I track price of the gloves.
Box of gloves is very close to pre covid level.
Used to be $2/box in 2019. now you can get it around $2.5 box.
Box of gloves is very close to pre covid level.
Used to be $2/box in 2019. now you can get it around $2.5 box.
CPI less food and energy[1] over the same period increased +17.3%...so currently priced worse than nominal inflation.
Of course, this baseline reference assumes shrinkflation hasn't impacted your "box" unit.
Annualized, that is 5.7% inflation. (1.25 increase ^ 0.25 for 4 years elapsed). So not pre-covid levels, but not nominal 25% annual inflation. Still a little over 2x desired annual growth rate.