<<Can't do it. I keep seeing the creep everywhere except supermarket food where the effect is seen in a decrease in product moving discounts. >>
Please, go back to the supermarket again, and look, instead of what you always buy, look at those items people not from your region or ethnic background might buy and add a few produce items. The "normal" foodstuffs are well in line or as you have found, even falling in price, but some items are far higher. Tomatoes for one, 5 years ago, in a local supermarket I could buy tomatoes, in season for $.39-.59
now $.99-1.59 off season double that price range. Peaches this year were high as were plums, & chille peppers(a staple of our diet in the southwest) lower quality and double the ptice of last year. Pinto beans are up 15% over the price of only 5 years ago. Really go look, the increases are there, maybe just not in the items you are buying or the items you notice. Yes, that 15% increase in pinto beans can be offset by lower spud & (in some cases)rice prices, but sweet potatoes 20% higher in last 3 years.
Or at least that is what we are seeing.
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