A woman has gone viral for sharing the outrageous prices of standard groceries in rural Alaska.
Emily - or @emilyinalaska_ as she is known to her 35,000 followers on TikTok - regularly posts videos about her life in the northern state.
Last month, she uploaded a video titled "grocery prices in rural Alaska," in which she shows viewers around an Alaskan convenience store.
Check it out in the video below:The clip starts in the cheese section, where blocks of Tillamook cheese are priced at a staggering $24.99. We then move over to the milk, where a carton costs over $18 and creamer is an eyewatering $12.89.
After showing us the cost of one pound of pre-packaged ham - a whopping $10.29 - Emily explains why everything is so expensive in a caption.
"Goods are priced higher since they have to travel farther by plane or barge to get to rural areas," the caption reads.
Emily then shows us the price of Tostitos salsa - $7.99 - before concluding her video in the coffee aisle, where a small bag of coffee beans is $15.69.
"The cost of living in Alaska is 24 percent higher than the national average," she writes at the end of the clip.
The video has gone viral since being posted on November 22, racking up 2.6 million views and over 6,000 comments. Many people took to the comments section to express their surprise at the high prices.
"Goes in with 100 bucks comes out with a bag of chips," one user joked.
"And here I am complaining about the $3.99 jar of salsa," wrote another.
"I'll never complain about grocery prices in NYC ever again I promise," added a third.
Although Alaska has a higher minimum wage than much of the US - $10.34 per hour - the price of basic groceries is still disproportionately high.
Some people in the comments made the point that prices in urban Alaska were much more reasonable. In a video posted a few days later, Emily confirmed that groceries in Anchorage were considerably cheaper - with a block of cheese priced at $11.99 and a gallon of milk just $3.99.
"Anchorage & Fairbanks are much more reasonably priced!" Emily wrote in the comments.
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