Why Breakfast Is Busting Your Food Budget
Market prices for coffee, orange juice hit record highs, fueling sharply higher bills for some grocery staples
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I read that headline, and your comment, and immediately inferred WSJ is victim-blaming people just for eating breakfast. The sheer audacity of it...
The article is talking about factors going into why the prices are high.
is it the greed
or is it the record profits
Curve ball, it's climate change being priced into futures contracts.
And non-climate crop problems, like citrus greening. Last I heard, it had nearly destroyed the Florida orange industry.
Bird flu, too.
How have you guys been affected by varroa mite?
Its landed here in aust & we are failing at containment/eradication.
Apparently we have it in the US, but I haven't heard of it being a major problem. But it seems to be one factor contributing to colony collapse.
Redundant
or superfluous
was it time to blame the poors for their own poverty again?
-wsj
I can't believe I'm saying this, but... to be fair to the Wall Street Journal, it read like an article with basic factual information. It even talked about why this is bad for Trump.
Nobody's accusing them of printing non factual info, the billionaire owned paper is phrasing the symptoms of wealth inequality as the fault of poor people for eating food.
They don't want to point the finger at the people responsible because they are owned by those people.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives.
The article is an example of selection bias. Prices are up on most groceries, manufacturers are reaping record profits.
Well, coffee had a disease issue and oranges have weather problems so let's focus on those.
This isn't to say that the article isn't being truthful and what they are saying but they are specifically trying to paint a picture to hide corporate greed.
$1/week to read stupid articles online?
The savings add up...
Wait, the Wall Street Journal is only $4/month? That's much cheaper than access to any other online newspaper that I've seen, and I'm pretty sure from memory that their paper subscription is relatively expensive compared to that of most newspapers.
investigates
Ah. That's just the promotional rate for the first year. Apparently then it goes up to $39/month.
The funny thing is this article is still a big upgrade from their previous edition.
Prices won't effect me. I have heroin & doritos for breakfast.
You disgust me, no salsa‽
OMG!!! I gotta try that. Habanero!
my breakfast is limited to only 4 avocado toasts and a venti cappuccino from starbucks, so i should be ok
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01110205
Avocado prices appear to be remarkably volatile. I had no idea.
I guess you can't really preserve an avocado much, so you can't do much to spread out time of consumption from times where there's a lot of supply relative to demand to times when there's only a little.
kagis
https://www.wgbh.org/news/international-news/2024-12-23/why-trumps-tariffs-on-mexico-would-mean-higher-avocado-prices-at-the-grocery-store
Feeling very fortunate to live in SoCal where avocados are a local crop, even grow in backyards.
Hahaha I don't eat breakfast cause I am a poor pleb.
Not for me, my breakfast is 2 granola bars and a snack size apple juice. I dont really like breakfast anyway so it seems to work for me.
Just go to Starbucks and grab any of the 15 cups of coffee in pickup area and go. Imagine buying coffee when Starbucks exists
Yeah it's shit coffee but think of all the oj you can buy with the savings!
My breakfast is water and a piece of cookie at 10 am. So not a big expense.
Cookie dough has eggs, and avian flu has been pretty bad for egg prices.
I mean, I don't drink coffee or orange juice, but I could see how other people would be impacted.
Separately, bird flu has egg prices up again. Which may or may not affect you.