This is the real stuff
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my taste buds like, my tummy donât 
also, do food prices in the US/stores where you live @GDBringer roll up and down with inflation that much and that âfastâ/in direct response?
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Prices have been climbing by a few cents every few weeks for the past year. Most noticeable for meats.
Then I saw month old news that said the US printed 20-35% of its USD in 2020. It may have been many years since my economics class. But that sounds like hyper-inflation is coming since you need more dollars to buy the same things.
puts on tinfoil hat
Then minimum wage will not be enough and normal workers will need to spend more. Food riots and theft will increase. Stores will hire private security. Violence. Pandemonium.
takes off tinfoil hat
But that wonât happen and I just donât want to pay more if prices jump up.
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Hmm, as far as my very limited understanding of large economic systems goes money is constantly losing itâs value in other words there is constant inflation. Like always.
Even though some stuff might get cheaper , other stuff goes up in price more , in the end of the day 1000$ now is more than 1000$ will be in two years. Unless something unexpected or dramatic happens or there is some outside tinkering.
So , food costing more in x or y amount times seems like inevitable thing to me.
In other others words what you mentioned about food prices possibly going up seems like part of normal course to me .
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not sure how much it varies country-country/company, but from my own brief past experience working retail, âfoodâ is generally handled a little differently than regular goods contra inflation, and as GDBringer mentioned their prices have been going up âsteadilyâ over a brief period of time, which isnât super normal.
Prices going up is always ânormalâ, how else would you increase revenue in a âfixedâ demand production-consumption line.
But unless there is sudden or drastic/rapid market changes, ex China imports, âsteadyâ/constant price increases arenât that normal, and (at least here) are more usually done in âchunksâ to offset fluctuations, so you donât get a price increase one week and a decrease the next week but keep things somewhat âconsistentâ for customers (customers really hate changes @_@), and arenât âbouncingâ around constantly trying to respond to ex (regular) inflation.
So when/if the dollar is âtanking hardâ, it could possibly be weighted as something like other âextraordinaryâ market changes âneededâ to be reacted to.
(tho iâm not sure if the dollar could/would be considered to be tanking hard since itâs been bouncing around for the last 4 years 
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I. Just. Canât.
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The US IIRC targets approximately 2% inflation per year. The reason is because you want to keep inflation low, but without going into deflation.
Inflation is bad, deflation is worse. Deflation can be economy destroying. As prices start falling, people start waiting to see how low it will go. So why buy a [table] now at $300 when itâll be $250 next week and so on. Companies lose money because of the invested cost. Yeah, inflation isnât great, but itâs easier to compensate for than deflation.
That being said hyper inflation is a bad thing too. I donât know if the US will actually experience hyper inflation. When I think hyper inflation, I think hundreds or thousands of percent of inflation. E.g. Venezuela (I think it was last decade?) , or Germany after WWI.
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I saw this on youtube. Very sad. I didnât even think West Nile Virus was still around since its not talked about anymore.
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#Inflation is a mortal-made and a mortal-ended problem.
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when you get the right prescription/brand, 120pills for 7âŹ, vs 30 for 60âŹâŚ
i know iâm a cheapass penny-pincher at times, but âwrongâ priced/prescriptions isnât exactly peanuts when it adds up week by week 
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Cheapass? lol, you royalty or something?
Thatâs just a bit less than I spend on food. Monthly.
Thatâs a 34 times difference in price between those brands. You sure there is no difference between the amounts of the active ingredient per pill? Like the more expensive one having 340mg of it per pill, and the cheaper one having just 10mg?
âŚmeaning - for example - that to take one dose of the pricy one you need to take two pills, and to take a dose of the cheaper one you need to swallow 68? ;D
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actually to make it âworseâ, the cheaper one has 36mg, and the expensive one has 30mg 
also, getting them in 30 pill packs is for some strange reason cheaper than larger/âbulkâ packs. 30 is barely 2âŹ, while a 100pack is over 6x the price, despite only having 3.3 the quantity.
⌠now imagine a 100 pack of the âwrong brandâ⌠
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Brilliant:D
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IIâm not pharmacist and i m not trying to defend them here in any way ( 34 times more expensive is rodiculous ) but afaik drugs are more than just their active ingridient . Better quality medicine often has better âsupportingâ chems if you will which helps body absorb and use the actual drug ,also relieves some potential side effects of it.
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while that is true to some extent, itâs not exactly the reason most of the time and is purely a brand exploitative factor. (also not exactly unique to the pharmaceutical industry tho definitely very âobviousâ there)
also itâs not the pharmacists fault for giving wrong brand, they arenât allowed to substitute one dosage for another if doc made a âwrongâ prescription, ex prescribing 30mg instead of 36mg or 27mg etc etc, nor are they allowed to even substitute âbrandâ if doc forgot to tick the right box - which was both the case last time
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Jimmy Kimmelâs staff made a thing.
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jajajjajjajja very fun ,trump nighmare is end for now
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