I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

No, I couldn’t cook for her. I’m suffering from a long-term illness where I can’t eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.
She’s extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.
We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they’re all at least this expensive.
No, I didn’t also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it’s nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.
We’re in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

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Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Checked my local good pizza place. Made same pizza, the one you did but med instead. Local place was only $2 more: $17.50 vs $16.

It’s pretty much the same to order delivery from local or nicer places these days rather than the big chains.

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- Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, fast food decided to go for good restaurant prices. Fuck you McDonald’s, if I wanted to pay $25 for a burger and fries there are awesome local joints I can go to that make much better burgers
  
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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
1-2 people ordering out doesn’t make sense anymore sadly. It’s just too expensive. You need to 4+ people typically dividing the cost to justify it now.

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scytale@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do you have grocery delivery in your area? If she isn’t picky with the brand of pizza, maybe a $6 pizza heated in the oven would be an alternative. Not sure if you have to tip, I haven’t tried it myself.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Cooking a frozen pizza is not an option due to the smell sensitivity. If we order a pizza (which my wife usually does), I can go into my garage office while it is here, they can turn on the kitchen fan for 15 minutes, then I can come back in.
  
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  - BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wow, that’s pretty out there.
    
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Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thats why I always go for a local shop, it ends up being the same price and better

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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The appropriate tip for delivery is based on mileage, not food price. $1 per mile from the store, minimum $3 tip. $8 on a $20 order is a garbage tip if it’s a 10-mile delivery to a fourth-floor walkup. $4 on a $70 order might be a decent tip if it’s a 1-mile delivery to a front porch.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  The appropriate tip for delivery is based on mileage, not food price. $1 for pickup, $1 for dropoff, and $1 per mile is a pretty basic tip.
  
  Ok, so then I should have only tipped him $4? Because it’s around 2 miles away.
  
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  - Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In my area, I would not feel insulted by a $4 tip for a ~2-mile delivery.
    
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Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
why is no one talking about how it adds up to 30.97 unless my head math is no longer sharp.

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- TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No, it’s $31.07. You likely combined the 92 cents and 18 cents to a dollar instead of a dollar and 10 cents.
  
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  - HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    yes. that is exactly what I did.
    
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- skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I got $31.07 here using a calculator. Perhaps you’ve uncovered a plot perpetrated by Big Calculator. (A joke.)
  
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  - HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I might be losing my perspecacity. I add the last two lines and my brain said 92 cents and 18 cents made a dollar rather than a dollar 10. it may seem dumb but thanks as it was messing with my brain. ugh I hate when I do stuff like that.
    
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vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I paid $13.30 Canadian for a small Pepperoni pizza and cinnastix like 2 nights ago, that price seems nuts

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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, my local Domino’s had a banger deal this past weekend too, was $15 after tax for a 1-topping large and cinnamon sticks. (~11 USD).
  
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paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For the price, pizza always seems like the cheapest “eating out” option compared to others. Our cheapest I’ve seen is $7.99 at Little Caesars for a pizza (“large round”), along with $3.99 for breadsticks. With 3 kids, that’s one of the best deals compared with everything else around (only ~$12). It doesn’t seem universal with all pizza places though, some are worse than others.

What did your order in seems to be the stuffed cheesy bread, dips, and the delivery tip, those ate up half your costs right there, but food prices in general have gone to shit. ~$12 for a combo meal at a fast food place is pretty typical in my area and made me question my receipt a few times during the pandemic when I first started seeing them that high. I just stopped eating out at most fast food places altogether and get by on a salad, shake, and protein bites for around $6 a day.

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- Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I agree with this, they made some pretty poor choices and then explained them away by saying they had no choice. The bread was unnecessary, and yes I have kids too. A very picky toddler in fact. You never have to spend a ton on food, they brow beat you because it works, not because they won’t actually eat anything else.
  
  Its still funny to me that kids are still tricking their parents into thinking they will starve to death if they don’t get exactly the food they ask for.
  
  This poster wanted pizza, and had expectations of it that weren’t met, but she didn’t have to do it, it wasn’t forced. I think even your example via delivery with little ceasars would make more sense. Or just don’t buy pizza if there’s only expensive pizza near you. Pizza has always been a pricey dinner, only offset by the quantity of food just barely.
  
  Around us, taco bell can be a great deal (and offers a vegan menu to an extent) as well but really this is more about not having enough time or know-how to reduce costs by cooking simple foods at home. A pack of taco tortillas, rice, beans, and vegetables to mix in is not expensive and makes a ton of food.
  
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tarsisurdi@lemmy.eco.br ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow that is outrageous. I paid the Brazilian equivalent for that amount yesterday on a 16 slice pizza with four different flavors and a white chocolate border + an 8 slice small sweet one from a local shop with delivery services and all

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- InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Any pizza can be a 16 slice pizza
  
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  - tarsisurdi@lemmy.eco.br ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s fair, but measuring the diameter of pizzas isn’t really something I do tbh and I don’t know the US equivalent of what we call “family sized” around here
    
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Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
At over something like 2200 calories, that is 4 meals though, so like $7 per meal. Still horribly expensive for pizza though.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Pizza is overpriced for pizza though. I ordered from my non-chain local place. Everybody loves them. 2 pizzas, $90 before tip.
  
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  - possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The were hand made right? Right?
    
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  - TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Whoa. Was it like, Pequod’s or something?
    
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  - taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can’t wrap my mind over that price, our most overpriced place are $30 a pizza and those are humongous. Did you include overpriced sides? I find $15 for 6 wings a bit much and that’d usually do it.
    
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astrsk@kbin.run ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is why I always get a Costco 18" pizza for $10 every time I'm at the store. Yes, the pizza quality is not great, but neither are any of these other chains that charge 3x (or more) for less pizza of similar quality.

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  WinCo actually has good pizza for not only hella cheap, they will accept food stamps for them by selling you an uncooked pie and then offering to cook it for free after you pay.
  
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  - Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s devious and I like it
    
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sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I went to check the prices here in Iceland for a similar order to find to my complete surprise that your order was slightly more expensive, when I expected it to be half the local price. That’s crazy.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wow! That is crazy! I can’t imagine anything on her pizza had to be imported and I’m guessing a lot of it has to be in Iceland.
  
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UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Frozen pizzas exist.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Please read the body of the post.
  
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Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For reference from uber eats near vancouver bc

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- gerbler@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Pizza is always fucking insanely overpriced. I feel like this wasn’t always the case…
  
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- ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yeah, love that uber surcharge. 🤦‍♂️
  
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brttmardvo@lazysoci.al ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This thread replies are priceless

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UmeU@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
$5 is a pretty cheap tip for a delivery driver tbh

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- Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s an insanely high tip
  
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  - UmeU@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Someone drove you some hot food and you give them $4? You’re like Steve Buscemi in reservoir dogs.
    
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It was 20%. How much should I have tipped?
  
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  - UmeU@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ll put it this way… for dine in tipping, 20% is fine. If you order a cheap meal by yourself at a restaurant, that $4 tip on a $20 meal is fine. The server probably didn’t have to spend more than a few minutes with you.
    
    If you are a table of 5 with a bunch of drinks and a $200 tab, the server probably earned their 20% of $40.
    
    For delivery, a flat rate makes more sense. If someone delivers 3 pizzas and some wings for $100, did that take much more effort than delivering 1 pizza for $20? Same number of steps taken, miles driven, gas used, time used, etc.
    
    $8 to $10 makes sense for doorstep delivery in todays economy. $5 was fair pre-pandemic.
    
    If you are getting a whole bunch of stuff delivered then I can see justifying a bigger tip, but probably not percentage based.
    
    A $4 tip on delivery means the driver is taking a loss or maybe breaking even. They shouldn’t have to suffer because you had a small order.
    
    The service you receive for delivery is not as directly correlated with the total ticket amount as much as dine in might be.
    
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CyberTaco@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My family have explicitly stopped ordering from Dominoes because of how insane their pricing has gotten. We have lots of significantly cheaper pizza options in my area that that are as good or are better.

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- Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Use coupons. Dominos is the cheapest around. And they don’t force you to download a privacy invading app to get the coupons either.
  
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HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sadly, I do order from crap places like this more than I would like to admit. Key these days to keeping semi low prices or get more food for the price is to have an account and order from the app. You can see all the deals and pick one that may work best for you. Some places are better than others. Most of Domino’s is a scam because the deal price should just be the real price. It basically penalizes people who don’t go out of their way. Good luck next time!

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I told my wife about the price and she said, “you should have used the coupons on the app!” And I was like, “why would I have the app? I almost never order pizza and I don’t want them harvesting my data when I do.” So I guess that’s the trade-off now. Your data for lower prices.
  
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  - Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You don’t need the app for Dominos, unlike most other restaurants out there. I actually order from Dominos more than other places because of that.
    
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  - KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What data? Your pizza order data? What extra data does the app look at?
    
    I genuinely don’t know because I have pizza places that don’t suck. You can get a real pizza for $20.
    
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Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Last time I got domino’s the 3 pizza menu was the same price as a single pizza. Maybe that’s what’s going on

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ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just bought some Domino’s pizzas. $2.67usd inc tax each for a large pepperoni (pick up). Unusually cheap discount, and it worked on me. Buying some pizza!

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- Invalid_name@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Mod is retarded, don’t even try. Just rape his daughter lmao
  
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  - ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    holy fucking shit. what the fuck was that?
    
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boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You need to train your little slave how to run a gas powered chainsaw. I refuse to believe you didn’t know that stores have apps that feature coupons… NERD 😝

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BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Domino’s is pretty high for what it is. Not that it’s bad pizza, but…

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- Babalugats@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Dominos is not bad pizza? Where are you based, or am I missing the /s?
  
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werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What are you complaining about? That’s affordable! Don’t you make 180k? Obviously not! You might wanna read my take on the economy.

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StaticFalconar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looks like you could have saved ten bucks by ordering a pick up order and not tipping. Welcome to the price of convenience.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I could have if I were able to take the smell of pizza without having to stop the car to heave every few blocks.
  
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  - Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They make large Ziploc bags and windows and trunks, bruh.
    
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  - scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That sounds debilitating (and completely made up).
    
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Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only thing I see wrong with this is you let your daughter boss you around

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Are you a parent? If so, I’d be very surprised you never encountered a situation where your kid was stubborn about something trivial like “no, I’m not going to eat Jimmy John’s, I want pizza!” And if you punished them for it, you’re a bad parent.
  
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  - BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Don’t even give that troll the time of day, amigo.
    
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  - Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I am a parent and have a toddler and a preteen, and yes you let them boss you around. They won’t starve to death and you don’t need to punish them either. Its their choice to participate with the family in meal times. Its not reasonable that everyone gets exactly what they want when they want it and its wrong to give in to those types of attitudes. Kids can compromise, and its finny now the food becomes magically appetizing an hour later when their stomach is growling.
    
    Yes parenting is hard, they are emotional terrorists, but you are implying you have no choice in the matter. I’m not saying you made a bad decision either, just blaming the kid for it is problematic.
    
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Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I feel ya homie. I went from takeout everyday to diving in my freezer for whatever shit I got.

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- Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The “I eat out every day” people amaze me. How? It’s SO EXPENSIVE!
  
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  - Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s a habit I learned from my dad 🤷‍♀️
    
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LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Damn, that’s lame! Domino’s used to be cheaper than Pizza Hut and decent pizza. I’d be annoyed too. If not for the sensitivity to food smells, you’d have saved money!

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CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can pretty rarely get under $30 for just myself ($50 for two i consider quite the deal now) and we live in a city with many options, and most places i would order from are about a 10 minute drive. I’m not saying it’s right or good, just that the prices you see are in line with what I’ve been seeing. Food is quite a bit more expensive right now.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a good 1/3 more expensive than it was pre-pandemic though. I could have gotten that order for $20 in 2019.
  
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  - CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Absolutely. Pandemic “inflation” threw all kinds of prices too high and nothing is coming back down because most industries are so small that they’re all essentially oligarchies now.
    
    I am dead certain that the pandemic has actually put the US into a hard recession which the Fed has been covering up with various tricks. I’m pretty sure that after the presidential election, whichever way it goes, the economy is going to tank.
    
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- Mac@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ordered pizza last saturday. Two large pies, one sau+pep, one pep+olives. $30.
  Local joint/non-chain.
  
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