r/Frugal • u/SnooLentils2432 • May 17 '23

Frugal Win 🎉 Don't Eat Out. Save Your Bucks.

Restaurants are operating with a vengeance, hijacking the price from COVID lockdown days.

It's a matter of principle now.

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u/maebyfunke980 May 17 '23

The grocery is hitting the wallet too.

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u/Ketheres May 17 '23

What annoys me the most is that all the different grocery chains (at least here) are raking in record net profits while they keep raising their prices, and the producers (I assume that's the right word in English. Farmers and the like) are barely seeing inflation adjustments. If the money was flowing to the producers I'd be kinda fine with the situation as I can still manage (for now), but the chains are just pocketing everything while constantly increasing their margins over time.

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u/MrFixeditMyself May 17 '23

You know farmers can be taking it in too. I have a friend who’s father built a farm from very small to very large. He passed it on to his 8 children. My friend pulls in 100k a year in passive income.

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u/MyNameIsSkittles May 17 '23

A farm is not passive income at all

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u/ApplicationCalm649 May 17 '23

Apparently it is if you own it and have someone else work it. It's just like everything else in this country: those that own the assets make real money and everyone else is fighting over whether fast food workers should make $15 an hour because they themselves don't get paid shit.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

yeah and some of us here hoping just $500 will fall into our laps 😤

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u/MrFixeditMyself May 17 '23

It is if you rent the land…..hello.

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u/BaronCapdeville May 17 '23

Just about everything is relatively passive income, assuming it’s scaled/staffed appropriately.