Do you remember, oh, 5 years ago, when they weren't telling us to eat cereal for dinner to save money?
The Wall Street Journal remembers:
Prices for hundreds of grocery items have increased more than 50% since 2019 as food companies raised their prices. Executives have said that higher prices were needed to offset their own rising costs for ingredients, transportation and labor.
How bad has it gotten? You may honestly not believe it when you see it. Here, for instance, is a gallon of milk in 2019:
And here's a gallon of milk today, after half a decade of awful politicians and disastrous policies:
Prest-o, change-o! Nearly $0.60 more!
Now, if you're of a cynical bent, you might shrug and say: "Sixty cents? Big deal. Who can't afford sixty cents?"
That might be true if the milk were the only price going up. But it's not. Everything has skyrocketed. Here, for instance, is butter over the same time period:
And eggs:
And chicken:
And flour:
Basically everything you use on a daily basis has gone way up.
It has gotten so bad that some consumers are shopping like it's literally the end of the world:
Consumers have also become creative to cope with a stretch of record food inflation. Sharon Faelten, a 74-year-old retiree from Underhill, Vt., said that instead of a wallet-punishing ordeal, she tries to think of trips to the store like procurement raids depicted in apocalyptic novels, where the goal is to stock her fridge, freezer and pantry for as little money as possible.
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