Give (It) Up...
Truth is, I never intended to head this direction, at least not while pushing my cart through my local Costco. Like most "middle" class folk, I was starting to notice the $2 and $3 jumps in most of the prices there: bags of frozen vegetables, jams & preserves, granola-like energy bars, those bulky but everyday items that end up in your pantry or freezer because at such wholesale retailers, they're generally cheaper than the smaller (if more usable) sizes one finds in everyday grocery stores. But from what I've read, this is just the beginning of prices increasing as even the major chains deplete their pre-tariff inventories. And if I was noticing it, imagine what the struggling single mom, or middle-class couple still renting or eeking by on their mortgage, was seeing. Of course, looking back to my childhood days when I was that 7-year old hanging onto the grocery cart as my mom shopped, I didn't think about any of that: rising prices...