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Welcome to Trump's AMERICA: A quarter of U.S. consumers are now financing groceries with buy-now, pay-later.

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I mean have you ever heard in this country's 240 year history that citizens had to finance the food they buy at the grocery store because they cannot afford to pay cash for it???????

Trump's America just keep sinking deeper and deeper into the mire.

"On my first day in office I will bring DOWN the cost of groceries to what they were 20 years ago."
fortune.com

A quarter of U.S. consumers are now financing groceries with buy-now, pay-later as economic pressures mount, survey says | Fortune

More than 40% of buy-now, pay-later users made a late payment in the past year, according to data from Lending Tree.
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Jack2aTee said:
I mean have you ever heard in this country's 240 year history that citizens had to finance the food they buy at the grocery store because they cannot afford to pay cash for it???????

Trump's America just keep sinking deeper and deeper into the mire.

"On my first day in office I will bring DOWN the cost of groceries to what they were 20 years ago."
fortune.com

A quarter of U.S. consumers are now financing groceries with buy-now, pay-later as economic pressures mount, survey says | Fortune

More than 40% of buy-now, pay-later users made a late payment in the past year, according to data from Lending Tree.
fortune.com fortune.com
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Crap claims like this are why no one likes you, Leftists, anymore. This is several months old and caused by problems from Creepy Joe, not Trump. Also, most of it is about luxuries like concert tickets, not food. Food prices have gone down under Trump.
 
Food prices continue to climb slowly. There have only been a few months since 1968 that food prices actually declined. None of those months have happened in 2025. So far up 2.9% in 2025.

Data from BLS

Food Inflation in the United States (1968-2025)

The average price of food in the United States rose by 2.9% in the 12 months ending May, after posting an annual increase of 2.8% in April, according to the latest inflation data published June 11, 2025, by the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). As recently as August 2022...
www.usinflationcalculator.com www.usinflationcalculator.com
 
Jack2aTee said:
I mean have you ever heard in this country's 240 year history that citizens had to finance the food they buy at the grocery store because they cannot afford to pay cash for it???????

Trump's America just keep sinking deeper and deeper into the mire.

"On my first day in office I will bring DOWN the cost of groceries to what they were 20 years ago."
fortune.com

A quarter of U.S. consumers are now financing groceries with buy-now, pay-later as economic pressures mount, survey says | Fortune

More than 40% of buy-now, pay-later users made a late payment in the past year, according to data from Lending Tree.
fortune.com fortune.com
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Prices of groceries have gone down.

Employment is up.

What more do you want?
 
Sooner or Later said:
Food prices continue to climb slowly. There have only been a few months since 1968 that food prices actually declined. None of those months have happened in 2025. So far up 2.9% in 2025.

Data from BLS

Food Inflation in the United States (1968-2025)

The average price of food in the United States rose by 2.9% in the 12 months ending May, after posting an annual increase of 2.8% in April, according to the latest inflation data published June 11, 2025, by the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). As recently as August 2022...
www.usinflationcalculator.com www.usinflationcalculator.com
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Months old, it's what Trump inherited, and yet still down from the average under Creepy Joe Shitpants.
 
Casca XV said:
Crap claims like this are why no one likes you, Leftists, anymore. This is several months old and caused by problems from Creepy Joe, not Trump. Also, most of it is about luxuries like concert tickets, not food. Food prices have gone down under Trump.
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someone is triggered. LOL
 
Casca XV said:
2% inflation is normal and down compared to wage increases.
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You claimed "Food prices have gone down under Trump."

According to BLS that statement is not true. Please present your source that shows overall food prices have declined.

Actually closer to 2.4% overall inflation. Which is still fine.
www.bls.gov

12-month percentage change, Consumer Price Index, selected categories

www.bls.gov www.bls.gov

A lot of inflation data out tomorrow. Forecast rate.
8:30 am Consumer price indexJune 0.3%
8:30 am CPI year over year 2.7%
8:30 am Core CPI June 0.3%
https://www.marketwatch.com/economy-politics/calendar8:30 amCore CPI year over year
 
Casca XV said:
Compared to wages, are you sure they are not?
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Thet is probably true. Not a big enough difference to argue. Too bad that is not what you initially claimed.

You were correct about the article being months old. You were correct stating a lot of early 2025 inflation could be due to the Biden administration. You went of the rails with you lower food price claim.
 
If the article sourced is 3 months old and it was that bad then, figure how bad it is now. But that aside, nobody is addressing the sheer number in millions if 1/4 of Americans 3 months ago were financing their grocery purchases. AI says there are 258.4 million adults in America and all of them are buying groceries unless they are growing their own vegetables and raising their own rabbits and chickens. One quarter of 258 is 64 MILLION adults financing their food purchases 3 months ago. How many more is it today with prices having gone even higher since then. That is a scandal but you'll never hear this on the news.
 
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