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figures of Numerator mark the scope of inflation in supermarket products.
The challenge of buying on inflation offers increasingly challenging practices in the market.
The influencers Mexican and millionaire Priscila Escoto denounced in TikTokthe high cost of supermarket products when making the purchase of the supermarket for the first time in the midst of inflation.
The complaint made by the woman has been analyzed by platforms like Numeratorwhere “in the United States, YoY inflation for online grocery products was approximately 13.6 percent in October 2022. From June 2021 to October 2022, monthly inflation in this category it was the highest in August 2022, at approximately 17 percent.”
Millionaire discovers inflation
Priscilla Escoto is a influencers Mexican millionaire who has become popular for making content about her luxury purchases. Despite being used to paying high prices for exclusive products, such as Prada, Dior or Fendi bags of more than 100,000 pesos, the millionaire did not expect that she would experience inflation when shopping for the first time and paying a ticket $500 purchase.
“Yesterday for the first time I did what a person does when they live alone, go to the supermarket and I spent a lot of money, now that I live in Miami my parents were super nice to pay me the rent for the apartment (…) my mom He said, you have your food there, treats, you are going to pay for everything with money from your work, obviously there is no problem, but in my house in Monterrey I did not pay anything and yesterday when I went to the supermarket for the first time I said ‘oh God’ it was like 500 dollars and I said ‘oh the corn’ and I didn’t buy that much”, he confessed when he discovered how his purchase ended up in the supermarket in the midst of inflation.
After his complaint, which adds more than a million reproductions in TikTokreceived all kinds of comments such as those written by Ali Zayas, “Oh girls, of course household expenses weigh more than tastes, one can complain about tortillas forever but never about tastes”.
Montse Martínez opined: “wey, if Priscila Escoto is scared by the prices of the super, what will become of us mortals?”
The denunciation of the inflationary prices of going to the supermarket or making purchases in the face of price volatility has led various personalities to show their surprise on social networks.
Cardi B is another of the personalities who denounced her surprise on her social networks at the increase in the price of super products in the midst of inflation.
“Lettuce cost about two dollars a couple of months ago, now it costs about seven dollars,” he lamented in a video that made his complaint go viral, assuring that with this he hoped to help regulate the high prices of the products.