Woman Puts Inflation Into Perspective By Buying The Same Grocery List In 2020, 2022, And 2023
Over the past few months, many of the factors that fueled a four-decade high in inflation have begun to fade, and shoppers found deeper discounts online and at malls during the holiday season, as retailers tried to clear through excess inventory.
Consumer prices fell 0.1% in December compared with the prior month. However, for many Americans, the price of their favorite products hasn’t budged.
To show just how high our everyday expenses have become, Kentucky-based content creator Amy Way to Save shared a video comparing the checks of her typical groceries in 2020, 2022, and the start of 2023.
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This woman compared food prices at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2022
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“Towards the end of 2020, I went to Walmart and I purchased all of these things for $10.09”
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“I made a week’s worth of meals for one person”
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“At the beginning of 2022, there was a lot of talk about inflation at the grocery store”
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“So I went back and purchased all of the same things, and they cost me about 10% more”
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Then she went back to get the same items at the start of 2023
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“This week, I went back again and purchased those same items”
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“Now they cost $15.10, which is about 50% more than the prices at the end of 2020”
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Americans feel this. A growing pessimism is one of the key findings of the fourth semiannual edition of McKinsey’s American Opportunity Survey (AOS), which explores in depth the country’s perceptions of the current and future state of the US economy.
People reported what seemed to be two approaches: some are spending more, and others are cutting back, with variation across categories of expenditure. Americans have increased spending on essentials such as groceries, utilities, transportation, housing, and healthcare but at the same time, many others are cutting back in many of the same categories.
What determines the approach? The answer is income. Those with less have slashed discretionary spending and, in some cases, essentials. Of those making less than $50,000 annually, 23 percent say they have reduced their grocery budget. By contrast, just 12 percent of those earning more than $100,000 annually have cut back.
It’s possible that the rising interest rate environment and increased reliance on debt financing may only grow financial difficulties for American households in 2023.
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The near future isn’t promising much, either. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), all food prices are predicted to increase by 7.1%, grocery store prices are forecast to climb by 8.0%, and restaurant prices are expected to lead the way, becoming 8.2% higher.
When it comes to individual products, prices are predicted to increase for eggs (27.3 percent), other meats (12.8 percent), dairy products (8.0 percent), fats and oils (16.5 percent), processed fruits and vegetables (9.6 percent), sugar and sweets (10.6 percent), cereals and bakery products (12.0 percent), nonalcoholic beverages (8.7 percent), and other foods (6.8 percent).
However, beef and veal prices are predicted to decrease by 1.8% in 2023, pork prices should go down by 3.0%, and fresh fruits are expected to become 1.7% cheaper.
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Inflationary gouging is one thing the US, European Union and possibly the whole world have in common right now. The slimmer the pickings get the more the oligarchs claim for themselves.
I was curious whether it was gouging. So I looked up profits of Smithfield Foods, Tyson, etc.( (since inflation seems to be worse for meat. They ARE making healthy -- even huge -- profit margins, but those margins are not up. Tyson's had a huge surge in profit in 2021, but it declined most of the way back down already. So price gouging is NOT a cause of inflation. The main issue is that governments have prevented food development while flooding the economies in cash. The cash flood sorta made sense in 2020, to prevent a credit freeze which could've turned the coronavirus pandemic into the Great Global Depression of the third millennium, but by 2021, this was simply covering up for mismanagement by artificially inflating growth. Which, again, would've been okay if we weren't simultaneously restricting growth.
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Someone said eggs are up 38%. No. A 12 pack used to be 99 cents. Now it is over $5.50. That is over 500%.
Outside of being on sale, I haven’t seen 12 eggs for a dollar in decades but I’m not in a state where there are a lot of poultry farms. The bird flu effect is nuts.
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I work for a food company (that shall go nameless). The cost of ingredients is what's pushing the price increases in our products. For a couple of months, we were losing money, in the millions(!), because our cost of goods had increased so quickly. People don't want to buy our products if they're too expensive, so we want to keep our prices low.
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My Dad raises beef cows and the $8/lb. price isn't making it back to his pocket.
it's either inflation or shrinkflation where they keep the prize but shrink the sizr
She's still getting good prices. She's paying $1.72 for a half gallon of skim milk. In my store, it's $2.99 for it. They're gouging tf out of us. This has gone well past inflation to just plain greed.
The greed of the people with power to print money, that is.
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Not simply that prices are going up but the amount of product is getting smaller as well. I can't see the weights in the items that she purchased. Are they still the same?
It's mostly a mix of new govt policies affecting agriculture, and financial policies causing massive inflation of the us dollar. So the dollar is valued less, and production has gotten more expensive. This is mostly bad government policies. Many economists warned this would happen, but we did policies based on political expediency rather than what would work the best...as usual.
David H: ... (1) When you say, "the dollar is valued less", compared to what?? The dollar is stronger against the British Pound and about the same vs other currencies (taking into account normal fluctuation). ... (2) Inflation is a GLOBAL problem -- "new (US) gov't policies affecting agriculture, and financial policies" are not "causing massive inflation of the US dollar" as you claim (The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates to fight inflation)
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Inflation is occurring all over the world and it is making life so incredibly difficult for a number of people. I shouldn't have to feel guilty buying food, but I find myself making decisions not to get something I would really love to try due to the skyrocketing prices. I love going out to friends to eat and chat, however, the soaring prices in restaurants and cafes where I live make that harder and harder. I also am embarrassed that I can't even afford a new flat due to rising housing costs, but I don't want to spend an arm and a leg to live in a tiny shoebox that isn't worth the cost.
That is no excuse that its going all over the world. Its not just "corporate" greed its a green Globalist agenda and American leaders are the ones running the show
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You should check out the prices in Canada I would love to do a comparison shop here. I am sure it would be even triple what she's paid for these items.
I remember when you could eat for a month on what it costs for the ingredients for one meal these days.
Don't forget, more than half of inflation costs are corporate profits. If you're up for pointing fingers, make sure they are facing the right way.
Namely, at the people with the power to create money ex nihilo -- Congress and the Federal Reserve.
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If you want to put in real perspective - compare to prices from 2008. Back then people were paid more or less the same as now, just everything was 3 times cheaper.
Ok, for those of you complaining about "companies posting record profits", allow me to break it down for you. First of all... it's NOT record profits. Sure... the dollar amounts might be record breaking... but their dollar goes the same distance ours does. They are NOT immune to effects of inflation any more than we are. Second, if you were one of these people out here screaming about a living wage and basically forcing companies to raise wages, I'm going to need you to sit down and shut up because YOU and people who thought like you are the reason this has happened. What exactly did you think would happen? Did you think companies would have a rainbows and unicorns moment and decide they were ok with making less money and paying more in wages? If you had kept your mouths shut we'd still have $1.18 eggs and $1.29 bread. I know mommy and daddy didn't teach you this at home... but actions have consequences and this inflation is a consequence of your actions... as well as your stupidity.
Millions of chickens have been killed. Cattle are dying mysteriously. The cost of grain for animal feed is way up due to a shortage. Ukraine and Russia produce fertilizer we need and grain the world needs, but not now. It will not get better. The Netherlands shut down 3000 farms and they are the second largest exporter of food in the world. Less food equals higher prices.
I keep saying that groceries are up about 50% but every time I see it in the news, they claim it's only between 10 and 30%. I've been having groceries delivered for almost 3 years, so I can go back and see exactly how much things have gone up. It does vary a bit, dairy being one of the worst but it's much closer to 50% overall than they 20 they keep reporting.
Government printing money and bad policy on energy is the driving force of this inflation.
Government printing money started with shutting everything down for COVID and paying everybody to not work.
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Hate to break it to liberals who put Joe Biden in office, but you certainly got what you wanted. It would have been a totally different economy if the other guy had won.
Biden is only part. It started with Trump and everybody else who decided to shut everything down for COVID and then print up massive amounts of money to keep everyone forced out of work fed.
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We're being rationed in our supermarkets, just like during covid. Basics are costing 2 to 3 times more. The struggle is being felt worldwide. The government still gives itself massive raises and wages as it taxes more.
Last year I was able to buy what me and my kid needed without having to be too concerned about the total. Now, I buy half of what I used to and the total is still the same.
If the bird flu has caused the shortage and increased price of eggs, why isn’t there a chicken shortage in the stores? There’s plenty.
Meat birds reach maturity way faster than egg laying birds. So the meat birds are easier to replace and are more likely to be harvested before getting sick. That said, I did notice a chicken shortage and an increased price of chicken.
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what I hate most about the rising prices is that it's mostly affecting what were originally cheap staples, which are now as expensive as mid- to high-priced products. So it mainly affects the people who have to shop sparingly anyway. this is so wrong! Everyone should be able to afford basic needs.
I spent 420 dollars on groceries (I buy for 2 weeks because it's easier with my schedule, so almost 210 a week) and I'm single. And honestly sometimes it's more. I don't even buy that much. Last week iceberg lettuce was 4.99. Iceberg lettuce! This week it's 1.99. You just can't budget/plan anymore because you don't know how much stuff is going to be. I tend to buy in bulk so I'll buy a 20 pack of paper towels or toilet paper so that ups the cost. I keep trying to get to a point where I buy them all at the same time and then go 4 or 5 months without buying but it feels like I'm buying something expensive every week. I just can't coordinate it. I might start going to costco or something to get even more. I don't mind paying 4-500 dollars in a single visit if it means I'm good for a big part of the year. It's my weekly grocery bill that's really driving me nuts. I don't mind paying more if it's for a good reason but the price of a can of soup from 1 week to the next is abnormally drastic.
The past couple of years have been fire, flood, drought, landslides, etc... world wide, all of this affecting the ag industry. My husband and I live in a farming community and have some cattle. This area got by easy compared to most but still over half the cattle ranchers ponds went dry and they had to buy and haul water or sell their herds. Most of the farmers had less then half the crop yield they usually have. So many areas elsewhere lost everything so supply is down. When supply is down the prices go up. Also add in that the cost of feed for the animals, seed and fertilizer for the crops, and fuel for the transport of these items have tripled, then the cost is going to be passed on to the consumer. Fuel cost is the major detriment here because EVERYTHING related to consumers getting their goods relies on fuel, the whole long chain from farmers first planting their seeds to the person picking out their tomatoes at the store.
To the person who mentioned bird flu as the reason for the increase in the price of eggs: That’s the excuse the egg industry gave as the reason BUT it turns out that only a tiny percentage of birds were affected, and they have been put down. In other words, it was NOT as widespread a problem as they’re trying to imply, plus it has been mitigated. So prices should be on their way back down, not continuing to go up. It is downright criminal for corporations to latch onto minor issues—-or major ones, like the pandemic—-as excuses for widespread extreme price gouging. It is illegal to gouge the public, especially for basic and necessary items, such as food and living space. There’s absolutely NO reason for them to be making record breaking profits at such a time, ffs. There need to be consequences for those responsible for such criminal and cruel acts.
The numbers I've just looked up show about 70 million birds culled in a total population of 325 million. About 20%. If you remove 20% of supply from a market that has balanced supply and demand it's going to have a HUGE effect. Why so many culled? You REALLY don't want Avian flu establishing a foothold in a population humans have contact with. It gives it opportunity to 'learn' how to infect humans, and it has a case fatality rate of at least 100X that of Covid.
Load More Replies... Between the bird flu and high fuel prices, grocery stores don’t have much choice but to charge more. Their margins are very thin, around 1%.
They have a choice. It's why they made so much more money.
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$15 for a kilo of butter (sometimes quite a bit more, depending on shop/brand) in Australia right now. How much is it in your country?
Look back over the last 60 years and you'll see this exact same evidence showing how inflation always increases as minimum wage increases. People refuse to understand economics, this includes our idiot government. The higher minimum wage is, the more the basics (necessities) cost and in the end everyone has less once the bills are paid. That is the facts of it and people refuse to accept it no matter how much proof you show them.
This isn't how inflation works. The old CPI from like 1950 measured inflation this way and consistently overestimated inflation. In real life consumers will modify their shopping lists when prices rise instead of just buying the same thing like a robot. There's a difference, unless all prices rise by the exact same amount, which is impossible.
If you guys think that is bad, be on the west coast of Canada and see the price here. Downright thievery. Most items primarily produce is out of reach. I really hate this man-made boost in the pocket of the rich. I don't like being manipulated either with social media or news or corporations, I have my own mind to look for the truth and I'm tired of not eating healthy food.
You could try sending the receipts to P{resident Biden, but he'd probably just turn around and blame Trump. Oh, wait--he's already doing that.
You could send them to Joe Biden, but he'd probably just turn around and blame Trump\[. Oh, wait--he's already doing that.
Well I vote for everyone getting their own farm and we start going to "back in the day" living. I would rather buy my meat direct from a farmer than Tyson anyway. I know that sucks for all that work at Tyson, they loose jobs, but if they did the same maybe corporate America would learn a lesson. I know in retrospect it's probably not easily obtained to do your own farm or buy your own meat, but if I'm paying $9 for less than a pound of half quality meat I'll find a damn farmers market or some farm near me and pay that guy that much for his stuff. Bring back the butcher shop stop this whole sale c**p. I'm done giving those bitches my money so they can drive a jag. I have to take a buss
I've started to get my meat and veggies from loval farms through a CSA. 110 a month for meat which is a selection of beef chicken and pork cuts. The veggies cost 400$ up front but are picked up every week for the duration of the growing season. Def saves money vs buying them at the super market.
There are no longer "cheap" options ground beef costs what steak used to, apples were the cheap fruit at $.89 cents a pound but in 3 years are now $2.99 a pound, two very small bunches of broccoli was 8$ and 34 grapes (on sale) was $11.08...schools saying kids lunches we pack aren't healthy, too sugary but we can't afford fruit and veg anymore let alone chicken or cheese. My doctor recently expressed a concern that I'm bordering on clinical malnutrition now, but how can I eat if every meal I skip can be then divided by my three growing children so they leave the table nearly full?
Please eat. Your kids need you. Try container gardens. Leaf lettuce and spinach are easy. Try Mexican produce markets. Oatmeal mixed in ground meat with veg, ketchup and an egg makes good meat loaf. Good luck and stay strong. Hey food banks too.
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That's an issue in my country as well right now. Wonder if it's happening in most countries.
Jeez..how much do people complain in the western world. Suck it up. The farmer has been going through hell for years to feed your gluttonous wasting a$$ so you can hoard your vanity driven shopping cart of cheap clothes and latest gadgets all being hoarded onto a gas guzzling suv. Cut your other expenses and eat healthy ..that's all you need in life.
Seriously, Bored Panda is now promoting people that go grocery shopping?
Those with food allergies should give up on food. It's beyond ridiculous.
Dealing with American web app companies has become the absolute worst this year. Near all have arbitrarily raised their licences by 25%…you know they hate that I’m like ‘looks like we’re going out to market!’.
Such a small thing in the big scheme of things but I went grocery shopping today. I decided to pick up a bag of chips, doritos, for a snack. Just a few weeks ago the price (Canada, Northern BC, I might add) was 4.99. Today it was an entire extra dollar. In just a few weeks. And at the beginning of last year that bag was 3.99. That's ridiculous for a bag of chips.
New Zealand: Now Rice $3.30 Pinto beans $1.70 Tortilla $4.40 Corn Meal $4.30 Milk $2.55 Mix Veg $4.50 Chorizo $6.00 Eggs (6) $3.80 Bananas $2.35 Potatoes $2.50 Green Onions $2.99 NZ$38.39 - US $24.81
$4.10 for 2 litres of milk, $7.90 kilo lady finger bananas, $23 for 5 kilos of Maharajas Basmati rice, $6.40 for 1.5 litre bottle of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice, $20 a kilo Mainland Tasty Cheese, $27 per kilo for sliced ham, that’s here in Australia
Load More Replies... Stock up while you can, I am pretty sure this isn't the end of it yet. And see if you can grow your own. Lettuce is easily grown in a window sil. Wasnt there a saying that those that know how to grow food will be ruling the land? And a lot of countries are outsourcing food to other countries (looking at Europe)
Not even just inflation a lot of brands reverted to bare bones or shrinking or lowering the quality of their products to save money at the same time. A lot of times doing it without announcing it to us (slightly smaller, slightly less flavor, literally rounding (cutting) corners on square/rectangular goods shorting you a single good, It picked up the term "shrink-flation" i just call it "cheating out on your people like a drug dealer" though. Because not only are they making more money gouging, but they're saving literal millions in the process and their products shouldn't even be staying the same and getting more expensive.. they should be cheaper if and when the economy recovers. I can make more money than my mom and still won't be able to afford groceries *and* a home. One or the other!
Why weren't these companies price gouging until February of 2021. That's when all this really started in the states.
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I dont see people's obsession with egg prices when literally everything has went up by dollars more.
Because eggs were most people's cheap protein and it's an "everyday" food for lots of families. If I use 6 eggs every day for the 4 of us a carton is gone in two days and it's 7-8$ now. Even eating eggs every other day that's 120$ just on eggs...the same was only 75$ in 2019.
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It is a similar story in the UK. I tend to do smaller more frequent shops so don't see a direct comparison over the whole of the weekly/monthly shop. However, this week I noticed toilet paper at my local Tesco. For 4 toilet rolls its around the £2 mark sometime 20p more or less. This week £3.20, this was the cheapest across the brands. That is a bloody 60% increase WTF! I do hope that was a one-off mistake you thieving daylight robbers!
You all need to stop complaining and start providing for yourselves. We all saw this coming and those wiser people did something for themselves. Stop making excuses.
It's only a five dollar increase on your total in two whole years. I'd say you're fine. I'm pretty sure I actually spend twice as much on the same groceries now than two years ago. I swear if I had a receipt from two years ago I'd do this test just to show you all how much worse the "inflation" is in Central Europe.
She's showing it on the smaller scale. My larger grocery order for a family of 4 going by the 50% increase means our average 900-1000$ monthly groceries are now $1,350-1,500 sooo not just 5$.
Load More Replies... Some of the numbers seem crazy to me. $300/week for two adults and a toddler? Jeez, if those are US dollars they need to lay off the Caviar sandwiches for lunch 😉
Not everything is a war. Christ. There's no war against oil and gas. It's called progress. Like when we started drilling for oil.
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Inflationary gouging is one thing the US, European Union and possibly the whole world have in common right now. The slimmer the pickings get the more the oligarchs claim for themselves.
I was curious whether it was gouging. So I looked up profits of Smithfield Foods, Tyson, etc.( (since inflation seems to be worse for meat. They ARE making healthy -- even huge -- profit margins, but those margins are not up. Tyson's had a huge surge in profit in 2021, but it declined most of the way back down already. So price gouging is NOT a cause of inflation. The main issue is that governments have prevented food development while flooding the economies in cash. The cash flood sorta made sense in 2020, to prevent a credit freeze which could've turned the coronavirus pandemic into the Great Global Depression of the third millennium, but by 2021, this was simply covering up for mismanagement by artificially inflating growth. Which, again, would've been okay if we weren't simultaneously restricting growth.
Load More Replies... Someone said eggs are up 38%. No. A 12 pack used to be 99 cents. Now it is over $5.50. That is over 500%.
Outside of being on sale, I haven’t seen 12 eggs for a dollar in decades but I’m not in a state where there are a lot of poultry farms. The bird flu effect is nuts.
Load More Replies... I work for a food company (that shall go nameless). The cost of ingredients is what's pushing the price increases in our products. For a couple of months, we were losing money, in the millions(!), because our cost of goods had increased so quickly. People don't want to buy our products if they're too expensive, so we want to keep our prices low.
Load More Replies... My Dad raises beef cows and the $8/lb. price isn't making it back to his pocket.
it's either inflation or shrinkflation where they keep the prize but shrink the sizr
She's still getting good prices. She's paying $1.72 for a half gallon of skim milk. In my store, it's $2.99 for it. They're gouging tf out of us. This has gone well past inflation to just plain greed.
The greed of the people with power to print money, that is.
Load More Replies... Not simply that prices are going up but the amount of product is getting smaller as well. I can't see the weights in the items that she purchased. Are they still the same?
It's mostly a mix of new govt policies affecting agriculture, and financial policies causing massive inflation of the us dollar. So the dollar is valued less, and production has gotten more expensive. This is mostly bad government policies. Many economists warned this would happen, but we did policies based on political expediency rather than what would work the best...as usual.
David H: ... (1) When you say, "the dollar is valued less", compared to what?? The dollar is stronger against the British Pound and about the same vs other currencies (taking into account normal fluctuation). ... (2) Inflation is a GLOBAL problem -- "new (US) gov't policies affecting agriculture, and financial policies" are not "causing massive inflation of the US dollar" as you claim (The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates to fight inflation)
Load More Replies... Inflation is occurring all over the world and it is making life so incredibly difficult for a number of people. I shouldn't have to feel guilty buying food, but I find myself making decisions not to get something I would really love to try due to the skyrocketing prices. I love going out to friends to eat and chat, however, the soaring prices in restaurants and cafes where I live make that harder and harder. I also am embarrassed that I can't even afford a new flat due to rising housing costs, but I don't want to spend an arm and a leg to live in a tiny shoebox that isn't worth the cost.
That is no excuse that its going all over the world. Its not just "corporate" greed its a green Globalist agenda and American leaders are the ones running the show
Load More Replies... You should check out the prices in Canada I would love to do a comparison shop here. I am sure it would be even triple what she's paid for these items.
I remember when you could eat for a month on what it costs for the ingredients for one meal these days.
Don't forget, more than half of inflation costs are corporate profits. If you're up for pointing fingers, make sure they are facing the right way.
Namely, at the people with the power to create money ex nihilo -- Congress and the Federal Reserve.
Load More Replies... If you want to put in real perspective - compare to prices from 2008. Back then people were paid more or less the same as now, just everything was 3 times cheaper.
Ok, for those of you complaining about "companies posting record profits", allow me to break it down for you. First of all... it's NOT record profits. Sure... the dollar amounts might be record breaking... but their dollar goes the same distance ours does. They are NOT immune to effects of inflation any more than we are. Second, if you were one of these people out here screaming about a living wage and basically forcing companies to raise wages, I'm going to need you to sit down and shut up because YOU and people who thought like you are the reason this has happened. What exactly did you think would happen? Did you think companies would have a rainbows and unicorns moment and decide they were ok with making less money and paying more in wages? If you had kept your mouths shut we'd still have $1.18 eggs and $1.29 bread. I know mommy and daddy didn't teach you this at home... but actions have consequences and this inflation is a consequence of your actions... as well as your stupidity.
Millions of chickens have been killed. Cattle are dying mysteriously. The cost of grain for animal feed is way up due to a shortage. Ukraine and Russia produce fertilizer we need and grain the world needs, but not now. It will not get better. The Netherlands shut down 3000 farms and they are the second largest exporter of food in the world. Less food equals higher prices.
I keep saying that groceries are up about 50% but every time I see it in the news, they claim it's only between 10 and 30%. I've been having groceries delivered for almost 3 years, so I can go back and see exactly how much things have gone up. It does vary a bit, dairy being one of the worst but it's much closer to 50% overall than they 20 they keep reporting.
Government printing money and bad policy on energy is the driving force of this inflation.
Government printing money started with shutting everything down for COVID and paying everybody to not work.
Load More Replies... Hate to break it to liberals who put Joe Biden in office, but you certainly got what you wanted. It would have been a totally different economy if the other guy had won.
Biden is only part. It started with Trump and everybody else who decided to shut everything down for COVID and then print up massive amounts of money to keep everyone forced out of work fed.
Load More Replies... We're being rationed in our supermarkets, just like during covid. Basics are costing 2 to 3 times more. The struggle is being felt worldwide. The government still gives itself massive raises and wages as it taxes more.
Last year I was able to buy what me and my kid needed without having to be too concerned about the total. Now, I buy half of what I used to and the total is still the same.
If the bird flu has caused the shortage and increased price of eggs, why isn’t there a chicken shortage in the stores? There’s plenty.
Meat birds reach maturity way faster than egg laying birds. So the meat birds are easier to replace and are more likely to be harvested before getting sick. That said, I did notice a chicken shortage and an increased price of chicken.
Load More Replies... what I hate most about the rising prices is that it's mostly affecting what were originally cheap staples, which are now as expensive as mid- to high-priced products. So it mainly affects the people who have to shop sparingly anyway. this is so wrong! Everyone should be able to afford basic needs.
I spent 420 dollars on groceries (I buy for 2 weeks because it's easier with my schedule, so almost 210 a week) and I'm single. And honestly sometimes it's more. I don't even buy that much. Last week iceberg lettuce was 4.99. Iceberg lettuce! This week it's 1.99. You just can't budget/plan anymore because you don't know how much stuff is going to be. I tend to buy in bulk so I'll buy a 20 pack of paper towels or toilet paper so that ups the cost. I keep trying to get to a point where I buy them all at the same time and then go 4 or 5 months without buying but it feels like I'm buying something expensive every week. I just can't coordinate it. I might start going to costco or something to get even more. I don't mind paying 4-500 dollars in a single visit if it means I'm good for a big part of the year. It's my weekly grocery bill that's really driving me nuts. I don't mind paying more if it's for a good reason but the price of a can of soup from 1 week to the next is abnormally drastic.
The past couple of years have been fire, flood, drought, landslides, etc... world wide, all of this affecting the ag industry. My husband and I live in a farming community and have some cattle. This area got by easy compared to most but still over half the cattle ranchers ponds went dry and they had to buy and haul water or sell their herds. Most of the farmers had less then half the crop yield they usually have. So many areas elsewhere lost everything so supply is down. When supply is down the prices go up. Also add in that the cost of feed for the animals, seed and fertilizer for the crops, and fuel for the transport of these items have tripled, then the cost is going to be passed on to the consumer. Fuel cost is the major detriment here because EVERYTHING related to consumers getting their goods relies on fuel, the whole long chain from farmers first planting their seeds to the person picking out their tomatoes at the store.
To the person who mentioned bird flu as the reason for the increase in the price of eggs: That’s the excuse the egg industry gave as the reason BUT it turns out that only a tiny percentage of birds were affected, and they have been put down. In other words, it was NOT as widespread a problem as they’re trying to imply, plus it has been mitigated. So prices should be on their way back down, not continuing to go up. It is downright criminal for corporations to latch onto minor issues—-or major ones, like the pandemic—-as excuses for widespread extreme price gouging. It is illegal to gouge the public, especially for basic and necessary items, such as food and living space. There’s absolutely NO reason for them to be making record breaking profits at such a time, ffs. There need to be consequences for those responsible for such criminal and cruel acts.
The numbers I've just looked up show about 70 million birds culled in a total population of 325 million. About 20%. If you remove 20% of supply from a market that has balanced supply and demand it's going to have a HUGE effect. Why so many culled? You REALLY don't want Avian flu establishing a foothold in a population humans have contact with. It gives it opportunity to 'learn' how to infect humans, and it has a case fatality rate of at least 100X that of Covid.
Load More Replies... Between the bird flu and high fuel prices, grocery stores don’t have much choice but to charge more. Their margins are very thin, around 1%.
They have a choice. It's why they made so much more money.
Load More Replies... $15 for a kilo of butter (sometimes quite a bit more, depending on shop/brand) in Australia right now. How much is it in your country?
Look back over the last 60 years and you'll see this exact same evidence showing how inflation always increases as minimum wage increases. People refuse to understand economics, this includes our idiot government. The higher minimum wage is, the more the basics (necessities) cost and in the end everyone has less once the bills are paid. That is the facts of it and people refuse to accept it no matter how much proof you show them.
This isn't how inflation works. The old CPI from like 1950 measured inflation this way and consistently overestimated inflation. In real life consumers will modify their shopping lists when prices rise instead of just buying the same thing like a robot. There's a difference, unless all prices rise by the exact same amount, which is impossible.
If you guys think that is bad, be on the west coast of Canada and see the price here. Downright thievery. Most items primarily produce is out of reach. I really hate this man-made boost in the pocket of the rich. I don't like being manipulated either with social media or news or corporations, I have my own mind to look for the truth and I'm tired of not eating healthy food.
You could try sending the receipts to P{resident Biden, but he'd probably just turn around and blame Trump. Oh, wait--he's already doing that.
You could send them to Joe Biden, but he'd probably just turn around and blame Trump\[. Oh, wait--he's already doing that.
Well I vote for everyone getting their own farm and we start going to "back in the day" living. I would rather buy my meat direct from a farmer than Tyson anyway. I know that sucks for all that work at Tyson, they loose jobs, but if they did the same maybe corporate America would learn a lesson. I know in retrospect it's probably not easily obtained to do your own farm or buy your own meat, but if I'm paying $9 for less than a pound of half quality meat I'll find a damn farmers market or some farm near me and pay that guy that much for his stuff. Bring back the butcher shop stop this whole sale c**p. I'm done giving those bitches my money so they can drive a jag. I have to take a buss
I've started to get my meat and veggies from loval farms through a CSA. 110 a month for meat which is a selection of beef chicken and pork cuts. The veggies cost 400$ up front but are picked up every week for the duration of the growing season. Def saves money vs buying them at the super market.
There are no longer "cheap" options ground beef costs what steak used to, apples were the cheap fruit at $.89 cents a pound but in 3 years are now $2.99 a pound, two very small bunches of broccoli was 8$ and 34 grapes (on sale) was $11.08...schools saying kids lunches we pack aren't healthy, too sugary but we can't afford fruit and veg anymore let alone chicken or cheese. My doctor recently expressed a concern that I'm bordering on clinical malnutrition now, but how can I eat if every meal I skip can be then divided by my three growing children so they leave the table nearly full?
Please eat. Your kids need you. Try container gardens. Leaf lettuce and spinach are easy. Try Mexican produce markets. Oatmeal mixed in ground meat with veg, ketchup and an egg makes good meat loaf. Good luck and stay strong. Hey food banks too.
Load More Replies... That's an issue in my country as well right now. Wonder if it's happening in most countries.
Jeez..how much do people complain in the western world. Suck it up. The farmer has been going through hell for years to feed your gluttonous wasting a$$ so you can hoard your vanity driven shopping cart of cheap clothes and latest gadgets all being hoarded onto a gas guzzling suv. Cut your other expenses and eat healthy ..that's all you need in life.
Seriously, Bored Panda is now promoting people that go grocery shopping?
Those with food allergies should give up on food. It's beyond ridiculous.
Dealing with American web app companies has become the absolute worst this year. Near all have arbitrarily raised their licences by 25%…you know they hate that I’m like ‘looks like we’re going out to market!’.
Such a small thing in the big scheme of things but I went grocery shopping today. I decided to pick up a bag of chips, doritos, for a snack. Just a few weeks ago the price (Canada, Northern BC, I might add) was 4.99. Today it was an entire extra dollar. In just a few weeks. And at the beginning of last year that bag was 3.99. That's ridiculous for a bag of chips.
New Zealand: Now Rice $3.30 Pinto beans $1.70 Tortilla $4.40 Corn Meal $4.30 Milk $2.55 Mix Veg $4.50 Chorizo $6.00 Eggs (6) $3.80 Bananas $2.35 Potatoes $2.50 Green Onions $2.99 NZ$38.39 - US $24.81
$4.10 for 2 litres of milk, $7.90 kilo lady finger bananas, $23 for 5 kilos of Maharajas Basmati rice, $6.40 for 1.5 litre bottle of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice, $20 a kilo Mainland Tasty Cheese, $27 per kilo for sliced ham, that’s here in Australia
Load More Replies... Stock up while you can, I am pretty sure this isn't the end of it yet. And see if you can grow your own. Lettuce is easily grown in a window sil. Wasnt there a saying that those that know how to grow food will be ruling the land? And a lot of countries are outsourcing food to other countries (looking at Europe)
Not even just inflation a lot of brands reverted to bare bones or shrinking or lowering the quality of their products to save money at the same time. A lot of times doing it without announcing it to us (slightly smaller, slightly less flavor, literally rounding (cutting) corners on square/rectangular goods shorting you a single good, It picked up the term "shrink-flation" i just call it "cheating out on your people like a drug dealer" though. Because not only are they making more money gouging, but they're saving literal millions in the process and their products shouldn't even be staying the same and getting more expensive.. they should be cheaper if and when the economy recovers. I can make more money than my mom and still won't be able to afford groceries *and* a home. One or the other!
Why weren't these companies price gouging until February of 2021. That's when all this really started in the states.
Load More Replies... I dont see people's obsession with egg prices when literally everything has went up by dollars more.
Because eggs were most people's cheap protein and it's an "everyday" food for lots of families. If I use 6 eggs every day for the 4 of us a carton is gone in two days and it's 7-8$ now. Even eating eggs every other day that's 120$ just on eggs...the same was only 75$ in 2019.
Load More Replies... It is a similar story in the UK. I tend to do smaller more frequent shops so don't see a direct comparison over the whole of the weekly/monthly shop. However, this week I noticed toilet paper at my local Tesco. For 4 toilet rolls its around the £2 mark sometime 20p more or less. This week £3.20, this was the cheapest across the brands. That is a bloody 60% increase WTF! I do hope that was a one-off mistake you thieving daylight robbers!
You all need to stop complaining and start providing for yourselves. We all saw this coming and those wiser people did something for themselves. Stop making excuses.
It's only a five dollar increase on your total in two whole years. I'd say you're fine. I'm pretty sure I actually spend twice as much on the same groceries now than two years ago. I swear if I had a receipt from two years ago I'd do this test just to show you all how much worse the "inflation" is in Central Europe.
She's showing it on the smaller scale. My larger grocery order for a family of 4 going by the 50% increase means our average 900-1000$ monthly groceries are now $1,350-1,500 sooo not just 5$.
Load More Replies... Some of the numbers seem crazy to me. $300/week for two adults and a toddler? Jeez, if those are US dollars they need to lay off the Caviar sandwiches for lunch 😉
Not everything is a war. Christ. There's no war against oil and gas. It's called progress. Like when we started drilling for oil.
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