I have never done the shopping in my household, but my wife is out of town. The bag of Lay's potato chips at $7 was a stunner!

& probably fewer chips in the bag.

:sad:

Chips
 

Store brand Chips are 2.00. same size......... its all about branding and peoples inability to change..........

Them 2 dozen/week...

You are spot on. The housing market is lacking affordable housing in all major population centers.

After reading all this thread, inflation seems to be about the same as it has always been.
Sometimes low, sometimes high, always with us, a bit like the weather really. :shrug:

Well if you ignore the inflation of 21 and 22 then you may have a point. Especially real estate and car prices. And no doubt it had an major impact on the election.

Been a lot worse years than 21 and 22, and a long run of better ones

Swings and roundabouts.

Yes, starting with companies always want to increase profits so they increase prices on products when they can. Employees say., hey, we need to get some of that too! So employees have an annual pay raise. Suppliers do the same.

All is fine until demand drops off for whatever reason, and prices can't rise.
When this happens, mgmt still wants their incentive payment for growth so
they take steps to reduce costs first in the supply chain, secondarily with layoffs.

When goods and services have zero inflation, corporate incentive programs for growth starts pressuring supply chains and labor costs.

So what's good for the consumer might not be good for the consumer to lose his/her job.
So be careful what you wish for

counter point obviously

LOTS of price gauging,!!!!!

don't you hate spell checker?
its just getting worse with the AI anticipation errors. . .

Check out the profits from the grocery chains you support. They ain't going broke. Kroger gross profit for the twelve months ending October 31, 2024 was $33.903B, a 4.26% increase year-over-year. Kroger annual gross profit for 2024 was $33.364B, a 4.99% increase from 2023.

Why compare gross profits? Net income was lower for the period ending 1/31/2024 compared to 1/31/2023. They need to do a better job "gouging":smiley:

You are correct. CPI does not include food or gasoline. So if you don't eat or drive you will be fine.

Where??