Grocery price comparison from 2019 to January 2025 spreadsheet

When were talking ass paper we need to judge it by sq ft per roll. So ultimately you can see the number, but you have to use advanced calculus (joking ) to actually figure out how it compares. Diminished weight would mean a less girth product, but in general, sheets per roll is how you figure out if your getting fucked or not. And always go two ply

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That_Crisis_Averted@reddit

The thing I can't get over has been the price of vinegar. It was always around 60¢ a gallon. Now it's near $5 and hasn't gone down. Vinegar is even weaker than it used to be which is dangerous if you preserve food. Flour was always $2.50, now $5. Pasta was always less than a dollar a pound. It's been coming down in price, but still more than it was unless on sale. Vinegar is made from wheat by the way. So I'm not sure what's going on with wheat, but I know that the USA exports a lot of it's wheat to Asia.

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Scaris420@reddit

As far as wheat exports, I believe we are second, and Ukraine first. Not sure how that sits today. I just know that it is a product that won't be easily replaced

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Scaris420@reddit

Yes it comment is factually incorrect, and makes me wonder at your motives. No, vin gar is not mostly from wheat. Start there and actually be accurate lol

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Scaris420@reddit

Also, let s not start a war over the price of wheat in china

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Scaris420@reddit

Yes I must be mad lol. Less than 10 percent of vinegar is made from wheat. Start with good information, and grow from there.. you are starting with some bullshit

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Funkyapplesauce@reddit

Europes largest producer of wheat, Ukraine, has been busy since then.

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BikePathToSomewhere@reddit

I did the same for Amazon purchases (go to your order history and then search for the same product on Amazon today) I saw for things I bought in 2019 that there were 25-35% increases for the same item.

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mediocre_mitten@reddit

I know this is an older post, but I wanted to point out, that I tried to do this on our Sam's business account and it seems they adjust the pricing across the dates? For example: the box of bathroom paper towels is currently $36/6 rolls. I remember it going up to $29/6 rolls (because at that time it seemed outrageous) a few years back and wanted to see when that was. I went through ALL our orders going back as far as the website would let me and they currently ALL are showing $36...even those from years ago!

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Scaris420@reddit

They are trying to pull a fast one, ie convince you that you have always paid that much for the product. I guarantee it works with 20-40 percent of consumers

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BikePathToSomewhere@reddit

Great observation I needed up confirming with my actual order bill / invoice in the interface.

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RonJohnJr@reddit

That's only(?) a 5.5% annual inflation rate.

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TheAspiringFarmer@reddit

Only? The general target is around 2%. So that’s substantially above the norm.

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vba7@reddit

And in general, the target could be 0%, because most of the inflation is created by the central bank.

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RonJohnJr@reddit

That's what the "(?)" was for. Hopefully you noticed that.

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veggie151@reddit

We did. It has proven insubstantial

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Status-Shock-880@reddit

Clear as mud bud

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ohyesiam1234@reddit

Don’t worry, Trump is going to bring down food prices on day 1. /s

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Open_Mycologist_1476@reddit

Hahaha who believed this? Blacks and Latinos, that is why he is president.

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Open_Mycologist_1476@reddit

Prices are going to continue to go up. Lets remember that Donald Trump can afford this, he could also go against greedy CEOs for price gouging. He will not do any of this because Republicans are rich and do not care.

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thomas533@reddit

So there was a 41.43% increase over 5 years (Not sure when your 2019 prices are from, but I'll assume January). That is 8.28% per year. And if the tariffs go through, then expect that to get much worse.

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NewspaperQueasy7475@reddit

Trump wants to eliminate the fed income tax for people earning less than 150k a yr. That would help the middle and lower classes tremendously.

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thomas533@reddit

He will never actually do that (he has a history of saying one thing and doing something entirely different.) The rest of the party won't go for it. And even if they do, it won't offset the extra costs that the tariffs will cause.

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AbiesScary4857@reddit

All I can say is when I went whole food vegan a year ago my grocery bill dropped almost 40%... stopped meat, eggs, dairy, sodas and ultraprocessed junk foods, began eating variety of beans, rice, potatoes, whole grain bread and pastas, canned vegetables, spaghetti sauce without meat, vegan Chilli, peanut butter and oatmeal. Not only did my grocery bill drop almost 40% but so did my weight and cholesterol...was able to go off eight of ten medications. I suggest giving a vegan diet a 60 day trial and see for yourself both the reduced cost and improved health benefits.

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Knew-Clear@reddit

We’re on a diet of mostly rice and beans, will splurge on fresh fruits and veg (vegetarians). When eggs went to 10.99 for 18, I immediately ditched my closest grocer for TJs 3.49 per dozen. TJs isn’t an option for most, neither is raising your own hens. In the spring, we’re starting a garden. I’m in the upper-middle class bracket, so it’s not even a matter of affording the price hikes, it’s more that it feels like gauging especially with quality decline. I have no idea how people are managing.

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Ryan_e3p@reddit

This is very, very region dependent. I bought the 24 pack of eggs yesterday for $6.50 where I live in CT.

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forestandfading@reddit

youre very lucky for this. up in mid michigan, just a dozen eggs is that same price.

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Ryan_e3p@reddit

Luck is going to be running out. I'm stocking up, buying and freezing a couple 24 packs a week until the ducks start laying.

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GigabitISDN@reddit

$7.03 for 18 here in PA, and I haven't even price shopped. That's just our usual supermarket.

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iridescent-shimmer@reddit

$5.53 for 18 organic eggs at Costco in PA. Also I can't even remember the last time eggs were under $2 so no idea where that starting price was supposed to be from lol.

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Academic_1989@reddit

I bought eggs for my mom from Walmart before she moved to assisted living. In late 2022 they were well under $2 a dozen - like $1.27. In the Dallas area in Texas.

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Dorkamundo@reddit

Eggs for STANDARD, 12 count, grade A eggs, non-organic were close to $2 YEARS ago.

However, regional pricing is certainly a thing.

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iridescent-shimmer@reddit

Yeah I'm honestly thinking maybe circa 2014 when I worked at a nonprofit and had very limited funds. I feel like I vaguely remember that.

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Accomplished-Tell674@reddit

Same in South Florida, on both accounts

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Rooooben@reddit

$7.99 for a dozen in WA

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OysterChopSuey@reddit

$5.52 for an 18 pack at Sams in one of the highest COL areas in California. Just gotta know where to look

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Rooooben@reddit

Just advising what the normal is out here, that’s Fred Meyer normal price for eggs in PNW.

I’m sure you can find discounts at Costco (no Sam’s out here anymore) or Grocery Outlet maybe.

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Mr_NotParticipating@reddit

Yeah, but prices are up everywhere.

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tetraodonmiurus@reddit

Not really, there’s been about a $0.50 increase for me.

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Dorkamundo@reddit

"Prices are up everywhere"

"nah, my prices are up".

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tetraodonmiurus@reddit

$0.50 over 5 years is trivial

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Swolltaire@reddit

Right but OP is showing relative change, not claiming your eggs cost a given amount

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scandalous_burrito@reddit

It's still possible to buy groceries cheaply, you just need to shop around, wait for good sales, and buy in bulk.

I did this when I lost my job a while ago. Instead of basing our weekly meals on what I wanted to eat, it was based on what was on sale or what we had in the freezer/pantry. We went about 6 months without ever paying full retail price for any groceries outside of a few things we wouldn't compromise on, like my preferred brand of toothpaste that never seemed to go on sale.

I feel like clipping coupons and shopping around is a lost art that younger folks and people who grew up in upper middle-class families just don't know is a thing. Nowadays grocery stores have apps so it's possible to "shop around" from the comfort of my home. I can see what's on sale, see what they have digital coupons for, etc, and plan shopping trips that way.

If you tried hard enough, I bet you could get the stuff on your list for cheaper than you did in 2019. There are also discount grocery stores and ethnic grocery stores that sell things much cheaper than the big stores.

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forestandfading@reddit

this is great and all but i think youre forgetting too that we have less time for things like waiting around for food to go on sale or sit and cut coupons- you know, because we're busy working more trying to keep the fuck up. coupons, food pantries, clearance/discount foods will always exist and people should and will utilize them at their will, but regardless of this i feel we can still agree that food prices are nonaffordable currently.

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Glittering_Set6017@reddit

🙄 this is such a wildly out of touch thing to say

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Important_Sea9967@reddit

Thank you for this! With everything going on, I’d love to see a June 2025 reassessment.

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forestandfading@reddit

i second this!

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Frari@reddit

great data!

I have added a column for 2019 adjusted for inflation, then calculated % change and sorted,

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fZ0R2j-T8bzRUbJJxCSqYWait0utTa5UBAv-tmCZ9DA/edit?usp=sharing

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forestandfading@reddit

this is an awesome tool, thank you

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OtherwiseAlbatross14@reddit

Wouldn't it be good to also include the non-inflation adjusted numbers when we're talking about inflation? Using inflation adjusted makes it sound like these items haven't increased as much as they have but really it just shows how much they have compared to everything as a whole.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

Thanks so much!! That is great.

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BrieSting@reddit

Don’t buy powdered sugar or brown sugar since you can make it easily yourself.

Brown sugar: regular white sugar + molasses = brown sugar. You can control how light or dark it is from the amount of molasses for your preference or if a recipe calls for one or the other.

Powdered sugar: regular sugar + cornstarch + put in a blender for like a minute = powdered sugar.

I don’t recall the exact ratios for either, but I usually eyeball it every time anyway (think of 1 cup of sugar to 1 tbsp of cornstarch for the powdered sugar, or something like that).

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ferretfan8@reddit

So instead of buying two ingredients (sugar and brown sugar) I can buy two ingredients (sugar and molasses).

And instead of buying two ingredients (sugar and powdered sugar), I can buy two ingredients (sugar and corn starch).

But now I have to make it myself.

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Sloth_Flower@reddit

I have data going back to pre-pandemic as well.

What I noticed is while things rose during COVID many fell back down afterwards, like crafting supplies and bikes. Some things, like canning lids (8¢>30¢), rose but have largely maintained the same price since.

My records show a dramatic rise, particularly in food, starting in 2022 and continuing every year afterwards. While some of these things were harvest related (potatoes, eggs, etc) some have no real reason. My local store brand loaf bread jumped from 1.5$ to 2$ in 2022. 2.5$ in 2023. 3$ in 2024. It's now 4$ in 2025 (all sale prices). That's more than 2.5 fold increase in 3 years. Even in the last year the increase has been noticable. Beans which were 1$/lb this time last year(!!) are now 1.4$/lb. Vinegar has gone from 2$ pre pandemic to 4$ in 2023 to 4.5$/gal now.

While these numbers are specific to my area the increases are just... bonkers.

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bigeats1@reddit

Cost of fertilizer and transport have skyrocketed. More than doubled since 2019. There is a direct correlation in those costs and natural gas. One of the big drivers of the push to get US production of energy waaaaaay up is this. Food production depends on it. Then you have transport costs, which are wildly up. Labor costs which are wildly up. The last 4 years were catastrophic for folks that like eating.

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Sloth_Flower@reddit

I grow most of my own food. The cost to grow a lb of potatoes last year, where I live, was about 56¢ per lb, including labor. My local store is 1.66¢/lb. The difference in fruit and greens is 15-100x my costs.

Seed, fertilizer, inflation, and labor are not the costs - at least from my perspective. These companies benefit from scale but I do not include land. The difference between growing, processing, and buying is widening.

I can buy the flour from the store and still make bread for 1/4 of the cost, including labor. It used to barely break even. Last year was the first year I could make apple sauce from store apples and it be cheaper. That's actually insane given apple sauce and apple juice are waste products.

So that leaves store overhead, transportation, and profit. And the profit margin increases these companies are seeing are truly insane. Transportation is seeing upward of 40% profit margins. Companies like general Mills and Nestle operate at profit margins between 30-50%. Kroger and other groceries take an addition 20%. All of these are higher their their historic averages and that's not including CEO compensation.

Ultimately, like medicine and housing, food is a necessity. Companies are leveraging captive audiences to make record profits while placing blame everywhere but themselves.

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bigeats1@reddit

I grow, hunt, and fish for a fair amount of what we consume as well. I also understand that you want to rant about CEOs and corporate swine, but before you get too deep, Kroger is selling a 5# bag of russet potatoes for 2.99. That’s .66/lb. I don’t know what kind of jacked up bouggie pinkies out market you’re going to that potatoes cost 3x as much as Kroger, but anything else you say past that is weighed against your very questionable point of reference.

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Sloth_Flower@reddit

It's a Safeway, not exactly Erewhon. It's almost like food prices are artificially inflated in some places. Shocking.

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bigeats1@reddit

1.00/lb 5# bag. Just checked. Only way you get 1.63/lb is buying single potatoes. Still absurd at 1.00. Shop somewhere else.

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Sloth_Flower@reddit

What google shows you is based on geolocation data. It's clear that you have more competition in your local market and therefore lower prices. I wish I had your prices. ~1$/lb is what I get when I go to Business Costco... or drive 3-4 hrs away.

Albertsons owns every grocery store within 30 mins of me. No Walmarts/Sam's Clubs, Targets, Krogers, Costcos, Whole foods/Amazon, or budget brands. They can set whatever price they want and they do. Market consolidation has concentrated market power to allow high profit margins. This is the issue, ime, not fertilizer and labor.

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bigeats1@reddit

There are way more inputs in what I grow/harvest than would be comparable to commercial goods and I’m fine with that. My garden is a large science experiment. Hunting is an outgrowth of shooting and shooting is a financial black hole. Lots of fun to see what I can hit at several hundred yards or how many times and how fast at just a few, but that’s thousands a year, every year, forever. Fishing starts with rods. Then it gets as expensive as you want it to. For me, it’s probably only a couple thousand a year now as I bought quality getting here, but there’s always boat stuff and travel costs. That said, food and that cathartic process is a hobby for me. I’m ok with that.

26 years of being in the food industry also informed my positions, so I know from whence I talk. Wholesale, retail, and craft. I’ve done all of that for a living and both pulled fish in nets on the rappahannock river and fed presidents of the United States. Not to break my arm patting myself on the back, but I know my shit.

Where are you that 1.63/lb is the best price you pay for a potato in America right now? That just doesn’t ring true. And to be honest, my cost to produce a potato, and I grow some fancy fucking potatoes, is wildly less than .50/lb. Without spreadsheeting it, I’m probably at around .15-.20 counting diesel for my garden. Even year one, counting homestead grade stuff needed was less than that.

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Sloth_Flower@reddit

I am impressed with your ability. The harvesting alone would cost me 15¢/lb in just labor, at minimum wage.

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bigeats1@reddit

Good soil and I throw leaf mulch compost and fireplace ash in it every year before I til the entire garden plot. Prolific harvests with plenty of seed for the next year. Harvest is start to finish done and curing in an hour for about 100# with my fancy ass hundred dollar estate auction 3 pt potato harvester. I produce blue, purples, red, gold, white, and fingerlings that are wildly better than I can buy. It’s a zero effort crop for my homestead use. That said, you’re right on labor cost which I peg at zero since I’m harvesting them for my own non commercial use, but again, that’s personal vs commercial production. It shouldn’t cost you .65/lb for personal use stuff.

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Sloth_Flower@reddit

My soil is bad so I use beds and pots. Leaf mulch as well. I usually harvest around 1000#, mainly golds and reds because that's what I prefer. It takes me 10hrs to harvest by hand. So double the time. Another 2 after curing to sort and store.

I usually include labor to make the comparison more accurate. Though I used my local minimum wage in my original quote, which is substantially higher than the federal minimum.

It helps me prioritize things what I grow, store, and process vs buy. I still grow things like brassicas but don't usually bother with growing at scale. They are very pest prone where I live and either need constant TLC or have to be in a greenhouse. Cheaper and easier to just buy from Costco. Same with corn, wheat, and rice.

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bigeats1@reddit

Now that makes sense. If you have a tractor, hunt down a potato harvester. Turns a backbreaking day into an hour. 1000# might end up being 5 hours. I’m counting mounting the implement. It’s SOOOO much faster.

Do you can and dehydrate as well? Depending where you are, it’s a game changer with tomatoes, squash, leeks, and such. I also am a huge fan of chamber vacuum sealers for freezer storage. Old school fan of pickling. Just started messing with fermentation at some scale. Some success there.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

That would really be interesting to see. One thing that really stuck out for me was the price of bleach which rose during COVID and never went back down. I used to be able to buy bleach for $1.19 and $1.50. I wish I had prices for each year since 19 but I just forgot about doing it.

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JDM-Kirby@reddit

Pre pandemic I was getting 80/20 ground beef for $2 a lb, sometimes 2lb for $3. It’s now of course $4.50 if I get it on sale.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

I paid $6.83 a pound last week at our local grocery store. It’s just ridiculous.

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BabiesBanned@reddit

Can we see the salaries and bonuses of these companies' CEO and board members as well for comparison

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Middle_Jaguar_5406@reddit

Greedflation

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cleverCLEVERcharming@reddit

Can we get stickers that say “greedflation” to stick on price tags in the store?

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carrot512@reddit

Fun fact, if you are making $7.25 minimum wage in 2019 and STILL making $7.25 in 2025, you are doing something wrong. Minimum wage is not supposed to be a livable wage, or a retirement wage. This is high school grocery bagger wages, and even that, thanks to capitalism, is typically higher.

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1freebutttouch@reddit

Minimum wage was installed during the industrial revolution to prevent companies from turning their workers into indentured slaves. It was intended to be a minimum to live on or risk becoming in debt to your employer.

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rajrdajr@reddit

They’re all Walmart prices.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

Yes. We have a Walmart and one smaller grocery store in a 20 mile radius. The grocery store is quite a bit higher on almost everything. I still go there but get most of my stuff from Walmart.

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rajrdajr@reddit

Were there more grocery choices pre-Walmart?

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

Walmart has been here for 50 years. We used to have multiple grocery stores (6 at one time) but only have one now. We went for a few years with none.

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Historical-Alps3254@reddit

In one of the most expensive areas in California, we still find great deals. Not nearly as often as we used to, but we do find them. If we are patient it pays off.

Just yesterday we found one of our favorite top quality delicious coffee brands for $3 a pound. We bought 10 bags of it. The same coffee on Amazon is $9.99 a pound/bag, so $30 vs $300. Second deal of the day was one of our favorite all time top quality salsas. It is usually $4.99/ jar. We got it for .99 cents a jar. Bought 3 cases/36 jars for $36 vs $180.

A few weeks ago we found Oscar Mayer bacon (not my favorite by a longshot but ok). This stuff is usually $9-$12 a pound here. It was only $3.99 a pound and we bought every last one of them lol.

What is great about this particular store is that they constantly get new items in.

All the major chain grocery stores here are so boring and have had the same 5 items for the last 20 years. We never shop them.

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ryan112ryan@reddit

This maps pretty close for me. My budget for food each month (grocery not eating out) was around $250 about 10 years ago, before Covid I had to increase my monthly budget for food to $300, today it’s about $380.

I have started to eat steak more often and a nicer cut, but I have pulled that out of the above numbers.

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nunyabizz62@reddit

Our monthly food bill in 2019 was around $650-$700 and today its more like $850 to $1000 and that is trying every possible way to buy things cheaper plus buying wheat berries now and making all my own bread, rolls, buns, tortillas, pitas, pasta.

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MountainGal72@reddit

We have the same food expenditures and the same family composition, right down to the seven pound Chihuahua!

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nunyabizz62@reddit

Great minds think alike

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Led_Zeppole_73@reddit

Feeding two people or eight people? That’s about my bill for four.

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nunyabizz62@reddit

Two, plus a 7 pound Chihuahua

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MountainGal72@reddit

Your numbers sound similar to mine.

I’ve always refused to compromise on our food. No budget, groceries cost what they cost whether I like it or not. My husband and I grew up poor and hungry so I have never skimped on food.

Those days are likely ending.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

I rarely get out of Walmart for less than $500 nowadays. I buy a lot of stuff for prepping though and our pet expenses are extremely high. It’s really getting out of hand.

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RonJohnJr@reddit

Annualized, that's a 16% inflation rate.

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OHYAMTB@reddit

And now you see how the numbers are massively rigged

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RonJohnJr@reddit

I punched in the wrong numbers. Really, it was 7.15%.

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Rizthan@reddit

Don't worry. CPI is still massively rigged.

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RonJohnJr@reddit

The real problem is that One Inflation Rate To Rule Them All is a fool's errand in country as large and varied as the US, and people's situation likewise large and varied.

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OtherwiseAlbatross14@reddit

I can't figure out how you came to that number. It doesn't seem to apply to the eggs alone(much higher) or the total of everything on the spreadsheet(much lower).

Can you show your work?

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RonJohnJr@reddit

Thanks for pointing this out. I punched in $130.30 and $273.46 to get 16%. Those are, of course, the wrong numbers. I edited my original comment to show the correct numbers.

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gunnerclark@reddit

You might want to create a column showing the % change between the older and current prices.

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Psychological_Ad9165@reddit

Why did we allow the previous admin to do this to us ?

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PleaseHold50@reddit

Don't worry, Janet says the inflation is transitory

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Tango907@reddit

Bidenomics!

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jdeesee@reddit

Aside from normal inflation and shrinkflation, there have also been several lawsuits for price fixing amongst several large food manufacturers across several different food categories

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CCWaterBug@reddit

Have any been successful?

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funkmon@reddit

If it makes you feel better, virtually nobody in the country makes federal minimum wage.

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deten@reddit

Can you please add a column:

=(C5-B5)/B5

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dericecourcy@reddit

Would you consider adding a percent increase and an average percent-per-year increase column?

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fashionforward@reddit

a few were a little less.

Cream of mushroom and cream of chicken soup (mixes, I assume? Canned?) went down fifty cents, and green beans went down.

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NoPCEM@reddit

The reasons are simple and it's about to change but due to this sub cracking down on free speech (even if they aren't actual attacks) I am not going to post the answers here but it's became obvious to all but the remaining few that are asleep.

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Psychological_Nose34@reddit

So prices were going down on day one? Asking for a friend

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Pristine-Dirt729@reddit

I'm not sure I understand what the minimum wage has to do with anything else in the post, but the rest is interesting. Thank you.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

Prices are going way up but minimum wage is not. So people are paying more for goods but not earning more to pay for it. You are getting less for more.

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SnooLobsters1308@reddit

minimum wages are going up, lots going up just now in Jan 2025, and have been steadily climbing by state. I think FL has been going up by $1 each year last couple years. ($1 is a decent % for minimum wages in the 10 to $15 range).

Missouri just went up by $1.45 in 2025, that's up 11% just this year, not sure what the increases were from 2019 to 2024.

https://www.epi.org/blog/over-9-2-million-workers-will-get-a-raise-on-january-1-from-21-states-raising-their-minimum-wages/

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Pristine-Dirt729@reddit

That is not quite right. You shouldn't be making minimum wage for your whole life. It's to get your foot in the door, and a bit of work experience. If you raise the minimum wage, you keep lower skill workers out of the workforce, and keep employers from being willing to give people who are potentially less productive a chance to prove themselves. Something like greater than 99% of full time workers are making more than minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage is not a good thing, it's a harmful thing.

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Dabadoo32@reddit

Let's welcome Russell Vought, everyone!

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Frari@reddit

Prices are going way up but minimum wage is not.

it's worse than that. Due to inflation minimum wage (purchasing power) is going down. Just how the 1% want it. They wont be happy until we're all serfs again.

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Both_Use_8825@reddit

Watch out, the tech aristocracy is keen to raise those prices more. They wanna bring back feudalism. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

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pairadimesifted@reddit

I see your entry for dog food and my experience is a lot more.

2019 .75 for a can of Paws canned dog food at Weis Market

2025 1.49 a 100 percent increase.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

The bad thing is that we changed from Dog Chow and Meow Mix to Purina One dog and cat food. It’s twice as high as the others but it’s a much better quality. We have 12 cats right now so we go through an absolute ton of cat food. So where we were paying around $20 we are now paying over $40 per bag.

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OdesDominator800@reddit

We have horses along with dogs, cats, and chickens. From multiple sources, including feed stores, we were told Purina is high-priced garbage with additives and fillers. For years, we have been buying Pro Force sweet feed, Nutrina feed, Wholesome dog, and cat food, which has real fish, beef, chicken, and rice mix. Chickens get cracked corn and scratch mix. The dog food is $43, up from $39. The 4 chickens lay depending on the weather around 8 eggs per week, and the cost of cracked corn is $10, and scratch mix $15 which lasts a month, more or less.

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RonJohnJr@reddit

FYI: that's a 15% inflation rate.

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LilLebowskiAchiever@reddit

18 eggs for $1.57 hasn’t been a real price in the PNW for 20-25 years. But currently you can get Kroger brand 1 dz for $4.99. Which works out to $0.416 per egg. 18 would be $7.49.

That may be due to less bird flu in our region requiring less culling of laying hens. Missouri may have higher rates of bird flu, so more culling.

Inflation has run about 25% over the past 7 years, but wages have not jumped as high - unless you work in tech.

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Accomplished-Tell674@reddit

Keeping track of your purchases is cool, and I’m glad you were able to stay organized with your data and come to your conclusions.

Respectfully though, this is shit. Useful for you, horrible for literally anyone else. No brand names, quantities, or specifics. Vinegar alone caught my eye: what brand, what type, big of a bottle, I could go on.

Way too many assumptions and omitted data. I can appreciate the sentiment of what you’re trying to do, but coming in with half assed data and full assed conclusions is karma farming at best or blatant misinformation at worst.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

I had all of that down but assumed it was not needed by anyone else. So I redid another sheet. If you don’t like it, go on to another post or make your own.

No where did I say this was a “five year study”. I said I found the document this weekend (after forgetting about even doing it) and thought it would be interesting to see where today compares. You are being more of a dick than I am being a “karma farmer” (?) by making a relevant post about cost increases. Did someone pee in your Cheerios today?

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Accomplished-Tell674@reddit

Fear mongering then? “Everything is X more expensive today due to this anecdotal spreadsheet”

I left my comment here in the hopes that people who find this and maybe panic a bit, realize to take these numbers with a ginormous grain of salt; they are incomplete and unreliable, and ultimately unhelpful.

Also, I’ll call BS. Who redoes a spreadsheet (for fun) and makes the data worse? That just doesn’t make sense.

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Accomplished-Tell674@reddit

Building on my own comment instead of editing:

For anyone else interested in doing this, here is some crucial information to collect and organize.

Brand names, type/flavor/options, quantities/volumes, weight, organic vs non organic, average price (stuff fluctuates in the same month, not just year to year) small pictures might even be useful, region/state. I’m probably missing some too, but OP really missed with this “5 year long study”

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit (OP)

Sorry, I should have specified that. U.S., southeast Missouri.