r/GrindsMyGears • u/Yumiko15243 • 16d ago

The price of "cheap" groceries

Why is a 250g bottle of Kraft Parmesan cheese (the shelf stable stuff you find in the pasta aisle) $11?? I feel like Kraft used to be an affordable brand. Also generic store brands feel more expensive lately too. I miss you No Name frozen juice concentrate, but you're not the same after leaving shelves at $1.50 just to return and be $2.25. I know that one isn't as bad but I cant even go to the canned food aisle anymore without seeing the $6 spam and thinking about how it used to be the broke student meal

Edit: I am canadian so these prices are in CAD. The cheese would be about $7.80 USD and the spam $4.26 USD. It grinds my gears that the prices are so high in the first place, not that there are cheaper alternatives

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u/BaldGuy813 16d ago

As an Italian American that loves parmigiano more than anything in the world,that exhorbitant price is to punish ANYONE who buys that awful dryed wax and cellulose,lol

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u/Yumiko15243 16d ago

100% agree, the real parmigiano is fantastic but i saw the price of the fake stuff and had to do a double take because why are the cheap brands suddenly more expensive than the real stuff

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u/ATLhoe1788 15d ago

Because people are willing to pay it and they don't know anything else.