I'm in the PNW and am purchasing local as much as I can. Thankfully we have a lot of agriculture and general food production. A lot of it isn't much more expensive compared to corporate garbage.
Some things are much more expensive, like peppers and tomatoes in winter. The "local" stuff comes from Canada because they built up a shit ton of greenhouses that can grow year-round. Tariffs make these even more expensive.
If the US wants to "fix" this and domestically produce the stuff we could have simply provided federal government grants/incentives. Instead we pissed off our trading partners.
It was inevitable that reddit would fall victim to enshittification once they went public. Now the line must go up forever so they'll just copy paste every shitty addictive feature from every other garbage platform.