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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 6276120, member: 27832&quot;]Certainly not around here (central NC). I do the grocery shopping for our family. There&#039;s <i>no way</i> that groceries in general have doubled in price since 2009. Not even when you count shrinking package sizes. &quot;Official&quot; inflation figures claim a 20% increase in general prices since 2009; I suspect <i>that</i> is low, but the real figure is nowhere near 100%.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, hey, look what I found: <a href="https://www.southernsavers.com/harris-teeter-weekly-ad-78/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.southernsavers.com/harris-teeter-weekly-ad-78/" rel="nofollow">A summary of sale prices for one of our regional grocery chains, circa July 2009</a>. Salad dressing, ice cream, cereal -- all about the same as they are now. Cherries on sale at $1.97 was a good deal, but they were just on sale <i>at that same price</i> a week or two ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a fee goes up 50%, that means it takes 1.5 times as many dollars. That means each dollar covers 2/3 of what it did previously -- it&#039;s lost 1/3 of its value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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