08.24.22 Eating Out: Supermarket Vs. Restaurant Inflation / Airline Seat Sizes

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Market forces have increased supermarket costs by 13% over the past year, while restaurant price increases have gone up roughly half that. Clark shares how it can actually be more cost effective to eat out at times. Also, there’s been public backlash against airlines shrinking seat size and now there’s an FAA comment period as to whether they should regulate how much space passengers get. Clark weighs in, factoring in designer safety & comfort innovations. Food Inflation-Supermarkets vs. Restaurants: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Airline Seat Size & Innovation: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: WSJ.com: Southwest and Other Airlines Try Something New: Giving Passengers What They Want When Do You Need a Travel Agent? Here's How Easy DIY Pest Control Can Be Pest control Archives - Clark Howard 7 of the Best Free and Cheap Resume Builders Longevity Insurance: What Is It and Do You Need It? How To Minimize the Damage of Unpaid Bills to Your Credit Score 12 Things You Never Knew You Could Get From Your Local Library How To Save Money: 35 Ways To Reduce Expenses Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where I'm
0:08.1	anxious to serve you and empower you so you make better financial decisions in
0:13.1	your life. Today's episode I'm gonna say something I've never said before.
0:19.1	There may actually be circumstances, don't shoot me, where it's cheaper to eat
0:25.2	out than to eat at home, cook at home. Yes. Excited about that, Chris? So I've been
0:31.3	waned here. You say this for 25 years. That's awesome. Well, it's only it's only in a
0:36.5	narrow situation. Another thing, airline seat sizes. They're getting smaller and
0:46.6	smaller. There are several airlines, American on a lot of its planes, frontier
0:52.3	spiritual agent, 28 inches pitch. That's the space between rows and the back of
0:58.7	one and the back of another. I mean, it's tight, right? Should the government get
1:03.4	involved? The government right now is taking your suggestions, your comments on
1:08.3	whether or not the Fed should regulate the space you have on an airplane. I'm
1:14.7	gonna talk about that in a little while. So I excited you saying eating
1:22.0	out maybe. So who's doing really well right now in the restaurant business? Do
1:30.5	you know there are two companies in particular that Wall Street's been really
1:34.7	thrilled with lately? McDonald's and Chipotle. Yeah. Both of them have been
1:41.7	doing really, really well. People perceive that they're getting real value for
1:49.0	every hard-earned dollar they spend on a meal. And this year's been really,
1:56.1	really hard for traditional supermarkets. Supermarket inflation has been much,
2:02.1	much higher than restaurant inflation and traditional supermarkets, mostly
2:09.3	regional supermarket chains and crogr, the big national chain. I mean, they've
2:14.0	really been getting squeezed by the marketplace. They've got so many
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