I can't believe someone here feels there is no increase in price in our groceries because they bought a little debbie for .35cents. What we used to spend for 2 weeks of groceries (around $200 -275) is now about 8 days worth. My son makes his judgements on work now (he is 16) on hours minus gas cost, and if the pay does not outweigh his expense by $10, he stays home. Lil S**t has been getting more hours since he started that. He works for a grocery store and would get called in for 2 or 3 hours, now he gets 4 - 6 hours. He said he had to reprice items in the store, he said the biggest was a $1 increase, but mainly .20 -.75 cent increases, the second time since he has been there, and that is 4 months now.
The question is what do you buy at the grocery store? I buy bottled water(gallong jugs, the stackable kind at wal-mart) and canned foods at a Buy-Lows.
I don't buy milk, I stick to canned vegetables, so for me, NO prices have not gone up. and if you're comparing todays prices with lets say ten years ago, be sure to factor in inflation!
A big reason oil and gas prices are hitting record highs is that the dollar is hitting record lows. Got it?
Oil is priced in dollars on the world market. When the dollar is weaker, foreign currencies are stronger, by definition. That means people in other countries can buy more oil for the same amount of money. So let's assume oil is $100 per barrel, and $100 is equal to 70 euros. If the euro appreciates against the dollar by 10 percent, then instead of 70 euros it will take only 63 euros to buy one barrel of oil. So that oil becomes cheaper to foreigners, and they can buy more.
As people in other countries buy more, demand rises, and it drives up the price in dollars, which, again, is how the price of oil is denominated on world markets. So in the United States it looks like the price is going up sharply, in dollars, while in other countries it's actually going up by much less or staying about the same.
So NO things don't cost "more" other than a weak dollar for a lame excuse. If you think prices are too high, then move to Canada, or to ecsape the possible NAU(north american union) do as Bill Gates did, euros baby!