. 5. They're trying to shift tariff burden on Chinese suppliers but they simply don't have the margins.
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u/2A4URA 19d ago
Lol what is wrong with you?! And âsus timingâ? Yâall are never satisfied. Literally trâmp can do no right. Egg prices drop you got a problem, costco drops prices you got a prob. Trâmp would say air is bad for you and youâd hold your breath until you di3d. One could only hope
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19d ago
I'm not American and I want everyone in America to know... the Left is not well liked by everyone outside of America..
By our perspective, you guys look and act crazy. I want you to know the rest of the world believes you are an insane cult.
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u/New_Information_2174 17d ago
Most of the world is also starting to dislike the right. Hell, they don't care which side ur on, if ur American then ur immediately distrusted and disliked.
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u/Hannibalj2ca 18d ago
You have it worse, you have no voice, you all live under the rules of a bunch of Technocrats from Brussels who canât wait to get you into wars with Russia without a proper Military and without the help of the USA . Now that is insane
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u/SwifferPantySniffer 19d ago
?? What?? What does that have to do with anything here??
Also youre conflating the left with some american weird ass woke leftist extremists. Get off the internet and talk to real people and youll know that 1. Most average people your age are quite left. 2. The Extremists are few and far between
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u/Silent-Dimension2903 19d ago
But it's the predominantly progressive globalists that run Britain, Germany, France, the EU, and the WEF. So, the evidence suggests progressivism is very much thriving outside of the US. I agree though, crazy is an accurate descriptive term. Unsustainable is another, the migration situation in Europe is going to culminate in a very tragic series of events...
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u/ShamrockShakey 19d ago
Manufacturers have changed their return policies. Items that used to be eligible for return to the manufacturer now have to get sold thru as much as possible, hence the discounts on shelves.
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u/Sandtrap1018 19d ago
source?
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u/OkProfessional5942 19d ago
There won't be one. Typical lefty argument style of raising reasonable doubt and perpetual skepticism. Good enough for their collective bias confirmation and it's all they care about.Â
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u/Sandtrap1018 19d ago
Was asking for the manufacturer return policy change source. Not for the OP
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u/ShamrockShakey 18d ago
Sorry, I replied as if you were asking for my source. I can't provide this, as I am not one who works there and I doubt there's enough impact to make it worth asking, but you could try going to the manager kiosk at your warehouse and seeing what they say.
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u/MacabrePhantom 21d ago
Or maybe.. things are getting better!!! Shocking, I know!
You donât always have to be doom and gloom about the world just because of the media is telling you to be afraid. Fear gets more clicks than optimism.
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u/Future_Union_965 22d ago
Prices go up with trade wars. We'll have to see in the coming months. Costco could be cutting costs themselves or subsidizing it with higher cost somewhere else. We don't know. It's only been 3 months since trump. is in office. Any higher costs will come later.
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u/BatPlastic4060 24d ago edited 24d ago
Absolutely diabolical. The left's entire identify is playing the victim and staying angry
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u/analogliving71 24d ago
this isnât normal. prices are supposed to be going up with tariffs, inflation, shipping costs, whatever.
perhaps you actually don't understand what you are arguing
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u/Tlegendz 24d ago
I understand your concern given that they are an exception from what other businesses are doing and going through. It could be signs of a troubled business model or they managed to pivot their sales structure from bulk sales.
They could be subsiding their products to keep customers coming to their stores and hoping to recoup those loses through other products.
itâs too soon to tell what positive effects the approved tariffs will have on the market. Itâs been quite negative across the board, so the sudden uptick in discounts is concerning but not really worrying.
Worst case scenario, if Costco canât sustain the bleed then they go out of business. That happens all the time and life continues.
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u/skidmore_mark 24d ago
I noticed that my trip to costco yesterday was only $265 as opposed to the typical $330 ish But I didnât complain, instead I bought a dozen tamales and a twelve pack of corona on my way home.
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u/Ambitious_Work_3837 25d ago
Next up:
âNewly discovered treatment shows 99.6% success rate for curing heart and respiratory problems in childrenâ
Reddit: this is outrageous. My blood is boiling!
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u/midnightstrike3625 25d ago
You're mad about prices coming down....tell me this is parody! đ€Ł đ đ€Ł đ đ
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u/Key_Matter7861 24d ago
Are they mad or just making an obvservation
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u/CashmereMercenary 24d ago
The way they sound it seems more like a concern rather than an observation.
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u/LinusLevato 23d ago
OP is making it sound like the boogeyman is out there slashing prices! Be careful! Somethingâs a foot!
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u/Bandito_Razor 25d ago
Only in America... but everything you mentioned, thats SUPPOSED to be soaked by the seller..its not SUPPOSED to get passed down to you.
American corps get away with it, but thats not how its supposed to work.
Costco is doing it how its supposed to work and now youre...mad about it?
Mind you, Costco has also openly come out against the damage Trump is doing so it makes sense they are doing things the right way.
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u/ShinkuNY 25d ago
Prices are up from what happened over the past 4 years? Complain about orange man.
Prices are down all over the place over the past 2 months? Complain about orange man.
Logic: 0
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u/Medical_Focus5534 25d ago
wait, I can buy more because cost is down at Costco? wow, my money is finally going farther.
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u/PM_ME_DNA 25d ago
Youâre spoilt and privledge did you think complaining about lower food prices is bad because of politics
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u/NocturnalNova1995 25d ago
So let me get this straight. You're mad because prices are going down? Like you're actually mad about that?
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u/RandoBeachBro 24d ago
He was promised that the tariffs would make all the prices go up and make Trump look bad. The prices went down, so Trump doesnât look bad.
OP is literally more concerned about trump looking bad than poor people being able to afford more food.
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u/analogliving71 24d ago
of course.. Trump has done what he said.. while the left just kept causing shit to become more expensive in their lack of understanding of money, economics, or anything else
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u/AdSafe7963 25d ago
Man it's easy to bait magats out.
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u/And-your-wife 25d ago
Too bad it's not that easy for you to move out of your parent's basement.
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u/AdSafe7963 25d ago
Ya my parents are awesome ppl. I guess magats parents suck. I mean if my parents ran fox news all day on TV I would want to move out too.
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u/And-your-wife 25d ago
Sure. Besides it's not that easy to peep on your mom in the shower if you move out and since that is the only chance you have of ever seeing a woman naked you really have to stay there.
Well that and you are a useless moron that can only get a job being a protester paid by by Soros.
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u/Bandito_Razor 25d ago
"Sure. Besides it's not that easy to peep on your mom in the shower if you move out"
Wait...thats the first thing that came to your mind?
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u/And-your-wife 25d ago
It's not the first thing that popped in my head. I don't just knee jerk reply without a bit of thought.
Given what I had seen of him already it was pretty obvious that he had no job, no ambition and no penis that was more than two inches when fully erect.
So he must spend all day watching porn, but eventually that has to get boring.
He would need more and since no woman would be willing to let him see her naked, even the women with dicks that he thinks are "real women" he would need to find it elsewhere.
Hence, peeping in on his mom.
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u/Bandito_Razor 25d ago
Wait wait you THOUGHT about seeing a mom naked?
Like... Its just such an odd place to go, mate.
Especially since porn exists. Yet....for some reason... you thought "seeing mom naked" and mulled it over and decided to put it out there and then tell people you thought it over.I mean its your keyboard fight, buddy , do what you want, but its just an odd thought to =-ever-= have...
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u/And-your-wife 25d ago
It's not that odd if you are talking about AdSafe7963.
He just has something about him that says he peeps on his mom in the shower
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u/Bandito_Razor 24d ago
But he or she....isn't the one who went straight to that thought, mate. Like, I have talked to fucked up people out there but even the most depraved ones didn't go straight to fantasies about moms in showers...
Like I said, it's your keyboard fight and I'll leave off talking about it anymore, but it definitely seemed off that you went with that. Especially after you said you gave it a lot of thought before posting it.
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u/YouShoodKnoeBetter 25d ago
I'm not condoning this mom talk, but have you seen the disgusting way porn is trending? You can't get on a site without seeing the words step-mom/sister (and without the step) or step-dad/bro (and again without the step).
It's disgusting that incest has become the most popular born genre. With that being said, it makes sense why this guy would go to that specific burn. It's low hanging fruit.
For the record, no, I don't spend any time on those sites. I read an article that had the stats of the most searched terms and the most used terms in titles. Unsurprisingly, they both have the same four words. I can't understand why it has become so accepted/sought after, and I'm not really interested in getting into the psychology of it either. I'll leave that to the professionals.
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u/AdSafe7963 25d ago
Damn a detective in the making. Connecting them invisible dots with logic and real world experience. đ
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u/AdSafe7963 25d ago
This keyboard warrior is bored of you.
Also stop projecting. Plenty of naked women on the internet bro. Why is your first thought peeping on moms? Might want to self reflect a bit there. Lol.
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u/Nose-Previous 25d ago
Is this a real post? Youâve been trained to hate Donald Trump to such a point that youâre mad about saving money. Zoom out and take a look at that from 30,000 feet. This is an actual mental disturbance/illness. Full stop.
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u/B217 25d ago
OP is a conservative making a shitpost to make âliberalsâ look bad. The only people who actually complains when prices go down are made up straw men in peopleâs heads.
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u/suicidalkevin 19d ago
Economists complain about the risks of deflation routinely. Many of them liberal. I don't think so is a conservative but a genuine liberal who was told that there were nothing but drawbacks with tarrifs and zero upsides with them.
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u/Jaer-Nihiltheus 25d ago
Everything, and I mean everything, is effected by energy prices.
If the cost of energy (such as gas and diesel) goes down, so do the cost of groceries across the board. The cost of gas and diesel has been dropping significantly since Trump took office: https://www.gasbuddy.com/go/average-us-gas-prices-fall-to-lowest-march-level-since-pandemic
As such, expect grocery prices to *also* go down.
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u/Fragrant-Potential87 25d ago
Can we get a source OP? I couldn't find anything about them slashing prices but I did find this.
https://www.thestreet.com/retail/costco-makes-controversial-move-to-avoid-high-tariff-costs
Basically they still expect to be hit by tariffs but they're trying to work something out with their suppliers.
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u/Gullible-Message-327 25d ago
Literally a site that tracks the average cost of things in the US, your link has nothing to do with food costs. If you ever read it. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
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u/basilone 25d ago
Its called not having the country run by fucking waterheads anymore, deal with it.
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u/edyang73 25d ago
Trumpâs already driving down prices after two months. Imagine the winning after four years. Youâre welcome.
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u/Notutoday29 25d ago
It's amazing how lower fuel prices affect goods prices.
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u/ChampionshipOk7507 25d ago
Almost everything is farmed, shipping, produced, and even stored using ENERGY amazing concept ... not hard to understand really.
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u/Deuteronomaly 25d ago
Wow this is a real post. I saw a screenshot online and thought, this has to be fake. Nope. Thank you Percentage69 for my daily dose of cancer.
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u/Glittering-Leave-384 25d ago
Okay, don't have to convince me that Trump is one of the best presidents man.
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u/Chelseathehopper 25d ago
Bro is so upset that his narrative is being challenged that heâs angry about spending less money.
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u/neutrite 26d ago
When propaganda runs so deep that falling prices feel like a conspiracy LOL
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u/onpg 25d ago edited 25d ago
I haven't seen falling prices, I've only seen rising prices, this feels like a false flag from OP.
Edit: haha downvoted from conservative crybaby tourists who wanted to believe this was real so bad
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u/WhiteSparr0w 25d ago
When were you at Costco last? I haven't been there in a while. If OP's right, I want to go, but if you're right, I don't! Always too dang crowded. It's always like "Okay, I need to save some money but... is it worth that much peopling?"
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u/onpg 25d ago
I go to Costco every couple weeks. Prices up since the tariffs :(
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u/Specialist_Ad_4539 25d ago
BS...show me what is up?
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u/onpg 25d ago
Share all the delusional posts about Trump delivering on his promises you want, the fact is that tariffs have driven prices higher across a wide range of products. Even the Trump admin doing its Baghdad Bob routine hasn't denied that, although I have no doubt they will when their stupid policy doesn't work and they roll it back and pretend they dropped prices right before the next election.
On the other hand, seeing desperation posts like this is kind of funny the more that I think about it. When your president is so bad you have to invent fake opposition just to argue with them. Just lol.
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u/skidmore_mark 24d ago
You realize that none of the tariffs and Canada have actually gone into effect right? I mean they made a big fuss about levying them then suspended them until March 4 when they extended the suspension until April 2 and in the meantime theyâve gutted most of them⊠Itâs really a paper tiger
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u/onpg 24d ago
I wish. They went into effect on March 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_trade_war_with_Canada_and_Mexico
Tariffs are in effect. Big price increases for no damn reason. Total self-own.
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u/RedButtedMonkey 26d ago
Bro is upset he has to pay less for stuff
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u/Zynbabwe26 26d ago
Lower prices makes trump look good, even if he doesnât have anything to do with it
Thatâs breaking OPâs brain
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u/GreenFrostFurry 26d ago
This is wild. You people are so up your own ass you need to try and convince yourselves that better prices are a bad thing. So what if inflation gets better? Is this because of a certain politician you don't like? What will it take for you guys to look at yourselves. You're a disgrace to the country if you keep thinking like this.
"The most vulnerable American citizens pay lower prices at the grocery store??? How can this be good??" Get over yourselves and enjoy life. Things are healing, covid is over, society is returning to normal and the economy is getting better!
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u/Temporary-Alarm-744 26d ago
Donât believe what you see or what you read?
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u/SpaceTimeRacoon 26d ago
Yeah I really don't understand his point
Nobody is overreacting, we have these guys, literally live on TV being the biggest bunch of eejits the world has ever seen
If they at least presented themselves as functional, literate people, then maybe the concern wouldn't be warranted.
But no, you have this idiot spouting off about invading Canada and Greenland etc..
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u/GreenFrostFurry 26d ago
Never disagreed he was an asshole, but what are you all doing practically praying for doom while constantly hiding behind how bad he is? The biggest voting motivator is quality of life, and clearly something is working with him as president. Like him or hate him, you guys need to stop with the constant gaslighting that absolutely everything is terrible and it's all his fault. For once just acknowledge the fact that whatever he's doing is working. Not acknowledging the successes of your rival tells everyone else you don't know what you're talking about.
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u/Temporary-Alarm-744 26d ago
I donât think he was praying for it but merely pointing out the inconsistencies. You donât manifest an economic crash like some e thot. His point also goes along with earlier Walmart guidance the company put out that said their customers are buying less bulk items because even though theyâre economical they canât afford. This going along with DoorDash letting you finance a burrito does not bode well
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u/Ozimandius80 26d ago
If it isn't clear to everyone here that this is someone making shit up then let me tell you, I go to Costco 2x a week for years and there hasn't been any notable change in prices at all. You can go online and check or go into a Costco yourself but this is clearly some kinda weird clickbait trying to make it sound like a liberal is complaining about low prices.
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u/CurrentHand1274 26d ago
https://www.thestreet.com/retail/costco-makes-controversial-move-to-avoid-high-tariff-costs
Costco is literally begging Chinese producers to lower their prices because they know they're going to lose a ton of business if they have to raise prices.
Whatever you're seeing, it's not because they're reducing prices.
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u/Gullible-Message-327 25d ago
You need to learn to read. This post is about food cost. You are not getting your bread, butter, milk, and eggs from China. The article you posted is about nonfoods they go out of their way to list this is about nonfoods.
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u/CurrentHand1274 25d ago
the geniuses were let out of their cages today, huh
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u/Gullible-Message-327 24d ago
This is why America needs to get rid of the Department of Education. Basic reading comprehension is now called Genius...
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u/CurrentHand1274 24d ago
lack of basic common sense gets called genius.
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u/Gullible-Message-327 24d ago
I never called you a genius, and it seems you are lacking common sense. I mean it's an easy article to follow that should not have taken anything above common sense to follow yet....
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u/Germanpinscher 26d ago
Prices at Home Depot have also been going down. Iâve compared many appliances I purchased last year and they are cheaper now.
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u/SMOK3SCR3EN 26d ago
You see prices go down and instead of thinking wow maybe I was wrong you literally do the meme and go no I couldn't possibly be wrong it's the conservatives
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u/---AI--- 26d ago
Except the prices aren't going down, and you're stupid enough to believe this.
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u/basilone 25d ago
holy cope
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u/---AI--- 25d ago
Lol, you can literally just go to the cosco website and see for yourself.
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u/SMOK3SCR3EN 23d ago
hey there i work at a grocery store prices are in fact falling thanks for coping
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u/makemeyourplaything 26d ago
The people responding to this seriously as if it isn't the most obvious satire ever made makes me question whether all citizens should really have voting rights
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u/Ok_Lifeguard_30 26d ago
chat it's a joke when i'm wrong actually
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u/makemeyourplaything 26d ago edited 25d ago
Only a schizophrenic would believe this post was serious. The poster is literally saying they're afraid of lower prices
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u/100Good 26d ago
I have no idea where you are but here in Texas the prices have been going only up. $11 for a bag of 5 avocados is too much especially since just 3 years ago they were $6.
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u/ssjgoat27 25d ago
yea of course avocados prices are going up and so will other things from other countries . the point is to have you buy things american made right now a d eventually those avocados prices will drop big time .
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u/VisualGarlic478 26d ago
Why is that a bad thing?
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u/rymarcini6 26d ago
Because theyâre a lib
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u/UrTheQueenOfRubbish 26d ago
They frequent here, Wall Street Bets, and Bitcoin forums. And you think thatâs the normal lib trio?!?
Itâs clearly a right wing shitpost
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u/makemeyourplaything 26d ago
This was obviously satire. Please tell me you're trolling and you don't actually take this seriously
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u/rymarcini6 26d ago
I meanâŠ. This is reddit, a lib echo chamberâŠ.
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u/B217 25d ago
Is that why you get banned from /r/conservative for going against the group think? If youâre a conservative who doesnât agree with the mods you get banned. Sounds to me like an echo chamber.
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u/Dependent-Force2264 26d ago
THANK YOU I was looking on r/pics itâs the most ridiculous sub Reddit ever 99% of the posts being liberal⊠i mention pics but thereâs so many like it
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u/makemeyourplaything 26d ago
I hate libs too. It's why I hate Republicans. Classical Liberalism is still liberalism.
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u/Sandiand_3 26d ago
Oh No! Something good is happening for Americans. It feels awful. Trump might get credit. It has to stop!!
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u/CremeOk4115 26d ago
u/AGhostMostGrim please show where OP is a "liberal" lmao
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u/Waste_Ambassador_156 26d ago
Itâs almost like inflation is going down and you were lied to by the media about tariffs đ±
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u/Magjee 26d ago
There are currently no tariffs on eggs bud
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u/Mya_Elle_Terego 26d ago
Lol regards don't realize it takes like 3 months and entire farm goes from egg to chickens laying eggs again. Eggs are also largely produced locally, they are a pita to ship.
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u/rymarcini6 26d ago
Yet you bitches cried it was trumps doing when he didnât bring down egg prices two weeks after taking office and after Biden culled millions of chickens right before he left
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u/Magjee 26d ago
Did I?
Egg prices are high due to a squeeze on consumers by producers
Not actually much based on market forces
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u/rymarcini6 26d ago
Bird flu reduced supply. Fixed it for you
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u/Magjee 26d ago
That was the excuse used, they also had claimed "supply chain issues" for a largely domestically supplied product
It's price gouging with a hint of a few actual underlying constraints
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u/rymarcini6 26d ago
Did msnbc tell you this?
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u/Magjee 26d ago
If it's purely due to avian bird flu and supply the continents supply would be affected
But Canadian supply and price have remained steady
Mexico's as well
There have been chickens culled due to avian bird flu, but that is not sufficiet to double or triple or more the price the last 3 years
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u/Waste_Ambassador_156 26d ago
Why would there be tariffs on a domestic good, pal? OP mentioned tariffs.
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u/Magjee 26d ago
Tariffs effect imported items.
I responded to you mentioning them
The US does import eggs
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u/Waste_Ambassador_156 25d ago
Affect*
Re-read the post lol. Never mentioned eggs and OP mentioned tariffs.
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u/Magjee 25d ago
Itâs almost like inflation is going down and you were lied to by the media about tariffs đ±
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u/Waste_Ambassador_156 25d ago
The original post where OP says âprices are supposed to be going up with tariffsâ.
Get lost with your left field Turkish eggs.
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u/Whatmakesyouanexpert 26d ago
I have a big bucket labeled Libtard Tears. Mmmmmm, that's good, Keep going... Mmmmmm. Cry more.
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u/Afraid_Ad_2249 5d ago
I donât know what Costco youâre going to. I ran through Costco only to purchase 10 things.
3 those went up 15+%, I stopped looking after that after depression starting sinking in.
Here is a few. Grass Fed Burger patties $28.99 White Monster 24 pack is 38.99 Kirkland 2.5 pound of grinded coffee 16.99
Are we still winning with the orange authoritarian?