• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You aren’t looking hard enough. California has decent prices on lots of food because the farm is only hours away. There’s no $9 ground beef unless you get it from the farmer’s market. Also, just go to Berkeley Bowl.

    • AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I go to Berkely Bowl for niche ingredients I can’t find anywhere else, and the produce is often cheaper and better quality, but meat seems roughly the same and everything else in the store has at least a $1 markup. Also I’m not going to sit in an hour of traffic after work just to maybe save a buck on meat while immediately offsetting that saving in the gas it took to get there. It’s not always as easy as “just go to Berkely Bowl bro”.

      Prices have objectively increased in the last three years that can’t be attributed to COL increases or inflation. The only thing left is profit.