One Walmart shopper purchased the same set of groceries three times over the span of nearly two years in order to test the impact of inflation, sharing the results in a now-viral TikTok.

In a video with over 1.3 million views, TikToker Amy (@amywaytosave) said that she went to Walmart at the end of 2020 and purchased a cart load of groceries for $10.09. Viewers can see her receipt and cart, which includes foods like frozen veggies, eggs, flour, rice and beans, bananas, and more.

“I made a week’s worth of meals for one person,” Amy said.

She said at the beginning of 2022 “there was a lot of talk about inflation at the grocery store,” so she decided to go “back and purchase all of the same things.”

She said her total bill was about 10% more.

Now, at the start of 2023, Amy said she went back and purchased all the same items. The catch? Her groceries now cost $15.10—about 50% more than the prices at the end of 2020.

Though talks of rising inflation rates have dominated the news for the last several years, many viewers were still taken aback by the results of Amy’s experiment.

“It’s not inflation anymore, it’s price gouging,” the top comment read, with over 30,000 likes.

“Thank you!” another wrote. “I’m so sick of people saying inflation isn’t the issue, just budget better. Like, it is a huge difference.”

“Corporate greed,” a third added.

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Lmfao

Stupid fuks commenting. Like how much of these inbreds don't realize they voted for **** like this.

I swear, I don't know how dumbfuks like this hold down jobs let alone wipe their own ass.

I hate to be playing the side of misanthropy, but, I hope the vaccines rids the earth of these people..

Giggity

There is still a diesel shortage. Where does she think the groceries come from?

The eggs made up a large portion of that difference after the chicken apocalypse.

And also, if one company, like Walmart, decides to price gouge then a smaller company like Kroger could undercut them and make record profits. Why are they all doing it?

This is part of the problem. Although I wonder if when they bring out electric trucks the prices will go down? Nope.

Woah a whole $10

Same people crying for $20 an hour at Starbucks 2 years ago are now crying that everything is more expensive.

with minimum wage now being $15.. she bought a weeks worth of groceries on one hours work? That's amazing.

The disconnect is because people see 7.3% inflation on the news and expect groceries to only increase 7.3%. They don't understand that inflation numbers are an average of the cost of numerous items, not just groceries. They also discount the notion the the CPI numbers we see on the news are doctored and bold face lies.

now the misc is chitting on people calling out inflation?

why is calling out inflation and bringing light to it a bad thing now?

A cartload of groceries for 10 bucks? I bet Abe Lincoln paid more than that a few hundred years ago

We hating on people who voted for **** like this.

Dick head Joe even said **** would happen if he were elected.

Pull your head out of your ass.

walmart made a 150 billion with a b in PROFIT in 2022, (thats 4% more than 2021) im sure they could afford it...

Companies are gouging prices to make up for lost profits in 2020/2021

I bought 40 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breast from Jewel (Illionois grocery store) for 99 cents a lb last week, meanwhile 5 dozen eggs at costco went from 10.99 3 weeks ago to 15.99 this week.

I'm thinking Jewel killed all the chickens...

Now lets check the Walmart stock price over the same period just for giggles.

They’re calling out the people saying it’s “price gouging” instead of inflation

We are not talking about your parents here....... angry little boy we are talking about Walmarts stock price, can you please try and keep up with the rest of us?
The Pfizer debate was very early on in 2020/21, so of course over time it increased, duh!

You are a literal monkey retard that can't figure out the point, omg!

This is actually pretty dumb, because how did the experimenter control for sale prices the first time around? The 3rd time was a year on year increase of 36%, so the 50% is a pointless number. The cpi is a basket of goods that the governmenr does for you, so that these little things don't mess the calculation up

Just reread wtf does about 10% mean in an experiment. Why not just give the number. What if its 12 or 13 dollars

Wait what? A cartload of groceries for $10? A weeks worth of meals? Vegetables, fruit etc? Did she steal that **** or something? I spend like $100 a week on groceries for me alone.

Right. Those come from a different source of inflation.

good.

can't wait for putin to drop a nuke and end ukraine either.

get what you vote for.

its jews. srs dont overthink