They really should have a breakdown between restaurant and grocery spending.
EDIT: They do have it in one of the article links.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
The increase is mostly in food away from home.
EDIT: They do have it in one of the article links.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
The increase is mostly in food away from home.
I found a handful of receipts recently from 2020 or so and some of the items are really surprising.
A bag of Doritos is 7 bucks now. Nearly doubled.
A random grocery stop after work for dinner ingredients like produce, shelf staples etc, yeah that was about 30-40 now I expect to spend 60 or more.
Then, like, spray paint for instance is a wild one. It went from about $4 to about $8 now.
Worth noting… somehow La Croix hasn’t really gone up at all. Which is great because I drink it like it’s water.
I don't know why this topic has so much suction on HN. Anything that has a whiff of "shadow stats" inflation trutherism goes right to the top.
But the article doesn't differentiate between those, only the linked source.
I cooked some steaks for Valentine’s Day. Cheapest ones I could find were $15/ea. 2 years ago I cooked steaks for Valentines Day and they were like 8 bucks.
Maybe overall in aggregate there’s one metric but when you notice a lot of stuff at the grocery store has DOUBLED in price in just a few years, it’s concerning.
also that chart stops in 2022 and there is still a noticiable uptick despite the very long scale.