According to an Axios survey by The Harris Poll, most Americans believe it is harder to afford groceries compared to a year ago. The findings, released Thursday, show that 47% of the general public feel pain in their wallets, while 34% said that prices are about the same. Meanwhile, 19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
Among independents, 54% say groceries are more costly, compared to 50% of Democrats and 34% of Republicans. Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that they are easier to afford, while 37% say they are similar to last year.
The survey also found that 8 in 10 Americans believe the president has “significant influence” over the U.S. economy, and only 47% believe the current administration has had a positive impact on it, signaling a pressure point for Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. Less than 1 in 3 respondents maintain that tariffs have been beneficial for the economy, business or personal finances, while most Americans — standing at 63% — worry of shortages of key goods due to Trump’s signature policy.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. - George Orwell, 1984
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Weird, the child rapist in chief says it’s cheaper. Are you calling the orange unregistered paedophile a liar?
He’s the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. Traitors are liars by definition.
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Well how very dare you!!
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Saying things doesn’t make them true; but repeated, consistent messaging sure as fuck makes people believe it. Human brains are pitifully easy to brute force.
They seem to have gotten away with it so far. They have no reason to stop making up alternate realities until their constituents stop believing them
If Trump says the sun’s shining, there’s probably an eclipse.
According to some dipshit on reddit the other day they absolutely buy it, but claim if it’s not true it’s only not true in bLuE CiTiEs
Thank goodness we have a 25 gram increase in our chocolate ration!
I operate on a beans and rice budget; shit like an 6 ounce can of tomato past went from $0.60 to $1.00. Same sorts of price increases go for rice, beans, garbonzos and other canned/dry non perishables. Flour has gone up. Sugar has gone up. Don’t even get me started on the price of meat. Produce has gone up, A bulb of garlic cost $1.00 now, and where it used to be 30-50 cents. Green onions $1.50 when they used to be $1.00. Seeing similar price rises in cilantro, fresh corn, cucumbers, potatos, onions. I started making stuff from scratch to save money . . . aaaannnnd it’s gone.
Our grocery budget is up at least 50% in the last few months. Food is becoming stupid expensive.
Yeah, my youngest just headed off to college so I was hoping to at least get a break in food prices but nope. My grocery bill for only me is essentially the same as when I also had a starving teenager to fill up
Hope you like corn and soy beans. We grow a ton of that and no other country is buying it from us.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes”
I’ve never liked this expression because your eyes do lie to you so often. It’s the whole reason optical illusions exist.
This is not an optical illusion.
Optical illusions are specifically designed to fool the eye. The foolery is useful to keep us from having to cognitively recalculate what we’re visually used to seeing. Optical illusions aren’t a human flaw; they’re an overall benefit.
Do we buy it? We can’t afford to buy a god damn thing!
He’s a moron who has likely never set foot in a grocery store in his life. He didn’t even think people actually use that word.
But it’s irrelevant. The president has very little control for making prices go down. Too many market forces to contend with. He has quite a bit of control on making them go up with his stupid ideas of tariffs however.
A year ago I wondered what all the fuss about raising grocery prices was all about this year I know.
I love that this easily quantifiable metric is so split along partisan lines.
partisan lines
Ah, you mean between people who accept objective reality as fact and people who don’t.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it’s on the Republican’s enemy list.
Literally everything is. It’s insanity. Politically conscious People’s opinions in this country now have their entire reality dictated to them by their party of choice.
Wow what a take.
Groceries being expensive isnt some thought injected into my head by Nancy pelosi from beyond the grave. It’s a measurable fact that is true or is not true.
If you buy it, you are obviously an idiot.
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
These are the people who love the emperor’s new clothes.
It’s amazing when prices go up, wages go down, and unemployment goes up, just how many people can’t understand basic things like their grocery bill when politics are somehow involved, lol.
Why would anyone ever believe the man who has never been grocery shopping in his life? Does anyone really think that Donny 2 Inches actually knows the price of a bottle of milk or a loaf of bread?
$6.25 for 2 big jugs of milk at Costco, as of a couple days ago.
Figured I would mention it, just so people can compare their own milk prices against it.
If you want people to do fair comparisons, “big jugs” doesn’t cut it. How big were they in liters/pints ?
1 gallon each. At CostCo, they are a two pack.
