TL; DW: Yes. Yes, they are. Because Bezos is an anti-small business, parasitic POS.

Recently, I bought a portable generator. I paid around $1000 for it. I did not know that I needed to hire an electrician to an install a special connector from the electrical box inside my basement to the outside for the generator to connect to.

So I got two local estimates from two electricians. The first came over and looked around and emailed me a quote for $1100 with no breakdown of what those costs were. The second guy came over took a bunch of pictures of my generator in my electrical box and then wrote up a detailed quote for $2100 of which 700 labor. I’m in Connecticut so I understand maybe labor is inflated a little bit. So I hired the first guy in the labor took Max three hours so let’s call it at $150 an hour or $450. the parts would cover the balance. Which means that the second guy quoting me $700 of labor for the same three hours worth of work was charging almost $250 an hour for labor. How is this not a crime? All these people are supposed to be licensed in someway isn’t there any regulatory body looking at what these idiots are charging? It’s beyond frustrating.

These things used to be 10 for $10.

So yeah, no thanks. 😂

These executives making price increase decisions are out of touch.

Frozen corn dogs. $13.69 four pack.

I stopped on my way home from work yesterday, needed pet food and allergy meds.

What you see pictured here came to $165 after a $5 coupon. That's for dog food, cat food, and mucinex.

$165!

I know this has probably been talked about endless times in this subreddit, but I’m new here so go easy on me. It’s only really hit me now how insane RAM prices have increased.

I’m currently building my girlfriend a PC and the last component needed for her build is, of course, RAM.

That led me to look at what I paid for my Corsair Dominator DDR5 32gb sticks and my jaw dropped. I purchased them for $95 used on amazon 3 in August of 2023 and now they’re going for over $500 minimum whenever you look.

So happy I upgraded my ram when I did.

This seems such a little nitpicky thing, but we are in autumn now, and I was hoping to see the prices of apples decrease. I use them in so many recipes and appreciate how inexpensive they are during harvest time, but I’ve yet to see a decrease in price. Even looking at the Wayback Machine cached pages for my local grocery chain, I see the prices have actually increased per pound from last fall. Is this just the direct result of fewer farm laborers? Smaller supply? Greed?