A Walmart shopper shared a video showing how the prices allegedly went up 50 percent since 2020.
The Kentucky-based content creator, who goes by the handle Amy Way to Save, has nearly 90k followers on TikTok, where she shares tips on saving money while buying groceries.
In the viral video, she showed shopping for the same items in 2020, 2022, and 2023. She told her viewers, “Towards the end of 2020, I went to Walmart and purchased all of these things for $10.09, and I made a week’s worth of meals for one person.”
In her card, there were dried pinto beans, a bag of mixed frozen vegetables, rice, two potatoes, a half-dozen eggs, flour tortillas, skim milk, a packet of chorizo, green onions, two bananas, and cornmeal mix.
The same purchase cost Amy $11.13 in February 2022. That is around 10 percent more than in 2020.
In the video, she said, “This week, I went back again and purchased those same items. Now they cost $15.10, which is about 50 percent more than the prices at the end of 2020.” According to her receipt, the only thing that had lower prices were bananas.
Amy shared an in-depth clip of her shopping experience on her Youtube channel.
The TikTok received nearly 4 million views and left many commentators in a state of genuine shock. One person wrote, “We need to start calling it what it is: price gouging.”
Another agreed, “I wish they’d just stop lying to us by calling this inflation, this is 100% price gouging, and I am SICK OF IT.”
The third was also upset: “It’s not just food, though. Everyone everywhere is price gouging and saying it’s inflation while wages stay the same.”
People also shared their insights into prices now:
“The ‘cheap’ butter we used to buy a year-ish ago was 99 cents, now it’s 3 bucks.”
A TikTok user commented on fast food chains and their prices: “I just got hamburger from Walmart for almost $6/lb. I remember it being like $3.50/lb.”
Another added, “I went to McDonald’s and got a large caramel frappe and a large fry, and it cost me $9.68 .. that’s just ridiculous.”
This person chimed in, “Please, tell me why the 10 chicken McNugget meal in AZ was $10… might as well go to BWW.”
A fellow Walmart shopper wrote, “My local Walmart is selling a 12 pack of sprite for $7.89…. Like what??”
Another person stated, “‘I think it’s important to note that this isn’t just inflation, This is corporations intentionally raising prices and posting record profits.”
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Amy shared how she noticed the prices going up in 2022. That inspired her to do the video, which she shared across various social media platforms.
Officially, inflation is currently at 6.5%, dropping 2.6% since its peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
CNBC’s report explains why prices blew up: “Some of these prices ballooned for reasons beyond broad pandemic-era inflationary factors such as snarled supply chains, pent-up consumer demand, household cash infusions, labor shortages, and war in Ukraine.”
However, The Hill reported last November that “corporate profits in the non-financial sector reached a record high of $2.08 trillion in the third fiscal quarter.”
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