A couple of chip shops near me have 2 price lists, one for those who buy in the shop and the one in Just Eat which is 30-40% more expensive to cover their commission. I don't blame them. Just Eat was a great idea but, like so much else, they have become greedy, to the extent that some places I used to order for delivery no longer deal with them and have set up their own websites.

Here supermarkets are required to declare the price per liter on the price tag for comparison purposes - which is always funny (or not) if you read something like "8000€ per liter".

That's not controversial... it's now become a new way to indenture a generation. In the U.S. at least...

Yeah subway has went way way up

Restaurants have a profit range of 2-5% with most leaning towards the former. You have rent, employee salaries, insurance, utilities, multiple flavors of tax all along the way. On top of which, opening even something as lowly as a franchise requires an investment north of $500,000. A single pizza oven works out to about $25 a day in electricity costs, and most places have considerably more than one. That's all before you factor in the actual cost of ingredients. People have no idea how expensive and demanding it is to run ANY business. and the whole reason people order pizza in the first place is because they've invested thousands or 10's of thousands in an actual pizza oven, because the home ovens only produce sadness.

A big part of that is governments constantly raising taxes on junk food in an attempt to decrease the out of control jiggle that has befallen humanity, particularly in the US. 31% of Americans are overweight 44% of the US is obese, about half of which, or 21% of which are morbidly obese. That's 75% of the adult population. 20% of children are obese. Before fast and processed food were the default, 200,000 people in the US had type 2 diabetes 50 years ago, today its 38 million people (95x rate increase adjusting for population) with another 140 million people being "pre-diabetic" Compare that to 1970, 26% of Americans were overweight, but only 13.4% were obese, morbid obesity was so uncommon the metric wasn't even tracked, and only 4% of children were obese. In 1995 15.4% of the country was obese, by 2005 it was 23.6....and yet despite being treated as an epidemic for decades, the public consensus has shifted to the notion that the biggest problem with obesity is a lack of acceptance.

Still worth it, IMHO

Dying. Have you seen the prices of even the most basic freezer to fire funerals? Sorry dad!

Where I live outside of DC, there’s this odd thing that most of the sit down Mexican restaurants charge half price at lunch during the week - off of the already inexpensive lunch menu. That’s a $6 check for me plus tip. No clue why, but I’ll take it.

Yep, I love it when I get back to the hotel after long day's work and everything is clean and folded in the room.

Camping can be quite cheap - but not at those sites with bars, pools, clubhouses etc. Doing something (anything) different for a few days is essential for good mental health. But holidays requiring flights and hotels are much more expensive than they used to be.

And they just announced another price increase. It's $104 for 1 DAY at Disneyland or California Adventure. for a tier 1 ticket. (tickets are sold in tiers based on the date of your visit). If you want both parks for 1 day...it's $169. That's ONE day, in the off season, in the middle of the week, where you'll still spend most of your time standing in line. If you want to go during the summer, or spring break, or Christmas, you;ll be spending a whole lot more.

this. between the increased price of the food itself, the delivery fee, and the service fee, its not worth it anymore. I used to be able to buy a huge take out delivery for around $30 and it would feed three people, now its close to $55 for two people. And thats if we are careful and only order one thing each.

Pork has become expensive in the UK, quite a few years ago now actually. It used to be that chicken legs were the cheapest, or bones less thigh meat. But now people have clocked on that it's mire tender meat and even they've gone up! And veg is expensive too as the alternative. The only cheap choice is tinned vegetables!

Not to mention of you stay out past public transport hours and need to get a taxi home. Used to be around £16-20 for a 10 minute ride home, now you're looking at around £30.

I used to go to SF 49er games....about $30 a ticket. Now, the CHEAPEST tickets to a game this year are $150...to attend a 3 hour football game, Baseball is just as bad. I love baseball, used to just randomly decide to go to a Giants game, where you'd spend, at most $25 for a ticket.The CHEAPEST seats for a Giants game this year were $70....for bleecher seats, the worst seats in the ballpark. A direct result of both the NFL and MLB introducing "dynamic" pricing several years ago.

Wings and drumsticks are profanely overpriced..

Going out drinking now means going out to a friends house, cant afford 7.80 for one glass of wine in a Dublin pub when a whole bottle is 10 euro

So it isn't just me then :) was checking some hotel prices in a few places lately and the cheapest semi-decent ones were 150-200 per night. figured i'd just stay home. flights went up too - even the low-cost airlines aren't that low-cost any more

The whole reason people continue to go to these increasingly expensive places is because they tell themselves they can't afford whatever commercial grade appliance does the heavy lifting, because they don't consider the long term cost, or realize they could actually sacrifice what they WANT for a finite period of time in order to invest in something that will bring their long term costs waaay down. If you spend $5 on a coffee 5 days a week, that's $1300 a year, that's a very high end espresso machine. Spend $20 a week ordering pizza? Thats $1000, price of a countertop pizza oven. Make the sacrifice, make the investment and then you're saving 80% of what you normally spend forever.

Seriously? They are around 2$ here in spite of being imported from the US...

You still haven't cut the cord? I am a stubborn old coot, and I still cut it about a year ago.

My car died on me Monday night. It was parked peacefully by the beach while I walked the dog. 410,000 km not bad. Paid 9000 euros for it secondhand 7 years ago. Same car modal secondhand now with the same , 100,000km is 15,000 euros. Thing is I need it

I bought some the other day. It was more than a dollar an ounce. Ridiculous.

I’m hoping for the butter sales around the holidays here in the U.S. so I can stock up, and make a bunch ghee to last quite a while. I remember getting Challenge butter for $1.67 a pound on sale with a coupon, and that was a regular occurrence.

Yes, I've had to cut back on my visits to the Swiss and French resorts, now I only do 10 trips a year instead of 12

Scary how aggressive the attack to end the middle class has become in the US.

Tbh, good coffee is more expensive than beer.

A vasectomy helps protect you from excessive relationship expenses.

We still get a decent pack of drumsticks for $2-3(6 pack) where I live (store brand)

Never done this. Don’t see the need. Not essential is it like food.