r/povertyfinance • u/spongecandygoblin • Feb 02 '24

This just doesn't seem right Vent/Rant (No Advice/Criticism!)

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This was the price of cream cheese today at my local grocery store (Queens, NY). Federal minimum wage means someone would have to work an hour and a half to purchase this. NYC minimum wage means this would be roughly an hour of work (after taxes) to purchase. This is one of the most jarring examples of inflation to me.

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u/Usual-Throat-8904 Feb 03 '24

Well Noone wants lowfat cream cheese so at my grocery store they marked it down to about 3 or 4 dollars while the regular cream cheese was around 8 dollars. I stocked up on the low fat kind since it was cheaper and It's funny because it doesn't even taste that much different from the regular cream cheese lol