Obviously prices are higher. Have you noticed, though, that sizes are shrinking?
I love chocolate, paricularly Dove milk chocolate. A bag of it was $5.87! AND, when I pulled it off the shelf the bag was puffed up with air, and there were 10 pieces inside. I remember beingable to buy a bag for $3.50 and there were 26 pieces in it.
I put it back. I just couldn't do it.
Now, chocolate is a dumb example, I realize. The same thing is happening to everything. Here's the good news: smaller packages means you can store them more easily as you stock up before prices go hyper-crazy. And, another positive thing: it might be a good time to break some bad habits (such as not buying the chocolate, for me).
One last thought: the smaller volumes is a sneaky tactic, and many people will not understand the double-whammy and will go through their grocery money way too fast. Credit card debt will spike, but so will crime. Keep extra vigilant.
"the smaller volumes is a sneaky tactic"
That's been going on for years, I guess to keep the pricing at a level people are comfortable with. It's been especially noticeable with coffee over the past 10 years.
Yeah the oj thing has been a hot button of mine for years. My kids laugh at how animated I get about it. 😂
Personally the bigger divot in the bottom of jars and plastic containers irritates the crap out of me. Wonder how big they can make it before people actually start realizing...
I stopped buying it and several other things bc of the rising prices.
"If the size don't fit, you MUST acquit!" ;)
Good one! Definitely need to find humor in all of this. I hear it helps prevent people from going postal (if they ever did without an MK Ultra assist).
They have been doing the old keep the price the same but lower the quantity you get for ages now. The other day though I was looking at chips and I noticed that not only was the price horrible and the bag had gotten noticeably smaller, but what was really deceiving was that the chips actually filled the entire bag, so compared to the normal size bags where you ultimately got more chips despite the bag being half empty it makes it physically feel like you are actually getting more chips even though you aren't. It was the first time I had seen something like this, I didn't realize they could get even more deceiving with this crap than they already are.
Shrinkflation….anyone who buys Kingsford charcoal has been witnessing it for years. If they raised the price however, that may prevent some from affording any?
A container of bleach hasn't been a gallon for at least a decade now.
Bleach was the first major item I noticed shrinkflation with.
And I noticed they are slicing steaks thinner. I remember when they were nice and thick cut.
At my local grocery store, sometimes the steaks are very thick cuts and other times thinner. Sometimes they're all thicker cuts, sometimes they're all thinner cuts and other times it's a mix. I don't know why that is, only that it's hit and miss.
You probably know this but independent butchers will slice you steaks as thick as you want and not jack the price up typically. When I want to ball out with the lady we buy a giant 2" thick bone in ribeye and split it between us, usually have leftovers too that make good breakfast the next day
Pot roasts are typically chuck, the cheapest cut.
Kroger always has a sale bin in the meat aisle. Yesterday it was buy one, get one free on chcuk roasts. I bought two. They were priced at 24 each so I got one for 12. Last year at this time they were actually 12 per with no sale.
So the cheapest cut of beef has doubled in price.
Three pound packs of hamburger have gone from near 6 to over 15. Five dollars a pound for ground chuck? WTF
The cheaper brands of bread are now 4 dollars. Dad picked up a half gallon of milk and paid 4.68. Granted it wasnt at a grocery store it was more of a market like IGA, but wow.
LOL who can afford steak today??
I have two freezers full of venison steaks. They arent as good as beef but I wont be buying a steak for awhile.