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imanamerican63

(16,522 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 06:11 AM 2 hrs ago

Pick pocketing America for their own good.

I was going the grocery store yesterday to pick some stuff I needed. As I walked thru the store, the more it became clearer. I started to less and less plain labeled brands.

Now, most of the time I buy brand names for the quality rather than the brand. But over the past years, I have brought plain labeled brand over the others due to the cost of everything.

Nevertheless, these brand products are outright stealing from our pockets. Yes, it been that way for many years now.

Here is where the problem lies with these prices. There is really no difference in brand names or plain labeled products.

It’s a scam and where is are the political push to make changes? There is not a good way to say that we have been had by the corporate greed and manipulation of the market price. Everything from food to the vehicles we drive.

The one big common denominator here is that we heard prices were coming down and fast! Umm! I wonder where I have heard that before?

It’s the least obvious answer of all! He has been pick pocketing us to the tune of millions of dollars and the corrupt corporations are right there in step.

Our wages, our taxes, and social security programs are all tied up in this and we are all screwed, if we don’t stop them?

I know it’s not the end but we are facing far worse consequences down the road.

Maybe, things don’t change, but without trying? We’ll have given them what they want!






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Pick pocketing America for their own good. (Original Post) imanamerican63 2 hrs ago OP
Brands Maninacan 40 min ago #1
Not always true LearnedHand 4 min ago #2

Maninacan

(376 posts)
1. Brands
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:35 AM
40 min ago

My nearby Woodmans has a lot o items that are very good quality at half or less of a brand price.

LearnedHand

(5,674 posts)
2. Not always true
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 08:11 AM
4 min ago

I diligently read nutrition labels and the store brands are almost always higher in calories and worse in nutrients than branded products. I loathe store brands and fully resent the double dipping the stores are doing.

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