![]() ![]() Toothpaste I don’t know how the manufacturers get away with charging four bucks per tube when Pepsodent (now almost impossible to find) cost $1 per tube for years. Here are other things that seem much more expensive than a few years ago, and for some of the price hikes there are good reasons (eggs, for example, skyrocketed because of a chicken shortage).īread It’s a crime to pay more than $1 a loaf for decent sliced white bread (that’s what Aldi’s charges), but you’re lucky if you find a loaf for under three bucks in a grocery store. I won’t be going to that store any more, and I presume that the Medici didn’t hike all the employees’ wages 50%. ![]() In fact, Trader Joe’s gives the wages of its Chicago employees, and here they are:Īverage Trader Joe’s Crew Member hourly pay in Chicago is approximately $17.79, which is 36% above the national average. When I wrote to the bakery manager (or owner) complaining, saying that I could get just as good a baguette for $2 at Trader Joe’s, the guy wrote a stinging response saying that he’s just making sure that his workers get a living wage and I could shop at Trader Joe’s if I wanted a place where (presumably) workers don’t make good wages. The other day, for instance, I bought a baguette on my way home, and the price at the local bakery (the Medici, if you want to know) had jumped from $2 to $3 in one go: a 50% increase. ![]() I’m not sure whether this is gouging or a normal economic response (maybe they’re the same), but I’m pretty sure that people are charging what the traffic will bear and that somehow competition hasn’t kept prices down. If you do grocery shopping (and who doesn’t?), you may have noticed that a lot of stuff-and not just groceries-have skyrocketed in price since the pandemic. ![]()
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