Not sure what your area was or what, but it’s definitely way cheaper. I still have the ability to go and make a 45-minute monthly trek to do so. Meat alone is, on average, 50% cheaper than Walmart and about 30-40% cheaper than the cheapest place I have in town

There are a few exceptions like certain canned veggies/beans if you can buy in bulk at Sam’s Club or Costco can be a bit more expensive at the Commissary on a per ounce basis and name brand frozen/pantry “convenience” foods tend to have little savings

But by and large it’s dirt cheap compared to off-base

Commissary groceries are subsidized, it’s going to have a pretty big impact. Not only will they have to go off-base, it’ll be a lot more expensive.

Coupled with the not getting paid part…lmao

In a just, reasonable world it wouldn’t matter because the governments would be doing logical things like rolling out some sort of UBI program to catch people or ensuring basic needs are met job or no job, setting up retraining programs for people to easily pivot etc.

It is useful, it’s the governments of the world response to its job elimination that’s the problem