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It’s here I read it, hear it, and have seen some mostly in gas.
So tell us where have you seen it, for how long and exactly how much of a price increase have you seen?
Definitely gas prices, though this is a tourist destination and its the height of tourist season and gas prices are volatile anyway. Also seen a notable increase in grocery store receipts. What I buy every week to 10 days doesn't vary that much. Haven't bothered to itemize the prices of individual items down to pennies. There are 3 local restaurants I've started to get take out orders from over the past couple of years. I keep the menus in the glove box and order by phone while I'm doing errands. The newest menus show higher prices for my usual favorites.
The 200 local restaurants in our 'tourist town' are struggling to keep sufficient employees to maintain standard hours or even keep their doors open. Many have shifted to copies of menus where prices can be changed more readily than with laminated menus. The quickest path of restaurant increases with the least push-back seems to be in drink prices --- with 8-12 oz fountain colas now in the $3.50+ range.
Grocery stores have already been playing the same price/smaller container game for the past few years ... and are now raising prices on the smaller packages.
New cars also seem to be increasing quickly, due to lower availability of newer vehicles.
It's only going to get much worse, as the government increasingly treats 'trillions' like 'billions' ... and simply prints more paper money to offset any shortages in their 'vote fodder'.
The 200 local restaurants in our 'tourist town' are struggling to keep sufficient employees to maintain standard hours or even keep their doors open. Many have shifted to copies of menus where prices can be changed more readily than with laminated menus. The quickest path of restaurant increases with the least push-back seems to be in drink prices --- with 8-12 oz fountain colas now in the $3.50+ range.
Grocery stores have already been playing the same price/smaller container game for the past few years ... and are now raising prices on the smaller packages.
New cars also seem to be increasing quickly, due to lower availability of newer vehicles.
$350 for a fountain soda insane. Don’t see why that’s up so much.
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I don't see anything that could be considered inflation.
Gas here is still under $4, (just paid $3.47) and it always goes up in summer. The obvious one is real estate prices, but that's not inflation, it's simply supply and demand. The next is cars/trucks, but that's not inflation either, it's a shortage of parts. Restaurant prices are probably the closest to being a result of inflation, but again supply and demand is an influence, in this case a low supply of workers, so they have to pay more, and pass that additional cost on to us.
It’s here I read it, hear it, and have seen some mostly in gas.
So tell us where have you seen it, for how long and exactly how much of a price increase have you seen?
Rifle, pistol, and shotgun ammo has increased in price anywhere from about 50% to 300%... and that's if you can find it at all. Guns have increased in price about 30% to 100%.
Golf course prices for a round of golf have increased about 20% to 50%.
Building materials for a house have gone to the moon... and recently returned about half way to earth. Of course, if you're not considering building a house, that has no direct effect on you, but it sure has an effect on the selling price of existing houses.
Grocery prices have definitely gone up. We just had a grocery pickup and I noticed eggs were expensive. So looked online at the Walmart app and sure enough the same eggs we order are double the price compared to 6 months ago. Meat is noticeably more expensive. So I'll say generally grocery prices are higher.
Wood prices are up. Last November I had a shed built and the save agreed is a few hundred dollars more.
$350 for a fountain soda insane. Don’t see why that’s up so much.
I know you slipped and said $350 instead of $3.50 but I was on a riverboat cruise in St. Louis, Missouri one time, and it was so hot, I might have paid $350 for a fountain drink. Mark Twain and the mighty Mississippi.
A Chicago bears player said once getting off the plane in Miami that the heat makes cowards/quitters of us all, and he was right!
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