Prices are rising for many Americans, with 65% of consumers saying the increases are outpacing their income, according to a J.D. Power survey of 4,000 U.S. adults conducted in February 2026.
Recent inflation data adds to that pressure, with the annual rate rising from 2.4% in February to 3.3% in March, according to consumer price index data released Friday. The increase was driven largely by a surge in energy costs as gasoline prices spiked amid the Iran war. Gasoline prices rose 21.2% in March, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the overall increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I’m spending my savings on alcohol!
Who needs a 401k when you can down a 12 pack a day!
It’s hard to imagine a future where my 401k is worth enough to support me. In the meantime, the horrors of the world are driving me to increase my alcohol intake.
Better spend it on ammo instead the rate that things are going.
I’ve got enough ammo to get started.
It’s the least they can do to help Dear Leader build his arch.
Here’s the design plan
Y’know I don’t dislike clowns. But this? I don’t like it.
It’s appropriate for trump’s legacy
Appropriate? Sure. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to set it on fire regardless.
Only just now?
It’s the next wealth tier up from up to now, I think.
The top 10% of the US account for at least half of consumer spending; this just shows that spending is slowing even for the well-off folks.
Interesting, I’m spending less on groceries and more on alcohol.
xactly.
Why are they cutting back on rideshares?
I would have expected the opposite, more riding together and reducing single person only rides.Instead of Uber, they are taking the bus.
OK, ridesharing doesn’t mean sharing rides but calling privately owned quasi-taxis.
Then it makes sense!
Thanks for the explanation!Yes. In English (at least in the US), a bunch of friends (or coworkers, or whatever) taking one vehicle is called carpooling.
Yeah “rideshare” a bit of a vestigal term leftover from the early days of Uber/Lyft, when the original idea was that it was a service for someone to hitch a ride along a route the driver was already taking. Basically app-driven hitchhiking. But instead they turned into the taxi service we all know these apps for nowadays, yet the term stuck around.
Only if you live in the city
the bus
The OG rideshare
I assume it means cutting back on rideshare as a mode of transport. Not sharing the ride with another passenger, but the concept of rideshare as a way for people to share their private car, as a work vehicle.
So rideshare means not sharing rides, but using your car to do stuff for your employer?
But wouldn’t he at least reimburse you for the costs?I believe these companies (Uber, Lyft, etc.) coined the term ‘rideshare’ primarily to skirt the taxi laws.
You see, they aren’t technically running an unlicensed taxi business - no, no, no. When you use their app to say ‘hey, I wish to go to the icecream shop on third’, it lets all the other people with the app (and a car) know. If any of them happen to also be going to the icecream shop on third, they can let you know and the two of you can connect to share a ride there - isn’t that nice!
You see, these are in no way unlicensed taxis… That would be highly illegal and totally unfair to other taxi businesses that have to spend ungodly amounts of money to license their vehicles. It’s just you and a stranger sharing a ride to go get some icecream…
Yes, it very much is the perversion of earlier coordinated communities that probably defined (and still earned) the name.
Here in Germany still exist “Mitfahrzentralen” which roughly translates to ride-share-centres, which allow people to offer ride-along places for specific private rides (e.g. driving from Munich to Berlin on Friday afternoon), for a share of the costs for the ride.See also: AirBnB as unlicensed hotels
Yes, if your employer is uber. You’re not an employee. You’re sharing your asset. Like Airbnb is sharing your home.
Thanks, already learned from another commenter that ridesharing is apparently the term for the business model like Uber.
Confusing term.
I think the thing l was thinking of is actually named ''car pooling".
It means uber and lyft
rideshares are expensive.
l know.
It’s more that the term ridesharing apparently changed its meaning from actually sharing rides and then splitting costs (the meaning I knew) to a synonym for privately owned taxis booked over a central platform.
The cost of a 2 bedroom apartment has doubled over the last decade. Groceries are up 50% and I have found that the food I buy is spoiling way before the best by date, as if stores are not properly handling their merchandise due to cut regulations.
Despite getting small yearly raises my spending power has not increased at all.
Crap is also friggin shrinking too. A bunch of packages of things I by are now a little bit smaller than they were like 5-10 years ago.
Shrinkflation
cheapflation as well.
most noticable were toothpastes, he had massive shrinkflation, and they also go through cheapflation and try to disguise it as a new products. 8.2oz are considered “old” version they have mostly 5.4 for the normal ones. sensitivity toothpaste suffered the same thing some went from 4.6 to 4.3(stannous and potassium nitrate) oz per tube, plus they use cheaper ingredients and overload it with mint oil(they use mint oil to give the taste) to mask the taste no doubt, too much chemically produce oil actual can cause allergic reaction in people.
Triple whammy: prices up, sizes down, quality down
I got a box of ice cream pops a few weeks ago.
It had three in the box.
I could swear I’ve bought the exact same kind before and it had four. Not only did the shrinkflation annoy me, but 3? Something about that rubs me the wrong way, but I can’t quite articulate it. It just seems like a very weird number to pick. Right? Am I alone in thinking this?
same goes with bars, like gronala, fruit bars,etc. i have seen from 6-5,. the bougie ones like gomarco,etc are too expensive for a fruit bar.
Having a prime number in the box makes fights more likely since it isnt divisible. If you are sharing, somebody is going to miss out.
In a somewhat related prime number incident, we have the term “baker’s dozen”, meaning 13. This is because bakers were found to be reducing the size of loaves of bread, and the government required that they include 13 when they sold 12 to make up for the discrepancy. So shrinkflation has been going on basically forever…
My mom has a box a day habit of those little Dove ice cream nuggets. A while back they went from 10 in a box to 6, and the price stayed the same. You can’t do that to an addict, they don’t take it well.
And yet for all of eternity we have had different numbers of hot dogs and hot dog buns.
Things also may be spoiling faster due to grocery stores chronically understaffing too save money (read: 🤑 📈).
A lot more spoilage happens when employees don’t have time to properly sort and manage inventory.
I was in the store about 30 minutes and these had been out prior to me getting there, and were still out when I left. Never saw an employee interact with the pile. I squeezed the Tillamook ice cream container on the corner and it was significantly melted. Kind of hoping this was for disposal and not sale.
I have found that the food I buy is spoiling way before the best by date
I’ve been noticing this too. Bags of potatoes are going soft after only a few days of purchase.
i suspect alot of them could be sitting in storage facilities for a while before actually shipped to the store as new? some of them come rotten or infested with pest(fungi)
I make about $800 more a month now than I did two years ago and I have way less money on hand today. This administration stole my raise from me and will continue to do so :(
but cheaper groceries is the only part of trumps platform that so many braindead folks cared about. how could they ever possibly get more expensive /s
So much winning…
At this rate they really will start eating the cats and dogs.
And Children, entertainment, travel, housing, Healthcare… We are cutting back on every fucking thing
“Why aren’t people reproducing anymore!”
Even when large segments of the population straight-up tell politicians in simple and direct language, they willfully ignore what people are saying.
they know but the narrative needs to be maintained
for now
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Oh wow. I cut back on groceries, ride shares and alcohol during the first Trump presidency too. Suffering does come in cycles.
I find the alcohol part hard to believe.
I quit alcohol during the 2016 election.
It was either a huge mistake or it saved my life. Probably both.
I cut alcohol during the peak of COVID and haven’t looked back.
Snowflakes.
Have you thought about dow jones? Just bear some pain now so
youbillionaires can berichgods in the future.I’m lucky that I have supportive parents otherwise I’d be struggling to survive right now
its a thing for asian families, including indians,etc. but not caucasian westerners where the propaganda tells them to be independent without significant finances in thier banks. some people are well off enough they can afford to live on thier own as soon as possible, or dare i say it, in a low cost red state.
