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In reply to the discussion: Does it feel like prices of groceries are skyrocketing?? [View all]JT45242
(2,314 posts)31. Misleading...look at the graph
If you look at the long term trend from about 1975 to the present the slope of the line is really close to current value if you extend through the aberration of the great recession and covid.
It is a little above the line but with a small regression, the line will just have normalized..
Comparing to the great depression of prices during covid gives a false impression.
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It is all fabricated nonsense. No need for the increases or not like this.
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2022
#1
See I don't buy those things...I am gluten free so my stuff is more. I make most of it.
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#33
I make my own sauce too mostly or I buy something on sale...I find places like Ollies often
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#44
But as you can see here and elsewhere, it is real easy to lie to people and tell them
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2022
#23
The percentage increases for some products are inexplicably so off-the-scale that I think these
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#7
No, Bacon is down, I buy in bulk and buy during sales. But I have not increased what I spend.
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#20
Also, something like this should be on a logarithmic scale - that's where a constant percent
progree
Sep 2022
#43