Grocery Prices Are Getting Out Of Control

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]I'm here with a warning. Everything you buy is going to e either double or triple.

[00:00:06]>> Fast food places have completely lost their mind. Many of them are now more expensive than sitown restaurants. $20 for a watermelon.

[00:00:18]>> This is what $10 worth of groceries looks like.

[00:00:28]That's it. trick supermarkets are pulling on all of us is showing this great sale price and in tiny print it says things like you must buy three or four or even five.

[00:00:40]>> What in the absolute [ __ ] is going on?

[00:00:45]11:49.

[00:00:48]>> A lot of people are starting to say grocery shopping feels different now.

[00:00:53]It's not that prices went up. It's that a normal trip to the store can feel like a financial decision you have to recover from.

[00:01:12]>> I need somebody to help me understand. I went to the grocery store the other day and why is that corn?

[00:01:18]$10.99 for >> We lost our minds.

[00:01:23]$20 for six rolls of paper towels. And this one is $2359 for eight rolls. I don't know how people can sustain this inflation at this point.

[00:01:36]>> I still can't leave the grocery store without at least spending $140. And I have no kids. It is literally just me.

[00:01:45]>> This is what $10 worth of groceries looks like.

[00:01:55]That's it.

[00:01:58]Grapes were half off.

[00:02:01]I don't know what the world's coming to.

[00:02:02]>> What in the absolute [ __ ] is going on?

[00:02:07]11:49.

[00:02:11]Have I died and gone to hell?

[00:02:14]Because that's hell. $12 for a pack of soda. Holy [ __ ] >> This is why the grocery conversation keeps coming back.

[00:02:25]Food is one of those basic things people cannot simply opt out of.

[00:02:30]So when things get expensive, everyone feels it fast.

[00:02:34]>> Y'all, I'm leaving Publix and I just got this two bags and the these chips. $60 [ __ ] dollars. I'm I'm disgusted. Like what the [ __ ] is going on? $60 damn dollars for nothing.

[00:02:49]So, I'm at the grocery store right now and couple observations. Everything is insanely expensive. It's been expensive, but it's getting to the point where it's like unsustainable to just keep shopping for food, as crazy as that sounds. The second thing is, why are we still using coupons? What is the deal with coupons?

[00:03:07]Why doesn't the grocery store just knock down the price to what it should be with a coupon? Why do I have to like pull this little ticket here? Or why do I have to go on the store's app to get the lowest price? Just give me the lowest price.

[00:03:19]>> Okay, people. I really got to know like what are we doing because uh my groceries for the week was $423.

[00:03:29]Yeah. Mm- And then with gas prices.

[00:03:31]Yeah, I think I'm going to have to uh I don't know, sending feet pics or something. So, if you have any advice, please share.

[00:03:40]>> The frustrating part is that a lot of people are already cutting back.

[00:03:46]They're buying fewer snacks, skipping name brands, checking every price, and somehow the total still looks wrong at the register. Walking to the grocery store now, and you honestly wonder how the hell we've gotten to this point. $20 for a watermelon.

[00:04:05]>> I'm walking around Costco here, and I'm noticing these prices. For example, these Madress Lentils, $15.99. I bought those a year ago for $6.99.

[00:04:15]Let's look at what else we got going on here.

[00:04:22]Dang. This is the flower we were buying for $5.99 last year.

[00:04:34]We literally bought this chicken broth 569 2 months ago. And I keep getting told that we got, you know, 6 7% inflation. You got to be kidding me.

[00:04:43]Fast food places have completely lost their mind. Many of them are now more expensive than sit-down restaurants.

[00:04:51]Don't believe me? Look at the prices. If you go through McDonald's, if you go through Chipotle, Burger King, Wendy's.

[00:04:57]Now, look at the prices for the people that have fixed this. Look at Chili's prices at Chili's right now. You can go to Chili's and get a big burger or a big chicken sandwich with fries and a drink for $9.99. That's their lunch special for people that want to come in and grab lunch from Chili's. Red Lobster changed when Debbola came in and completely switched everything for them. Now they have happy hours. They have $5 margaritas. They have seafood boils. All of these sitdown places that were in trouble because their business wasn't going good. They were looking at bankruptcy. They were like, "Oh crap, there's a huge market for all these places now where fast food has gone from where it started at COVID to three times as much." Now, the other day I paid 52.64 64 for two bowls and two drinks at Chipotle. Receipt is on my story. Look at the prices at these places. It's absolutely nuts. And I know I'll get comments on this video. People be like, "Oh, you shouldn't be eating fast food."

[00:05:50]>> All right, so you can take this however you'd like to take it. But I'm here with a warning.

[00:05:56]I spoke to multiple vendors late last night and they informed me that people don't even realize that within two weeks, two weeks, everything you buy is going to e either double or triple. I'm talking about everything from paper products, um, plastic wrap, dog food, shampoo, butter, milk, virtually anything that's made with plastic or or plastic or cardboard packaging, foam, basically everything. So, you have two weeks.

[00:06:38]I'm just here to warn you that if you can, a lot of people can't if you can afford to stock up on like canned tuna, ramen noodles, um, boxes of cereal, you're shopping for groceries or really anything in person. You better be watching like a hawk when those prices come up on the screen as you check out because gone are the days when you could trust that they're going to be accurate.

[00:07:02]I'm so fired up about this because it's happened so many times to me recently at different stores. I was just at the grocery store and I picked out four items. I did selfch checkckout and when I was about to pay, I realized that three of the four items were over 50 cents more what they were listed as when I was picking them up in the aisle.

[00:07:18]Because this has happened to me before, I called over an assistant who immediately without a fight changed the prices. That's how you know that they know that they're doing it. Never once has a person fought back and said, "Oh, no. Actually, the price is higher than what it's listed." This is just one of the many insidious things that we have to live with in the world today that are designed to, I believe, break us down, make us tired, stress us out, and obviously waste our resources. It's one thing to have to deal with inflation, but then to have to deal with basically just being robbed by the store when they're charging you a price that is not what the thing is listed at. If I was going to be charged more than $2 extra for four items, imagine if I had 18 items and each of them had 50 cents or a dollar higher price than I was expecting when I'm checking out. I can't mentally keep track of all of those prices if I was doing a full grocery run. And to make matters worse, there's plenty of economically disadvantaged people who shop at this specific grocery store. So, you're going to waste their resources even more. How disappointing that stores don't have the integrity to actually charge what they say that they're going to charge for items.

[00:08:22]>> Walmart has announced it will increase prices nationwide despite record profits the last several quarters. So, this one is a really hard hit to the economy, especially for the people that are at the income level where Walmart is probably the best price point in order to get groceries and basic household items. So, as we all know, the inflation has been really rough. off the last several years. One of the biggest hits to everyday people is that grocery prices have about tripled in the span of the last three or four years. And this is not going to help anybody. It kind of makes me wonder like at what point do they realize like people are just not going to be able to do it, guys? because um it's just like it's already so hard to make it that you have 30 and 40 year olds still living with their parents because they cannot afford to buy a house in this economy. Um and so you've got people working a regular full-time job. You've got people doing gig economy work like Uber, Lyft, um you know, Uber Eats. They're doing housesitting, dog sitting. They're working on Fiverr and Upwork just to be able to try to put some money together to >> and that's where it starts to feel bigger than one expensive cart.

[00:09:35]Have you noticed this where you live too? Or does grocery shopping still feel normal in your area?

[00:09:42]Okay, wait. Listen to this. So, today I just went into the grocery store just to look at different prices of stuff and I came across one of them small round watermelons. It was $9.99 a few weeks ago. $10.99. Oh, yes. $10.99. I'm going to buy it now for sure, right? Oh my god. Who are people paying this kind of money for prices of things? Like, it's just insanity. It's ludicrous, right?

[00:10:03]So, I thought, you know, I'm retired. I have to find a way to make some extra money. I mean, not to buy expensive watermelon, but just to get by. So, I started looking in the online space, and there are ways to make money online. And uh I found a way. And uh I'll share what I'm doing in in a bit. I just got to learn it all first. If you like my content, give me a like and follow. Bye, guys.

[00:10:26]I just want to say that these grocery prices are so ridiculous and it's really starting to piss me off because it feels like all of our extra income is going straight to groceries. I mean, we were spending before like 150 a week on a family of four for groceries. Now we're pushing 400 400 plus a week for groceries. The cost of meat is absolutely insane. I We used to be able to get a pack of ground beef for like six bucks or something like that. Now, I went to Walmart today.

[00:11:01]It was $17 for a pack of ground beef to make some tacos.

[00:11:08]Like, what? So, the latest trick supermarkets are pulling on all of us is showing this great sale price and in tiny print it says things like you must buy three or four or even five. And it started off on products in the aisles like soda and stuff like that, you know, must buy three, must buy four, Doritos, you know, um, you know, you end up spending way more money than you would have if you just wanted to buy one product like, you know, you had set out to do. But now they've done it in the they're doing it in the produce aisle.

[00:11:41]They're doing it in the meat department.

[00:11:44]And you know, they basically are hoping that you're going to be embarrassed at the register when you catch it. So you just say, "Yeah, go ahead. Don't be embarrassed. I was there today just before Memorial tomorrow, Memorial Day holiday, and I just wanted to buy a couple of ears of corn. They were on sale. Five ears of corn for a dollar. I grabbed two. There was only There's only two of us. They told me you had to buy five. So, because people are cutting back, they're buying fewer groceries.

[00:12:12]And so, the grocery stores are trying to figure out tricks to get you to spend more money. Well, you have just have to be much more careful when you go out shopping. Now, read the signs twice because you'll see the little trick in there.

[00:12:23]>> Oh, boy. Found my mom's grocery receipt from 2006. It's from Walmart. I had to download the picture just to see every single position in here because the list is quite long. 79 items, 7% tax, total almost 162. Using current 2026 grocery prices, this exact haul would cost roughly 350450 at Walmart today. How crazy is this?

[00:12:46]>> So, I'm at the store, right? I had the Dr. Pepper zero calorie cream soda. I'm like, "Oh my gosh, it's so good." Went to the store. I'm like, "Okay, let me try it. Let me get it." When did soda be turned into an $11 investment for a 12-pack? $11.99 is actually insane. And then they want to hit me with buy two get one free. This is actually insane.

[00:13:08]This is insanity. And then I'm like, "Okay, let me get a liter." When did that become what? $3. I remember this used to be 99.

[00:13:18]$3 is insane. I'm debating like, do I still get it? I haven't had it in a long time. Like, I really don't need it, but I'm in. Like, man, it was good. To be fair, not every store, city, or family is dealing with the exact same thing.

[00:13:33]But when this many people are walking out with a few bags and wondering how it costs that much, it's hard to pretend nothing changed.

[00:13:41]>> This is what the cost of living crisis looks like. My 2026 life is exactly the same as my 2025 life, except that it costs $400 more per month. And that's because my health insurance went up by $200 a month. My home insurance went up by $30 a month. Gas has gone up almost a dollar per gallon in the last three weeks alone. Groceries are more expensive. Electricity is more expensive. And none of these increases are my fault, and they're not your fault either. None of this is because I'm bad with money or I'm spending too much on avocado toast. I'm doing all the things I'm supposed to be doing. I'm cooking at home. I am doing lowcost hobbies like hiking and biking. But when costs go up and random stuff happens like a leak in my roof, that means I have to pay more.

[00:14:26]This is unsustainable for the vast majority of Americans. And while I absolutely believe that an individual has the power to change their life, I also think we need to be realistic about how systemic this cost of living crisis is. In order for things to change, we need topdown change.

[00:14:42]>> So guys, this is an absolutely crazy story about a man who had the Walmart app on his phone. And what he did is there's an option within the app to be able to go in and hit reorder all. So he had a cart order. This is way back from 2 years after the pandemic started for $126 for all of his groceries. So just out of morbid curiosity when he went back into the app, he looked at his old orders and thought, I'm just going to do reorder all just to see what the difference will be.

[00:15:16]three times the price in two years. They are gaslighting us, guys. They are gaslighting us that things are so hard for companies after the pandemic.

[00:15:30]Companies are making money hand over fist. They can afford to pay you more.

[00:15:36]They can afford to hire more people.

[00:15:39]This is just corporate greed. The cost of getting meat, getting vegetables out of the ground, farming things up, shipping them has not gone threefold in 2 years. These companies are just making extra money off of all of it. And so when you go to the grocery store, and I've had this sentiment so many times myself in the last couple years, and I'm like, why is this so expensive? I didn't even get that much food. This should be like 40 bucks, and it's like $120. And you're like, I didn't even get anything.

[00:16:11]I got like a half a week's worth of food.

[00:16:15]This is what's going on. This is supposed to be, by the way, Walmart is the choice for the cheapest retailer to be able to go pick stuff up. Now, I found out Aldi is even cheaper. But for most people that don't have Aldi near them, Walmart is their choice. Is the cheapest way to get groceries and homegoods. And this is what you have to look forward to. Three times the price for the same cart in only 2 years. It's ridiculous. Have you guys seen the same thing at the grocery store? because I know I have and I think it's completely out of control that people have to pay this much just to feed their families.

[00:16:47]>> I'm in Publix right now, but please help me understand when was a box of cereal $929 literally for a box of Honey Nut Cheerios. And I don't know if the prices have been this high because honestly I don't eat cereal, but lately my kids have been into cereal. So now I'm here purchasing cereal. But y'all, one box of cereal, the giant size, is damn near $10 for one box. And only reason why I'm about to grab two is because it's buy one get one. It's bogo. But y'all, these grocery store prices are insane.

[00:17:27]The smaller boxes of cereal are $529.

[00:17:31]But y'all, the this is insane. I still cannot get over $10. Well, $9.29. 29 for one box of cereal. That is crazy.

[00:17:45]That's insane. That's That is We're so I don't know where we're going to put stuff when we got kids in here.

[00:18:04]>> $157 later. Woohoo. Thanks for coming with us. Bye. See you next time.

[00:18:11]>> Explain this one to me. I come to the grocery store to get a few cleaning supplies and maybe three or four food type items.

[00:18:21]I walk out of the store and my whole cost is $115.

[00:18:26]How can we make it, folks? How can we make it? A little small container of blueberries, which are an excellent food source and a great antioxidant. A little small container was $7.99.

[00:18:42]I I don't know how we're going to make it. I don't know. This is what shopping looks like in 2026. Okay, I just got some groceries to make for dinner. This is everything I got and it was $40.

[00:18:59]Starting off with the most expensive item was this Coke minis. This was $9.

[00:19:06]That was the most expensive thing I bought. Okay. One bag of chips. One bag of romaine lettuce. French onion dip.

[00:19:14]And this is the Kroger brand, which is cheaper. I shop at Ralph's or Vons. So, this is the knockoff version basically.

[00:19:21]One lime, one big bag of ice, one bag of Mexican cheese.

[00:19:31]How was all of that $40?

[00:19:35]Like it actually came out to like $40 and like change. How >> you want to know what's still affordable at Costco in 2026?

[00:19:43]Drumsticks. Yeah. 99 cents a pound.

[00:19:46]That's it. And that's your budget protein. Ribeye 20 bucks a pound. 85 bucks a pack. New York strip is $75.

[00:19:54]swag you. $275 for one piece of meat.

[00:19:58]Gavin Newsome hasn't figured out how to regulate drumsticks yet, but give them time.

[00:20:02]>> I just bought four condiments from the grocery store. Four. Okay. We have We have ketchup. I did mayo, ranch, and barbecue sauce. Literally only four of these. Okay. And as you can see, they're like their regular sizes. All right.

[00:20:14]Guess how much money it was? It was $20 for four regularsized condiments.

[00:20:22]And the smaller, tinier versions that were literally like this much was only a dollar cheaper. So I was like, well, what's the point of me only getting like this tiny itty bitty half petite Bellah Hadid size when I could just get the regular size for a dollar more?

[00:20:37]$20 for four condiments.

[00:20:39]>> Digital price tags that display the price of everything from dried fruit to sparkling water. These small electronic placards replace paper price tags and allow stores to change the price of items within seconds. That is stewed worries that retailers will start increasing prices based on demand, otherwise known as dynamic pricing.

[00:20:58]>> I don't think that is clicking to a lot of people that groceries, gas, all the necessities that we need to live is outpacing our paychecks.

[00:21:06]>> I predict that tons of fast food and restaurant places are going to go out of business before they figure it out. What am I talking about? The fact that it's so damn much money to go out to eat right now that people just aren't doing it anymore. And if they do it, they're going to places that have actually gotten it. What do I mean by gotten it?

[00:21:23]Okay, so I can go to In-N-Out for half the price of every other fast food place and the food is better. I can go to Chili's, BJ's or Red Lobster and get a meal for lunch for under 20 bucks or Happy Hour $5 margaritas where you can't go to McDonald's or Chipotle for under 20 bucks now. Yeah. If you hit the dollar menu, you use the app and you do the little tricks and stuff. I Me and my son went to Chipotle the other day. The video's everywhere. It was $52.64 64 cents for the two of us to get two bowls and two drinks. Like these people have lost their minds. A lot of these fast food places and a lot of these sit down places like Denny's. Me and my son went to Denny's to have breakfast. It is a Denny's. It was over $62 for the two of us to have coffee and our breakfast. And I was like, "What the hell did we eat?"

[00:22:07]Yeah, we left a 20% tip, but I was like, "$60 for Denny's? Like, are you people nuts?" And then I saw a article the other day that Denny's has a whole bunch of restaurants closing and it's just like these places are just going to keep going under guys because they don't get it. They jacked the prices as high as they could possibly get it. They got this thing where like okay this is the most important quarter now this is the most important quarter. We just got to keep squeezing people over and over for as much money as we can get out of them.

[00:22:34]And you squeeze so hard that now all these places are way too expensive. Like right now you can go to Chili's at lunch. [ __ ] I got to sit the [ __ ] down and process this [ __ ] because what do you mean? Ground beef is damn near $15 for a pound.

[00:22:54]I just went to the supermarket. I walked to a different supermarket. Walked 10 blocks cuz they cheaper than the one by me. And they ground I wanted to make some tacos. They ground meat is damn near $15.

[00:23:12]Eggs like $13.

[00:23:15]Bacon is $10. Can of tuna damn near $3 a can. [ __ ] ramen is pushing 150 a pack. I used to be able to get those those six pack of ramen for like $2.

[00:23:29]What you mean? 150 for one.

[00:23:39]a plan in our faces.

[00:23:42]Got to stop. Like, this is not the generation to be doing that [ __ ] with.

[00:23:46]Yo, >> groceries are one of the clearest ways people feel the cost of living because the receipt is right there in your hand.

[00:23:55]But when you're feeding your family starts to feel like a luxury purchase, people are going to notice.