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re: How long do yall think it will take for Trump to get grocery prices back under control?
Posted on 12/14/24 at 8:44 am to BallHawg10
Posted on 12/14/24 at 8:44 am to BallHawg10
How many of you visit a grocery store at least once a week ? I go in two 3 times a week . I speak with the manager of the local mom and pop owned IGA and he tells me that no chips/snacks and Coca Cola products are barely moving. Blue Bell ice cream only moves when there is a sale at $6.50/gal. instead of the $11 price. His biggest sellers are chicken and milk.The walmart is selling the basics also. News is that the Halloween candy selling season was a disaster. People won ‘t pay $6 for a bag of chips and this past week the major chip manufacture is filing for reorganization/ faux bankruptcy. 3 ribeyes are still $45, pickles $5 a jar. Many items staying on the shelf and the Christmas gift market is forecasted to be flat as plywood. I had a new radiator installed in my wife’s car for $1400, parts/labor. That is her Christmas gift along with the new $5k furnace.
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Posted on 12/14/24 at 8:46 am to Mouth
He will drive competition and free markets to reduce costs......that will take a few years. And the LEFT MSM will pounce on prices starting Jan 21.....book it.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 8:52 am to oldskule
quote:you don’t really know what a tariff is do you?
He will drive competition and free markets to reduce costs...
Posted on 12/14/24 at 8:56 am to oldskule
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oldskule
Oh, you poor, ignorant child. Prices will never go down. Mexico will never pay for a wall.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 9:54 am to oldskule
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He will drive competition and free markets to reduce costs......that will take a few years. And the LEFT MSM will pounce on prices starting Jan 21.....book it.
The 2 best thing he could do to reduce cost quickly are as follows-
Lower or eliminate tarriffs.
Expand oil drilling and add pipelines to reduce cost of gasoline.
The gas prices might be a bit of a lag effect but oil prices could quickly drop with just an announcement that he’ll reduce regulations to open up drilling. Naturally,lower oil prices is really bad for Louisiana.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:01 am to oldskule
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He will drive competition and free markets to reduce costs
Mindless regurgitation of talking points won't fix it either.
You want to know what the secret answer really is?
It can't be fixed at this point. It's too late. The politicians on both sides have led us here for 100 years now and it's so fricked that it can't be undone without a reset. So it doesn't make one bit of difference who you vote for or who you cheer for. Better enjoy what you can now, because it's not getting any better any time soon.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:13 am to TripleBarrelBluff1
Greta thread. It identifies which posters to take seriously and which ones to ignore.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:13 am to SlidellCajun
we are producing more oil than ever before, the president has nothing to do with oil prices, the saudis pretty much control the market
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:15 am to TarheelPete
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This post was edited on 5/4/25 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:22 am to SantaFe
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the Christmas gift market is forecasted to be flat as plywood
Meh
Maybe for some brick and mortar places, but online sales will probably be record breaking.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:25 am to TripleBarrelBluff1
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It can't be fixed at this point. It's too late.
Not without a major depression.
Trump will continue to pump growth though with spending.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:26 am to BallHawg10
It’ll happen after he builds the wall and makes Mexico pay for it
This post was edited on 12/14/24 at 10:43 am
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:28 am to TripleBarrelBluff1
quote:a ton of them post here.
There are some naive people in this world.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:29 am to BallHawg10
I don't think they will go down that much, the real issue is wages. Companies have to understand that they need labor, and have to pay to retain people. The cost of living is far too high to do anything else.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:34 am to coffeesmeller
We may be drilling more than ever before as Biden has said but don’t forget Biden and his administration went to war on oil “big oil”. We will see much more activity when it comes to drilling and pipelines that could have been opened under the Biden administration and which were started before Biden took office by Trump. This will bring down the cost of transportation and the cost of goods sold. I believe this will happen within a year. But please remember that Biden isn’t trying to help this administration and will leave it in a worse case scenario. We are just finding out that Biden is selling wall material for cents on the dollar that could have otherwise been quickly restarted on the border wall. So a lot depends upon just how bad Biden gives away money, our tax dollars including unspent covid money, etc.
This post was edited on 12/14/24 at 10:41 am
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:34 am to latxwoman
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Companies have to understand that they need labor, and have to pay to retain people. The cost of living is far too high to do anything else.
We already have service gaps right now, I dont see it getting better..
The deficit since 2009 has created jobs we didnt need. We keep stimulating the economy when its not necessary. Until we get some of this money out of the system nothing changes.
The push for jobs at all cost, and constant growth have made our economy a quagmire that can only be fixed by market corrections.
This post was edited on 12/14/24 at 10:35 am
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:35 am to TT9
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a ton of them post here.
Yes they do. There's even a board specifically for them to congregate on, but they spill over here quite a bit.
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:36 am to BallHawg10
Prices aren’t going to drop. Best hope is wages to catch up
Posted on 12/14/24 at 10:37 am to SantaFe
quote:yes you are the only one here who goes to the grocery store LOL.
How many of you visit a grocery store at least once a week ?
those of you who voted for him based on policy are going to be disappointed. You’ll get lied to as the blame is shifted around but nothing that was pandered to you is going to actually happen. It can’t
Donald trump has two policy objectives…enrich himself and his financial backers and punish his enemies. That’s it. And that’s what he’s going to focus on, no matter what. I voted for him not on policy but because of the two options his lack of policy objectives is less likely to harm me personally than the alternative which were actual issues of policy (corporate taxation, long term capital gains, entitlement spending, diversity objectives, etc…)
consumer pricing is not even on his radar and even if it were there’s nothing he could do about in a free market. Now if he intends to meddle in that free market you’ll know immediately that what you voted for is the opposite of what you will get
this too shall pass
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