Fastest way to destroy American democracy, eliminate the middle class. The poor are easily manipulated, the upper middle strives for the top 10 percent and everyone else is too busy getting fucked (kinda like everyone else), while Trillion Truck Elun fucks more teens, because we need more psychopaths to lead us. Good time to peace the fuck out of that miserable hellhole.
I don’t know, seems like the middle class is just as susceptible to manipulation.
Why is there an affordability crisis while the ruling class continues to expand their wealth?
because social policies are driving up prices. the people are voting for this.
go to any town/neighborhood meeting and everyone will be against new housing, new taxes, and any development at all. it’s all creating scarcity. USA is severely underdeveloped.
hence why prices go up.
The top 10% of earners were responsible for a record 49.2% of total U.S. consumer spending in the second quarter of this year, according to Moody’s Analytics.
But economists warn that relying on a tiny slice of Americans to drive consumer spending could put the U.S. on shaky footing. Consumer spending makes up the lion’s share of the nation’s total economic activity.
“Whether the economy goes into a recession in 2026 hinges almost entirely on the top 20%,” said Navy Federal Credit Union’s Long. “If they do well, the overall economy does well. If they don’t, then we’re looking at a recession.”
In the meantime, she said, everyone else could face growing pressure.
muricans just need to stop retail therapy and the erosion of the bill of rights may crawl to a halt. economy is the one true religion.
retail therapy is cheaper in the short-term than actual therapy though, and for a country where over half the population lives paycheck to paycheck short-term cheap is all most anyone can think about
sad but true. therapy will cost you $200/hr or more. it’s really a privilege for those that can afford it to lord over everyone else.
very few retail items are that costly.
retail therapy to escape the hellscape of late-stage capitalism is like attending an orgy to get over being SA’ed.
wait until it’s only 5% of earners.
I used to love aldi but lately every time I go I leave feeling frustrated I couldn’t find what I wanted. Maybe it’s just the locations around me but like core staples of food are just missing. Their canned vegetables section sucks. I needed like Lima beans and stewed tomatoes. Had neither but there’s a whole aisle of useless made for TV level crap appliances and home decorations or whatever.
I get it, I can get a few things to get me through the week there and a lot of the off-brand foods do save you some cash. But I’ve been burned on needing something for a meal and having to run out somewhere else too many times.
Maybe if the old, demented, orange TACO didn’t put outrageous tariff on every country there would be a better selection, ya think? Still, people voted for this. A third of the country would do it again tomorrow.
It could be, too, that their stores are getting picked over for the things they want. Perhaps it’s out of stock the second it comes in because others are just buying it up right away.
Trump’s responsible for numerous issues, but the variety at Aldi for anything outside the bare essentials (basically bread and dairy products), has always sucked. It’s part of their core business model to have very few products that can’t just fly off the shelf. They do have some extra stuff, but it’s usually cheap and seasonally relevant
Come to Germany, here you can have Aldi Nord, Aldi Süd, Lidl and their other little discounter friends.
FYI in some countries it goes by name Hofer for some reason.
Only Austria, because Aldi was already registered by someone else.
At least Slovenia as well. Not sure whether because of the same issue or not.
It’s a branch of Hofer (i.e. Aldi Austria).
Makes sense then.
We finally got Aldis around here and I was so disappointed. It’s Trader Joe’s with slightly more stuff, and a stupid checkout/bagging process. I can’t get many of my weekly necessities there, so no I’m not going grocery shopping twice a week to save a few bucks, same as TJ’s. They didn’t have chocolate milk when I was there. The hell?
You go to Aldi for the staples to save a ton of money. Supplement elsewhere for other things. I used to live in Chicago and there was a Trader Joe’s on top of an Aldi on the same building (same ownership in believe). It was glorious.
Aldi and Trader Joes are owned by two seperate people who have a… lets say difficult relationship.
We finally got Aldis around here and I was so disappointed
Thats how I felt first time. Every time I mentioned food affordability, not here but just in general, the overwhelming response has almost always been to go to Aldi, as if it was some wonderland of below market prices…
But it wasnt. At best its prices were the same as walmart… and thats at best. Walmart was typically lower in most things I typically buy.
And yes, yes, I know… Walmart is evil, I dont have the economic luxury to pay twice as much for my groceries elsewhere.
In Spain Aldi has nice selection of fruits and vegetables, a lot of good quality traditional products (0 additives, organic and so on) and changing selection of imported and seasonal ones (like Christmas stuff, Asian food, South American food). I never saw it as the cheap box store option.
Kudos to Aldi’s PR team for this fucking bullshit. No offense to you/Aldi. I like cheap shit as much as the next poor sap.
It’s funny how this makes it seem like Aldi is a bad thing. I love Aldi! Their potato salad is so good.
Here in the UK, we usually end up with Aldis and Lidls very near to each other. It makes sense, since they occupy the same kind of ‘big warehouse locations in customer shopping estates’, although it would be nice to have them a bit more spread out.
That does mean you can get the best of both very easily - Lidl for bread and cooked meat, Aldi for smoked mackerel and potato salad - and have two different ‘middle of Lidl’ selections of random goods. Absolute result…
This video explains a reason why they might be near to each other
I legit like Clancy’s brand of chips or cookies over the major brands for some reason. Their take and bake pizzas are huge for the price! I know my wife tends to save on some meats and things when she shops at Aldi. I’m a fan as well.
