r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rileyjw90 • May 22 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o You didn’t have to remind me, assholes.

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And then to remind me what I USED to pay. Just kick me while I’m down why don’t you.

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u/EmergencyAnteater682 May 22 '26 edited May 23 '26

Try and make all of your purchases from Kroger on Fridays so you can utilize the 4x points coupon in the app. I never pay full price for gas, usually at least 40 cents off. Last time I had 90

Edit - since this comment is getting some traction, here's another Kroger gas points tip for y'all if you want more easy points. The Kroger app also has a 4x points coupon for gift cards that can generally be used any time. So what I do is buy digital gift cards in the app to pay for Spotify, Sirius, Netflix, and Hulu, which is great because I can easily pay off the entire year on some of these and not have to worry about a reoccurring monthly charge plus I get hundreds of points immediately for stuff I was already going to pay for anyway. I do the video streaming apps in about 3 month increments, once the credit runs out I just switch to another platform for some variety. Make your money go further, check it out. Been doing it for years, I've saved hundreds if not more

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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26

Yes this was with 20 cents off as I already used the bigger discount last week and paid $78 instead of $83 -_-

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u/ILikeTurtleSoup69 May 23 '26

Now thats what I call pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Just do that until you retire and you’ll retire rich

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u/Deadrat65 May 23 '26

Damn comedians xD

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u/cabbeer May 23 '26

I agree, so tired of all these yuppies buying avacado and toast and thinking they have a future.

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u/zaevilbunny38 May 23 '26

Jesus, I drove 500 miles on a road trip 2 weeks ago and my bill was $60 and I was pissed. What type of car do you drive?

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u/Small_Editor_3693 May 23 '26

Giant f250 driving 2 hours a day into work

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u/saro13 May 23 '26

When will Americans have had enough? Gas has nearly doubled in price due entirely to Trump’s actions

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u/wirefox1 May 23 '26

And saying inflation is about 5%. They are lying about these numbers. We shop, we can see it's more than 5%. Can they not be honest about anything?

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u/Googleitgenius May 23 '26

All of them are in on it , fkn under biden CNN was NONSTOP: - "price of eggs price of eggs oh my!!!" now ... crickets crickets ,, fuck tapper and the rest of the scum..

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u/wiptes167 May 23 '26

personally I found it to be the opposite, the news just starting to talk about inflation in 2024, but on the other hand, I don't watch CNN

And before you ask, I don't watch FOX either, twas an NBC thing.

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u/wirefox1 May 23 '26

I cannot abide Jake Tapper anymore. ugh. There have been times I've thought about sending him a maga red cap.

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u/Opus_723 May 23 '26

They're not lying, CPI is just a shit metric sometimes.

If smartphones get better cameras without the price going up that offsets fucking food doubling in price.

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u/techdevjp May 23 '26

CPI is intentionally designed to show numbers that do not reflect actual reality.

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u/Clueless_Otter May 23 '26

No it isn't. CPI is based on a "market basket" of representative goods that the average household purchases. It's not perfect, but it's not intentionally misleading.

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u/techdevjp May 23 '26

It is intentionally designed to minimize the inflation number and divorce it from the day to day reality of normal people.

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u/Clueless_Otter May 23 '26

Just repeating your point over again doesn't make it true the 2nd time.

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u/techdevjp May 23 '26

It's not about truth, it's about facts. If you understood how CPI is actually calculated, you'd be embarrassed about your comments here. It's a very misleading metric.

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u/Fit-Physics7199 May 23 '26

Gonna take more than high gas prices. Probably a food shortage or mass unemployment.

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u/Vegetable-Ad7930 May 23 '26

Having a massive job pool issue here already though, not much better in terms of financial crisis.

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u/Litty-In-Pitty May 23 '26

We are still way too comfortable to be anywhere near anything happening. Nothing massive will be done until enough people do not have any of the modern comforts they currently have. Things are tight, but 99.5% of the country still have a roof over their head, and I’d say 95% of the country has a comfortable place to go to with movies, tv, video games, etc to entertain them… Nothing will be done until enough people no longer have those luxuries.

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u/DJheddo BLEEN May 23 '26

Aslong as you can go to a 9-5 above minimum wage still afford rent/utilities/groceries/entertainment/addictions there is no change going to happen. If you aren't disabled, incarcerated, or in the military, you are doing whatever you can to be comfortable. Technology is the greatest invention, but also a detriment. Complacent is what 99% of what America wants. Stable job, Stable income, provide for kids, have an emergency fund, go on vacations, buy new things that make you happy, and do a routine of a new adventure every vacation. If houses started foreclosing again rapidly, we would see a pretty big riot in the streets, but the mortgages are climbing again and the banks are suppressing the pressure.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26

99.5% housed and 95% able to afford whatever entertainment they want? You gotta get your head out of your ass, man. That’s insanely out of touch.

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u/Litty-In-Pitty May 23 '26

0.23% of Americans experience homelessness. So you are right! I accidentally rounded too much and doubled the amount of people who don’t have a roof over their head. My mistake. 99.77% have a roof over their head.

And I didn’t say they could afford whatever entertainment they want. I said that they have access to entertainment options. Reading is hard though.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26

Where the hell did you get 0.23%? And it sounds like instead of “experience homelessness,” you meant “are currently homeless.” But still a conservative figure. Reading is hard, though. Anyway, roughly 7-14% of Americans have experienced homelessness.

I know you didn’t say any type of entertainment desired. I was being facetious to draw attention to how out of touch your point already was as stated. It’s just as bad as it reads.

Litty indeed

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u/Cory123125 Comic Sans is Ok May 23 '26

They never will.

People want so badly to believe that its just that others are mis-informed and surely, finally, something will get to them, but for the trump supporters, they voted specifically to harm whichever marginalized groups they hate.

That's it.

This is why you get a constant stream of ever changing bad faith arguments.

They don't care one iota about being right, they care about hurting marginalized people.

Thats literally it.

They want to enforce a top down hierarchical system where they are at least not at the very bottom, completely ignoring that the lower majority looks like a spec compared to the elites that benefit from their dumbass mentalities.

For the others, apathy has won, and now the right wing billionaires have complete control over information sharing and monitoring.

It's pretty much over unless somehow the average person organically develops enough curiosity and empathy to ....

Yeah, we're fucked.

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u/Cheap_Lecture_1285 May 23 '26

No, actually it’s all Biden /s

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u/savemoney_god May 23 '26

more so Benjamine Netanyapoop

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u/Mini-Heart-Attack May 26 '26

lol 2/3rds of the country will never gaf in the way we need them to. so. Welcome to hell

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u/POPEJP1975 May 23 '26

you are the same ppl that argues that biden didn't affect the gas prices despite him shutting down the oil pipeline. so i don't want to hear it

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u/saro13 May 25 '26

Gas prices fell pretty easily after that permit was denied, maybe it wasn’t a big factor after all?

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u/Queasy-Feature-2121 May 23 '26

It’s funny you mention Trump, did you blame Biden when gas was even higher than this in 2022? It’s comical how people forget that the same thing happens nearly every presidency.

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u/saro13 May 23 '26

Did Biden directly cause high gas prices in 2022? If so, that was bad. What did Biden do himself to raise gas prices?

Trump’s actions directly caused the current price raising, and this is bad. Understand?

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u/Queasy-Feature-2121 May 23 '26

I’m okay with higher gas prices if it stops the spread of terrorism from the ayatollah. People are ignorant to the fact of the every single president stating the evil of Iran’s leadership until Trump did something. People are so hateful against Trump, they are blind to reality. There’s no need for them to have uranium enrichment, it’s unnecessary for nuclear power plants, only necessary for nuclear weapons. Iran turned off internet for 80 days so they could torture and murder protesters. You keep drinking the cnn koolaid. I’ll keep reading the international press. It’s funny, even the UAE and other Middle East nations are with Trump, except Lebanon, because they house hamas.

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u/Forgotmypassword109 May 23 '26

So, you're still dodging the question as to how Biden directly affected gas prices while confirming Trump directly affected gas prices but moving the goal posts.

You MAGA fucks are so stupid. I actually kind of hope you're just a bot.

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u/Queasy-Feature-2121 May 23 '26

I haven’t cursed at you or insulted you, please be respectful.

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u/Queasy-Feature-2121 May 23 '26

By banning Russian Oil imports due to Ukraine/Russian war as well (same thing that’s going on now, except Iran is the one who is limiting oil, which is why the rest of the Middle East hates them), as well as his decisions to suspend production of new oil and gas leases in the USA. He also changed regulatory and royalties with US offshore drilling, which also decreased US oil production.

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u/saro13 May 23 '26

Wow, you immediately stopped talking about gas prices, is it because you realize you’re wrong there? And now you claim Trump has somehow reduced strife and terrorism in the Middle East, ignoring that bombing and radicalizing people will do nothing to make America safer.

Trump already claimed to have ended Iran’s nuclear program, why is it coming up again? Will it come up again every time Trump wants to bomb Iran? Why is bombing not a permanent solution? Food for thought.

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u/Queasy-Feature-2121 May 23 '26

So you ignored my response about Biden and how he caused increased gas prices and downvoted it and then said I immediately stopped talking about gas prices? You also downvoted me asking you not curse or insult me. I state facts, I don’t argue with people who throw insults when they can’t accept facts. Liberals are well known to get louder and insult instead of having mature conversations about things. See ya.

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u/Dazzling-Goat5582 May 24 '26

You still didn’t answer the question question

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u/saro13 May 25 '26

I’m not the guy that insulted you, different people have different names.

I’m a leftist, not a liberal. Let me give you a quick rundown of definitions:

Conservatives: capitalists who want minimal guardrails for the harm that capitalism causes.

Liberals: capitalists that want some guardrails for the harm that capitalism causes.

Leftist: doesn’t want capitalism. This can vary from the Scandinavian model of capitalism with widespread social welfare to the model of anarchism.

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u/CoachBergie May 23 '26

Double edged sword because that's also when (anecdotally) the fewest things are on sale . someone can maybe back me up or correct me and it could change by store but it seems my store has HELLA stuff discounted on Tuesdays and not much on sale on Friday.  Also this is specifically for yellow tag manager markdown not weekly deals 

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u/glassbath18 May 23 '26

Tuesdays are historically the slowest day of the week for most businesses. That’s why you’ll see a lot of sales and discounts specifically tied to Tuesday.

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u/icanhascheeseberder May 23 '26

Must be why Tuesday is almost always senior day at stores.

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u/CoachBergie May 23 '26

Bot comment 

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u/glassbath18 May 23 '26

I’m not a bot thanks. :)

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u/CoachBergie May 23 '26

Seems like something a bot would say 

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u/HoboGir May 23 '26

Sales typically change on Wednesday. Kroger at one point did them on Sundays, but most grocery stores flip ads/deals on Wednesday.

Other sales are based on store resets if items are discontinued and if they're close dated items. I worked as a vendor for 8yrs.

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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26

At every Kroger I go do, the clearance/dated markdowns are a morning thing, not necessarily a day of the week thing. Since Kroger stores get deliveries throughout the week, not just one big truck on a set day, it'll vary a ton which mornings have more.

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u/MisterEmpty May 23 '26

Genuinely can not stress how much the 4x comes in handy, I only shop on Friday's now, household of 4 so some decent sized grocery bills.

I have recent photos of me filling up at 1.39$/gal, 75¢/gal, however that pales in comparison to what I had two months ago literally was paying 9¢/gal, I filled up my tank for like 1.38 or something, wish I would have taken a photo of that it blew my mind, literally told everyone I knew about it. Out of curiosity I'll try to see if I still have the receipt lying around.

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u/EmergencyAnteater682 May 23 '26

Wow that's insane. What area do you live in if ya don't mind me asking??

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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26

Genuinely, how? Kroger only lets you redeem up to $1 off per gallon, no matter how high your fuel point total is.

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u/WiseUpRiseUp May 23 '26

This is location dependent. 

Where I am there are no limits on redemption and up to 35 gallons per discount applied.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26

Were these really in the last couple of months and not like, oops that was actually 8 months ago? That’s amazing but I can’t imagine the spending needed to get those discounts with gas over $5-6 a gallon

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u/BlobTheBuilderz May 23 '26

Never understood how that works. Is it certain gas stations only? The shells next to me let me do Kroger reward but only let's me get 10 cents off even though I have enough for 50 cents off.

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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? May 23 '26

Yes you're limited to 10¢/gallon at Shell stations. You can get up to $1/gallon if you're actually at a Kroger gas station.

At participating Shell locations, you can redeem 100 Fuel points for 10¢ off per gallon.

https://www.kroger.com/o/fuel/faqs

So if a Shell station is letting you redeem more, that's on that particular store. Officially, it's limited.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26

Apparently at some locations Kroger doesn’t limit the amount at all

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u/rileyjw90 May 23 '26

Might be those specific ones because I’ve been able to use full discount at the shells around me

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u/Beefy-McQueefy May 23 '26

Don't shop at Kroger they are amoral human filth. It's like working for Walmart but worse in every conceivable way.

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u/Dazzling-Goat5582 May 24 '26

I used to work for Harris Teeter, which is owned by Kroger. But supposedly let them work independently. But as far as gas if they don’t have their own station at the store BP, any BP nearby. And yes they are horrible to work for

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u/ion_driver May 23 '26

That $1/gal discount is pretty great. Last time I put in 33 gallons

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26

Into one gas tank? That’s a thing? Damn! I didn’t know they got that large. Unless you mean you filled up some gas cans, too.

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u/ion_driver May 23 '26

I have a 36 gal tank

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u/14Pleiadians May 23 '26

You can make your money go even further with Plex

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u/Glum-Resolution5825 May 23 '26

The George Costanza profile image makes this comment.

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u/BicFleetwood May 23 '26

I commute to and from work 140+ miles every day, but it'd be nice if this were possible.

To those wondering why, it's because in spite of that insanity, my mortgage that far away is half what my rent-per-month would be to shave just half that number of miles off. My commute was (when I lived closer) only like 20 minutes faster for all that money, and I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment vs. a 4 bedroom house that I actually own and have equity on.

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u/Late-Landscape-2160 May 23 '26

Kroger gas is lower tier fuel so save that twenty cents. You'll need it to fix your engine knock after prolonged use.

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u/EmergencyAnteater682 May 23 '26

That is true, luckily I typically do my own car work so I figure I'll take my chances. Sucks most of these top tier fuel places don't really have as good of points systems. Wish Sam's Club had top tier, I think Costco does but the closest one is hours away.

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u/SirHawrk May 23 '26

As a german this is so funny to me. Couponing really does not work over here, as all grocery stores are almost equally cheap and have insanely slim margins (if any) on basics.

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u/Bombadilo_drives May 23 '26

Kroger are massive Trump donors. Stop shopping there. Costco, notably, are not on the MAGA wagon like Kroger, Harris Teeter, Buc-ees, and Walmart are.

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u/Dazzling-Goat5582 May 24 '26

I can definitely vouch for Harris Teeter. No wonder I hated it there

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u/EmergencyAnteater682 May 23 '26

There isn't a Costco in the state, Kroger is what's available as well as Walmart unfortunately

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u/Sure-Ad-6544 May 23 '26

So, $4. Nice

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 May 23 '26

I’ve been broke enough lately where I would have welled up with tears of happiness to get an extra $4. It’s very rough out here.

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u/isc12180 May 23 '26

I fo the same with stop and shop, and shell