According to an Axios survey by The Harris Poll, most Americans believe it is harder to afford groceries compared to a year ago. The findings, released Thursday, show that 47% of the general public feel pain in their wallets, while 34% said that prices are about the same. Meanwhile, 19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
Among independents, 54% say groceries are more costly, compared to 50% of Democrats and 34% of Republicans. Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that they are easier to afford, while 37% say they are similar to last year.
The survey also found that 8 in 10 Americans believe the president has “significant influence” over the U.S. economy, and only 47% believe the current administration has had a positive impact on it, signaling a pressure point for Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. Less than 1 in 3 respondents maintain that tariffs have been beneficial for the economy, business or personal finances, while most Americans — standing at 63% — worry of shortages of key goods due to Trump’s signature policy.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
- George Orwell, 1984
I work in a grocery store, I can tell you straight up that the orange bitch is lying.
I shop in grocery stores and have the same knowledge.
I operate on a beans and rice budget; shit like an 6 ounce can of tomato past went from $0.60 to $1.00. Same sorts of price increases go for rice, beans, garbonzos and other canned/dry non perishables. Flour has gone up. Sugar has gone up. Don’t even get me started on the price of meat. Produce has gone up, A bulb of garlic cost $1.00 now, and where it used to be 30-50 cents. Green onions $1.50 when they used to be $1.00. Seeing similar price rises in cilantro, fresh corn, cucumbers, potatos, onions. I started making stuff from scratch to save money . . . aaaannnnd it’s gone.
Our grocery budget is up at least 50% in the last few months. Food is becoming stupid expensive.
Yeah, my youngest just headed off to college so I was hoping to at least get a break in food prices but nope. My grocery bill for only me is essentially the same as when I also had a starving teenager to fill up
If Trump says the sun’s shining, there’s probably an eclipse.
I love that this easily quantifiable metric is so split along partisan lines.
partisan lines
Ah, you mean between people who accept objective reality as fact and people who don’t.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it’s on the Republican’s enemy list.
Literally everything is. It’s insanity. Politically conscious People’s opinions in this country now have their entire reality dictated to them by their party of choice.
Wow what a take.
Groceries being expensive isnt some thought injected into my head by Nancy pelosi from beyond the grave. It’s a measurable fact that is true or is not true.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. - George Orwell, 1984
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Weird, the child rapist in chief says it’s cheaper. Are you calling the orange unregistered paedophile a liar?
Bold faced, obvious lie.
He might believe it; it’s not like he’s ever set foot in a grocery store.
FYI, it’s “bald” not “bold”.
Bold-faced has been used at least since the late 1900s https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced
He’s never stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. Facist old pig.
He had never even heard the word grockery before 2025
How the hell can it be this split on fucking party lines?
Notice how dems are less realistic than independents here?
I mean,
For this study, the data is accurate to within +/- 2.4 percentage points for the overall population using a 95% confidence level, and +/- 3.0 percentage points for respondents within the registered voters.
So it’s potentially a really small difference, but, still. Do dems have higher incomes on average than independents? Could explain why so many of them kept believing the economy was great in 2024.
Or theyre delusional shithead cryptofascists.
Eh, in my experience they’re nice people who want to belong to a group, which leads to them getting deceived and demobilized by the statements and actions of a lot of their electeds and pundits and other leaders, but they’ve got real potential
Bought three days of food on Sunday for $80. Four boxes of ready rice, two chicken breasts, two Italian sausages, one steak, french beans, brussel sprouts, and some asparagus. They can eat my ass with this cheap grocery narrative.
