Inflation: Goodbye to dollar stores, the dollar pizza slice, 2-buck Chuck

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Say goodbye to dollar stores, 2-buck Chuck, and the dollar pizza slice. They got wiped out by the pandemic.

, the discount chain finally buckled under rising supply chain and labor costs. The new price point will enable it to absorb these costs and bring profit margins back to historic levels, company execs said.an assortment of items that cost between $3 and $5, which will be rolled out to 5,000 stores within the next two years. Trader Joe's' cheapest wine keeps getting pricier.

The grocery chain first hiked prices in 2013 to $2.49, denting the wine brand's reputation but not quite killing the moniker. Yet price growth since has led to some locations selling bottles for as much as $3.99, according toTrader Joe's announced in early 2020 it would lower the price of some Charles Shaw wines in California back to $1.99 by changing the glass bottle and cork design.

. Others said that, while the wine retains its $2-per-bottle price, the deal is only available when buying an entire case.Few regional delicacies offer the utility of New York's $1 pizza slice. That, too, has fallen victim to inflation. Many of New York's low-price pizzerias have ditched the $1 benchmark for higher prices amid pandemic-era inflation,reported earlier in November. Rising costs for garlic, flour, and even the gas used to power pizza ovens have killed the dollar slice.

"I can list about 200 items that I'm buying for my store every week and every one of them went up 50% to 200%," Leonardo Giordano, president of Mona Lisa Pizzeria and Ristorante in New York, said in a November Facebook comment.The damage isn't too bad for New Yorkers. Many restaurants only hiked their per-slice prices to $1.50, still undercutting most upmarket competitors.

 

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By pandemic, you mean Democrats and the Biden administration's inflation.

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Pizza by the slice just opened up by my work, but good job trying guys

告别一元店、2美元的Chuck和一元披萨片。他们被大流行消灭了。

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