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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] mibo80@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

hmmm my milk is .146743 milliliters shy of that.

[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it 3785.41 ml? Or is that yet another different gallon?

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh boy.

The gallon is a unit of volume […] Three different versions are in current use:

  • the imperial gallon […] defined as 4.54609 litres
  • the US gallon […] (exactly 3.785411784 L),
  • the US dry gallon […] (exactly 4.40488377086 L)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Anybody still wondering why the sane part of the world uses metric?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A gallon of milk is HOW MUCH?

3.78541 liter. See, still true, no inflation to see!

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Euro per liter where I'm from, hasn't changed at all.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I was waiting for my cosin the other day at a bus stop... he arrives, he's eating a burger. I asked how much he paid for it, he said $3. I just came back from a computer store and bought a 32GB flash drive. Guess how much that thing cost me... you guessed it, $3.

So, basically, a flash drive that I'm gonna use in the next 3 or 4 years is the same price as a burger that I'm gonna eat and shit out in the next few hours or so.

IDK about everyone else, but that seems whacked to me.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where are you buying flash drives for 3 bucks?

Where is your cousin getting burgers for 3 dollars?

What decade is it?

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, I don't live in the US 😂. The price in $ was to cater to Lemmy users, which are mostly from the US from what I've gathered 😂.

But google for the price of flash drives these days, you'll see that a 32GB one is about the same price as a burger, wherever you might live in the US.

[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://www.microcenter.com/product/658458/micro-center-32gb-superspeed-usb-31-(gen-1)-flash-drive $3 as of 11/20/2023 in store price on sale, but is regularly that price. Also same model available at Amazon in a 5 pack for $20 ($4 each) if you aren't near a location https://a.co/d/j2wWAoN

[–] rifugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have for you in America the McDouble and McChicken on the so called $1-2-3 value meal where these sandwiches are presumably $3, in-store only participation may vary.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

Shit, he really did it 🤣🤣🤣.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

Lol 🤣🤣🤣

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

That one's even USB 3.1, the one I bought was just plain 2.0 😂.

$3, 4, doesn't really matter. My point was they're dirt cheap, and food is getting really really expensive.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Burger King and McDonalds both have burgers that cheap in the USA, but they don't come with any accessories

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used to work in food service. I have 26 years in various kitchens. I am confused as I'm not sure if your usage of the word "accessories" refers to condiments or sides. I'm guessing sides, but it could go either way.

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, we usually don't buy anything else but the burger around here anyway 😂... food is expensive nowadays 😂.

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One thing that baffles me is that at McDonald's Australia, a hamburger costs less than a small sundae, and a small sundae is over 2.5x the price of a soft serve.

It makes sense for the soft serve to be a loss leader, but I do find it odd how expensive the sundae and Mcflurry is in comparison.

Also, a flake soft serve currently costs more than a plain soft serve.... It costs 15c more for them not to shove a chocolate bar in your ice cream.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where can I get one for $3?

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, read the reply above, I don't live in the US 😂.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just went grocery shopping. We went to a regular store for about 10 items to make a homemade soup, and then went to Aldi for the rest. The 10 items cost the same as all of the stuff we got at Aldi

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I've been very impressed by Aldi lately.

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember:

Inflation isn't real, they raise the prices without raising the wages and cry crocodile tears that they couldn't afford to raise wages as they live in self pity in their previous-year model yacht.

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I'm genuinely convinced we're very close to systematic collapse in the countries later into the capitalism boom. It's maybe 5-20 years out but most of us will watch it unfold

[–] Fortunatefool@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

$3.49 per gallon at Kroger's. Not bad.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in California, a gallon of milk cost me $1.58, but that's at Grocery Outlet, not a Kroger owned store like Albertsons

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ. Over here it would cost the equivalent of 4$

Wish ours was this cheap

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

California has so many people there are a couple places that specialize in buying up all the stuff that is about to go out of date, and slashing the prices so they sell before the sell by date. That's the only reason. Also you go there first before Aldi's, cause you don't know what they'll have. They always have milk, bread, eggs, tortillas, and lots of other stuff, but the other stuff is random.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Great for snacks though.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhh so it's like a food bank over here. Unfortunately you need a card to be eligible to purchase from a food bank but they function on nearly the same principle.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

No, it's a normal store. There's just so much food that would otherwise go to the food banks that it's profitable to slash the prices and sell it off this way.

If it doesn't sell at grocery outlet, then it will go to the food bank.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

6+ at my Kroger...

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've been paying about $6 per gallon for organic milk since Obama was in office, and I have no regrets about it because normal milk goes bad in about a week and the organic milk stays fresh until the last drop is gone.

[–] thelazywriter@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0.1 miles per gallon. From the store to the car this thing costs over $150 to operate.

[–] just_change_it@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Just imagine all the inches people save by parking as close as possible to the door and driving for 5-10 minutes just to get that FIRST parking spot.

[–] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least egg prices are coming back down?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, supposedly there's been another outbreak of avian flu and so maybe egg prices can get jacked up again.

[–] v81@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AUD$6.10 for a gallon of the cheapest possible milk I can find within 30km/20 miles here in Australia.

USD$4.00 even... Again for the cheapest possible 12 pack 1L UHT generic milk.

If you want something from the supermarket fridge you're gonna to need to start at multiplying that by 1.5 to 2x .

So USD$8 /gal might be fairly typical here.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is that $4 USD for 12×1 litre bottles/cartons of milk? Cause that's like 3.5 gallons of milk.

[–] v81@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Lol.. I wish.

No.. it's USD$4 per 1 gallon of you buy the cheapest nastiest stuff money can buy.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Grocery stores know that when people are struggling to afford to eat, they try to save some money by going for the cheaper brands, which are typically owned by the store. Since the store control all the prices, they are able to jack up the price of everything, making their customers go "wow, food is expensive, better try to bargain hunt more", and suddenly you're not buying the competitor bread, now you're buying Western Family / No Name, and they profit both from the price hikes AND because they grow their market share on first-party goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

It's fucked up that they are allowed to both make AND sell the same products on the same shelves as their competitor's goods, but that's because our antitrust sucks.

There is NO downside for the store when they make you starve, you still gotta eat to live so you'll pay anything, and these things are all owned by the same handful of megacorps.