By all means vote, but if you don’t want Taco Bell charging that much then stop buying at that price. You are also voting with your wallet. I don’t understand people complaining about how the prices of things are unacceptable while they demonstratively do accept them.
That idea only works if there are cheaper options available or going without is possible. If there’s no place to get cheaper food you still have to eat. In my experience food is expensive everywhere.
Fast food should be the first thing you drop, it’s honestly sad that these companies aren’t dying out as their prices match actual restaurant price, for way worse quality (sometimes)
Yeah I mean once they match actual restaurant pricing I stopped going to them in favor of getting much better quality restaurant food instead when choosing to eat out. It’s the easy answer if your going to be spending that kind of cash either way.
Fast food isn’t cheap, I could go out and get 1 meal for 15 - 20$, or i could buy a bunch of lunch meats, rice, beans, and noodles and live off that for a week to 2.
Can be delicious, probably better than MickieD’s, but damn do you u get a lot of it for your dollar.
if you don’t want Taco Bell charging that much then stop buying at that price. You are also voting with your wallet. I don’t understand people complaining about how the prices of things are unacceptable while they demonstratively do accept them
The comment I am responding to states that inflation is caused by consumers’ choice to keep buying. Thus, if one doesn’t want food to be expensive, one should not buy food, problem solved. What am I misunderstanding? Can you explain how can I make food cheaper by not buying it?
Second question. What happens after I voted with my wallet and now taco bell is cheaper again? Can I buy it then? Or will that make it expensive again?
I’m serious that I find the comment extremely stupid. Like Taco Bell is the cheapest fucking trash that can be called fast food, and we’re pretending it’s people’s fault that it’s getting unaffordable? Is Taco Bell the new avocado toast?
My grocery bill for good, fresh food, nothing processed, is $80/week. Just over 10 bucks a day. That’s for everything I eat in one week, except tap water.
Good for you. Still, food prices, including groceries, increased by unusually large amounts multiple times in the past 5 years. I don’t think the only problem with food affordability is the lifestyle of people who are not you. You are kind of suggesting that only restaurants are expensive, and groceries aren’t, which is simply not true.
In 2020, food prices increased 3.4 percent, including prices for food at home (3.5-percent increase) and food away from home (3.4-percent increase).
In 2022, food prices increased by 9.9 percent, faster than in any year since 1979. Food-at-home prices increased by 11.4 percent. Food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.7 percent.
In 2023, food-at-home prices increased by 5.0 percent. Food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.1 percent.
Food-at-home prices increased by 1.2 percent in 2024 and 2.3 percent in 2025, lower than their historical average pace of growth (2.6 percent per year). Food-away-from-home prices rose by 4.1 percent in 2024 and 3.8 percent in 2025, still faster than their historical average (3.5 percent per year).
In 2026, prices for all food are forecast to increase 2.9 percent, with a forecast interval of 2.5 to 3.2 percent. Food-away-from-home prices are forecast to increase 3.5 percent, with a forecast interval of 3.3 to 3.8 percent. Food-at-home prices are forecast to increase 2.4 percent, with a forecast interval of 1.8 to 3.0 percent.
People get so triggered when you don’t do things like waste money on chips and soda or other nutritionally void items. Yet that’s where so many American’s grocery bills are bloated
By all means vote, but if you don’t want Taco Bell charging that much then stop buying at that price. You are also voting with your wallet. I don’t understand people complaining about how the prices of things are unacceptable while they demonstratively do accept them.
That idea only works if there are cheaper options available or going without is possible. If there’s no place to get cheaper food you still have to eat. In my experience food is expensive everywhere.
Fast food should be the first thing you drop, it’s honestly sad that these companies aren’t dying out as their prices match actual restaurant price, for way worse quality (sometimes)
Yeah I mean once they match actual restaurant pricing I stopped going to them in favor of getting much better quality restaurant food instead when choosing to eat out. It’s the easy answer if your going to be spending that kind of cash either way.
People who don’t have a lot of money tend also not to have time to cook delicious meals for themselves.
Fast food isn’t cheap, I could go out and get 1 meal for 15 - 20$, or i could buy a bunch of lunch meats, rice, beans, and noodles and live off that for a week to 2.
Can be delicious, probably better than MickieD’s, but damn do you u get a lot of it for your dollar.
Sit down restaurants might just be SysCo wrappers these days, though.
Fast food people are addicts. Addicts cannot be reasoned with.
So like… don’t eat?
Like eat groceries
Because the prices of those don’t go up? By your logic, people shouldn’t buy anything that costs more than it used to.
Do you purposefully misinterpret one comment and then do the same when someone answers your question?
What is there to misinterpret?
The comment I am responding to states that inflation is caused by consumers’ choice to keep buying. Thus, if one doesn’t want food to be expensive, one should not buy food, problem solved. What am I misunderstanding? Can you explain how can I make food cheaper by not buying it?
Second question. What happens after I voted with my wallet and now taco bell is cheaper again? Can I buy it then? Or will that make it expensive again?
So Taco Bell has a monopoly on food, yeah?
Are we 3 levels deep of you doing this on purpose now, or are you serious?
I’m serious that I find the comment extremely stupid. Like Taco Bell is the cheapest fucking trash that can be called fast food, and we’re pretending it’s people’s fault that it’s getting unaffordable? Is Taco Bell the new avocado toast?
No, because it’s always cheaper than eating out.
My grocery bill for good, fresh food, nothing processed, is $80/week. Just over 10 bucks a day. That’s for everything I eat in one week, except tap water.
Good for you. Still, food prices, including groceries, increased by unusually large amounts multiple times in the past 5 years. I don’t think the only problem with food affordability is the lifestyle of people who are not you. You are kind of suggesting that only restaurants are expensive, and groceries aren’t, which is simply not true.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings
People get so triggered when you don’t do things like waste money on chips and soda or other nutritionally void items. Yet that’s where so many American’s grocery bills are bloated
My bad I forgot Taco Bell is the only option for food