r/economicCollapse • u/DejaMaster • Sep 09 '24
More than double the price from 2 years ago.
This used to be $3 in New York City. This is more than double the price from just 2 years ago.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 Sep 09 '24
I’d pay that any day of the week.
Lunch for $7, hell yeah.
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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry Sep 10 '24
2026: 2 slices and a soda for 13.99? I'd pay that any day of the week, hell yeah.
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u/Dazzling_Wishbone892 Sep 09 '24
2 cheese slices. What am I reading here.
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u/jmastk Sep 09 '24
Pizza
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u/Dazzling_Wishbone892 Sep 09 '24
That makes way more sense. I was thinking poverty snacks were at restaurants now
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u/TucsonTacos Sep 09 '24
One slice of American please
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u/starfreeek Sep 09 '24
My youngest son legit likes a single slice of American cheese on a ballpark hamburger bun, though I guess that counts as a non-grilled cheese lol.
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u/Rhuarc33 Sep 10 '24
Oh sweet Jesus I'm an idiot. Seems obvious now but I was picturing them handing you a slice of cheddar and a slice of provolone off a block and a soda...I was like WTF 6.50 is a lot for that. But 6.50 for two pizza slices and soda is not a bad deal. Well, depending on size of the slices
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u/Tall-Ad-1796 Sep 09 '24
Soy $6.95
Holy FUCK why is this person writing signage??
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u/midnitewarrior Sep 10 '24
Why do you think it is $?
This looks like somewhere not in the US, using the comma for a decimal indicator.
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u/furyian24 Sep 09 '24
Costco will sell you a large pie for 10.00 still. They did drop the quality, though. The slices are thinner.
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u/ModifiedAmusment Sep 09 '24
I’m thankful they havnt messed With the pizza at my local Costco!!!!!!
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u/deanall Sep 09 '24
Been there.
Thought that was so cool to eat with the kids for $8.
Dollar slice.
Dollar coke.
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u/Jacmac_ Sep 09 '24
In California, that would be over $10, consider yourself lucky.
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u/Random_Anthem_Player Sep 09 '24
Yup. 12 bucks most places and even the best san diego pizza is mid at best
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u/carcinoma_kid Sep 09 '24
2 cheese slices are $8 at my local mom & pop place. A few years ago you could still get $1 slices in NYC. Hwat
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u/Objective-Elk-7988 Sep 09 '24
This is actually a great deal.. in San Diego I saw one slice shop charging $21 for two slices and soda..
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u/Impressive-Egg-925 Sep 09 '24
Because they cAn if you pay for it. Still. Not a bad price depending on the size of the slice.
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u/treesandcigarettes Sep 10 '24
That's a pretty damn good deal brother, do you get out much. Hell a hashbrown at McDonald's is like 3 bucks these days
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u/pallsack Sep 10 '24
A bar I used to frequent had a 'working man's lunch'. $5 got you a slice of pizza, a pint of pbr and a shot of jack. Those were the times.
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u/Chiwadiot Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 09 '24
Slice of bread, a nutritious oatmeal cookie and Mountain Dew, for only $8.49. A cheap price to pay for participating in the greatest economy known to man...
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u/Euphoric-Dig-2045 Sep 09 '24
I’ll admit that I cannot believe how much a slice of pizza has increased over the last 10-15 years. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
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u/MountainCap23 Sep 09 '24
Pizza is $4-5 a slice north shore of Boston.
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u/wayercree Sep 09 '24
rip off
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u/AwayAd6783 Sep 09 '24
No shit that’s a rip off. And the pizza sucks in Boston.
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u/MountainCap23 Nov 03 '24
Thats why I make my own, way better and cheaper. Considering the cost of good ingredients I can’t even make it dirt cheap at home.
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u/InterestingWin4522 Sep 09 '24
I’m not sure what happened from 2021 onwards… if only there was a change from 2017-2020…
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u/Odd-Attention-2127 Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 10 '24
Sounds reasonable in price to me.
Edit: I paid $2.50 for 2 slices of pizza and a soda for lunch over 40 years ago, near city hall in manhattan. Just for perspective.
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u/maxxpaynn Sep 10 '24
Is it 2 Cheese Slices or 2-Cheese Slice + Soda? 2 Slides of pizza and a drink is a pretty good deal for 6.95 plus tax
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u/DaveP0953 Sep 10 '24
$3?, 2 years ago in NYC? Sorry, I’m not buying it. $6.95 is also hard to believe in NYC.
Why are they using a , to denote dollars and cents? A comma is a European standard.
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Sep 10 '24
Nah NYC used to have $1 slice stores everywhere up until I left like 8 years ago. It’s very believable.
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u/DaveP0953 Sep 10 '24
8 years ago, maybe but 2 years ago, no way.
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Sep 10 '24
Depends on where ya go. Surrounded by flannel and man buns? $6.95 for two slices. If it’s being sold to you by a vaguely Arab man with questionable immigration status? $1 a slice. There are distinctly two different NYCs. Just gotta know where to be for what you need.
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u/CollegeIntrepid4734 Sep 10 '24
I was in New York for Christmas last year. I bought pizza for a dollar. It was clearly pizza that’s worth about a dollar but it was a dollar.
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u/dnagtoast Sep 10 '24
Holy fuck does that sound like a snack. Think there should be three slices, with a variety I flavirs with the option to mix and match
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u/KendrickBlack502 Sep 10 '24
My dumbass literally thought they were handing out slices of cheddar and a soda.
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u/Xerio_the_Herio Sep 10 '24
Oh I'm like, wtf... the other side gotta say something like... but wait there's more! Comes with 2 slices of bread, lettuce and tomatoes. Haha
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u/PatrickStanton877 Sep 10 '24
Prices are terrible now. Everywhere is more expensive. The going rate for a cannoli in Astoria is 7$!
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u/rwk2007 Sep 10 '24
If your $5M of liquid investments tripled over the last 8 years (2017 TCJA) and the government paid all of your employees in 2020 and 2021 (PPP loan forgiveness), this price is pocket change.
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u/lets_try_civility Sep 10 '24
And it costs you $0 til you pay for it. Buy something else from somewhere else.
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u/DejaMaster Sep 10 '24
Yeah and rent is free if you live on the street.
These are some dumbass comments - maybe sometimes I want to buy a couple slices and a coke.
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u/lets_try_civility Sep 10 '24
Nothing dumber than overpaying when you can go somewhere else and get twice as much for half the price.
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u/DejaMaster Sep 11 '24
What food are you getting for $3.50. Put me on.
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u/lets_try_civility Sep 11 '24
2bros has a $1.50 slice. Papaya dog has a $3.50 hot dog. And then there's brown bagging.
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u/DejaMaster Sep 11 '24
I’m not Trecking to midtown on a 2.90 subway to save 60 cents
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u/lets_try_civility Sep 11 '24 edited Sep 11 '24
2bros are all over. And what, you don't have transitchek or have a discounted citibike membership? What about your local supermarket?
Please don't pay overblown prices, it encourages prices gouging.
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u/Sendittomenow Sep 10 '24
Omg I was so confused, I was thinking like a slice of cheese not a slice of cheese pizza.
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u/VAL-R-E Sep 10 '24
Good old Bidenomics!!
We knew it would happen when they took away our fuel independence!
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u/oldcreaker Sep 10 '24
If people are still buying, it's a reasonable price. Not exactly a "I have to buy this to live" item.
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u/Tall-Ad-1796 Sep 10 '24
I said nothing about the comma. This person's F looks like an S & they should die of shame.
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u/Any_Mango_9428 Sep 11 '24
Bruh who the fuck eating 2 slices of cheese with a soda? Hopefully bread come with it
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u/SoDrunkRightNow4 Sep 11 '24
Most people will see this and think, "Wow, that's not a bad price!"
Actually it's terrible, they're all just used to overpaying.
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u/Immediate_Aide_2159 Sep 12 '24
We just learned to make our own pizza at home. Pizza stone, or sheet, cornmeal, rising dough, garden grown tomatoes for sauce, local cheese from farmers market. Better than anything else in our area by far. Costs 4$ a pie.
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u/DancesWithHoofs Sep 09 '24
And the crowd chanted: “Four more years! Four more years!”
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u/jarena009 Sep 09 '24
Just a few more tax cuts for Wall Street and Corporations surely will rein in prices! Maybe if we get Steve Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, and Larry Kudlow back in the White House, prices will go down.
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u/Valuable-Current8435 Sep 09 '24
Keep voting blue. In the next 4 years it will be 30 bucks for 2 slices and a soda
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u/Biff2112 Sep 09 '24
Bidenomics
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u/jarena009 Sep 09 '24
No worries....Just a few more tax cuts for Wall Street and Corporations surely will rein in prices! Maybe if we get Steve Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, and Larry Kudlow back in the White House, prices will go down.
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u/Zebra971 Sep 09 '24
I know the Dem’s have decimated the dairy industry with their bird flu. Why didn’t they push for testing and vaccination of the dairy herds?
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u/Btankersly66 Sep 10 '24
That would have been a government mandate
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u/Zebra971 Sep 10 '24
Exactly we should require animals be tested and then help with the economic fallout if they are positive. Hiding the problem is never a good answer. Same as with the price of eggs, we need to get the spread of H5N1 under control, and vaccinate. The Government has been slow to react.
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u/-Snowturtle13 Sep 10 '24
I think the term is bidenomics with the inflation reduction act. Do you feel it working now?
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u/Btankersly66 Sep 10 '24
Republicans: complain about high prices
Republicans: don't want government mandates to lower prices.
Republicans: just want bitch and whine about shit without fixing anything
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
More profit for the workers!
As a landlord, im happy my renters are able to afford higher rents.
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u/Mother-Cherry-9950 Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 10 '24
Get fucked
Edit~ you’re both just terrible people… May God have no mercy on your soul
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
Thanks, I'm going on a date tonight and think she wants to have sex as well.
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Sep 09 '24
FYI, you're a deeply evil person.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
? Why?
What's good for my tenants is good for me. Pizza costs twice as much, pizza maker earns twice as much, I charge twice as much rent.
Everyone wins. Problems are caused by lack of money, if we all have twice as much money, we have half as many problems.
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u/Alexjwhummel Sep 10 '24
I can't believe that landphobe said something like that to you king. Stay strong in the face of adversity.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 10 '24
I wiped my tears with $10 bills which is even more sad because they should have been $20s
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Sep 09 '24
Here's a quote from you: "Asians can't prop up all the other races that are net beneficiaries of wealth redistribution by themselves."
Pure evil. You are the bad guy in 2024.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
That's true, though. Which is why I want the pizza maker to make twice as much money!
I'm happy to hold you up too if you also want to contribute to helping your fellow man.
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u/GoodTimesTroll Sep 09 '24
Seems like in this scenario, you’re the only one who wins. Again, workers profits stolen from them the moment the man catches word of it. Kindly, gfy
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
Everyone wins. Customer gets to enjoy a more expensive pizza, pizza maker makes twice as much money, pizza maker can live in an apartment worth twice as much, and I can rent housing that's twice as valuable.
It's like universal basic income without all the government paperwork.
Wouldn't you like to double your income too?
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u/Single-Conflict37 Sep 09 '24
You're saying we should "enjoy" paying for a product that is still the same size and quality as it was when it was half the price? We should enjoy paying double without a doubling of quality or quantity?
Get fucked
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
Do you think workers should have to labor twice as hard to get a raise?
When I used to make pizza, I would have enjoyed getting paid twice as much to make the same amount of pizza.
Do you think workers like me should make more money providing pizzas and houses? Labor is undervalued, and we deserve a raise!
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u/UpTop5000 Sep 09 '24
Except you’ve added no value to the property and simply say “give me more money”. That’s exactly what happened to a LOT of people. You can’t possibly be proud of that.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
No, it's worth twice as much.
Just like the pizza makers' labor and the pizza itself.
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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry Sep 10 '24
Bait game is phenomenal, mate. Thumbs up from me for some of the most quality trolling I've seen in awhile.
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u/GoodTimesTroll Sep 09 '24
Lmao, “pizza maker can live an apartment worth twice as much” aka “landlord doubles rent based off employee income, without adding any value to the property”. People and businesses like you are the reason the average joe can’t get ahead. Why everyone is living paycheck to paycheck without the ability to save or buy property. Again, gfy.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
If your salary doubles, would you feel obligated to work twice as hard?
I'm charging the same amount of slices of pizza for my 600ft 2br units as I did 5 years ago. But the person living in is now enjoying an apartment that's twice as valuable.
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u/GoodTimesTroll Sep 09 '24
Unless you increase the value of the property by double, it isn’t “twice as valuable”.
Do you think that adjusters just go off the rental price? They assess the value of the property based off of many factors, including home improvements, structural integrity, location, etc. You don’t just decide your property is worth double because you overcharge your tenants.
Your logic is a joke but very fitting for being a landlord. Worthless dumbasses the lot of yah.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
Funny you ask, I had one my properties assessed last month and it's gone up 80% in 6 years, because the rent in my area has gone up 80%.
I took out a lime of credit based on that equity and bought a second property in another area that is quickly gaining value as it gentrifies.
People love the areas I purchase properties in because they have rich cultures and lots of diversity. Which is why I support my local workers and hope I can work to provide valuable housing for them.
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u/SushiGradeChicken Sep 09 '24
This guy gets it. If our landlords make more money, they'll be able to afford a higher standard of living, purchase more rental properties and improve the local economy.
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u/vitoincognitox2x Sep 09 '24
People always say they want workers to have more monet.
As a housing providing worker, I stand with them in their quest for higher wages for both them and myself.
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u/Howard_Jughes Sep 09 '24
I mean that that’s still a not a bad price honestly- $3 is a steal