According to an Axios survey by The Harris Poll, most Americans believe it is harder to afford groceries compared to a year ago. The findings, released Thursday, show that 47% of the general public feel pain in their wallets, while 34% said that prices are about the same. Meanwhile, 19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
Among independents, 54% say groceries are more costly, compared to 50% of Democrats and 34% of Republicans. Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that they are easier to afford, while 37% say they are similar to last year.
The survey also found that 8 in 10 Americans believe the president has “significant influence” over the U.S. economy, and only 47% believe the current administration has had a positive impact on it, signaling a pressure point for Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. Less than 1 in 3 respondents maintain that tariffs have been beneficial for the economy, business or personal finances, while most Americans — standing at 63% — worry of shortages of key goods due to Trump’s signature policy.
I work in a grocery store, I can tell you straight up that the orange bitch is lying.
I shop in grocery stores and have the same knowledge.
next you’re going to tell me that plane tickets aren’t $2
… because if they were, I’d be off on quite the extended vacation by now for the whole family. Even a bunch of friends. Never been a better time to get away.
I’d even risk a ride on a Boeing to do it at this point.
I’d even risk a ride on a Boeing to do it at this point.
Desperate times call for desperate measures
It’s a banana what can it cost?
Tariffed bananas or bananas made in Pennsylvania by union labor?
I love that this easily quantifiable metric is so split along partisan lines.
Literally everything is. It’s insanity. Politically conscious People’s opinions in this country now have their entire reality dictated to them by their party of choice.
Wow what a take.
Groceries being expensive isnt some thought injected into my head by Nancy pelosi from beyond the grave. It’s a measurable fact that is true or is not true.
partisan lines
Ah, you mean between people who accept objective reality as fact and people who don’t.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it’s on the Republican’s enemy list.
I operate on a beans and rice budget; shit like an 6 ounce can of tomato past went from $0.60 to $1.00. Same sorts of price increases go for rice, beans, garbonzos and other canned/dry non perishables. Flour has gone up. Sugar has gone up. Don’t even get me started on the price of meat. Produce has gone up, A bulb of garlic cost $1.00 now, and where it used to be 30-50 cents. Green onions $1.50 when they used to be $1.00. Seeing similar price rises in cilantro, fresh corn, cucumbers, potatos, onions. I started making stuff from scratch to save money . . . aaaannnnd it’s gone.
Our grocery budget is up at least 50% in the last few months. Food is becoming stupid expensive.
Yeah, my youngest just headed off to college so I was hoping to at least get a break in food prices but nope. My grocery bill for only me is essentially the same as when I also had a starving teenager to fill up
Hope you like corn and soy beans. We grow a ton of that and no other country is buying it from us.
He’s never stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. Facist old pig.
I’m sure there would’ve been one or two occasions where he may have stepped into a (likely closed) one, in order to survey before demolishing it to build one of his gaudy towers or failed casinos.
He had never even heard the word grockery before 2025
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. - George Orwell, 1984
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
These are the people who love the emperor’s new clothes.
It’s amazing when prices go up, wages go down, and unemployment goes up, just how many people can’t understand basic things like their grocery bill when politics are somehow involved, lol.
do Americans buy it?
Well, they’re not buying groceries.
Weird, the child rapist in chief says it’s cheaper. Are you calling the orange unregistered paedophile a liar?
indeed i am. He’s an orange lying piece of shit.
Well how very dare you!!
right? Dear leader would never do anything wrong! just because he’s a 34 time felon, dear leader only has our best interests at heart!
ugh. made me sick just typing that.
He’s the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. Traitors are liars by definition.
To believe it would be to deny reality. Can someone please tell republicans that you can’t just say thing’s to make it true.
They seem to have gotten away with it so far. They have no reason to stop making up alternate realities until their constituents stop believing them
Saying things doesn’t make them true; but repeated, consistent messaging sure as fuck makes people believe it. Human brains are pitifully easy to brute force.
So they polled people on subjective opinions instead of looking at the data? Wtf kind of reporting is this?
It’s useful in the sense that people vote on what they feel the facts are, not the actual facts. Crime statistics might be trending down, but if there’s a ton of crime stories in the news people feel like crime is up. There’s similar dynamics at play when it comes to inflation and other economic indicators.
Oh yes!
Also fun when everyone we know is lamenting their inability to land an interview and getting ghosted, while the news reports record profits and low unemployment numbers and hiring sprees.
And then when companies want to keep their staff from getting too uppity, we start hearing how everything is precarious and layoffs are high and unemployment is rising.
I always believe what someone who has never even been inside of a grocery store their entire life has to say about grocery prices!
Bully pulpit power is real. This guy can fart and make his followers thank they did it. There are some serious flaws in human psychology and if you are enough of a dick to want to hack them, you can go far at the exeof others.
war is peace, austerity is properity, up is down.
Do we buy it? We can’t afford to buy a god damn thing!
This dipshit believes anything anyone tells him. And the only people telling him things, are the sycophants he surrounds himself with. Of course he thinks everything he’s doing is making everything better. They’re all afraid to tell him anything else.
Before Trump and COVID, soda was maybe $5.99 for a 12-pack. It’s $9.99 now. That’s a simple gauge
Thanks Obama!
Fuckin FDR…
that dastardly George Washington. Always making grocery prices go up D:
