[Macoozie]

“Price at Aldi’s is irrelevant. Buying cheap is not the point of the exercise.

The point of the exercise is to track increase in prices of the various items”

That’s just dumb. A good, used F250 is priced to the moon right now because there aren’t many. So don’t buy it or substitute.

Substitution is the market.
For simple commodity items like “crackers”, one can buy $9.99 imported water crackers or 50 cent Saltines on sale.

It’s only inflation if you have to buy.
That’s why some folks stopped buying lumber. It was too pricey for their needs, while others that needed it, could justify the higher costs, could get it at the higher price.

Otherwise, make the popcorn and watch the fun.

[PeterPrinciple]

It’s only inflation if you have to buy.

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Inflation rate is personal, folks, remember that. Read the news with that understanding.

[bert]

You interject irrelevancies personal to you into the discourse.

General inflation is not the topis of the study.

The price increase of 20 items is the only topic of the study. Ford trucks have no relevancy

(only a fool will buy a new truck now. The depreciation in the first year exceeds all the food inflation excess in perhaps 5 years)