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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

food can be very regionally affected. The CPI is for all USA, alaska, hawaii, and continental US. . . So it's a number which includes a very huge area with lots of variations through out the sampling.

hard products like this, the CPI is pretty good estimate. Within services, it's a dumpster fire of a sampling process. Owner's equivalent rent is the worst dumpster fire with health insurance next.

so what's your egg spending as a percentage of total spend??
versus insurance and taxes??

I know people have individual pain points and cherry pick examples to suit their own biases, but eggs? one carton lasts two weeks for us, = 24 max cartons per year, which = $100 +/- not significant. . breakfast or lunch at any non fast food joint is easily $20 per person, $25-30 if hungry with tip. . .

That's all labor inflation from increasing minimum wage to compete for labor and mandatory labor rates. .

not to be argumentative, and its not that these numbers are perfect, its that they are what the government and lots of decisions are made on. . government and private decisions using the best information possible. .

Gas buddy analyst, gas prices are the lowest in several years across the country. . .
yeah, stations play games with customers, inventory, expected increases, etc. but gas prices on an inflation adjusted basis, very, very , very cheap.

Just cause crud oil goes up down like rollercoaster (do to futures stock trades) don’t mean other commodities will go down ever IMO, sure might drop few cents but NEVER drop enough to make differences.