Alabaster_Mango,
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca avatar

Yikes 😬

35 LB isn't even that much if you have a medium dog.

instamat,

Nope. 28 lbs last me about a month for two medium sized dogs. The brand I get was normally on sale for around $42 pre Covid but it’s nearing $60 now

1sthorn,
1sthorn avatar

I get about a month and a half for a large dog. Its absolutely insane.

mihnt,
mihnt avatar

Purina = Nestle

VoxAdActa,
VoxAdActa avatar

Except the Purina brands of horse and goat feed; that's owned by Land-o-Lakes.

stewie3128,

Please don’t feed that to your dog.

lavendedreams,

God damn. My girl passed away a couple years ago. I honestly don't know if I could afford to continue to feed her if she was still alive - this was the exact dog food she got.

malcriada_lala,

my dogs on prescription food. it hurts to buy

psycho_driver,

At what point is it going to become cheaper to feed them chicken leg quarters?

instamat,

That point was about six months into Covid I think.

EmergingDystopia,

Yeah we've been dealing with the same. My only option has been to switch dog chow over to a Purina blend at Sam's. It's literally 29 USD as opposed to PetsMart at over 80.

ilickfrogs,
@ilickfrogs@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, and the sizes are smaller.

malloc,

I wish companies would be transparent in their supply chain logistic costs.

Financial news is flooded with “X multibillion dollar company hitting record breaking profits compared YoY” type headlines. Sure some companies might be taking advantage of “inflation” to bump the price of products and pocket the profit but some others might actually need to bump their price to stay competitive.

With no insight into this, it’s impossible to discern which companies are scumbags and which ones are just surviving.

siberianlaika,

Well, Purina is Nestle so you know they're scumbags.

BigPapaE,

Obligatory "Fuck Nestle"

beanz,

It's just human nature, simply complacency. At times when doing business is generally more difficult, why produce more when you can produce less and charge more? On a long enough timescale in current conditions, every business will do it eventually.

This is what has just been happening with Cal-Maine eggs for example. Exaggerating about supply chain pressures and arbitrating prices to cover production slowdown was just the easiest thing to do in the circumstances. It isn't until much later when the earnings reports come out with no substantial supply chain interruptions to mention that people start to realize what's going on, and by that point they've already siphoned hundreds of millions more from the public than the circumstances warranted.

Egg prices are dropping now. Why? There's been no recent change in cost indicated in Cal-Maine's production. The only recent news regarding their operations is the release of that earnings report. It's as if public knowledge about their record profits is somehow affecting the price of the commodity they produce?

Charliechonch,

It makes me really sad because my girl passed away last year and my boy is getting bored and wants a friend but I just can't afford to pay for the food. I've been thinking about fostering senior pitbulls instead because I would have a better chance of hanging on to them until they passed away if I fostered seniors. At least the Foster company pays for any medical treatment and food that the dog needs

RarePepeCollector,

Those pitbulls would attack you dog. Either dumb or just don't care. I don't care if this offends you, for the sake of animal safety you need to hear it.

gamenac,

Why do you such a strong stance against pitbulls? It sounds like the poster above may already be someone who has cared for/is caring for that specific breed of dog. If they are comfortable with it and are good owners, why would it matter?

SYLOK_THEAROUSED,

That's crazy!

Lizardking27,

Yikes. A similar sized bag of dog food in my area is like $30 tops, and that's the most expensive kind.

LaunchesKayaks,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

The feed I buy for my ducks increased by $5 in the past year and the bags went from 50 lbs to 40. My birds usually through 80lbs of feed in 2.5 weeks. I'm spending so much on feed, that I've been giving them wild bird seed(which is $10/20lbs) and grass clippings(free) as snacks during the day. It cuts down on how much feed they eat. Next year they are going to get an entire garden dedicated to their diet. I got the seeds this year, but didn't start them early enough.

tetelestia,

You know you can get ducks for free from the park, right?

nrezcm,

The parks near us have gone to shit. Those degenerate geese moved in and the neighborhood hasn't been the same. Haven't seen a duck since.

tetelestia,

Balls. That's genuinely infuriating.

itsjustallergies,

If you've got a problem with Canada Gooses, you've got a problem with me. And I suggest you let that one marinate

minimar,

I worked in a pet supplies store about a year ago, and I was nonstop hearing complaints about the prices going up.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Doing absolutely nothing meaningful about inflation is why our next president is going to be an overt and unapologetic fascist. (Granted, they'll come up with a better name for it.) The foreclosure crisis and Obama's failure to address it properly is what got Trump elected the first go-around.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Dunno why you're all downvoting.

Every single one of you is paying 30% to 50% more to live, and you know it. And the aid you need to cope with inflation? Biden used it to fund another country's war instead.

MercuryUprising,

"Another country's war."

Meanwhile completely ignoring the notion that Russia had no intention of stopping in Ukraine, and had their sights set on Moldova and other regions next. Ukraine is a democratically elected country that was taking steps to join both the EU and NATO, a partnership closely linked to the US and one that the US is a member of.

Also completely ignoring that a lot of the retail inflation we're seeing is tied to corporations juking the prices and blaming it on inflation, while they collect record profits.

But hey, troll dicks are small, and their mental capacity even smaller.

Givesomefucks,

Because "funding other people's wars" is better than waiting a couple years till it's our war too...

Did you forget about WW2?

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, that's what people say every time.

They said that when our country got a whole generation of young men killed in Vietnam and wasted over a trillion dollars. They said it when we treated Saddam Hussein the same way what's-his-name is Ukraine is being treated now, funding his war against Iran and giving him an arsenal and war funding, before we went to war against him. Twice. People still pretend that our attempt at maintaining a permanent war in Afghanistan was magically a good thing, even though we wasted several trillion dollars and ultimately learned it was completely unsustainable.

Canada has universal health care and you know how much they spend on war?

23 billion a year.

Stop repeating slogans that make absolutely no sense given our military history since WW2, and please also stop pretending that neglecting our people to blow up other countries is virtuous.

Givesomefucks,

Why are you talking about Vietnam?

Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies...

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies…

Can't really argue that when you look at our health care system. We're definitely supporting them with bodies, it's just bodies here dying for lack of health care. Most countries, when looking at the question of war spending versus health care, decide to spend their money on health care instead.

We should do the same.

CmdrShepard,

The recession happened in 07/08 under Bush. Obama didn't take office until January 2009. Trump won because these two private parties control everything about our election process and one of them put up a candidate that almost nobody liked to the point that a failed businessman and reality TV star was somehow more appealing.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

It doesn't matter when the recession started. When you don't do something about a preexisting problem, it becomes your policy.

Millions of people lost their homes when Obama was president, and Democrats were somehow shocked that people who lost their homes wouldn't vote for someone campaigning on continuing Obama's policies. (Policies that included criminalizing the poor and demonizing Occupy.)

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