Yes, groceries are more expensive. Now what?

Yes, groceries are more expensive. Now what?

Inflation. Everyone's discussing it these days, at least on X. Is it bad? Is it fine? Are our perceptions skewed by virtue of living in 2026 which makes accurate evaluation of prices in 1996 impossible?Going to McDonald’s was an occasion back then. There weren’t 35 different kinds of IPAs in the grocery store. Arugula didn’t exist until sometime around 2009.It’s hard to know. Different people have different ideas on all of this and it’s hard to …

Expensive Groceries: The $366 Grocery Basket… And the Tough Shopper It Created - Food Trade News & Food World

A typical grocery stock-up trip now costs $366.04, according to Acosta Group’s new Affordability Tracker. The same 84-item basket cost about $288 in 2020, an increase of more than $78, or 27%. Acosta’s model basket spans 10 departments and 67 categories, and even in the latest four-week period, was still up 3.7% from a year earlier. Those numbers explain in fairly stark terms what the industry knows only too well: why affordability remains such …