Grocery store today

[moniss]

28. Many items I've recently priced have been sky high.

Some very common things have become hard to get even from the manufacturer's web site. Fruit of the Loom men's plain white briefs are one of the most common things in the world and yet stock in the larger sizes is spotty and FOTL customer service is referring people to Walmart online instead of buying direct from FOTL. Problem is that WM will take the order but then respond later on that shipment will "be delayed". FOTL announced some time back that they are leaving the "wholesale" market in 2026 but have apparently decided "to hell with retail" as well. Apparently Buffett has decided to strip the company back. They can expect to keep losing market share with moves like this.

I had a need for a couple of twin size flat cotton sheets. I don't need a set just the sheets. Anything of any quality is pricing around $40-$50 per sheet and color or pattern availability is again spotty. You can go cheaper and pay about $10 or less and have better availability but the sheets have horrible reviews with most people saying they had holes starting after a few months of washing.
The kind of sheets where when they are brand new you can hold them up and see through them.

So it appears that for some soft goods the off-shore textile supply chain is perhaps caught in the limbo of whether the importers want to bring the product in and try to pass on the tariffs to the US consumer or just wait for demand to help overcome price reluctance.

In any event there are domestic producers pricing a twin cotton flat sheet at prices between $50 to around $100. For a flat piece of cloth that's been hemmed.

I was at the grocer yesterday and plain old chuck roast was $10.99/lb.