Eggs were $4.50-$6 for general brands today. And that’s at Woodman’s which is 30-40% cheaper than Jewel.
Butter was on sale. 4 sticks for like $3.49 Other brands were more. Even the generic food club brand was like $4.99.
half sized sticks?
I don't even want to say how much I pay for butter, it's freaking crazy. Yeah, I support Clover Foods, which is a very good local producer who does a lot for our community and doesn't CAFO their cows. and I'm sticking with them. But a pound of Clover Butter was $5.99, $4.99 on sale before COVID, and it's like $9.99 now. OK I said how much I pay for butter. And we use a lot of butter. sue me. We rarely eat out so I have money to buy good ingredients. Because the real crime is the cost of eating out.
I mean - right there is what was strategically wrong but perhaps impossible. I very much preferred Harris to Trump. But I can joke and sort of complain about the prices like anyone else, I shop and see the prices and do double takes too. That was the ONLY issue. I think the Democrats would do better with that issue longer term, mostly because of this tariff bullshit, but most voters just look at who was running the show during the price increases, and they don't differentiate "prices increased 2 years ago" from "the price is higher today than 4 years ago" even when inflation goes down.
Prices will not go down. Trump can't make them go down. Producers have input costs and they have to make profit.
In 2026, it's entirely possible the GOP gets slaughtered even if prices stay exactly the same. That would be zero percent inflation but when they get up there and say "inflation is at zero" some opponent can say "the price of eggs is out of control on Donald Trump's watch!" and people will buy that.