LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 5 days agoWhat product price raise have you really noticed with cost of living going up?message-squaremessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squareWhat product price raise have you really noticed with cost of living going up?LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squarehera@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 days agoLiterally everything. Leaving supermarket with a basket full of food and you’ve spent £80. Co-op’s oat milk was 85p when I started buying it, now it’s £1.60
minus-squareLadyButterfly@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoFucking hell that’s a jump
minus-squareArdyssian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 day agoIf inflation is 3% per year, by the 25th year 1.03^25 = 2.09 ; everything costs double. But yeah if it doubled within a few years something’s wrong.
Literally everything. Leaving supermarket with a basket full of food and you’ve spent £80. Co-op’s oat milk was 85p when I started buying it, now it’s £1.60
Fucking hell that’s a jump
If inflation is 3% per year, by the 25th year 1.03^25 = 2.09 ; everything costs double.
But yeah if it doubled within a few years something’s wrong.