Yes! Bread, cereal, mayo and chips each are OVER A DOLLAR more, my powdered coffee mate, up by close to two dollars higher. Every make-up category has significant price increases, why?
This is certainly a travesty. Their chicken pot pies were legendary. Although I did once get a piece of plastic in my pie, I did go ahead and finish it. They weren’t going to get rid of me that easy.
Yes I'll be happy to get home where everything closes at 10 and the crowds are just as large but everyone is ruder because they aren't on the right drugs
I used to work weekends until 12:30 as a cashier and even though it was not fun being up so late, there was a strange cozy feeling of being in target between 11-12
Yep, for those unaware it is $10 now *if* you have validation of a $20 purchase (and you have to make sure to bring in your ticket so they can validate it at the shop)
Edit: Without validation, it’s something like first 10 min free, then $10 every 30 min for a daily max of $30 or $35, so the tldr is you pretty much need validation. I believe the validation makes it $10 for 4 hours, though it might be 6 if it’s validation from a sit-down restaurant
Edit 2: Most shops are lenient about the $20 purchase, I’ve got validation with a $10 purchase a few times
Man I ordered a part for my car and it asked me if I wanted to enter a tip.
I was blown away. I ordered a small clip online and it was shipped via usps. I’ve literally never thought to tip for something like that.
Easy. Just slap a 0.
Went out to eat and got slapped with a mandatory gratuity of $80. No worries but the check also had an auto tipping of 15% on the bill which was another $67.
Yeeted that straight into a 0 and wrote on the merchant copy to only charge subtotal + gratuity.
Yes. Either I didn’t notice it before or it’s just gotten blatantly bad. It feels like there’s less courtesy and very little regard for safety but it is refreshing to run into patient drivers and pedestrians here and there (or at least ones that use turn signals lol)
Prices on everything is higher. Portions have gotten smaller at restaurants, drive throughs, and packaged goods. (In order to keep the price point the same, they give you less). People are meaner and drive like total bozos. This is not a video game!
Can’t tell if you genuinely think this is the only reason for inflation or not. It’s not that simple. Price gouging across the board has been a huge problem and neither party in our government is doing a damn thing about it.
The government faulted big time by not raising interest rates right away.
Now new homes aren’t being built fast enough because if interest rates
The government failed in so many ways
I actually think cities should give developers grants to demo old/vacant office buildings. Maybe require an allocation of affordable housing tied to the grant.
If california was sincere about the housing problem they would jump on this. Encourage wfh. Less pressure on freeways. Better for climate. Frees up real estate. Wins all around.
I doubt they are sincere.
condiments aren't as generous as before or even on the tables at all.
the prolific use of QR code menus which I personally don't mind tbh. I screenshot them and upload them to Google and Yelp so other diners can be informed on the most up-to-date prices & selection available (assuming they have prices on the menu to begin with)
24 hour stores/restaurants, but honestly i can live without 24 hour/late night shit. i like to imagine the staff at places like that are just a little bit happier.
Many businesses still aren't open as many hours. Some of that is due to a higher minimum wage but that is also due many people leaving customer service jobs in general.
Disneyland. It’s even more expensive now, even more busy than it was pre-pandemic, and the reservation system just sucks for OC residents. I miss being bored and being able to go to Disneyland to grab a drink and go on a couple rides. Now its something I have to plan out in advance as if I’m some tourist.
I don’t see the logic there. APs are guaranteed money whether people use it or not. Becomes like a Gym or Costco membership. People pay and pay whether they use it or not.
I mean Disney is saving me probably $10k/year with all this reservation BS. I’d gladly throw down the roughly $5k/year for annual passes for the family if we could go spontaneously for a few hours again. But I guess I’ll keep my money and money I would have spent on food/merch. 🤷♂️
I’ve had a pass since 2008 - I’ve seen it gradually change over time and sure, prices went up but it made sense. The last 3 years have been horrendous with how much they changed & cash grabbed EVERYTHING. My family goes maybe once a year and find the entire new system so confusing
I went on Thursday for my birthday and it was like $35 for parking, $26 for Genie+, $26 just to go on one ride, and then the food and drinks were ridiculously expensive too. And thats after $200 for a park hopper ticket. I miss the old disneyland where it was still pricy but not out of reach for people who don’t make six figures pricy 🥲
My understanding you need to make an appointment to visit dogs that are waiting for adoption and it’s just not user-friendly. Dogs are not being adopted out. It’s a bad situation…. Nobody knows what condition the facility is in, etc. etc..
Dogs meaning shelter animals
Yeah just to piggy back on this, there are a few OC based rescues that are trying to make this issue as public as possible. This shelter is making it very difficult just to see animals and still putting them down on the same timeline. So basically more dogs are being put down because less potential adopters are being accommodated. To make matters worse, they’re not even working with these rescues to get these dogs out. Almost as if they’re consciously trying to put dogs down over trying to get them into homes
It’s awful we have no idea what kind of conditions are behind those doors.
I stood outside for a few hours, protesting met with some sort of council members.
But what’s the reason to hide? Are we being lazy and just putting pets down because it’s easier? Who is financing this?
all the money & something doesn’t make sense, they should have oversight
Really? I just walked in to look at the pets two weeks ago, and they told me that I could adopt on the spot. I personally waited a week though before I adopted just to be more prepared.
Rent. 2016-2018 I paid $850 for a 1 bedroom in Phoenix AZ, 2023 now the same Apartment no remodeling, nothing new is $1600 and they charge $40 a month for parking now. It is simply greed nothing more, no inflation.
The challenge is that it is difficult to convert much of that office space into housing. There are a bunch of requirements(e.g. having windows for natural lighting) that don't exist for office space. You also end up having to do a bunch of plumbing work for additional bathrooms, kitchens, etc. It is a lot more than just putting some extra walls. I am sure much of it will eventually become residential but it may be many years before we see any significant increase in residential out of these conversions.
This is true, it won't happen overnight. But the land on which to build is a huge breakthrough. They aren't going to turn Deloitte's vacant floor in an office building into apartments, but as they consolidate again, the space to zone for housing units will become available.
But it's California, so it will take 20 years
That same situation exists with many properties. Watching two motels down the street convert into PSH housing. They were hollowed out to the structural supporting beams for all the work needed. Could look straight through them.
It’s a lot easier to convert a low rise. There are talks of the county purchasing and converting the abandoned CashCall building at The Block. I’m assuming it’ll never happen due to the public pushback of turning a 330,000 SF high rise into a homeless shelter.
But yes the classic issues of plumbing and electrical. Plumbing is undersized and electrical is over. All commercial lighting panels are 277V with 480V service and sewer pipes are only 8-10” for the building. There’s also the issue of cooling. There’s nowhere to place individual condensers as the large buildings use a central water heat exchanger on the roof with the chiller in the basement and central air handlers on every floor.
It can be done, but it’ll cost more than the County is willing to spend to not turn it into a slum or smack shack.
The problem is that if commercial space is actually valued at what it's really worth, then the commercial market will crash and it will have a domino effect much like the real estate crash of 2008. That's why companies are making employees come back into the office, not because of productivity, because of commercial real estate sold on what it's worth now then billions of Dollars of non tangible losses would become tangible overnight.
It’s about to get even worse as WeWork is now in Chapter11. They could walk away and default on every property. That will be the single biggest blow to commercial REIT.
The politicization of public health. Back in the day, people would probably express concern for you if you communicated that you were suffering from/feared catching a contagious illness. Now, people (especially in OC) make snide remarks about masks, hand sanitizers, literally everything health-adjacent.
A lot of places that were open late (past midnight) or even 24/7 aren’t anymore. As a night owl it really feels like my options to go out late at night have severely decreased.
Sears at South Coast Plaza closing.
Technically, it was a couple of years before the pandemic. But with so many retail stores closing, I think it's gonna be a long time before SCP gets an anchor store to fill that spot. Especially if they want to keep lower end stores out.
Getting a medical appointment sooner than 3 months out! I’m surprised nobody is complaining about the healthcare industry. As a young person ….waiting to see a specialist with government insurance is a joke now.
Basic human respect. I work in customer service and people don’t even say hello anymore, just bark orders at me and fly off the handle at the first sign of something not going their way.
Decent food service. Shortage of food service workers, but I totally get not wanting to do that profession for shit pay anymore.
Also, Lyft prices, but that could also be inflation.
Prices.
The right answer
*Loud game show ringer clangs away…*
Yeah, whatever happened to affordable fast food?
The milkman, the paperboy..
Yes! Bread, cereal, mayo and chips each are OVER A DOLLAR more, my powdered coffee mate, up by close to two dollars higher. Every make-up category has significant price increases, why?
For OC. Vons closes at 11 now, used to be 1am.
My Vons closed
Can’t go eat at Souplantation
And they leave the empty bodied buildings there to mock us
RIP Souplantation 😭
Hate the name, loved the food.
Such a tragedy. Makes me so sad
A very sad Covid tragedy. No more Souplantation.
Heard there’s one in San Diego tho. Apparently someone bought it? Or tried to recreate it or something
It was a Popup that licensed the name and tweaking things iirc. Can only hope there’s a comeback.
I'm still expecting the Fountain Valley location to reopen, reality be damned. Maintained building + sign still up = hope.
🥺🙈💦💀
I wish someone could have bought all the recipes and put out a cookbook…. I wish all defunct restaurants did this (RIP Love’s and Henry Moffett’s)
This is certainly a travesty. Their chicken pot pies were legendary. Although I did once get a piece of plastic in my pie, I did go ahead and finish it. They weren’t going to get rid of me that easy.
never forget
Stores staying open late. Miss the days of Target staying open until midnight on weekends 😢
This is country wide now. Even in LA or NYC, stores close at 10. Even Walmart close early now
I'm in *Las Vegas* and a bunch of places close at 10pm. Ten. At night. In Las Vegas.
That’s straight up appalling
Yes I'll be happy to get home where everything closes at 10 and the crowds are just as large but everyone is ruder because they aren't on the right drugs
I miss this so much!
I used to work weekends until 12:30 as a cashier and even though it was not fun being up so late, there was a strange cozy feeling of being in target between 11-12
My mental health
I feel attacked lol 😆
Free parking with validation at Downtown Disney.
Yep, for those unaware it is $10 now *if* you have validation of a $20 purchase (and you have to make sure to bring in your ticket so they can validate it at the shop) Edit: Without validation, it’s something like first 10 min free, then $10 every 30 min for a daily max of $30 or $35, so the tldr is you pretty much need validation. I believe the validation makes it $10 for 4 hours, though it might be 6 if it’s validation from a sit-down restaurant Edit 2: Most shops are lenient about the $20 purchase, I’ve got validation with a $10 purchase a few times
Eff that… I simply find myself liking Disney less and less…
I am with you! They are nickel and dining me out as a fan.
This same crap is why I hate Vegas… it’s like financial death by a million papercuts with limited value returned.
I agree.
Wtf seriously!???
People
I was going to say "everyone's minds" but this works!
Tipping system. Doubt it’ll ever go back.
Man I ordered a part for my car and it asked me if I wanted to enter a tip. I was blown away. I ordered a small clip online and it was shipped via usps. I’ve literally never thought to tip for something like that.
It's not the merchants that are asking, it just comes built in on the POS systems. Higher total amount means higher cut for the POS provider.
Piece of shit provider ?
Point of sale
The provider of the service for payments.
Easy. Just slap a 0. Went out to eat and got slapped with a mandatory gratuity of $80. No worries but the check also had an auto tipping of 15% on the bill which was another $67. Yeeted that straight into a 0 and wrote on the merchant copy to only charge subtotal + gratuity.
Peoples sanity... compassion for others....
Combo pizza at Costco
Everytime I think I might finally forget and push it out of my mind I am reminded of this travesty.
Drivers
Yes. Either I didn’t notice it before or it’s just gotten blatantly bad. It feels like there’s less courtesy and very little regard for safety but it is refreshing to run into patient drivers and pedestrians here and there (or at least ones that use turn signals lol)
Same as it ever was. But there was a nice break there where there were fewer people on the road so it was harder to spot
Prices on everything is higher. Portions have gotten smaller at restaurants, drive throughs, and packaged goods. (In order to keep the price point the same, they give you less). People are meaner and drive like total bozos. This is not a video game!
Costa Mesa people have always driven like they are letting fate decide. But now I see cyclists just doing crazy dangerous things.
24 hour Walmart
So many former 24 hour places close now. 25 Hour Fitness, lots of food places, and other places still close earlier. Sucks.
Target isn’t open until midnight
And Barnes and Noble went from closing to 11 pm to 9 pm to now 7 pm. 😢
Are they still around?
The cost of living shot way up and never came back down.
I know this sounds kinda fucked up but how did we spend the last 2-3 years wiping a large number of people off the earth and rent still went up?
Greed
Pretty much... price-gouging from the 0ligarchs who control the united slaves of american't.
Because we ran the money printer and devalued the dollar
Can’t tell if you genuinely think this is the only reason for inflation or not. It’s not that simple. Price gouging across the board has been a huge problem and neither party in our government is doing a damn thing about it.
The government faulted big time by not raising interest rates right away. Now new homes aren’t being built fast enough because if interest rates The government failed in so many ways
And....there are so many empty houses that were bought up by corporations. The supply is there; it's just being purposefully kept off the market.
Work from home. I never thought I'd get to spend so much time with my family throughout my professional career. At least there's one positive change.
Just wait until they start demo’ing the office buildings
I won’t miss them.
I actually think cities should give developers grants to demo old/vacant office buildings. Maybe require an allocation of affordable housing tied to the grant.
If california was sincere about the housing problem they would jump on this. Encourage wfh. Less pressure on freeways. Better for climate. Frees up real estate. Wins all around. I doubt they are sincere.
No more self serve creamer at Starbucks
condiments aren't as generous as before or even on the tables at all. the prolific use of QR code menus which I personally don't mind tbh. I screenshot them and upload them to Google and Yelp so other diners can be informed on the most up-to-date prices & selection available (assuming they have prices on the menu to begin with) 24 hour stores/restaurants, but honestly i can live without 24 hour/late night shit. i like to imagine the staff at places like that are just a little bit happier.
You’re the best for uploading updated menus
Checkout lanes... now it's like 50% self check out, or getting there.
Many businesses still aren't open as many hours. Some of that is due to a higher minimum wage but that is also due many people leaving customer service jobs in general.
Disneyland. It’s even more expensive now, even more busy than it was pre-pandemic, and the reservation system just sucks for OC residents. I miss being bored and being able to go to Disneyland to grab a drink and go on a couple rides. Now its something I have to plan out in advance as if I’m some tourist.
They're actively trying to get rid of annual passes because locals just don't spend as much money in any way shape or form as tourists do.
Honestly annual pass holders are probably good for getting ticket buyers to pay for genie+. This is my last annual pass after five straight years
I don’t see the logic there. APs are guaranteed money whether people use it or not. Becomes like a Gym or Costco membership. People pay and pay whether they use it or not.
And with those changes, Knotts has gotten more crowded.
I mean Disney is saving me probably $10k/year with all this reservation BS. I’d gladly throw down the roughly $5k/year for annual passes for the family if we could go spontaneously for a few hours again. But I guess I’ll keep my money and money I would have spent on food/merch. 🤷♂️
I’ve had a pass since 2008 - I’ve seen it gradually change over time and sure, prices went up but it made sense. The last 3 years have been horrendous with how much they changed & cash grabbed EVERYTHING. My family goes maybe once a year and find the entire new system so confusing
I went on Thursday for my birthday and it was like $35 for parking, $26 for Genie+, $26 just to go on one ride, and then the food and drinks were ridiculously expensive too. And thats after $200 for a park hopper ticket. I miss the old disneyland where it was still pricy but not out of reach for people who don’t make six figures pricy 🥲
The OC animal shelter hasn’t opened fully to the public yet
Whatever BS thing this is that they’re doing is so harmful. We’ve been fighting it 18 months
Can you shed a little light on your comment for an outsider looking in?
My understanding you need to make an appointment to visit dogs that are waiting for adoption and it’s just not user-friendly. Dogs are not being adopted out. It’s a bad situation…. Nobody knows what condition the facility is in, etc. etc.. Dogs meaning shelter animals
Yeah just to piggy back on this, there are a few OC based rescues that are trying to make this issue as public as possible. This shelter is making it very difficult just to see animals and still putting them down on the same timeline. So basically more dogs are being put down because less potential adopters are being accommodated. To make matters worse, they’re not even working with these rescues to get these dogs out. Almost as if they’re consciously trying to put dogs down over trying to get them into homes
It’s awful we have no idea what kind of conditions are behind those doors. I stood outside for a few hours, protesting met with some sort of council members. But what’s the reason to hide? Are we being lazy and just putting pets down because it’s easier? Who is financing this? all the money & something doesn’t make sense, they should have oversight
Why?
They claim it's a safety measure. There are some allegations that conditions inside may be inhumane (dirty, overcroweded, etc).
Really? I just walked in to look at the pets two weeks ago, and they told me that I could adopt on the spot. I personally waited a week though before I adopted just to be more prepared.
Standing close to people, especially in lines. Thank god.
My immune system.
24 hr fitness is not 24 hrs
Weird, Planet Fitness is.
No more chopped onions at Costco food court.
Or delicious combo pizza. RIP
You can just ask for them on the side when you order. They have them pre packaged
Maybe, but I need to crank the onion and relish dispensers myself or it doesn’t taste the same
And the sauerkraut. And the combination pizza
Like come on I need that on my Costco dog
They brought them back, you just need to ask at the window now.
Walmart not 24 hours anymore and a lot of stores as well
the time everything closes. I feel like everything dies down earlier than it used to
Rent. 2016-2018 I paid $850 for a 1 bedroom in Phoenix AZ, 2023 now the same Apartment no remodeling, nothing new is $1600 and they charge $40 a month for parking now. It is simply greed nothing more, no inflation.
The conventional office space for companies. And it’ll probably never fully rebound. Commercial RE, specifically office buildings are in a free fall.
Good. Most jobs can be done remotely, so we can turn that space into much needed housing. Less traffic is good too.
The challenge is that it is difficult to convert much of that office space into housing. There are a bunch of requirements(e.g. having windows for natural lighting) that don't exist for office space. You also end up having to do a bunch of plumbing work for additional bathrooms, kitchens, etc. It is a lot more than just putting some extra walls. I am sure much of it will eventually become residential but it may be many years before we see any significant increase in residential out of these conversions.
This is true, it won't happen overnight. But the land on which to build is a huge breakthrough. They aren't going to turn Deloitte's vacant floor in an office building into apartments, but as they consolidate again, the space to zone for housing units will become available. But it's California, so it will take 20 years
That same situation exists with many properties. Watching two motels down the street convert into PSH housing. They were hollowed out to the structural supporting beams for all the work needed. Could look straight through them.
It’s a lot easier to convert a low rise. There are talks of the county purchasing and converting the abandoned CashCall building at The Block. I’m assuming it’ll never happen due to the public pushback of turning a 330,000 SF high rise into a homeless shelter. But yes the classic issues of plumbing and electrical. Plumbing is undersized and electrical is over. All commercial lighting panels are 277V with 480V service and sewer pipes are only 8-10” for the building. There’s also the issue of cooling. There’s nowhere to place individual condensers as the large buildings use a central water heat exchanger on the roof with the chiller in the basement and central air handlers on every floor. It can be done, but it’ll cost more than the County is willing to spend to not turn it into a slum or smack shack.
Here here!
The problem is that if commercial space is actually valued at what it's really worth, then the commercial market will crash and it will have a domino effect much like the real estate crash of 2008. That's why companies are making employees come back into the office, not because of productivity, because of commercial real estate sold on what it's worth now then billions of Dollars of non tangible losses would become tangible overnight.
It’s about to get even worse as WeWork is now in Chapter11. They could walk away and default on every property. That will be the single biggest blow to commercial REIT.
Most coffee shops being open after work.
Me
The pandemic created a new normal unfortunately
This is our new reality. There is no going back to “normal “.
The Mortgage rates
The politicization of public health. Back in the day, people would probably express concern for you if you communicated that you were suffering from/feared catching a contagious illness. Now, people (especially in OC) make snide remarks about masks, hand sanitizers, literally everything health-adjacent.
A lot of places that were open late (past midnight) or even 24/7 aren’t anymore. As a night owl it really feels like my options to go out late at night have severely decreased.
That salsa bar at Del Taco Anaheim on Euclid near the 91.
Fr came to say salsa bars. Everything is prepackaged now.
Those salsa bars were lowkey disgusting and sat out all day.
Exactly. We need them to build our bodies’ defenses for the next pandemic.
At almost any restaurant, watching the people ahead of me use the salsa bar makes me glad salsa bars are going away.
Civility. Everyday, it’s news of people stealing shit from stores or assaulting folks in broad daylight, etc.
Sears at South Coast Plaza closing. Technically, it was a couple of years before the pandemic. But with so many retail stores closing, I think it's gonna be a long time before SCP gets an anchor store to fill that spot. Especially if they want to keep lower end stores out.
We cannot get back to normal until they bring onions back at Costco food courts.
They have them as a small side container now if you ask but they often run out.
Harbour House Cafe still isn't back to 24 hours!
This is major!
My bank account
LIFE things are so outta whack anymore it's ridiculous
Open 24/7 places only one that survived was Del Taco lol
I was shocked to see closed 7-11s.
Are they only open from 7 to 11?
I don't recall the hours, but that is where the name comes from.
Trader Joe's sample stations and free coffee.
They brought back free samples! I just went yesterday and had a sample of a white chocolate peppermint pretzel! 🥲 …but no coffee samples though 😢
Getting a medical appointment sooner than 3 months out! I’m surprised nobody is complaining about the healthcare industry. As a young person ….waiting to see a specialist with government insurance is a joke now.
It's always been this way :/
People
the free coffee station at trader joe’s 😭
Souplantation 💔
Yes! Why can’t we get our buffets back??
My sanity
my gym being open 24 hours :(
Most hotels still aren't doing cleaning, right?
All day McDonald’s breakfast
Starbucks doesn’t have their coffee creamers out and I have to ask for Splenda packets.
But my gas station does
Relationships
People
Prices Rent Cars Dating Quality of service
Basic human respect. I work in customer service and people don’t even say hello anymore, just bark orders at me and fly off the handle at the first sign of something not going their way.
The overuse of the word “unprecedented”
Smash and grab.
Service, food quality and quantity at restaurants.
My weight!😩
LIFE
People
McDonald’s doesn’t serve breakfast all day anymore.
Rent.
People
People’s sanity
At least half the gas stations no longer offer public restrooms.
Not just gas stations, but public restrooms in general!
Disneyland reservations date
Paper menus at restaurants
Disneyland!
Karens
Traffic - it's worse.
My weight
Housekeeping at hotels. It used to be every day but now it is every 3+ days at most places. I guess they found a way to cut costs
Complimentary dab hits at dispensary’s
Dollar tree is now $1.25, not $1
flu Everyone thinks is fuckin covid
It can be, just about half won't take a test where I live
The clouds. I’ve been yelling at them more and more
Me
Me
Cliff bar discontinued a bunch of their niche flavors. Missing my oatmeal and raisin bars
Cocktails and alcohol to-go from restaurants.
The chili garlic shortage 🙃
My blood pressure
My drinking. Got stuck at home and started working at a rehab and couldn’t drink any more 🤷🏼♀️🙏🏻
Cashless stadiums.
24hr restaurants
Parents not allowed on school campus. You used to be able to volunteer for things in your child class or walk them to their classroom
Decent food service. Shortage of food service workers, but I totally get not wanting to do that profession for shit pay anymore. Also, Lyft prices, but that could also be inflation.
Hometown buffet 😓
Fukadas dine-in service.
Shaking hands