Close to Home by John McPherson for October 19, 2024

The box wine must come from a different store

let’s not get political but…

I like this one :-)

Augh! I can’t look!

I make sure the neighbors see my crate of eggs when coming from the store. Conspicuous consumption.

Should have gone with “A Doctor’s Bill”

A receipt is flat. This one looks inflated.

With those prices she must be shopping at Whole Foods!

If she went as a receipt from CVS, she’d need an extra long tail for all the additional coupons.

Shops at Whole Foods, I imagine. Local paper went shopping for the same items at 6 different stores. Whole Foods was almost twice as expensive as Aldi’s.

Brilliant, John! Positively brilliant!

Exactly!! The grocery store is like a haunted house now. Boo!! $50 for a jug of olive oil at Costco. I nearly collapsed from fright

…never saw any of those prices at the grocery store…

err… well the prices are scary enough at least. :j

Scarier than a fascist dictator in. the White House?

She could’ve gone as either one of the two top candidates running for president.

Cat food is the only one that looks accurate, and that’s if you buy a big bag of the fancy kind. The rest look like what food makers wish they could charge to keep up their excessive profits.

Let’s just say the prices are slightly exaggerated to make the cartoon funnier. Prices ARE very high right now!!

Where the heck are they shopping? Prices are nowhere near that high. Unless they insist on some fake-artisan pseudo-organic stuff with excessively inflated costs.

Little “shop” of horrors.

Well that’s what happens when you buy the most expensive brands in the store.

They need one from 3 years ago that shows the cost of the same items then. Then the scariness will really be apparent.

She’s right $92 for 8 items. Thanks for the inflation!

Those prices are greatly exaggerated. Even during the high world wide inflation they weren’t that high. Right now eggs are $1.99 dozen, butter is $2.95 lb, the expensive canned soup is $2.99, bread is $1.99, coffee is $17 for a 2½ lb bag.

Too realistic.

How much is that Bleebie in the window? The one with the waggly antennae? :)

So, Cat food and coffee are $33, and real food is $39…Why waste $4 on real food when you can complain about the cost of cat food and coffee?

I spent $175 at the grocery store the other day. I was in the express lane.

Fact check – cartoon total is $92, my fact check total is $35.64 (not selecting the cheapest brands either)

Eggs – 3.29 dozMilk – 4.29 galCoffee – 7.99 lbBread – 3.49 loaf multigrainLettuce – 2.99 headSoup – 2.50 18.8oz Campbell’s chunkyCat Food – 5.60, 7 cansButter – 5.49 lb

His sibling can dress up as an empty wallet.

Well, we know now know with which political party the artist aligns…

Considering I bought a couple expensive things my last grocery bill per item averaged $6 for 13 things.

Inflation has been a phenomenon since before there was money. Prices, generally, always go up. (There are exceptions to certain things, like consumer electronics.) You do NOT want prices to go back down. That’s recessionary and will be much more painful than the now-abated inflation. Also, since real (inflation-adjusted) wages have gone up, people actually have MORE spending power, not less. (If you don’t, and you can’t cut it in this powerful economy, go look in the mirror. The answer is there.)

Ha! Does it inflate?

saw a 25# bag of fancy dog food at our local health food store today… $96… I kid you not!

Funny how all the “inflation” created record profits for grocers, food corps, and oil companies. Maybe we need to put in a call to France for a history lesson in separating the head from the problem.

Indeed!