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.
I hate to tell you this, but fiction is also something people make up.
Always have to clarify for the pedant that can’t use context clues…
I thought it was made up organically by internet users as the source, rather than repeated from some peice of media.