It's painful to see my dollars shrink in value. Recently I paid $17 for a small burger, a chicken sandwich and two milk shakes at Dairy Queen. The sandwiches were awful. A few days ago I paid $540 for a 20" chain saw. Luckily the saw performed well. A bottle of laundry detergent was $14 this morning. I'm glad I didn't have to fill my fuel tank. What a disaster.
So can I. It is possible that other Dairy Queen franchises may have lower prices, but I wanted to get a quick lunch with my wife the same day. The laundry detergent (Tide) is what my wife specifies. The saw (Stihl 192) is large and powerful enough to buck a tree that fell on my property. Its trunk was wider than twice the length of the chain bar of my Stihl 180C. Hence the need for a larger saw. I have owned chainsaws made by Mc Cullough, Echo, Husqvarna and a few others. None of them was sturdy enough to last long for me. This saw (Stihl 192) is my third Stihl, all of which have performed and lasted well. I recommend Stihl chainsaws, by the way. Short of a commercial saw ($800 to $2500) they are simply better than the others. But that saw was $375 only a short while ago. Enjoy the price hunt.
Stihls the best. Price seems about right to me, but I'll take your word that you found cheaper not long ago. I buy detergent when it's half price at the supermarket. I've always considered it to be an absolute rip-off at full price. I concede that food prices are gone through the roof.
Not sure why the image isn't showing for me, but it is of a gallon of Clorox bleach for over $7. Wasn't long ago, same gallon was less than $1.00.
Glad we got together on something. Whey my wife wants laundry detergent she doesn't want to wait for a sale. I'm just a typical consumer dealing with high prices just like every other typical consumer.
Yes, I get the picture here I think we would need a more definitive analysis, but I don't think things have gone up 50%, as implied by your chainsaw purchase. Let's hope your Fed stops pumping more money in for a while. By the way, you know that there's an unstoppable recession going to happen, no matter what, right?
From what I've seen, prices have gone up 20 to 25% over the last two and a half years. (I guess that works out to be 9% yearly inflation, 22.5 divided by 2.5) The supply chain shortages that existed before have mostly ended, but the prices have not come down yet. This suggests most of the cause of the overall price increase was not the supply chain. Either that or the supply chain initially was the cause, but afterwards the effects of inflation started being felt, so the prices did come down.