• DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    Well where I am the local grocery stores are where you go when you want to pay gas station chain prices at the grocery store.

    Walmart gives it to you the cheapest available. So its like $2 vs $5 for a Gatorade and that’s one item. I don’t understand how anyone affords to shop anywhere else.

    And yeah I feel you they are evil and the Waltons suck and the sales tax kills little kids in other countries through missle strikes and it all fucking sucks I feel you on that but damn at the end of the day I’m either going to blow my brains out about it or find the cheapest way to continue feeding me and my family. Which is unfortunately wal mart.

    I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like “why do people shop where its cheapest!?”.

    I have to scrape together change and some people drink $8 cups of coffee in the morning that they don’t even finish I really don’t get it maybe I should go back to school. I don’t understand how people blow money comfortably like that it would keep me awake at night knowing I blew $8 on a single cup of coffee.

    I see people driving brand new cars and smoking cigarettes in them and going out to clubs every night. What the fuck do these people do?? They can’t ALL be drug dealers or jewel theifs or some shit. I really don’t understand how it can be that way when I am drowning in debt from an extreme health injury I had to use credit cards to get through.

    Idk this is getting off topic. People shop at the cheapest place because they can barely afford to breathe without it sending them into panic attacks about their financial situation.

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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      17 hours ago

      the sales tax kills little kids in other countries

      I agree with you, shop where you have to and do what you need to do to get by… sorry it’s so rough for you at the moment, but I did want to let you know that at least your sales tax money isn’t killing kids in other countries because the state gets the sales tax. Hopefully that helps just a little bit.

      And, since the baby killing money comes from income tax, if you’re low income hopefully you can at least rest easy knowing that you’re contributing less to the baby killing machine.

      The above is all mostly tongue in cheek, I feel for you and certainly don’t want to make light of a tough situation, but I’m hoping you at least got a smile out of it.

    • Folstar@lemmus.org
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      16 hours ago

      I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like “why do people shop where its cheapest!?”.

      I guess that even at my poorest, which wasn’t all that long ago and was rock bottom, I understood the difference between price and cost.