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

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  • 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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 991

  • @AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce
    @AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce 28 днів тому +251

    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 28 днів тому

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

    • @Watchman-nw7hg
      @Watchman-nw7hg 27 днів тому +5

      FORRRR REALLLL

    • @erikh9991
      @erikh9991 27 днів тому +2

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

    • @petergriffinson1907
      @petergriffinson1907 26 днів тому

      That’s why democrat are the donkey symbol 😂

    • @JP-nz4em
      @JP-nz4em 26 днів тому

      yup you are absolutely correct.

  • @user-jb3gi4pk2q
    @user-jb3gi4pk2q 10 днів тому +13

    Voting stupid has no rewards

  • @Minimumholloway
    @Minimumholloway 28 днів тому +174

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

    • @howzit9397
      @howzit9397 27 днів тому +11

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

    • @laughteraddict1003
      @laughteraddict1003 27 днів тому +14

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

    • @cameronf3343
      @cameronf3343 27 днів тому +6

      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 27 днів тому +5

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

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 27 днів тому +4

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

  • @kynettie
    @kynettie 28 днів тому +87

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

    • @Watchman-nw7hg
      @Watchman-nw7hg 27 днів тому

      THEY DONT KEA* CAUSE THEY
      THE POLITTTICAL GETTT DISCOUNT

    • @oger_ROG
      @oger_ROG 27 днів тому

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

    • @sew_gal7340
      @sew_gal7340 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому +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.

    • @kynettie
      @kynettie 24 дні тому

      @@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.

  • @brianh4480
    @brianh4480 28 днів тому +114

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

  • @user-xm3ei3jo9x
    @user-xm3ei3jo9x 28 днів тому +62

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

    • @FinessingFinance2024
      @FinessingFinance2024 27 днів тому +3

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

    • @user-xm3ei3jo9x
      @user-xm3ei3jo9x 27 днів тому

      @@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 27 днів тому +2

      Hunt fish grow time to be self sufficient 💯

    • @river4462
      @river4462 22 дні тому

      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 18 днів тому +1

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

  • @bamslerc
    @bamslerc 28 днів тому +63

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

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 27 днів тому

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

    • @Quacker701
      @Quacker701 27 днів тому +6

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

    • @mistervo8185
      @mistervo8185 27 днів тому +2

      Time to grow your own wheat field and processing plant

    • @Vasudeva108.
      @Vasudeva108. 26 днів тому

      Get out of there :) run.

    • @timothydempsey3763
      @timothydempsey3763 24 дні тому +1

      I grow my own flour

  • @BillcooperHicks
    @BillcooperHicks 28 днів тому +57

    You voted for this 😂😂😂

    • @Sonofawildanimal4241
      @Sonofawildanimal4241 28 днів тому +10

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

    • @user-ri5pj3iq9l
      @user-ri5pj3iq9l 28 днів тому

      @@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 28 днів тому +3

      ​@@Sonofawildanimal4241💯 agreed!

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 28 днів тому

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

    • @rylans.5365
      @rylans.5365 27 днів тому

      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

  • @misoandramen
    @misoandramen 25 днів тому +9

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

  • @richardgomez5008
    @richardgomez5008 28 днів тому +100

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

    • @bradfordjhart
      @bradfordjhart 27 днів тому +9

      We're all going to be a lot thinner

    • @eMDiKhamPha
      @eMDiKhamPha 27 днів тому +5

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

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 27 днів тому

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

    • @robertgrays8790
      @robertgrays8790 26 днів тому +6

      That's one way to solve the obesity epidemic.

    • @martina5296
      @martina5296 25 днів тому +6

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

  • @datagrab
    @datagrab 22 дні тому +52

    *Complains and yet keeps voting democrat. Smh.*

    • @traderjack33040
      @traderjack33040 15 днів тому +3

      blame the corporations that wants high profits at your expense.

    • @larryhullinger4141
      @larryhullinger4141 15 днів тому

      ​@@traderjack33040blame the guy for living on an island where EVERYTHING is brought in on a boat or a plane Very costly

    • @MusicLover-ui9sm
      @MusicLover-ui9sm 12 днів тому

      The democrats do not own the food you buy nor anything you buy or rent
      It’s the richest people who own and have total control over everything
      It’s called capitalism and greed and price gouging

    • @bionicman1921
      @bionicman1921 11 днів тому

      Ya vote republican and lose your social security, Medicare idiot

    • @bionicman1921
      @bionicman1921 11 днів тому +1

      At least you can get bread .......you'll be fighting for scrapes of bread under traitor Trump...convicted felon

  • @808supek
    @808supek 28 днів тому +69

    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 27 днів тому +7

      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 25 днів тому +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. 21 день тому

      Right!!!

    • @Matty80822
      @Matty80822 20 днів тому

      @@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

  • @808ecobeast7
    @808ecobeast7 28 днів тому +108

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

    • @tysons8759
      @tysons8759 27 днів тому

      Stop bitching for once in your life and man up.

    • @michaelellringer5600
      @michaelellringer5600 27 днів тому +2

      You're talking about Trump I'm guessing!

    • @Hippitidippity
      @Hippitidippity 26 днів тому +3

      Somebody has to elect these people keep that in mind

  • @gshepherd6141
    @gshepherd6141 26 днів тому +10

    stop printing money...government. nuff said.

  • @EKJ0420
    @EKJ0420 27 днів тому +19

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

  • @deannasilva893
    @deannasilva893 27 днів тому +17

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

  • @buckskin64
    @buckskin64 25 днів тому +24

    Keep voting blue #FJB!!!!!

    • @MusicLover-ui9sm
      @MusicLover-ui9sm 12 днів тому

      Does Joe Biden own the food you buy?
      Does he own everything you buy?
      No he doesn’t
      Educate yourself
      This is happening all over the world
      It’s happening because of the richest people who own and control everything you buy
      It’s called capitalism and greed and price gouging

  • @thylacine1154
    @thylacine1154 27 днів тому +8

    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...

  • @tedjuniormichael1083
    @tedjuniormichael1083 27 днів тому +10

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

  • @okinawasurfspots3184
    @okinawasurfspots3184 27 днів тому +20

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

    • @mikethompson3534
      @mikethompson3534 27 днів тому +1

      EXACTLY

    • @jaybleu6169
      @jaybleu6169 27 днів тому +3

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

    • @MusicLover-ui9sm
      @MusicLover-ui9sm 12 днів тому

      It’s called Capitalism and greed and price gouging . No elected officials are doing this
      They don’t own what you are buying
      Educate yourself

  • @kennethquinnies6023
    @kennethquinnies6023 8 днів тому +6

    I have to laugh at the GALL a lawmaker has for complaining about the price system they are partially or totally responsible for.

  • @johnsotelo3125
    @johnsotelo3125 28 днів тому +85

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

    • @rylans.5365
      @rylans.5365 27 днів тому

      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 27 днів тому +1

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

    • @bettertomorrow791
      @bettertomorrow791 27 днів тому +2

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

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 27 днів тому

      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 26 днів тому +2

      Then VOTE

  • @MrBothandNether
    @MrBothandNether 28 днів тому +51

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

    • @kristinesharp6286
      @kristinesharp6286 28 днів тому +1

      It’s the brand not the grocery store.

    • @MrChiangching
      @MrChiangching 27 днів тому +6

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

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 27 днів тому +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 27 днів тому +2

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

    • @wheresyouraloha
      @wheresyouraloha 26 днів тому +2

      Corporate gouging

  • @joseywilds3133
    @joseywilds3133 27 днів тому +10

    At that price you can make your own bread

  • @pinkoceanflower3045
    @pinkoceanflower3045 28 днів тому +21

    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 27 днів тому +1

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

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 27 днів тому

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

    • @shirleyefting5194
      @shirleyefting5194 26 днів тому +4

      Vote out the Dem

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 25 днів тому +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.

    • @pinkoceanflower3045
      @pinkoceanflower3045 25 днів тому

      @@kawikadee9670 ♥️

  • @LoutubeHi
    @LoutubeHi 28 днів тому +28

    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 25 днів тому +6

      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 16 днів тому +2

      Hahahha keep voting Democrats in you deserve it!

  • @reagandeleon1557
    @reagandeleon1557 26 днів тому +6

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

  • @solidorsharp3091
    @solidorsharp3091 25 днів тому +5

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

  • @nalazone5474
    @nalazone5474 28 днів тому +14

    And they ask if you want to round up.

  • @kawikadee9670
    @kawikadee9670 24 дні тому +31

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

    • @pmo8135
      @pmo8135 17 днів тому

      This.

    • @ronaldlindeman6136
      @ronaldlindeman6136 16 днів тому

      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.

    • @MusicLover-ui9sm
      @MusicLover-ui9sm 12 днів тому

      Does Biden own everything you buy?
      No he doesn’t
      Who owns It?
      They are doing this
      It’s called Capitalism and greed and price gouging
      Educate yourself
      And it’s happening all over the world 🌎

    • @lulupiink6698
      @lulupiink6698 10 днів тому +1

      If you send $$ to a “billionaire” to pay his lawyers for his 91 felony counts, you should not be complaining about the cost of food or gas

    • @pmo8135
      @pmo8135 9 днів тому +1

      @@lulupiink6698 thanks for the reminder to up the payments 😂 I'm doubling up after this comment!

  • @kekoal7300
    @kekoal7300 27 днів тому +3

    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. 😂

  • @jeephu3091
    @jeephu3091 28 днів тому +8

    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.

  • @yellowbird5411
    @yellowbird5411 28 днів тому +9

    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 20 днів тому

      The flours cost a lot of money too.

    • @yellowbird5411
      @yellowbird5411 20 днів тому

      @@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 19 днів тому +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 19 днів тому

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

    • @lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527
      @lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527 15 днів тому

      You sound racist against bread.

  • @brandigabriella-vs3ez
    @brandigabriella-vs3ez 17 днів тому +3

    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

  • @laughteraddict1003
    @laughteraddict1003 27 днів тому +21

    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 26 днів тому +2

      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 25 днів тому +2

      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.

    • @kanakamokunui1039
      @kanakamokunui1039 8 днів тому

      Then again..Like a dog chasing its tail,it starts with The monkey’s in the state office.

  • @timguillory6339
    @timguillory6339 28 днів тому +21

    Corporate greed nothing else 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @dannyn.3539
      @dannyn.3539 28 днів тому +3

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

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 27 днів тому

      ​@@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 27 днів тому +6

      Out of control money printing is the cause.

    • @kobragangbit
      @kobragangbit 27 днів тому +1

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

    • @thrisbt1
      @thrisbt1 27 днів тому

      @@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 ?

  • @crosscolin
    @crosscolin 28 днів тому +47

    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 28 днів тому +5

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

    • @kobragangbit
      @kobragangbit 27 днів тому

      I think I'm turning Jap.

    • @sammylee8179
      @sammylee8179 27 днів тому +3

      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 27 днів тому +2

      @@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 27 днів тому +2

      @@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

  • @CamelliaThornton
    @CamelliaThornton 27 днів тому +15

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

    • @ryanhuang8498
      @ryanhuang8498 17 днів тому

      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.

  • @bionicman1921
    @bionicman1921 11 днів тому +3

    You live where all the millionaires live and then complain that the cost of living is too high

  • @guslevy3506
    @guslevy3506 28 днів тому +10

    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 27 днів тому +2

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

  • @martinegan7194
    @martinegan7194 22 дні тому +3

    Greedy people will destroy are economy.

  • @eringemini7091
    @eringemini7091 28 днів тому +15

    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 27 днів тому +2

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

    • @sagalofheim446
      @sagalofheim446 26 днів тому

      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.

  • @ayanami808
    @ayanami808 27 днів тому +5

    Should have kept loves locally owned.

  • @user-hx7os5hk6f
    @user-hx7os5hk6f 27 днів тому +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 27 днів тому

      lol I know! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @robertturner1308
      @robertturner1308 25 днів тому +1

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

    • @radolfkalis4041
      @radolfkalis4041 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +1

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

  • @jusbamathy1355
    @jusbamathy1355 27 днів тому +3

    CEREAL and RICE, PRICES ARE CRAZY!

  • @alexsolo4085
    @alexsolo4085 28 днів тому +4

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

  • @effinhaoli808
    @effinhaoli808 27 днів тому +5

    Make your own bread

  • @ricksterr8048
    @ricksterr8048 9 днів тому +9

    And yet Hawaii keeps voting Democrat.

    • @jaridkeen123
      @jaridkeen123 12 годин тому

      You are uneducated. it's because Hawaii is an American colonie. They are exploiting the islands with the Johns Act

  • @kevinhuddleston6438
    @kevinhuddleston6438 28 днів тому +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 27 днів тому

      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 26 днів тому

      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.

  • @rryan8005
    @rryan8005 26 днів тому +3

    Priced out of Paradise 🙄

    • @gregcarter8656
      @gregcarter8656 10 днів тому

      Kamehameha Schools assets are over 15 BILLION US DOLLARS as of their 2023 Annual Report.
      And yeah, they still own more private land in Hawaii than anyone else, and always have since 1888.

  • @welcome_to_the_collapse
    @welcome_to_the_collapse 25 днів тому +2

    Buy a breadmaker and make your own bread.

  • @ndc0349
    @ndc0349 27 днів тому +3

    Need to eliminate sales tax on food!

  • @harryshigeura3892
    @harryshigeura3892 28 днів тому +10

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

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 26 днів тому

      Hell yeah. Who wouldn't?

    • @ryanwalters6184
      @ryanwalters6184 7 днів тому

      From his high raise condo....

  • @XIII5XIII
    @XIII5XIII 28 днів тому +40

    Build back better working perfectly fine 👌🏽

    • @user-mf2fd6dq8x
      @user-mf2fd6dq8x 28 днів тому +12

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

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 28 днів тому

      Bidenomics is a feature of De-Pop Agenda 2030

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 27 днів тому +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 27 днів тому +3

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

    • @pinoygal6232
      @pinoygal6232 27 днів тому

      @@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..

  • @FU-nb6bs
    @FU-nb6bs 21 день тому +2

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

  • @eznet2985
    @eznet2985 25 днів тому +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

  • @beauhawkes3221
    @beauhawkes3221 27 днів тому +3

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

    • @patricialongo5870
      @patricialongo5870 27 днів тому

      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.

  • @bitburg40
    @bitburg40 27 днів тому +3

    I make my own bread for less than $1.00 a loaf. Organic with no b.s. in it.😁

  • @edwardroche2480
    @edwardroche2480 24 дні тому +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

  • @lindakscully1
    @lindakscully1 18 днів тому +1

    Corporate greed! And we encouraged it by overtourism.

  • @Jon-yo4wj
    @Jon-yo4wj 28 днів тому +3

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

  • @musicgroopie1
    @musicgroopie1 26 днів тому +3

    Buy a bread maker

  • @carmiemakahanaloa3924
    @carmiemakahanaloa3924 26 днів тому +2

    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 26 днів тому

      I blame Brandon.

    • @cnice7903
      @cnice7903 26 днів тому

      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.

  • @raiderfrankdatank
    @raiderfrankdatank 25 днів тому +1

    Price gauging is illegal, shame on y'all

  • @user-xl7kx7bi3l
    @user-xl7kx7bi3l 28 днів тому +5

    Need way more than one complaint to have lasting results. They put an item on sale and then make prices higher on other items . Just remember you voted for your lawmakers, and they are allowing this to happen .Surely the Governor and Mayor know yet not one word mentioned .

  • @karenhaole6264
    @karenhaole6264 28 днів тому +12

    Where is the government it’s not here in hawaii

    • @davec3651
      @davec3651 28 днів тому +2

      Haha your name and this comment

    • @cupidok2768
      @cupidok2768 28 днів тому

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

    • @kathypaaaina3953
      @kathypaaaina3953 28 днів тому

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

    • @cupidok2768
      @cupidok2768 28 днів тому

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

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom 28 днів тому

      @@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.

  • @anonymous_end_user
    @anonymous_end_user 26 днів тому +1

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

  • @MsPrisoner627
    @MsPrisoner627 26 днів тому +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 26 днів тому +3

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

  • @charly3575
    @charly3575 28 днів тому +3

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

    • @emilys384
      @emilys384 28 днів тому

      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.

  • @billted3323
    @billted3323 28 днів тому +45

    Voting Democrat has consequences .

    • @user-mf2fd6dq8x
      @user-mf2fd6dq8x 28 днів тому +8

      Hi would vote 🗳 for Obama n Hillary again..

    • @heaven-is-real
      @heaven-is-real 28 днів тому

      Vote woke and go broke.

    • @bamslerc
      @bamslerc 28 днів тому +9

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

    • @ibeemeeintp3033
      @ibeemeeintp3033 28 днів тому

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

    • @billted3323
      @billted3323 28 днів тому +7

      ​@@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

  • @jimmycain8669
    @jimmycain8669 23 дні тому +1

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

  • @radolfkalis4041
    @radolfkalis4041 25 днів тому +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.

  • @hankakah4180
    @hankakah4180 28 днів тому +5

    Price gouging across the board. From shippers to middleman to store to consumer.
    THERE should be caps on food items and profit margins.

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 27 днів тому

      I'm sure voting Blue has nothing to do with it. It's all some evil price gougers.
      By the way, why weren't these evil people doing their price gouging when Donald Trump was president?
      That guy had gas down to $2 a gallon.

  • @Sonofawildanimal4241
    @Sonofawildanimal4241 28 днів тому +3

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

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 26 днів тому

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

  • @ruthbourgeois1297
    @ruthbourgeois1297 27 днів тому +2

    Ridiculous Price!!
    I make my own bread, my organic flour is amazingly cheaper than store bread with a paragraph of listed ingredients 🙄 during covid19 lockdowm, I began making bread for myself & my ohana. 5 ingredients..no preservatives & so ono! Unlike the breads sold in stores.

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 26 днів тому

      If you listed all the chemical compounds that make up those five ingredients, it would probably be a paragraph long too. Salt would be "sodium chloride," for example.

  • @andrewherman5010
    @andrewherman5010 27 днів тому +1

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

  • @manny13579
    @manny13579 28 днів тому +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 28 днів тому

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

  • @stellamarina4123
    @stellamarina4123 28 днів тому +3

    Time to do like the past and make your own bread and tofu?

  • @arcticredpanda4598
    @arcticredpanda4598 27 днів тому +1

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

  • @AE1OU
    @AE1OU 26 днів тому +1

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

  • @tonycarpaccio9550
    @tonycarpaccio9550 28 днів тому +3

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

  • @gregh7457
    @gregh7457 28 днів тому +9

    safeway member price for the win @ 7.99

    • @kobragangbit
      @kobragangbit 27 днів тому +2

      Bread maker 1.50 ftw

    • @420saralou
      @420saralou 27 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому

      $8/loaf for garbage bread is winning?

  • @jonl9873
    @jonl9873 27 днів тому +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.

  • @anonymousvapes8026
    @anonymousvapes8026 25 днів тому +1

    Time to use a bread machine and make their own bread loaves. The machine will pay for itself in less than a year.

  • @hawaiiboylasvegas8342
    @hawaiiboylasvegas8342 28 днів тому +53

    Keep voting Democrat and this is what you get!

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 27 днів тому

      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 27 днів тому +2

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

    • @hawaiiboylasvegas8342
      @hawaiiboylasvegas8342 27 днів тому

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

    • @peachmango5347
      @peachmango5347 26 днів тому +1

      @@michaelellringer5600 What color are Washington Democrats in TX?

    • @Thehoelogdog
      @Thehoelogdog 26 днів тому

      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.

  • @easyb622
    @easyb622 25 днів тому +8

    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 18 днів тому

      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 16 днів тому

      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.

  • @Glen-uy4jt
    @Glen-uy4jt 25 днів тому +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.

  • @lindabentley1749
    @lindabentley1749 19 днів тому +1

    I'd be making my own bread. I live in Pennsylvania an bread can be as low as less than $3.00.

  • @The1985zFinest
    @The1985zFinest 28 днів тому +4

    I shop at this market all the time and they have very reasonable prices.
    Not sure why this is being blown up. He’s had a chance to help fix things and never did. Look it up.

  • @peekaboo6622
    @peekaboo6622 28 днів тому +11

    Hawaiians priced out of Hawaii - hug China Vision 2049.

    • @gregh7457
      @gregh7457 28 днів тому +3

      better hug it otherwise you're an organ donor

    • @peekaboo6622
      @peekaboo6622 28 днів тому

      @@gregh7457 Did you hear about the $13 loaf of bread cost in Hawaii?
      To be a "donor" one does it willingly - that's not how things work under communism.

    • @jerryakamuadams6399
      @jerryakamuadams6399 28 днів тому

      Communism doesnt seem like such a bad idea right now. Late stage capitalism is how you get $13 for a loaf of bread. How much USD do you think a loaf of bread costs in red China?

  • @guitarandotherthings6090
    @guitarandotherthings6090 25 днів тому +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.

  • @tvviewer4500
    @tvviewer4500 27 днів тому +1

    Meanwhile you can make a loaf of bread for $4

  • @jimc1466
    @jimc1466 28 днів тому +14

    A liberal state complaining about liberal policies!!!! Priceless

    • @michaelellringer5600
      @michaelellringer5600 27 днів тому

      What do liberals have to do with it? Food prices are high even in the red states.

  • @robertward8035
    @robertward8035 26 днів тому +3

    It's not a politics issue. It's corporate amerika.

  • @blomegoog
    @blomegoog 28 днів тому +2

    this was a target infomercial.

  • @jessicanolastname8928
    @jessicanolastname8928 27 днів тому +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….😢

  • @HarveyWalbanger
    @HarveyWalbanger 28 днів тому +5

    Don't you understand American greed

    • @user-ri5pj3iq9l
      @user-ri5pj3iq9l 28 днів тому +2

      Greed is the fuel for enterprise.

    • @AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce
      @AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce 28 днів тому

      Do you think it was the American’s that gave the kamehameha’s the idea to oppress the commoners and force them to harvest sandalwood for their own personal enrichment. You should do a little research on the Hawaiian royals and the sandalwood trade.

    • @MrChiangching
      @MrChiangching 27 днів тому +2

      Don't you understand this is a result of money printing?

    • @GNMi79
      @GNMi79 26 днів тому

      You mean Hawaiian greed. Mainland prices aren't nearly that ridiculous. I can still get 7 loaves of bread for $13.

  • @My2biguluas
    @My2biguluas 28 днів тому +24

    Bidennomics is working….. the clown in office says it’s the best economy EVER

    • @ebf1003
      @ebf1003 27 днів тому

      Yeah, I can't figure out how to separate two or more things so lumping everything together really makes it easy for my smooth brain.

    • @michaelellringer5600
      @michaelellringer5600 27 днів тому

      Presidents have no control over inflation.

  • @TheMamonti1
    @TheMamonti1 2 дні тому

    my friend got arrested there for smuggling in a mainland loaf of bread....... he is doing a 5 year sentence for trying to overturn the bread government...............what's minimum wage there................100 bucks a hour??? And I complained when walmart bakery went from 1.00 a loaf to 1.50!!!

  • @dorthymcbride3384
    @dorthymcbride3384 27 днів тому +1

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