$13 for a loaf of bread? Sticker shock leads to lawmaker's complaint

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  • čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
  • Prices for everyday staples in Hawaii are known to be higher than usual, but a loaf of bread over $13 on Kauai caused a Councilman to file a complaint.
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Komentáře • 848

  • @datagrab
    @datagrab Před 7 dny +22

    *Complains and yet keeps voting democrat. Smh.*

    • @traderjack33040
      @traderjack33040 Před 6 hodinami

      blame the corporations that wants high profits at your expense.

  • @kawikadee9670
    @kawikadee9670 Před 9 dny +20

    If you voted for biden you should not be complaining about the cost of food or gas.

    • @pmo8135
      @pmo8135 Před 2 dny

      This.

    • @ronaldlindeman6136
      @ronaldlindeman6136 Před 23 hodinami

      If you have a job, you should not complain about President Biden. trump had the most job losses of any President in the United States history. President Joe Biden that the greatest job growth of any President in the United States history. Thank you President Biden for bringing the economy back from the orange presidents horrible economy.

  • @AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce
    @AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce Před 12 dny +202

    You know what’s a joke, every politician and the “people” who keep voting them in. That’s the real joke.

    • @Bitcoin_Gold
      @Bitcoin_Gold Před 12 dny

      Voting is rigged that's why. Also how corrupted Joe Biden cheated in 2020.

    • @Watchman-nw7hg
      @Watchman-nw7hg Před 12 dny +5

      FORRRR REALLLL

    • @erikh9991
      @erikh9991 Před 12 dny +2

      Exactly. So then they will go to Amazon for their food and even less people will be working.

    • @petergriffinson1907
      @petergriffinson1907 Před 11 dny

      That’s why democrat are the donkey symbol 😂

    • @JP-nz4em
      @JP-nz4em Před 11 dny

      yup you are absolutely correct.

  • @Paul11B2P
    @Paul11B2P Před 12 dny +7

    Keep voting 🗳️ for the current administration. You will get a LOT more of this!!!

  • @Minimumholloway
    @Minimumholloway Před 13 dny +146

    Imagine making 45 an hour and still being called “low income “ 😂😂😂

    • @howzit9397
      @howzit9397 Před 12 dny +9

      You’re right! I can only imagine making $45 an hour😂 will never happen

    • @laughteraddict1003
      @laughteraddict1003 Před 12 dny +13

      If you aren't earning six figures or more in Hawaii you are under the poverty line

    • @cameronf3343
      @cameronf3343 Před 12 dny +5

      Poverty line requirements are regional. No different from how 16 an hour in a Midwest village is decent but you’ll literally be living in your car and showering at the Y in any city.

    • @drjojo5551
      @drjojo5551 Před 12 dny +4

      If you find some fool to pay you $45 /hr in Hawaii……take it!!!!!!

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Před 12 dny +2

      If you ain't rich, yer NOTHIN'. Nothing. A nobody. No influence, no power... and no *bread*, suckah! 😂

  • @BillcooperHicks
    @BillcooperHicks Před 13 dny +36

    You voted for this 😂😂😂

    • @Sonofawildanimal4241
      @Sonofawildanimal4241 Před 12 dny +7

      This is capitalism, brother. Do not matter who you vote for

    • @user-ri5pj3iq9l
      @user-ri5pj3iq9l Před 12 dny

      @@Sonofawildanimal4241 Very naïve answer. Biden’s energy policy is the main driver of this inflation. We’re supporting two wars plus freebies. The prepared will survive.

    • @emilys384
      @emilys384 Před 12 dny +3

      ​@@Sonofawildanimal4241💯 agreed!

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 Před 12 dny

      @@Sonofawildanimal4241 1.4% inflation under Trump. It matters.

    • @rylans.5365
      @rylans.5365 Před 12 dny

      Do you think any politician cares? Yall think it’s a matter of blue or red when it’s really not. So many people “CORRUPT DEMS HAWAII” like what’s red gonna do for you they don’t care no one cares

  • @kynettie
    @kynettie Před 12 dny +74

    Everything went up except my pay. Somebody's making a killing. What's up with that!!

    • @Watchman-nw7hg
      @Watchman-nw7hg Před 12 dny

      THEY DONT KEA* CAUSE THEY
      THE POLITTTICAL GETTT DISCOUNT

    • @oger_ROG
      @oger_ROG Před 12 dny

      Are these guy gave themselves a raise😂. Except for few like Augie and taopulo

    • @sew_gal7340
      @sew_gal7340 Před 10 dny +2

      When a society settles for mediocrity or below average outcomes, it bleeds into all aspects of life including art, films, writing, food, clothing, medical care etc...nothing is of high quality because expectations are so low and people are so willing to settle. no conviction, no fighting spirit, and no desire for vigilence...just compliance and accepting everything that falls into your lap. I try to always fight to reserve the best for myself, which means less money goes into buying garbage stuff.

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 Před 10 dny +2

      You remember when everyone wanted to raise the minimum wage...... This is the result so why is that guy so shocked. You raise the minimum wage the stores have to raise the food prices.

    • @kynettie
      @kynettie Před 9 dny

      @@kawikadee9670 My neighbor works at Time's. He told me that the regular workers get minimum wage and they would get a raise when minimum wage goes up. The people who make good money is the management. Time's is the lowest paying retailer. Oh, the other thing he said that the story in the news was somewhat misleading. They mentioned bread (Loves) for $13 on Kauai. Here the bread was going for $10, but they didn't say they sell other brands for about $5. Here I was thinking all bread was selling at a high price.

  • @buckskin64
    @buckskin64 Před 9 dny +7

    Keep voting blue #FJB!!!!!

  • @808supek
    @808supek Před 13 dny +60

    Guys you’re all missing it,
    it’s a SALE Price of $13.39!
    The REGULAR price is a whopping $15.89 !!!!
    now that’s nuts.
    Eddie please read this message

    • @Matty80822
      @Matty80822 Před 12 dny +6

      Those sales are almost always going. Its not really on sale lol. Its like when you go online to book a hotel and it says 40% off right now! Puts an absurd price then crosses it out and puts the cheaper price. That cheaper price is the standard rate 😂

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 Před 10 dny +3

      You remember when everyone wanted to raise the minimum wage...... This is the result so why is that guy so shocked. You raise the minimum wage the stores have to raise the food prices.

    • @TCB2023.
      @TCB2023. Před 6 dny

      Right!!!

    • @Matty80822
      @Matty80822 Před 5 dny

      @@kawikadee9670 no they don't lol. they would have to cut down their quarterly profit reports which has a very bad appeal to board members because they're making x million dollars less than their projected goal. even though they are all gaining insane amounts of money, because its less than last quarter due to rising wages even though we're making a healthy profit, we need to keep that profit line equal to AND greater than last year otherwise the company is failing. and its not. ***disclaimer, this is for corporation based companies, not small business. small business gets screwed from the wages and the corps, basically a flank attack of economics. but problem B wouldn't exist if not for the indirect and direct actions of problem A in the first place
      braddah, the rise of cost went far beyond the inflation rate. they actually out here taking advantage to create more profit to get that quarterly report looking good

  • @brianh4480
    @brianh4480 Před 13 dny +103

    Maybe the store should change their name to "Times 2"

  • @user-xm3ei3jo9x
    @user-xm3ei3jo9x Před 13 dny +46

    Priced out of homes, priced out from even a loaf of bread

    • @FinessingFinance2024
      @FinessingFinance2024 Před 12 dny +3

      Soon we'll be living in ca ves again, hunting with our spear and growing our own food. No cable,no CZcams or wifi. It'll be like history repeating itself. 😂😂😂

    • @user-xm3ei3jo9x
      @user-xm3ei3jo9x Před 12 dny

      @@FinessingFinance2024 the plot thickens, wait until the wef and all globalist price us out of a can of sardines and tuna.

    • @moto_kai2688
      @moto_kai2688 Před 12 dny +2

      Hunt fish grow time to be self sufficient 💯

    • @river4462
      @river4462 Před 7 dny

      Peeps need to realize now more than ever especially since the Lahaina fires that the takeover is growing. Going to be rich people island soon. Too much vulnerability of the locals is allowing criminal officials to mangle and rip apart the culture even more. How can there be any getting better? Pules to Maui to all Hawaiian islands me ke aloha pumehana

    • @scruf153
      @scruf153 Před 3 dny +1

      @@FinessingFinance2024 sounds like all my camping trips and bicycle touring trips

  • @808ecobeast7
    @808ecobeast7 Před 13 dny +99

    Typical politician, out of touch in his own bubble! Under a rock for the last few years????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    • @tysons8759
      @tysons8759 Před 12 dny

      Stop bitching for once in your life and man up.

    • @michaelellringer5600
      @michaelellringer5600 Před 12 dny +2

      You're talking about Trump I'm guessing!

    • @Hippitidippity
      @Hippitidippity Před 11 dny +3

      Somebody has to elect these people keep that in mind

  • @richardgomez5008
    @richardgomez5008 Před 13 dny +89

    Sky rocketing prices are everywhere.
    Buy less, eat less. Save your money for taxes.🤣🤣

    • @bradfordjhart
      @bradfordjhart Před 12 dny +6

      We're all going to be a lot thinner

    • @eMDiKhamPha
      @eMDiKhamPha Před 12 dny +3

      😅 I'm already skinny by default; probably will be stick by then

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 Před 12 dny

      Solutions. The obvious solutions are not concerning you? Sounds like anti communism - like the blacklist days.

    • @robertgrays8790
      @robertgrays8790 Před 11 dny +3

      That's one way to solve the obesity epidemic.

    • @martina5296
      @martina5296 Před 10 dny +4

      Or rent, mortgage, highly important medication, gas for work to barely survive just on the bare basics?

  • @bamslerc
    @bamslerc Před 13 dny +47

    I make my own bread. But of course then they raise the price of flour. 🙄.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Před 12 dny

      You have no possible move. Not unless you're already financially fortified (with nutrients).

    • @Quacker701
      @Quacker701 Před 12 dny +5

      Lol, even the flour is more expensive in Hawaii. It still needs to be shipped in... Nobody grows wheat here.

    • @mistervo8185
      @mistervo8185 Před 12 dny +1

      Time to grow your own wheat field and processing plant

    • @Vasudeva108.
      @Vasudeva108. Před 11 dny

      Get out of there :) run.

    • @timothydempsey3763
      @timothydempsey3763 Před 8 dny +1

      I grow my own flour

  • @johnsotelo3125
    @johnsotelo3125 Před 13 dny +77

    Hawaii politicans in office doesn't care, politicans in it for themselves.

    • @rylans.5365
      @rylans.5365 Před 12 dny

      Do you think any politician cares? Yall think it’s a matter of blue or red when it’s really not. So many people “CORRUPT DEMS HAWAII” like what’s red gonna do for you they don’t care no one cares

    • @drjojo5551
      @drjojo5551 Před 12 dny +1

      NOT AT ALL LIKE YOU…….YOU ARE THERE FOR THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!aloha

    • @bettertomorrow791
      @bettertomorrow791 Před 12 dny +2

      What do you want the politicians to do? It's corporate greed and pricing gauging.

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 Před 12 dny

      The population expects capitalism and shuns its leftists. I was from Oahu for thirty years, and people repelled the solutions daily as I tried to talk them up.

    • @shirleyefting5194
      @shirleyefting5194 Před 11 dny +2

      Then VOTE

  • @LoutubeHi
    @LoutubeHi Před 13 dny +24

    I pay $5.39 for 2 bags of bread here on Boise, ID. It’s not that we can’t afford to live back home but it’s just not worth it. Change in leadership and we definitely can see ourselves being back soon! 🙏🏽🤙🏾💯❤️

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 Před 10 dny +4

      You remember when everyone wanted to raise the minimum wage...... This is the result so why is that guy so shocked. You raise the minimum wage the stores have to raise the food prices.

    • @usmcwm7031
      @usmcwm7031 Před 23 hodinami

      Hahahha keep voting Democrats in you deserve it!

  • @laughteraddict1003
    @laughteraddict1003 Před 12 dny +15

    With Hawaiis year-round growing seasons it is mind blowing how Hawaii is not self sustainable when it could be. The peoples slogan should apply to the food supply " grown here , not flown here "

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny +1

      Land on the major islands, excluding the Big Island, will run you $2 million per acre. Who can afford to grow crops on land that expensive? It wouldn't make economic sense. The produce you grow couldn't be sold cheap, because of what you had to pay for the land.

    • @radolfkalis4041
      @radolfkalis4041 Před 10 dny +1

      Hawaii does not have enough land to support itself and still have people live there. Like most small islands they have to import almost everything.

  • @deannasilva893
    @deannasilva893 Před 12 dny +10

    Mean while people on EBT throwing away food. Upsetting 😡 😡.

  • @EKJ0420
    @EKJ0420 Před 12 dny +12

    Seriously…they just now realizing this 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @reagandeleon1557
    @reagandeleon1557 Před 11 dny +3

    Love's is mainland owned now. We can blame corporations for the higher prices.

  • @MrBothandNether
    @MrBothandNether Před 13 dny +49

    The real question here is
    Why?
    Now go look at the quarterly earnings for these giant grocery store chains

    • @kristinesharp6286
      @kristinesharp6286 Před 12 dny

      It’s the brand not the grocery store.

    • @MrChiangching
      @MrChiangching Před 12 dny +5

      Profit margins for grocery stores are typically 1 to 2 percent.

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Před 12 dny +8

      In other words, you don't understand how inflation works, or what causes it.
      Where did you think that STIMULUS CHECK was coming from? It comes from YOUR OWN WALLET, IN THE FUTURE.

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 Před 12 dny +2

      Privatized food. People don't object and people hated me daily for talking about the solutions. People suck.

    • @wheresyouraloha
      @wheresyouraloha Před 11 dny +2

      Corporate gouging

  • @thylacine1154
    @thylacine1154 Před 12 dny +3

    If local politicians really want to "fix" this, try reducing business tax, food tax on consumers, property taxes, as well as several petty regulations. The cost of doing business trickles down to us little people who are just trying to get by...

  • @solidorsharp3091
    @solidorsharp3091 Před 10 dny +3

    Hawaii needs real change, and to end the monopolies $ the price gouging and profiteering $

  • @pinkoceanflower3045
    @pinkoceanflower3045 Před 12 dny +18

    I totally Agree! I noticed the prices of groceries is outrageous at stores such as Times, Foodland, Safeway, and Target, etc! This is so stressful thst me and my spouse argue because I want to move to the mainland and he doesn’t. We can no longer eat out at restaurants because of rising costs. It’s a total nightmare!

    • @FinessingFinance2024
      @FinessingFinance2024 Před 12 dny +1

      Smh. Sorry to hear dear. Try picking up some overtime or part-time work until the inflation cools down

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 Před 12 dny

      Capitalism is free. The obvious solutions come out of bullied and hated mouths.

    • @shirleyefting5194
      @shirleyefting5194 Před 11 dny +2

      Vote out the Dem

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 Před 10 dny +2

      You remember when everyone wanted to raise the minimum wage...... This is the result so why is that guy so shocked. You raise the minimum wage the stores have to raise the food prices.

    • @pinkoceanflower3045
      @pinkoceanflower3045 Před 10 dny

      @@kawikadee9670 ♥️

  • @joseywilds3133
    @joseywilds3133 Před 12 dny +8

    At that price you can make your own bread

  • @okinawasurfspots3184
    @okinawasurfspots3184 Před 12 dny +14

    Filing a complaint but still voting locally and nationally for the policies that are responsible for these high prices 🤯

    • @mikethompson3534
      @mikethompson3534 Před 12 dny +1

      EXACTLY

    • @jaybleu6169
      @jaybleu6169 Před 12 dny +3

      People are voting for corporate price gouging? Who do you think is gonna fix it?

  • @tedjuniormichael1083
    @tedjuniormichael1083 Před 12 dny +5

    Damn. I just bought 4 loaf of bread here in Utah for 10.

  • @ianbeattie7638
    @ianbeattie7638 Před 12 dny +7

    Politicians pay with constituents money. So they’re sheltered from the reality of the economy

  • @nalazone5474
    @nalazone5474 Před 12 dny +11

    And they ask if you want to round up.

  • @jeephu3091
    @jeephu3091 Před 12 dny +6

    They do it cause they can. Thought we had regulations for that, that’s who is to blame. Just like the cost of electricity, our regulators here of a black out( caused by electric company) and they allow for the price hike. It’s all a scam and there laughing at us all.

  • @manny13579
    @manny13579 Před 13 dny +13

    If you think that the people's basic needs are overpriced, you're wrong. You can now compare the 16-mile rail that is almost $B per mile. Your property tax and insurances, your vehicles, registrations and insurances and your basic TV channels, etc. Did you ever consider these needs v the rail? Wake up showbiz! You voted for them so "do not complain." Thanks

    • @Minimumholloway
      @Minimumholloway Před 13 dny

      Imagine making 80 k a year and still considered below income z

  • @yellowbird5411
    @yellowbird5411 Před 12 dny +8

    And white bread at that. I would be buying flour and making my own flatbread at home. Or buy corn flour and make tortillas. This kind of pricing madness only means that no one will buy it, and it will expire, so it will get thrown away. Better to simply go to the food banks and get it after it's been donated.

    • @T.S.000
      @T.S.000 Před 5 dny

      The flours cost a lot of money too.

    • @yellowbird5411
      @yellowbird5411 Před 4 dny

      @@T.S.000 Yes they do, but not as much as bread. Flour and corn tortillas are pretty cheap if you make them yourself, or some kind of flatbread. But I think if people are so strapped for money that they worry about how much they are spending for bread, they need to tap into the food bank. I've been in that situation, buried financially, and never went to a food bank. But looking back on it, I should have. The stress is a killer. Literally.

    • @T.S.000
      @T.S.000 Před 4 dny +1

      @@yellowbird5411 : Don't forget the time it takes to bake the bread as well. That time could be used to go work a 2nd or 3rd job, so you can pay the rent, especially, here in Honolulu.

    • @yellowbird5411
      @yellowbird5411 Před 4 dny

      @@T.S.000 Very true! Time is money.

    • @lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527
      @lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527 Před 12 hodinami

      You sound racist against bread.

  • @timguillory6339
    @timguillory6339 Před 12 dny +20

    Corporate greed nothing else 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @dannyn.3539
      @dannyn.3539 Před 12 dny +3

      This is beyond corporate greed. When inflation is this high, all prices are high.

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 Před 12 dny

      ​@@dannyn.3539nah, corporate greed is largely attributed to 40% of inflation. Just look at or listen to quarterly earning calls. These corporations brag about record profits. If everything was costing more, the companies would have the overall same profit. They don't.

    • @MrChiangching
      @MrChiangching Před 12 dny +6

      Out of control money printing is the cause.

    • @kobragangbit
      @kobragangbit Před 12 dny +1

      Mix of multiple things. Definitely not corporate greed and "nothing" else

    • @thrisbt1
      @thrisbt1 Před 12 dny

      @@MrChiangching what if the federal government created money and paid it to the workers who bake the bread [at the same rate those works get paid currently] and offered the bread on the market for the at-cost price [no profit] ...what happens to inflation ? how/why ?

  • @easyb622
    @easyb622 Před 9 dny +4

    This doesn’t have anything to do with inflation. This is just flat out greed. I know the locals of Hawaii are pissed as hell and I would be right along with them if I was over there.

    • @scruf153
      @scruf153 Před 3 dny

      if I lived on an island the last thing I would do as a politician is to piss off the locals you can only run so far on an island

    • @dilligafmofoker
      @dilligafmofoker Před 21 hodinou

      How much more evidence do you need? If all the retailers in that area are charging similar prices and they’re not all owned by a monopoly…it has to be inflation.

  • @ayanami808
    @ayanami808 Před 12 dny +5

    Should have kept loves locally owned.

  • @crosscolin
    @crosscolin Před 13 dny +45

    Safeway Hawaii Kai sells a 19oz package of Aloha Tofu for $7.49.... IT'S TOFU!?!?! We finally gave up and moved to Japan at the end of last year, where a similar package of tofu costs ~$0.75. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Don't get me started on meat, seafood and produce.

    • @allencoffland1685
      @allencoffland1685 Před 12 dny +4

      what a difference 30 years makes. Japan is now the low cost alternative!

    • @kobragangbit
      @kobragangbit Před 12 dny

      I think I'm turning Jap.

    • @sammylee8179
      @sammylee8179 Před 12 dny +2

      how do you 'just move to Japan' ? don't you have a limit of 3 months of stay, then have to move back to the states for at least a few days?

    • @crosscolin
      @crosscolin Před 12 dny +1

      @@sammylee8179 You make it sound like I threw a dart at a map and landed on Japan... I am married to a Japanese citizen, which makes me eligible for a visa which allows me to live and work in Japan. While Japan has very strict immigration policies, there are many ways for foreigners to legally live and work here.

    • @sammylee8179
      @sammylee8179 Před 12 dny +1

      @@crosscolin that makes more sense. that was kind of what I figured. but most of us don't have a spouse or something that'll allow us to just pack it up and move to Japan. I wish there was though, love it there

  • @user-hx7os5hk6f
    @user-hx7os5hk6f Před 12 dny +6

    It's hard to even pay two bills with one paycheck, have you seen toilet paper prices...almost $15 to wipe your @$$...crazy !

    • @jusbamathy1355
      @jusbamathy1355 Před 12 dny

      lol I know! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @robertturner1308
      @robertturner1308 Před 10 dny +1

      Wait till people stop paying for 🧻. Gen Z is the end of the alphabet. Next up Gen Stinky.

    • @radolfkalis4041
      @radolfkalis4041 Před 10 dny

      When I was a baby we all had cloth diapers. Only the wealthy had disposable. Use cloth squares and wash them like our cloth diapers.

    • @Yinzermakesvids
      @Yinzermakesvids Před 9 dny +1

      Damn that sucks, here in PA I just bought 12 rolls for 4.89

  • @jusbamathy1355
    @jusbamathy1355 Před 12 dny +3

    CEREAL and RICE, PRICES ARE CRAZY!

  • @eringemini7091
    @eringemini7091 Před 13 dny +14

    Many may not know this, but in the last 4 years 30,000 people have left Hawaii to the Mainland. Home ownership in Hawaii is but a "dream". One excellent example of some price gouging is the Kauai CVS/Longs Drugs store. The prices at their Kukuiuula ( Poipu) location are VASTLY higher from ALL their other locations. Is this ONLY because the Kukuiuula/Poipu location is right in a highly trafficked Tourist area?🤔

    • @FinessingFinance2024
      @FinessingFinance2024 Před 12 dny +2

      You may have a point about the tourism dollars helping to spur cost of living.

    • @sagalofheim446
      @sagalofheim446 Před 11 dny

      Not to be discouraging but home ownership is also but a dream in the mainland. I don’t see an end to this wretched country bleeding us all dry until only the rich can afford while they criminalize homelessness.

  • @eznet2985
    @eznet2985 Před 10 dny +2

    People dont care enough to say enough enough is enough! Once we all get together and make this stop . Then they'll get it

  • @CamelliaThornton
    @CamelliaThornton Před 12 dny +13

    Buy a bread maker and make your own. This is messed up

    • @ryanhuang8498
      @ryanhuang8498 Před 2 dny

      Even the cost of materials is expensive in Hawaii. Flour,yeast,salt,and other ingredients would cost just the same,they all have to be imported onto the island,not to mention running that bread making machine can cost 46¢+ per KWH,wouldn't be surprised it electricity goes to 50¢ per KWH later in the year. So to make your own bread most likely cost just a much or more.

  • @alexsolo4085
    @alexsolo4085 Před 12 dny +4

    Times has always been expensive. Not surprised their bread is over 10 dollars

  • @guslevy3506
    @guslevy3506 Před 12 dny +9

    LOL…people who live on a small island more than 2,000mi from the nearest mainland with no infrastructure and industry to note are startled that the price of necessities are high.
    People living on “paradise”, while wanting to limit others from living there, want to still have all the comforts of a large urban area on the mainland. Fools…

    • @roythousand13
      @roythousand13 Před 12 dny +2

      I agree! I'm convinced these people know nothing about economics!

  • @kevinhuddleston6438
    @kevinhuddleston6438 Před 13 dny +8

    Been awhile since I've bought bread... but it is just wheat, water, salt and yeast right? What is the weight of the loaf of bread? I do know that corn chips are selling for $12 a pound at most stores. And our government subsidizes corn. Glad folks are actually speaking up. Sadly our choice of a free market system is now controlled by a few conglomerates. Free markets and free competition should correct the pricing. But with huge companies controlling pricing there is no chance for new competition.

    • @erikh9991
      @erikh9991 Před 12 dny

      Nope, you got trucks, teamsters, employees, executive bonuses, shareholder dividends, spoilage, employee shrinkage and strikes. You got the federal government actively working to make productions costs more expensive by "Going Green".

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny

      The "huge conglomerate controlling pricing" must be located in Hawaii. Because where I live, you can still get bread for less than $2 a loaf.

  • @andrewherman5010
    @andrewherman5010 Před 11 dny +1

    it's called: 20% taxation through inflation. In Hawaii, probably more

  • @ndc0349
    @ndc0349 Před 12 dny +3

    Need to eliminate sales tax on food!

  • @FU-nb6bs
    @FU-nb6bs Před 6 dny +1

    Why you highlighting $13.39 when the regular price says $15.89

  • @effinhaoli808
    @effinhaoli808 Před 12 dny +4

    Make your own bread

  • @radolfkalis4041
    @radolfkalis4041 Před 10 dny +1

    Let's take a look at the regular price of over $15. Most goods on islands have to be imported. Prices were absurd when I lived in Guam in the 80s, it has to be ludicrous now. Make your own bread folks, it is not hard.

  • @HustlerJerbear
    @HustlerJerbear Před 10 dny +2

    Stephanie Lum has an Americanized voice. She doesn’t have a foreign Asian accent.

  • @edwardroche2480
    @edwardroche2480 Před 9 dny +1

    They didn't only raise the price of a loaf of bread but they raised the price of the ingredients to make it. Here in South Florida in the Florida Keys the yeast to make a loaf of bread cost about $2 Karma the cost of flour went up to

  • @kekoal7300
    @kekoal7300 Před 12 dny +1

    We moved to Arizona from Hawaii and bought a house twice as big as our Hawaii home for half the price. We can buy a loaf of bread for $2.75. 😂

  • @hawaiiboylasvegas8342
    @hawaiiboylasvegas8342 Před 13 dny +52

    Keep voting Democrat and this is what you get!

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 Před 12 dny

      Yes keep voting Democrat and corporate greed will continue. Republicans aren't for large corporations and definitely don't try to stop everyday workers from increasing their pay through unionizing. This is exactly why Republicans vote for permanent tax cuts for corporations but only give temporary tax cuts to workers! The money that corporations save goes to wireless and not the investors. Republicans know what's best for workers!

    • @michaelellringer5600
      @michaelellringer5600 Před 12 dny +2

      You'll find high food prices all thru the red states including TX!

    • @hawaiiboylasvegas8342
      @hawaiiboylasvegas8342 Před 12 dny

      @@michaelellringer5600 Hey asshole!…. I didn’t ask for your opinion!

    • @peachmango5347
      @peachmango5347 Před 11 dny +1

      @@michaelellringer5600 What color are Washington Democrats in TX?

    • @Thehoelogdog
      @Thehoelogdog Před 11 dny

      The state of Texas is starting to turn blue because of Californians moving there. Prices hoing to keep climbing until Joe and more dems are vored out.

  • @billted3323
    @billted3323 Před 13 dny +41

    Voting Democrat has consequences .

    • @user-mf2fd6dq8x
      @user-mf2fd6dq8x Před 13 dny +8

      Hi would vote 🗳 for Obama n Hillary again..

    • @heaven-is-real
      @heaven-is-real Před 13 dny

      Vote woke and go broke.

    • @bamslerc
      @bamslerc Před 13 dny +9

      Has nothing to do with democrat. It’s bigger than that.

    • @ibeemeeintp3033
      @ibeemeeintp3033 Před 13 dny

      The two party ONLY system is for idiots with no critical thinking skills....

    • @billted3323
      @billted3323 Před 12 dny +6

      ​@@bamslerc
      Its easier to fool someone then to convince them they been fooled.
      You got your opinion from what you believed were facts. But that was a form of propaganda.
      The $10 bread is right there , You choose to be blind

  • @beauhawkes3221
    @beauhawkes3221 Před 12 dny +3

    If these locals were not using food stamps they could complain.

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 Před 12 dny

      I was a local raising a troubled child, so I went to Human services on Queen Street. They gave us food stamps. Mistake - we weren't eligible. We were too poor to pay it back - only time I ever stopped starving - it was a local gal in the human services getting her kicks. It was a joke. They took the money from my tax returns and I'm ineligible for food stamps for life. Some aloha. Lotta seniors get this treatment.

  • @XIII5XIII
    @XIII5XIII Před 13 dny +39

    Build back better working perfectly fine 👌🏽

    • @user-mf2fd6dq8x
      @user-mf2fd6dq8x Před 13 dny +11

      Obama said transformation of 🇺🇸...this is what it looks like.

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 Před 12 dny

      Bidenomics is a feature of De-Pop Agenda 2030

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 Před 12 dny +4

      Exactly! I blame Biden for my lawnmower breaking. And then he made one of my knives dull when I used it too much. And then Biden made my oil get dirty when I took a road trip and I had to change it! Thanks Biden!

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 Před 12 dny +3

      @@ebf1003 Tell me why you support Biden without mentioning Trump. What is your favorite policy of the current administration?

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 Před 12 dny

      @@ebf1003 He's certainly to blame for Afghanistan deaths, crippling the energy sector, trying to mandate an experimental gene therapy, funding 10/7, causing rampant inflation due to inept policies, etc..

  • @AE1OU
    @AE1OU Před 11 dny +1

    Thats the issue with living on an island that heavily relies on importing from the mainland

  • @arcticredpanda4598
    @arcticredpanda4598 Před 12 dny +1

    Eddie is so shocked by the prices he forgot how to speak.

  • @Glen-uy4jt
    @Glen-uy4jt Před 9 dny +1

    You did pick out the most expensive bread possible. Here in Mexico, low cost loaf is $2.80 and imported US bread is $5.06 I imagine the ages are better in Hawaii but I do not know if that is true.

  • @brandigabriella-vs3ez

    I’ve started making my own bread again for this reason- bread freezes well, you can spend some time making several loaves and then freeze them til you need them. Only costs about a dollar a loaf

  • @gshepherd6141
    @gshepherd6141 Před 11 dny +1

    stop printing money...government. nuff said.

  • @StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956

    Thank you Brandon!

  • @anonymous_end_user
    @anonymous_end_user Před 11 dny +1

    This is what they want. The large corporations will win.

  • @rryan8005
    @rryan8005 Před 11 dny +2

    Priced out of Paradise 🙄

  • @eyelovecolorado2195
    @eyelovecolorado2195 Před 10 dny +1

    Don’t forget the price is Plus tax…..

  • @kuna507
    @kuna507 Před 12 dny +2

    Yep no buy for me

  • @Jon-yo4wj
    @Jon-yo4wj Před 12 dny +3

    I just paid about $3 for a loaf of bread here in Nj

  • @bgregg55
    @bgregg55 Před 12 dny +1

    How much is all purpose flour? I'd get a bread machine.

  • @jessicanolastname8928
    @jessicanolastname8928 Před 12 dny +1

    The $13 bread is with it being on sale, reg price said $15, we went there for for vacation for 2 weeks in April, shopped on base (as we are military) and for 3 dinners I paid $400.00. These weren’t fancy dinners either, just hamburgers, tacos and tikka masala, $400 usually gives me 2 weeks of dinners, plus stuff for breakfast and lunch on the main land….😢

  • @MsPrisoner627
    @MsPrisoner627 Před 11 dny +1

    I was given a warning by two cops at Kapiolani park for walking my dog. They said no animals in the park and pointed at the direction where a sign says so. I guess now I can’t walk my dog on a public park that I pay taxes for to be maintained.

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny +2

      Other people pay taxes to maintain it too, and they don't like stepping in dog poop. Your dog pays no taxes.

  • @jonl9873
    @jonl9873 Před 12 dny +2

    Whole State is a joke!!
    Well, I thought it was joke that I have to make appointment to get a duplicate license cause mine to falling apart.

  • @ivang9885
    @ivang9885 Před 15 hodinami

    This is how price controls get implemented

  • @Golgibaby
    @Golgibaby Před 12 dny +1

    Mahalo for freedom of speech and leveraging the power of the people. Speak truth to power. Find what resonates with the people, and the outcomes in all its forms should speak volumes.

  • @guitarandotherthings6090
    @guitarandotherthings6090 Před 10 dny +1

    Bananas shipped to mainland from Hawaii are half the price on mainland which makes no sense. Theres also a bread factory on Hawaii. So locally made stuff is being charged higher prices as if it was imported when its made there. It’s price gouging.

  • @blomegoog
    @blomegoog Před 12 dny +2

    this was a target infomercial.

  • @charly3575
    @charly3575 Před 13 dny +3

    Welcome to our world. Law makers should go shopping on camera so we can see their reaction.

    • @emilys384
      @emilys384 Před 12 dny

      They wouldn't have much of a reaction, they are rich. These prices are pennies to them. They don't have any concept on what it's like to live like normal everyday people.

  • @solomongreatness6391
    @solomongreatness6391 Před 8 dny

    Loaf of bread is the new contemporary American dream. Forget about houses.

  • @robertnunn3015
    @robertnunn3015 Před 3 dny

    Do not buy products when you know you’re getting screwed !!

  • @misoandramen
    @misoandramen Před 10 dny

    Husband bought a bread machine two months ago. Best decision ever 👍

  • @user-or7mr1ec7d
    @user-or7mr1ec7d Před 9 dny

    WTH! That’s ridiculous!

  • @dorthymcbride3384
    @dorthymcbride3384 Před 12 dny +1

    That's getting way out of control! We can never go back home!

  • @johnnykeener3727
    @johnnykeener3727 Před 7 dny +1

    Better vote smart

  • @tonycarpaccio9550
    @tonycarpaccio9550 Před 13 dny +3

    and you can get two big loaves for 8 bucks at Sam's. Times and Safeway etc tax people HARD

  • @Sonofawildanimal4241
    @Sonofawildanimal4241 Před 12 dny +3

    COST OF LIVING IS EXORBITANT! What is going on? Please figure this out smart people

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny

      Massive government spending drove up the cost of everything. It was entirely predictable.

  • @arturobeltran5195
    @arturobeltran5195 Před 12 dny +10

    Keep voting Democrats!

    • @les0101s
      @les0101s Před 12 dny

      Doesn't matter who you vote for.

    • @jaybleu6169
      @jaybleu6169 Před 12 dny +2

      What will the "pro business" Republicans do about this?

    • @duinay3
      @duinay3 Před 11 dny

      All I know is prices went up more when Biden became president

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny +3

      ​@@jaybleu6169Reverse all Biden policies on Day 1. That will be a good start.

    • @RodSherwood1
      @RodSherwood1 Před 9 dny

      @@jaybleu6169weren’t you alive when Trump was President? Before Covid, the economy was the best it’s ever been!!

  • @bgregg55
    @bgregg55 Před 12 dny +1

    It says the reg price is 15.89. How does anyone afford that beside Zuckerberg?

  • @jusbamathy1355
    @jusbamathy1355 Před 12 dny +1

    Old news lol. I live rural Maui been complaining about prices for the last couple years. my most recent shock was buying $9 tomatoes on sale! when 3 days earleir was 6.99 on sale. NEVER again. idk what brand it was, but all wen rotten within 2 days. I told the employees wut is up with these prices every other day or week the prices keep going up? Its bullshit. the Swap meets getting a little pricey too.Walmart has prices like safeway use to have so theres no bother waste my gas to go there. Target still get some okay prices but moa better jus save gas and buy what i need for that day.

  • @karenhaole6264
    @karenhaole6264 Před 13 dny +12

    Where is the government it’s not here in hawaii

    • @davec3651
      @davec3651 Před 13 dny +2

      Haha your name and this comment

    • @cupidok2768
      @cupidok2768 Před 13 dny

      Omg! What is the purple gooooo! Omg can u give me the link. I wannna buy

    • @kathypaaaina3953
      @kathypaaaina3953 Před 13 dny

      ​@@cupidok2768Molokai something tag me tomorrow I will ask my Sister Inlaw..I might fly there to eat it. Aloha hugs 🤗

    • @cupidok2768
      @cupidok2768 Před 13 dny

      @@kathypaaaina3953 what's the name of the place that sells that

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Před 13 dny

      @@cupidok2768
      “The purple gooo” is taro flavored I believe, but they get all kine flavors, or plain.
      It’s called Molokai Hot Bread, you can get it on Molokai, in Kaunakakai, early in the morning, just walk down the dark lane/alley everyone else is walking down😁.
      If you don’t live on Molokai they have a food truck that goes around O’ahu… I don’t think they have food trucks on any other islands, not sure though.
      They get one Instagram, try follow them over there, ask for Kana, he’s the guy in this video.

  • @marshapelo9830
    @marshapelo9830 Před 13 dny +2

    Times store prices ripoff.

  • @blakethomas8897
    @blakethomas8897 Před 11 dny

    Hopefully it goes up soon!

  • @harryshigeura3892
    @harryshigeura3892 Před 13 dny +8

    Retailers want to keep the same profit margin, they no like suffer, they rather the consumer suffer ...

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny

      Hell yeah. Who wouldn't?

  • @jacobmcandles1745
    @jacobmcandles1745 Před 2 dny

    Wonder how much that loaf costs in Princeville or Hanalei ? Big Save in Lihue is probably cheaper than Foodland.

  • @jesusthugmusic
    @jesusthugmusic Před 5 dny

    Yeah, I recall hearing about the price of milk there decades ago. I never expected it to get cheaper lol.

  • @psychedelicpsyhcosis
    @psychedelicpsyhcosis Před 10 dny

    People have to start making their own bread

  • @kaca5986
    @kaca5986 Před 22 hodinami

    So what does a gluten free bread cost? It's usually several times regular bread.

  • @Outdoor_Hana_Hou
    @Outdoor_Hana_Hou Před 12 dny

    This is sickening

  • @jimmycain8669
    @jimmycain8669 Před 8 dny

    It’s too expensive to live in Hawaii compared to the mainland.

  • @carmiemakahanaloa3924
    @carmiemakahanaloa3924 Před 11 dny +1

    I don’t think it’s inflation. I think it’s all the big corporations that are price gouging everything it’s all about that almighty dollar for them , even Walmarts prices have doubled and tripled over this past couple years. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I blame corporate.

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 Před 11 dny

      I blame Brandon.

    • @cnice7903
      @cnice7903 Před 10 dny

      I wont deny that there is some greed going on, there is....BUT the current administration ran on the promise of destroying the fossil fuel industy to replace it with "greener" energy.
      Fuel and energy costs are up and that trickles down the cost of every single item that is produced and transported.
      If it cost more to grow, farm, fertilize, harvest, transport, stock the product on the shelves then it will reflect in the cost. So something like a grain in the field will then change the cost of every item that grain goes into (bread, cereal, baking mixes, etc) and that is just ONE item.
      Corporate greed is a thing and it does happen BUT we cannot ignore the Donkey in the room. Corporate greed is a place to be angry and take our attention of the fact that we are under attack in various ways....but hey, at least this administration is doing exactly what they promised to do 👍
      And before a person tells me that the president doesnt decide the gas prices, I know this. But their polices do effect it and if they cant change much with the fuel industy then why the mumbo jumbo of promising their voters that they will end it? Leave it alone then if they have no effect on it.

  • @adamf7089
    @adamf7089 Před 10 dny +3

    It’s Bidenomics

  • @gregh7457
    @gregh7457 Před 13 dny +9

    safeway member price for the win @ 7.99

    • @kobragangbit
      @kobragangbit Před 12 dny +1

      Bread maker 1.50 ftw

    • @420saralou
      @420saralou Před 12 dny

      Most things you need the actual app for, not just the membership card. I saw creamer was on sale and grabbed my alloted 2, got up to the register, punched in my phone number and was still charged regular price because I don't use the app. The thing was, app info was in very small print and are on white tags, not yellow. There were no white tags. When I went back, the white tags were there. Do they expect people to climb into the coolers to be able to read the fine print? Ridiculous!

    • @crosscolin
      @crosscolin Před 10 dny

      $8/loaf for garbage bread is winning?