1y ago

I feel the actual inflation

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The inflation report that came out today specifically omits fuel and grocery prices because those are "volatile" categories. My grocery bill is double what it was two years ago and has been for six months. I wouldn't call that volatile.
- Groceries are stupid, it cost me $20 to make a lasagna that last year cost $10.
  
  was it twice as good tho
  
  no
  
  Probably twice as bad
  
  It's funny you say this, because my wife and I just made a lasagna and were shocked it cost nearly $30.
  
  Costs me $12 to make 2-3 sandwiches at home using deli meat and cheese, a loaf of French bread, and 2 small tomatoes. That's while taking advantage of sale prices. Would be more like $8/sandwich if I hadn't bought the meat and cheese on sale.
  
  its basically 2 year ago eating out prices to make shit at home these days
  
  Wtf. I mean I realized how much you us people pay for food when I was there last year, but 20$ for lasagna. What's going on? I think I can easily do it under 10€,even buying "better" meat.
- They didn't omit those prices. CPI and Core are two separate measurements. Core excludes food and energy.
  In fact, excluding food and energy actually made the numbers worse. CPI is at 3.2% YoY. Core is at 4.7%.
- Idk man ground beef is still like $3 a pound for me, milk $2.70 a gallon, pasta $1 a pound. I'm not saying some things haven't gotten more expensive because they have, but my grocery bill from 2 years ago is like 20-30% more expensive now.
  
  I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. A 20-30% jump in a grocery bill is unprecedented in my life time. I'm skeptical it's even that low for most. Pre-pandemic, I was buying eggs for 1.39, they're 2.49 now. Jarred spaghetti sauce used to be 1.99, it's 3.49 now if I catch a sale. I used to be able to regularly buy chicken breast for like 1.49-1.99, now if it's less than 3 I buy as much as I can afford and freeze it. This time of year in my area, corn would usually be on sale 4/$1. The cheapest it's gotten is $0.79.
  Just repeat ad nauseam for everything. The other day I was in the store thinking to myself, "I'm not sure I can afford convenience foods like canned beans." Canned. Fucking. Beans. The luxury.
  
  I'm spending $2.30 for 18 eggs, buy spaghetti sauce at $.99 or so, and generally pick up chicken at about $1 a pound. Never seen corn on the cob for more than $.50 a cob, usually less than that. Bush's beans, we just picked some up at $2 a can.
  
  They likely live in a different place than you do Sounds like you got it way better, congrats
  
  Seems like you have a sweet deal somewhere. I can't remember when I last saw spaghetti sauce that cheap and my chicken is 4.59 a pound.
  
  S&S market in my town of Clovis always had some cut of chicken at that price. Shit, if I really want to cheap out, Walmart has chicken leg quarters for $7 for a 10 lb bag
  
  New Mexico?
  
  Yeah
  
  Grocery prices can vary widely depending on location. The absolute cheapest Walmart ground beef I can get is $4.50 per pound and milk is $3.62 a gallon. Pasta is a $1 pound and eggs are relatively cheap here. Produce has gone through the roof.
  
  lucky. in Australia milk +50%, bread and rice +100%, pasta only about 20%, meats are almost out of reach ($12aud for 12 shitty supermarket sausages about 1kg worth is about as cheap as it gets. fruit and veg has always been volatile and fluctuates but I would say on average 20% more now
  
  People in the US scream about inflation but many of them have no idea how bad it is in other countries. Places where food products are sparse or imported are extremely expensive. There's not that much stuff we don't produce or grow in the US.
  
  My buddy in Ghana has been especially hard hit. I’ve increased my remittances because he literally can’t afford to eat every day anymore on his wage.
  
  Where I am at,ground beef is more in the $5-6/lb range, as a comparison. We have some dairy farms local so milk is a bit cheaper, but basically everything else is significantly more expensive, especially meat.
  
  I can get $4 a lb ground beef in a convenience store
  
  Yeah we can buy ground beef for around 7€ the kilo (2,2lb)
  
  Depends where you're at. Ohio? Same. Florida? 2-3x
  
  Florida: not even once
  
  California has leveled out quite a bit too.
  Florida has regional problems due to their ahem "policy choices" as of late.

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