Back in 2013, I started a habit on Saturdays of buying fresh German brotchen via my corner bakery in the village. Cost at that point for the set number? Around 5.75 Euro. Somewhere in the spring of 2015, the 'chief' raised the cost level to 6.26 Euro. There, it stayed, until this morning.
This morning, she raised the bag rate again, to 6.97 (an 11-percent rise). Yeah, it's a bit hefty and I seriously doubt that it'll go back down.
My wife (German in nature) tracks grocery prices, and escalations. There's virtually nothing left now that we put into the cart.....that hasn't risen at least 5-percent in the past year....some items are 40-percent more than they were a year ago.
She got into a discussion in the car yesterday...upon leaving the grocery....over my favorite orange juice. Via some newsletter she gets monthly....this orange juice company announced the standard contain of 1-liter will go away in two months, to a .75-liter liter....basically selling for the same price as the 1-liter container. So I'm getting a quarter less in juice, for the same price. I guess it's supposed to be confusing enough so I don't notice the change.
Just something you have to get used to.
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Not sure about Germany, but here in Canada, they got quite crafty at this game...the suppliers are now using the same packaging in size but lessened the quantities of the merchandise that they put in them so in your example the carton of juice is still the 1 lt in size, but the quantity inside is 75 per cent. Originally i thought it was a mistake, then i found that other brands were doing the same thing... quite a disappointment
This gets pointed out in Germany all the time with potato chip bags. You have a normal bag, with 20-percent lesser chips in it from a decade ago.
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