I don't understand...

[countrygirl12]

The cost off  living rising a lot faster then pay checks are.  What is  so sad is  the grocery and other businesses have already  been jacking up  the prices on every thing because of the 5% tariff that Trump is talking about with Mexico. Hasn't been done yet and they are already using the excuse o raise prices.  I went into the  *bleep* store  here and bought some raseberry  pie filling last  Monday and it was  $3.99 a can. Had a request to make another cobbler with more and  went back in Wed. to  buy a couple more cans and the price  was up to $5.49 a can. In  2 days.  I ask about it and they used the excuse of the  tariff.  Needless tosay I will buy  frozen  berries to make it  from now on.

The 5% Tariff has nothing to do with it.  And it has not even taken effect yet.   The grocery stores are raising prices because employees are demanding higher wages.  It is not like the majority of our food comes from Mexico.  I am not understanding how people can be so stupid that they think this is a bad thing.  They charge us a whole lot more in Tariffs than we ever thought about charging them.  Maybe we need to charge them whatever they charge us.  Sounds fair to me.

Walmart's prices have increased steadily for quite some time.  It started when they raised the starting wage to $10 an hour and going to $11 in 90 days.  And our store has cut even full time employees to 10 hours a week.

The random employee you talked to is an idiot.  Look at the label and see where the product is made and where it came from.  Did it ship from Mexico?  I doubt it.

Most people are not smart enough to grasp if min wage goes to $15 an hour (which has been a huge argument on several forums) that it will cripple our country.  Your pay check may be bigger but you will pay more for everything your purchase because the people who own the companies are not going to just make less money.  They will give the people what they want.  They will pay their employees more money.  AND... they will raise their prices and pass that raise on to the consumer.  It isn't rocket science.

The people who suffer the most are senior citizens who do not get a raise.  And then the people who are working min wage jobs.  Yes your min wage may be $15 an hour but your hours will be cut.  Our local Walmart has cut full time employees down to around 10 hours a week.  (According to the employees in the store, even lower management - who are upset because they don't have anybody to work).

[paints]

how a cemetery can raise its funeral prices, and blame it on the cost of living...

How is it cost of living when its based on dying?

Exactly!  Thank you! 

[madeara]

Yes.  Thank you.

[timvolley]

like mentioned the price of everything is going up.

[tantricia44]

That so sad, you lose a love one, & you also lose you savings. Everything goes up every year, it never ends until you die!

[countrygirl12]

That so sad, you lose a love one, & you also lose you savings. Everything goes up every year, it never ends until you die!

You should not lose your savings.  I don't know about any where else but where I live more and more people are just having a grave side service.  They are skipping the $15,000 plus funeral.   Suicide seems to be on the rise and there have been several in the area over the past couple years and they do not do anything. No obit in the paper - nothing.  The person is buried and that is the end.  I guess the family may do something personally. But it really cuts down on the expense.

[ghunter]

...and you won't.  Everything continues to rise and not paychecks.  It is the way of the world.

[gaylasue]

'Cause people are just dying to give them business...  I am going the cheap way - cremation.  We have cemetery plots but I just can't see paying $7,000 - $10,000 for a funeral!  Which are usually just an excuse for a family reunion.  If they can't make an effort to see me before I die, I don't want them crying over a casket!

[ancmetro]

    There is no place for them...
because "available land is so scarce".

[countrygirl12]

    There is no place for them...
because "available land is so scarce".

No place for who?  There is tons of available cemetery plots in my town and all those around me.  I don't know of any that are full.  They have a mausoleum in one of the big cemetery in town.  I have an uncle that is buried in that.  I think that is what it is called.  Basically like a big filing cabinet with drawers that pull out.  I don't know about any where else but there have been a few in my county that have had loved ones buried on their own property.  I guess that is fine if you aren't planning on selling.  I know the one woman had her husband buried in the back yard and she sold the property.  SO the new owner has a person buried in their back yard.  I would not like that too much.  I guess you could remove the head stone if you wanted to and were the new property owner.

[nmbrown863]

I almost missed the joke until I read through the comments. Lol.

[alice44]

REally Good Question 

[ancmetro]

    "No place for them"...I meant: The dead and the dying.

[mamatygress]

Prices go up on absolutely everything.  A lot of it has to do with the cost of gas.  Trucking and shipping stuff.

[Rahmanh]

I think its inflation cost of the dollar, and that's why the price went up.