10 Ways You’re Wasting Money At The Grocery Store And What To Do Instead
Saving money on groceries doesn't mean living on instant noodles. Becoming a smarter and more flexible cook will take you to another level beyond noodles.Saving money on groceries doesn't mean living on instant noodles. Becoming a smarter and more flexible cook will take you to another level beyond noodles.URGENT: The $20 burrito controversy exposed
When Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet shared a college student’s complaint that basic purchases have become prohibitively expensive — he also began a war on social media.
“One of our TPUSA college students gave me his take on affordability:
‘A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.’
Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from Covid and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost too much,” Kolvet wrote in a post on X.
The post went viral, and people all over the country chimed in with their opinions on the affordability crisis.
However, BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t buying it.
“There’s a big problem with affordability now because somebody paid 20 bucks for a burrito, and now the world’s out of control,” Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”
“All of a sudden, burritos are the most important thing in American society and their affordability. And they should never cost $20, ever. Nothing should cost 20 bucks,” he adds.
“It is surprising going through fast-food restaurant drive-throughs lately when you get the bill,” Jeff Fisher argues.
“Sure. But that’s, I mean, that’s been the case for a while. Don’t go out to eat then,” Gray says. “Buy the ingredients at the store. Go home and make your own burrito.”
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‘Paperwork’ Is Driving People Away From Food Stamps. Good
The problem isn't just welfare fraud. It's all the hundreds of billions of dollars in welfare itself, starting with food stamps.Florida thug allegedly stabs his grandmother 11 times on Mother's Day — after being asked to help carry in groceries
A 29-year-old Florida male allegedly stabbed his grandmother 11 times on Mother's Day after being asked to help carry in groceries.
The West Palm Beach Police Department said it received a call around 1:26 p.m. from a relative reporting that Keo Nottage had stabbed his grandmother, WPEC-TV reported.
'Someone is going to die today.'
When officers arrived at the scene on 52nd Street, they found Nottage and his cousin involved in a physical altercation, the station said.
The grandmother — who was attacked during the incident — told officers Nottage's cousin had just returned from the grocery store to prepare for a Mother's Day dinner, WPEC said.
When the cousin asked Nottage to help bring in groceries, Nottage allegedly replied, "Someone is going to die today," the station said.
Shortly afterward Nottage entered the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and stabbed his grandmother 11 times, WPEC reported.
Witnesses told the station the cousin tried to help the grandmother during the attack. According to a WPBF-TV video report, Nottage began chasing the cousin with the knife.
WPEC said that while the cousin was on the phone with police, Nottage tried to flee the scene.
But the cousin stopped Nottage, which led to another physical altercation between the two and resulted in an injury to the cousin's hand, WPEC said.
Surveillance video and eyewitness accounts confirmed the sequence of events, WPEC said, adding that police subsequently accused Nottage of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
WPBF said Nottage — who appeared in court Monday — is being held without bond.
The grandmother was taken to a hospital for surgery and was in critical condition, WPEC said.
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Here’s How To Cook Good Food On $15 A Day Or Less
The $15-a-day debate is about whether we still value self-reliance, basic household skills, and personal responsibility.Amazon BAILS on its cashierless grocery stores, betting you'd rather have crazy-fast delivery
What once cost Amazon over $13 billion is now turning into a big headache for the tech company.
Back in 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods for a price tag of $13.7 billion with the intention of making its own brick-and-mortar grocery stores under the brands Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go.
'Fresh groceries now make up nine of the top 10 most-ordered items.'
Amazon Go was meant to be the future: a cashierless and seamless Amazon experience where shoppers simply scan on their way out. In fact, the stores mirror a mid-2000s IBM commercial about online commerce.
By 2023, expansion had been slowed, with some locations closing, CoStar reported at the time, and Amazon taking out a $720 million impairment charge.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced it is fully closing all Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go locations. Although some will be retrofitted to become Whole Foods Market stores, Amazon is making a big shift toward grocery delivery.
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Amazon said in its press release that it already offers grocery deliveries in 5,000 cities and towns, with several thousand receiving same-day deliveries. Same-day service seems to be the company's core expansion project for 2026.
The shift appeared to be a profit-driven move after sales through same-day deliveries increased by 40x since January 2025.
"Fresh groceries now make up nine of the top 10 most-ordered items in areas where perishable groceries are available for Same-Day Delivery," Amazon explained.
At the same, Amazon says it will be "taking convenience even further" with the introduction of an "ultra-fast" delivery option that brings thousands of "essential items," including fresh food, to customers in 30 minutes or less. The offer is essentially a mobile convenience store experience.
While Fresh and Go may have not been the shining stars Amazon hoped they would be, its investment in Whole Foods Market has certainly paid off. The company boasted 40% sales growth since 2017, year-over-year increases in customer traffic, and expansion from around 460 locations in 2017 to over 550 currently.
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Trump Should Learn From J.D. Vance When It Comes To Talking About Prices And Affordability
If his vice president can do it, so can Trump.SNAP dependence makes taxpayers a personal grocery fund
While over 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to buy their groceries, the government shutdown has left them empty-handed — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey doesn’t think it's a bad thing.
Especially considering the money that comes from the government does not actually come from the government, but from the millions of taxpayers who go to work every single day.
In one CBS interview, a SNAP recipient named Erin Annis told the interviewer that she needs SNAP in order to live independently, without requiring the assistance of her family.
“Having those resources, what does it mean to you and for your life?” the CBS interviewer asks.
“Everything. It means everything to me. I don’t know what I would do except have to rely on my family, and I don’t want to do that right now. There’ll be a time when I’ll probably have to live with one of my sons. But for now, I want to be independent; I want to be on my own,” Annis answers.
“Having these resources has allowed you to be independent?” the interviewer asks.
“Yes, it’s allowing me to be independent,” Annis answers.
“It’s like people forget where this money comes from. You’re not actually independent. You are completely dependent on the government. And it’s not on the government. I mean, the government doesn’t have its own money. The government has money from us,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.
“And so you have people who are willing to sacrifice, who are trying to make ends meet, who are trying to provide for their families themselves who are paying for this woman to live quote-unquote ‘independently,’ to buy her groceries,” she continues.
“Our tax dollars are taken away from us in a compulsory way, like we have to — we will go to jail if we don’t pay our taxes. So the government is forcing the money that we earned out of our hands and is forcibly giving it to someone else who could rely on family to buy her groceries,” she explains.
“That’s not ethical. That’s not moral,” she adds.
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The American dream now comes with 23% interest
You may not know Steve Eisman’s name, but you should. He was the investor who bet against Wall Street in 2008 and won big — to the tune of $800 million, with a current net worth in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion. If you saw “The Big Short,” Steve Carell played him as Mark Baum.
Americans are past living paycheck to paycheck. They’re living loan to loan.
These days, Eisman hosts “The Real Eisman Playbook” on YouTube. And like in 2007, he’s warning again — this time about the fragile state of the American consumer.
He isn’t alone. In a recent episode, Eisman spoke with Lakshmi Ganapathi of Unicus Research, who shares her grim view of the U.S. economy. Their conversation, combined with the data, paints a picture more alarming than most headlines dare admit.
Consumers are broke
“If you deduct the AI expenditures,” Eisman said, “... the U.S. economy is not even growing, really, 50 basis points, outside of AI.” In plain English: Without the artificial-intelligence boom, growth would be nearly flat at around 0.5% growth — likely even lower — not the 3.8% the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported for the second quarter of 2025.
Ganapathi didn’t mince words either. “Consumers are broke,” she said. “The monthly budget math no longer works.”
That’s what happens when Washington spends decades pretending math doesn’t matter. During COVID, federal “stimulus” checks poured roughly $800 billion into households. The cash wave briefly made millions look creditworthy — even as the underlying economy collapsed.
“Subprime consumers became prime,” Ganapathi explained. With reporting on student-loan and credit-card delinquencies suspended, millions suddenly looked like perfect borrowers. Credit scores soared to 700 and 800.
“They got a check that made them look richer than they actually were,” Eisman noted.
Banks then bundled those inflated loans into asset-backed securities — the same shell game that fueled the 2008 meltdown. The illusion of “prime credit” returned, this time wrapped in COVID relief and moral hazard.
The debt pyramid
Ganapathi described auto loans now stretching to 84 months — seven years — at 22% to 23% interest, which is credit-card territory. Americans collectively carry $1.2 trillion in card debt and $676 billion in car loans.
Add mortgages and student loans, and the numbers turn grotesque. Americans owe $20.83 trillion on homes, with an average interest rate of 6.37% on a 30-year note, and $1.81 trillion on student loans. We pay roughly $1.6 trillion a year in interest alone.
And since Washington nationalized student lending under Obama, it can now garnish wages indefinitely. “If you file for bankruptcy,” Eisman said, “your student loan stays with you.” A debt you can never escape — courtesy of your government.
The federal government owes $38 trillion but somehow pays a third less in interest. Fairness, D.C.-style.
Kicking cans and eating debt
Ganapathi noted that 90-day-plus credit-card delinquencies have doubled since 2021. Consumers are defaulting on car loans. Banks, desperate to avoid repossession losses, simply “modify” the loans and call them current — the same can-kicking that defines Washington’s budget process.
At this point, 69% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly a quarter of them now use “buy now, pay later” services to pay for their groceries.
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Yes — groceries.
Eisman spelled it out: People are literally financing food. They buy a week’s worth of groceries, then spend the next two or three months paying for them — often at interest rates that can hit 36% after a single missed payment.
Americans are past living paycheck to paycheck. They’re living loan to loan.
The illusion of prosperity
This is the real economy hiding beneath Washington’s sunny numbers — an economy where debt props up demand and borrowed time props up debt. It’s 2008 in slow motion, but this time it’s ordinary households, not hedge funds, holding the toxic paper.
When the middle class needs “by now, pay later” to eat, the “strong economy” line collapses into farce.
America’s consumers are tapped out, overleveraged, and fresh out of illusions. The only question left is how long the lenders — and leaders in Washington — can pretend otherwise.
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