Canned tuna used to be 7 1/2 oz and it’s down to 5 1/2 oz. The largest Folgers coffee at our store is about 9 oz smaller but a dollar more than it was at the beginning of summer. All packaging is getting smaller yet higher priced. Just this last week, our local grocery and walmart raised their prices. Walmart doubled their price of off brand canned vegetables. I don’t know about the national brands since I can’t afford them. Milk prices have shot up too. Also, the local water authority announced due to the drought they are limiting the water to rice farmers for their second crop this year so watch for rice to go up in a few months. Pumpkin is going to be high this year because of the flooding.
I noticed too that pecan sandies are now 15% smaller, but doubled in price, locally. Also I live in a large dairy/cattle region and the price of beef is set to skyrocket. The buying time is NOW as farmers are culling their herds and the price has lowered. Besides corn, cattle also eat hay (the price of hay has doubled in this region due to flooding earlier in the year), in fact all the cattle I have seen in this area (there are several farms nearby), eat hay. My parents live on the other side of the country and my dad mentioned that due to flooding, the farmers there weren’t able to plant their crops until very late also, and that they expect cattle in that market to become very costly too.
Just a heads up.