Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy?

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4. We were just discussing this at the dinner table last night.

I had gotten an Instacart order and was wondering how many people took them up on Klarna to pay. It makes no sense to me because as soon as (or even before) you pay it off you turn around and need another order. Our Instacart grocery orders run between $200-$300 with tip/wk. I'm spoiled with Instacart, but I can see a day sooner rather than later where we'll be giving it up due to the cost of the tips. We have the same 4 or 5 shoppers we rotate through depending on the store we're using. Those orders are about 2/3 for our household, the rest of the order helps out my son and his finance and my retired/disabled brother and nephew. It feels like we've been bleeding grocery money for the past year or more. I wanted to get a 2.5lb eye roast for this weekend to fix. Instead we're going with a pork roast - same weight, but the price was $35 for the eye roast, $18 for the pork roast.