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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    5 days ago

    I do think it’s ironic that a chunk of the places that have universal healthcare still have a massive smoking problem.

    I can’t help but wonder in a silver-linings-to-shit-stains kind of way if part of the reason smoking was curbed as much as it was in the states (aside from successful votes/lobbying) is because it’s too expensive to die from.

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      I dont know, opiates arent cheap and you guys are nailing that shit. Your smokes did absolutely jump in price in a few years, it went from bringing loads home to bringing enough over to smoke on my trip.