gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWhy grocery bills feel so high, even though food inflation is technically lowwww.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareealoe@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months ago20% my ass, CPI is so laughably understated it should probably be a crime. My grocery bills have doubled during the timeframe depicted on the chart.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agothe fuck are you buying? mine have gone up about 30%. and i buy the same shit i did 4 years ago. some things went way up, then came back down, like eggs. most of what went up was meat and processed foods. dairy and veggies didn’t see much of a spike. milk is still 5 bucks a gallon.
minus-squareulkesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoA 12-pack of soda cost $2.50 5 years ago. It’s now $10. So yeah, some things are just pure unfettered greed.
minus-squarefah_Q@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoHave you noticed the volume of the items you have been buying also shrink 20 %?
20% my ass, CPI is so laughably understated it should probably be a crime. My grocery bills have doubled during the timeframe depicted on the chart.
the fuck are you buying?
mine have gone up about 30%. and i buy the same shit i did 4 years ago.
some things went way up, then came back down, like eggs.
most of what went up was meat and processed foods. dairy and veggies didn’t see much of a spike. milk is still 5 bucks a gallon.
A 12-pack of soda cost $2.50 5 years ago. It’s now $10. So yeah, some things are just pure unfettered greed.
Have you noticed the volume of the items you have been buying also shrink 20 %?