Just at Fry’s tonight. Family size box of Corn Flakes was $5.99 when it was always $4.99. That’s a 20% increase. Dry dog food is 50% higher. Most of the grocery items I regularly buy are 15-20% more than a year ago, unless they’re on sale. To hear the “experts” say inflation is around 9% just blows my mind.
Note that the cereal box is twice as thin with less volume as well.
Yup. Our plumber has increased his house call fee by 33% in the last year. Our garbage collection is over 50% as well, likely due to diesel costs.