Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher’s price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.

Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.

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      My mother in law, a religious Walmart shopper and Qanon adherent, won’t stop bitching about her grocery bill. Fucked around, found out, still not getting a single neuron to fire across the gap. I think she’s just eating packs of crayons.

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        Liberal: “Haha, stupid conservatives, now we’re all going to drown together, you idiot.”

        Conservative: “Fucking smug liberals, I’m going to put another big hole in this boat, just to show them.”

        Leftist: “Shit! Fuck! Guys, please let’s not drown. We need to come together as working people and fight to reclaim the boat we’ve all worked so hard to build.”

        Liberal/Conservative In Unison: “God damn Tankies. This is all their fault. Let’s throw’m overboard.”