Amazon Fresh must be different from their Whole Foods Stores, they just announced closure of some stores today.
It is our intention to crush ruble back to the Soviet ruble condition. However, as soon as US/EU sanctions were announced, ruble had crushed from about 78 rubles to US$ to 125 - 129 rubles per US$. Then Russia announced that the Nat Gas supply to the "unfriendly countries" would be paid only in rubles, set up Gasprom Bank to receive Euro or US$ and exchange them to ruble, result is 71 ruble p US$. Russian main exports are metals, oil, NG, wood, grain, weaponry, sea food, all of them have demand in many countries. In regard to China, they try to sit on the fence in Ukraine war and understanding that soon or late clash with US is going to happen. Russian economy is only less then 10% of our but Chinese is already ahead of us by PPP GDP. Surely they control Yuan exchange but many countries are looking at Russia, which kept large amount of their reserves in US$ and Euro. Now they are frozen. From 1940s through 1990s we were the largest in the world producer of durable goods. But now we print fiat money and invest them around the world while it is China which is main world manufacturer and most people understand it.
We have been spending about 1/3 of what you are spending on food. But part of that is because we are getting older, and trying to lose weight, so we don't eat much at all any more. We generally share one take out meal and often skip a meal in our eternal weight loss efforts. We also are very choosy about what restaurants we get our food from, and choose the healthiest meal we can order there, and don't buy extras like appetizers, drinks, desserts, etc.
