$6 for a hot dog? That’s how much Americans now expect to pay.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/frank-inflation-americans-are-now-prepared-to-spend-nearly-6-for-a-hot-dog-e08d86c7
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/frank-inflation-americans-are-now-prepared-to-spend-nearly-6-for-a-hot-dog-e08d86c7
At a Costco? $1.50. At any sort of other public entertainment venue? $10 for the shittiest hot dog you’ve ever seen.
To be fair, Costco has acknowledged they lose money on the sausages (and rotisserie chickens) and use those cheaper items to draw in customers to buy other things they do make money on.
Not gonna lie, I absolutely shop at CostCo because it means I can A) Get a stupid amount of everything to last awhile and B) Get lunch really cheap cuz I’m broke after shopping at CostCo.
Yeah that food court stop is the consolation prize to drain out that last $5 in the account.
Oh absolutely. With the rising food prices, my family has had to shift to making those rotisserie chickens a regular part of our weekly plans to keep our grocery bills down. (We eat the meat and then boil the bones/carcass into broth, which we can have as another meal of soup.) As prices continue to rise, they become a better and better deal.
As someone who just bought a 10-pack of Oscar Meyer hot dogs at the grocery store for $3.29, I had to click. The article is about hot dogs at sport stadiums. Frankly, I'm surprised they aren't more expensive seeing as how venues price things astronomically high.
It's not how much we "expect" to pay.
It's how much we're forced to pay.
I'm seeing it everywhere. A cafe near my house charges $9 for a cheese sandwich. I once paid $15 for half a sandwich, chips and a pickle.
This really sucks.
To be painfully pedantic, I expect to pay nothing for a sports dog. I've had neither the means nor the desire to pay to pay to enjoy a game.
Lol. I've seen hot dogs sell here for US$13 (after conversion). The US doesn't understand how cheap their food is, even with inflation. The minimum wage for adults is USD$15.40 though (again converted) and we don't have "but it's OK they get tips so we don't have to pay them more than $2" shenanigans.
Fuck that paywall, but again the problem is largely how underpaid and exploited people are, not how much hot dogs have increased in price.