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"Today In 'Prices Aren't Real'"
Jul. 12th, 2025 05:34 pmA post on John Scalzi's website.
"I know this is a bit of an aimless rant, but I think what I'm really getting at is that the answer to the question 'why are things so expensive right now' really is 'because fuck you, that's why.' That candy bar quite evidently doesn't need to be $2; that 12-pack of soda doesn't need to be $8, and there are a lot of people who can't afford the clearly arbitrary high prices that things have, who have to pay them anyway. It's annoying for me, but for someone else it might mean skipping a meal or two, or more, here and there. It doesn't seem fair, and it doesn't seem right."
Yeah, I occasionally go the four miles to the nearest Dollar General to get the 5 for $5 deal on Crunch and/or Baby Ruth. Or, more likely, I might occasionally stop on the way back from the slightly farther, 7 mile trip to Food Lion for groceries, during which I don't even look at the candy on the candy aisle at Food Lion and certainly not at the checkout counter at Food Lion, because it's way too fucking expensive, and that is with the Food Lion card potentially shaving off a dollar or three if it's on sale. But even that's still relatively cheap compared to, like, gas stations or movie theaters or any given vending machine I might come across in the wild.
Oh, and the first comment under this post mentions the Vimes Theory of Boots, which I'd never heard of before today, but which makes 100% sense. And then the next comment mentions shrinkflation, though not by name.
I guess here, as with the previous post, is another example of me (and John Scalzi and the comments under John Salzi's post) bemoaning the fact that Capitalism is a foul, encrusted asshole that deserves only to be eaten by abuzzardvulture.
On a mostly unrelated topic, Dollar General stores seem to pop up like weeds. There are roughly 12 separate DGs within 10-ish miles of where I live, currently. So who knows, there might be one even closer than four miles, eventually. *eye roll*
"I know this is a bit of an aimless rant, but I think what I'm really getting at is that the answer to the question 'why are things so expensive right now' really is 'because fuck you, that's why.' That candy bar quite evidently doesn't need to be $2; that 12-pack of soda doesn't need to be $8, and there are a lot of people who can't afford the clearly arbitrary high prices that things have, who have to pay them anyway. It's annoying for me, but for someone else it might mean skipping a meal or two, or more, here and there. It doesn't seem fair, and it doesn't seem right."
Yeah, I occasionally go the four miles to the nearest Dollar General to get the 5 for $5 deal on Crunch and/or Baby Ruth. Or, more likely, I might occasionally stop on the way back from the slightly farther, 7 mile trip to Food Lion for groceries, during which I don't even look at the candy on the candy aisle at Food Lion and certainly not at the checkout counter at Food Lion, because it's way too fucking expensive, and that is with the Food Lion card potentially shaving off a dollar or three if it's on sale. But even that's still relatively cheap compared to, like, gas stations or movie theaters or any given vending machine I might come across in the wild.
Oh, and the first comment under this post mentions the Vimes Theory of Boots, which I'd never heard of before today, but which makes 100% sense. And then the next comment mentions shrinkflation, though not by name.
I guess here, as with the previous post, is another example of me (and John Scalzi and the comments under John Salzi's post) bemoaning the fact that Capitalism is a foul, encrusted asshole that deserves only to be eaten by a
On a mostly unrelated topic, Dollar General stores seem to pop up like weeds. There are roughly 12 separate DGs within 10-ish miles of where I live, currently. So who knows, there might be one even closer than four miles, eventually. *eye roll*
