Food is more expensive than it has been in decades

Alternatively you could say food is now the cheapest it will be for the rest of our lives: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/business/food-prices-inflatio...

Not only is food more expensive lately but I've been noticing creeping "shrinkflation" in products as well. My chocolate peanut butter haagen dazs is no longer a full pint! Also Stella beer in bottles became smaller- they're 11.2 fl oz instead of 12.

Not everywhere and not all commodities. Some industrially produced food such as chicken is cheaper in real terms in the UK than it was forty years ago.

See also, for instance, https://jomcpeak.expressions.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Appl...

This is a garbage article.

title: Food is more expensive than it has been in decades

article: only mentions statistics like "largest 12-month increase since"

headline/article discrepancy aside, since since the food component of CPI usually outstrips overall inflation[1], it's almost guaranteed that "food is more expensive than it has been ever", even if you do adjust for inflation. "Food is more expensive than it has been in decades" could mean anything between mass famine + bread lines, and normal inflation.

[1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cpi2020-875x1...

Meet seems to be the main driver of the increased prices as meat is overall up 12.8% compared to last year.

Good time to go vegan I guess.

Let's not print more money please.

Does DoL publish the data behind CPI-U? Doesn’t really line up with my grocery experience over the last couple of years but I doubt they just make this stuff up.

Alternative title: Money is now worth the least in decades.