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I'm in the UK and I have really noticed in the last few months that life is getting more expensive - eating out is 10-20% more, groceries are up 10-20%. Now th
by ed_elliott_asc 5y ago
I'm in the UK and I have really noticed in the last few months that life is getting more expensive - eating out is 10-20% more, groceries are up 10-20%.
Now this is partly brexit, partly covid, partly we stopped doing anything for months - I can see people getting a bit of a shock when they realise that everything has gone up (the RPI in the UK is the average cost of a set of items in a basket and this confirms it, massive drop last year and now higher than the trend line shows it should have been: https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/timeseries/j5c4/drsi https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindust...) - will be interesting to see if this drops down again next year
- iso1631 5y agoOur grocery bill is actually down over 18 months, and we rarely eat out but I comments how surprisingly cheap it was yesterday. RPI is not used by anyone as a serious measure of inflation, CPIH is the standard used and it's been really low for donkey's years