What goods have the biggest price increases in your area due to inflation? What goods are least affected by inflation?

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1. From what I’ve noticed,gasoline and cars have risen the most in price. What hasn’t gone up nearly as much is the cost of services, as opposed to goods.

2. Precooked pizza and chicken wings

   On my walk home it’s wild to see the prices advertised as a “good deal” by all the chain pizza places

3. My local grocery store had $1 Gatorade bottles for as long as I can remember and now they’re $1.49

4. Electricity rates have doubled in the last 3 months.

5. Gas, cars, energy.

   Aside from those, meat. Chicken specifically but it changes weekly it seems

6. Gas, propane, cars, energy in general, beef… I’m sure there’s others but that’s just what comes to mind.

7. Gas, chicken wings, eggs

8. Gasoline by far the highest (though “shrinkflation” hides some of the goods prices) services are not nearly as impacted yet.

9. Food is the most in terms of pace and surprise. Gas was expected if one paid attention and takes the time to understand the context. Imo gas prices did not go as high as I expected or as quick. All the cards were in the right place gas prices to be way higher than they are today.

   Tech items seem to stagnate or drop. Cleaning supplies seem to stablize and somewhat drop.

10. Outside cars and gas, I’d say eggs. They had almost a 500% price increase at one point, almost $5/dozen. They have since cane back down to $2. However, bird flu kinda played a role in that. There have been some goods that have also cheapened in price such as outdoor furniture and some electronics. However, that’s mostly due to stores over buying and expecting a big rush for those items. However, due to the state of the economy that never happened.

11. Food and gas. Gas is 6 times higher than it was during the pandemic. More than 25% of my income goes to gas now. The least change is quarter arcade machines. They’re still a quarter.

12. Gas and housing (rent and housing prices) costs have gone up the most around us. Personally, I’ve noticed it more at the grocery store because I do my household’s weekly grocery shopping, and we don’t drive much due to WFH.

13. Gas prices have come down sharply in the past few weeks but they were as high as I can ever remember them being for several months until now. I had never in my life had to pay almost $80 to fill up my 13-gallon gas tank until now.

    New and used cars also had a big price spike. I was not in the market for a car, but out of curiosity, I browsed the website of the small dealership where I bought my used, four-year-old Audi at the start of 2020 for $15,000. I was shocked to see that older used cars of lesser quality were going for more than that. It was a terrible time to be in the market for a new car. Thankfully I dodged that bullet.

    This isn’t really a “good” but interest rates are also rising rapidly as the Federal Reserve tries to counteract inflation. Again, I managed to dodge that bullet by buying a house and getting a mortgage in January of this year. I have benefitted a lot from lucky timing.

14. Gas, rent/housing, and beef.

15. Appliances… there’s a fridge I’ve been monitoring, as ours is now 20 years old and I want to know what the replacement will be when it dies. That fridge used to sell for $1800 and drop to $1500-1600 during sales throughout the year. Now the same model is $2400, down to maybe $2200 during sales. Similar percentage jumps in the dishwashers, ranges I’ve been tracking, too… Would cost us more than $1000 more to replace the appliances in our kitchen today than 2 years ago — about $4000 vs. $3000.

16. Gas and beef.

17. Our energy bills are just awful. And groceries are getting ridiculous.