Bidenomics: Trader Joe’s Forced to Raise Price on Staple Item for First Time in Two Decades

This is totally bananas.

After over two decades of maintaining the 19-cents-apiece price for bananas, store chain Trader Joe’s has had to raise the price by 20 percent.

“We only change our prices when our costs change, and after holding our price for bananas at 19¢ each for more than two decades, we’ve now reached a point where this change is necessary,” the store chain said in a statement according to Fox Business.

While bananas will now cost 23 cents apiece, the company pointed to other products that they’ve negotiated lower prices on, such as raw almonds being down a dollar and romaine hearts being down 50 cents.

While it’s true that the decreased prices will help offset the banana price hike, the fact that a price that has held for over two decades now has to change shows just how bad 📈Inflation has gotten.

In February, the 🏛️Biden administration managed to see a continued increase in consumer prices.

The overall year was 90 percent above the 2 percent yearly 📈Inflation that the