EditorialWalter Crowley, who regularly buys goods from the warehouse run by Liquidity Services, a company that collects retailers’ unwanted and returned goods, in Pittston, Pa., on July 19, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialCyrus, left, buys a cocktail from Prince Lewis with Mackenzie, right, and the dog Biscuit in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, May 21, 2022. (Jonah Rosenberg/The New York Times)
EditorialA customer buys products with cash at The Apothecarium Dispensary on the first day of recreational marijuana sales in Maplewood, N.J., April 21, 2022. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialBarnea Selavan, a rabbi and a teacher, buys bread from an Arab-run kosher bakery in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 14, 2022. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialThe luxury condo tower 35 Hudson Yards, where whoever buys a penthouse for sale on the 90th floor would pay just $27,500 in annual property taxes, instead of $342,000, because of a 421a tax exemption, in New York, March 22, 2022. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialSamantha Kreda, a special education teacher, in her classroom at the Richard R. Wright School in Philadelphia on March 7, 2022. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
EditorialThe winning team buys their opponents beers after curling on Friday nights in Inuvuk, Canada, on Feb. 11, 2022. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialA person buys subsidized bread at a kiosk in Istanbul. Inflation in Turkey continues to soar as the lira hits new lows. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)