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Monday, July 11, 2022

Shit, I wish I got the much for 75 bucks

 


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  1. Welcome back, Hermit. You were missed. Bigly.

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  2. I don't think that these kinds of comparisons are easy to make when you don't know what the average wages are like there. In the UK, if the contents of my supermarket trolley added up to £75 it would be a pretty full one.

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  3. Only country in the world where farmers are not subsidized compete against subsidized goods from and have extremely marginal conditions yet we still manage to keep our farms running.
    Mac

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    1. What country are you talking about? Sure not the USA. Subsidized like crazy here. Between the chicken tax, corn, sugar, dairy and a host of other subsidies and protectionist regulations, we nearly as bad as Japan and their rice crops.

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  4. Or a carton of Marlboro’s.

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    1. $92 for a pack of Horizon 50 reds in Australia right now..(smokemart prices)

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  5. Hell, plain grade thick cut bacon alone down here is $7 for a pound. Can't tell what type or weight of package but at least $15 of 3 packages of bacon pictured. If those are chicken breasts, at least $5 a package as well, so $25 in those two items.

    Not too far out of line.

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  6. Add in the cost of getting hacked to death as you leave the store and the price doesn't look so appealing.

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  7. Yea that's maybe R1000 which is a bit less than $75 right now. Bacon comes in 200 grams for about R35, that's what, $4.50 a pound? Thin as fsck, that's all we get, six to seven slices to the 200 grams. But yea, you can't really compare buying or earning power. Fuel is currently around $5.50/US gallon, if a US gallon is still the 3.88 liters I remember. A bottle of good drinking red wine is $4-$5. A flat of budmilloors equivalent is $12 or thereabouts. But this is at this week's exchange rate, two months ago it was 10% higher in dollar terms. I don't know prices your side so I don't really know what point they're trying to make though :-/

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  8. The majority of which is processed shite.

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  9. Welcome Back😁

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  10. That trolley would cost $130 in NZ at PaknSav New Zealands cheapest chain. US$80

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  11. In Canada, assuming full price, there's $20-40 worth of chicken, $15-45 (depends on the size) worth of bacon, and $15-30 (wild variation in size and quality) worth of crappy frozen pizza in this pic. If I luck into a sale or markdown, all of that could be had for as little as a third of that.

    It would be easier to price more things out of the pic had more resolution. Also it's full of stuff I'd class as garbage that I'd never buy, so it's hard to ballpark a lot of it.

    But yeah...I'd love to know where all of these talking heads on TV are shopping that have only seen grocery bills go up 7% in the past year, because while I see some things unchanged, a LOT of things have increased in price 50 or even 100% in that time. That's if they're in stock at all.

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