Narrower toilet paper rolls, smaller cheese slices, smaller coffee containers are just three of the essentials that I have noticed. I guess that smaller cheese slices and smaller coffee containers would probably justify less toilet paper anyway?
I don't remember the price of candy when I was a kid, but we use to pick through the garbage for bottles at the local high school. Then we would return them for the deposit so we could buy candy. I think it was two or three bottles depending on which candy we wanted.
Good God. You have all turned into my father!
Get Off My Lawn!!Good God. You have all turned into my father!
What happened to ice cream? Size down every three years
My pet peeve! I remember when the 1/2 gallon started morphing to 1 3/4 quarts. The transition was seemingly still ongoing when again seemingly overnight it went down to that mini 1 1/2 quarts.
We all keep an eye on the inflation numbers from the Fed and other sources. Plus, we all know that the real inflation number to be concerned about is our “personal” inflation number.
Myself and DW are always looking out for “surprise” prices that have inflated without much (or any) warning. Today was a milestone surprise inflation find!
DW likes to have breakfast at Denny’s as we have several of them around us and they are helpful with handling handicapped folks, of which DW is one. We stopped this AM at a local Denny’s as I was having our Hyundai’s tires rotated and balanced next door at a tire shop.
Usually, we have a “build your own” (BYO) or a $4 Value Slam (VS) breakfast. Now, the Value Slams come in four flavors (fixed price levels), $2, $4, $6, & $8 and with no menu item substitutions. The menu is labelled accordingly in each heading.
So today I order the $4 Value Slam which is two eggs, bacon (or sausage) and two pancakes. DW orders a different item (BYO).
The bill comes, and I see that the $4 VS is now $4.49! So I look at the menu and see that the heading is now “Starting at $4” instead of just $4. Looks like a 12% price increase here. Also, the other price levels use the same “Starting at” term for each $$ level and all show increases of about 12%. Nice.
So here folks, is what I call sneaky inflation. What have you noticed about your consumption spending that has seen this type of inflation?
My experience with "stealth" inflation is more along the lines of shrinking packages as many have mentioned. YMMV
Along the same line, restaurant dish portion getting smaller for the same price ... Seemingly, Chinese food dish portion has noticeably gotten small every 5 years.
I used to buy candy bars for 5 cents in 1958. Being the frugal person even at 12years I chose 3 Musketeers since it was about 50% larger than most others. I haven't bought any in decades but passing them in the grocery check out line they seem to be smaller for the additional 95 cents.
Cheers!
Cat food! From 15.92 to 18.44 for a 30 pack at Walmart.
It's about time they start finding their own food!