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I've noticed all food basics have doubled in price since pre pandemic. I've been looking for shoes, I keep buying the same brands, their regular prices have doubled and tripled.
Of course the wages haven't grown at all, and they are trying to take IT wages down.
Is it the same way globally right now?
It's brutal. My grocery bill is climbing every week. I am trying hard to eat healthier, too. I hate how there is so much judgment around food when most people are doing the best they can to survive. Unhealthy food is often more affordable and goes further when you have a family.
Definitely. I see it every week on my grocery bill. I basically buy the same items and the bill is 30 - 50% higher compared to last year (let alone pre-pandemic).
Especially staples like pasta, rice, flour or sugar have doubled in price here. I can afford it but my heart breaks for poorer families who rely on cheap staples to feed their kids. The food bank I volunteer for sometimes even had stuff left over in the past. Because of the inflation and so many more people coming we had to reduce the amount each person gets and still often run out before everyone gets something.
Yep! It's everywhere. I heard that basic food items like eggs are nearly $10 in some places. I'm noticing fast food has outrageous prices too.
Yes, I am in the UK and media is very open about the UK cost of living crisis. The UK economy is in a worse state than the rest of europe, it is shrinking significantly, partly because of the russia-ukraine war and covid, but also because our leading politcal party is led by oligarchs and liars who are focusing on collecting as much money as they can before they get voted out for how shit they've been this past decade.
It's not just the food prices, its everything. The worst part is lower class british people cant even afford heating, because the gas and electric utility bill has seen over a 100% increase. It's insanity. My family sit in a freezing, damp house growing with mould because of the high utility prices, they cant afford heating in winter.
British citizens are now apparently being admitted to hospitals more often due to malnutrition, for deficiencies like rickets and scurvy.
Inflation for food seems to be a worldwide thing but the UK is in a particularly bad state right now. Lower class cant afford heating, cant eat properly and the national minimum wage is ridicously low.
It's awful here too. I can hardly keep my grocery bill under $100 a week and that's shopping at the cheap stores and getting soups, wraps, granola bars, and ramen to bring to work. It doesn't last and the healthier food would cost even more. I even use coupons when I can.
I bought organic eggs this week for $9.99. Its nuts out here.