People, people, there's an easy fix for this.
When shit gets too expensive, you.....DON'T buy it.
Buy the essentials to make your weekly meals. But 5 years ago I used to buy SOOOOO much extra shit.
Soda, chips, cookies, tea, popcorn, on and on and on.
Then I just stopped. The pandemic started mass inflation. So I said fuck this.
Now, 2 days ago I see that PepsiCo is lowering their prices, because they're losing money.
Now for the key to all this.....THAT SHIT WORKS ON LITERALLY EVERY PRODUCT!!!
Dorittos $7? No buy dorritos.
Milk $8 dollars a gallon? No buy milk.
Burger King $18 for one meal? Suck my asshole all the way off with that shit.
Eventually these companies will either go out of business, and send a message to everyone else, OR they lower their prices, and stop cutting quality.
Well, also yes, but also I can't just say "don't buy food". That's unrealistic.
But if grocery stores ONLY relied on me, their profits would have fell off a cliff 5 years ago. Thus making it impossible for them to think of raising prices on ANYTHING.
But yes, the ideal solution is to just grow our own food and be self sufficient, but that's only realistic for like 5% of people.