Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success : aboringdystopia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Where are they getting their ingridients from to cook if they shop less? Or do they just eat less? Is this about starvation?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

From personal experience:

Store brands
Self-checkout ("shopping less" on record)
Not buying avocado that ripens in 3.23 days and goes bad in 3.56 days. You're on time out, avocado.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Careful with the self check shenanigans, especially at Target. They wait to let you know they know until you reach felony price totals and then have you arrested. https://www.paypath.com/Small-Business/why-target-is-the-worst-store-to-shoplift-from

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn morality of shoplifting aside that should qualify as entrapment or something. At that point it's not about loss prevention, it's just petty revenge.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

And they’re doing it cheerfully, I’m led to believe. Images don’t lie. Look how happy they are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Why is this a headline? It's just called living within your means. Smart people have been doing this forever, it's nothing news worthy.

[+] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Where do you leave? What if you buy family packs and mealprep and freeze?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

even if I wanted to

That's the key phrase in their post. They simply don't want to, so they've come up with excuses to justify that stance. Raw ingredients are always cheaper, but you have to put effort in to see the savings, they don't want to.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if you're considering buying a single meal at a restaurant vs the cost of buying packages of ingredients at the grocery store which would net you many meals. But I don't think there's a single place on Earth where grocery store food is more expensive than the equivalent restaurant serving.

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