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I do a good deal of baking, and I buy a lot of my supplies from Costco. I also have spent a fair amount of time very diligently tracking my family's grocery exp
by mynameisash 4y ago
I do a good deal of baking, and I buy a lot of my supplies from Costco. I also have spent a fair amount of time very diligently tracking my family's grocery expenses. (I have a spreadsheet of almost 3 years of just about all groceries we bought.)
In 2019, I picked up 15 dozen eggs for $8.69, and the 5 dozen was $8.99 at that time. (There were times when they didn't stock the 15 dozen, so I had to opt for 5 -- a much more expensive $1.80/dozen but still reasonable.)
- coding123 4y agoSince you have done this, are you convinced inflation is what they say it is?
- mynameisash 4y agoAfter three years ending ~EOY'19, I stopped tracking all these data. (It turns out combing every grocery store receipt and manually typing, categorizing, and calculating the data takes a lot of time.) I can't say how my experience tracked or would have tracked inflation, but I can say that even before the pandemic, I did see wildly varying prices on things. Costco's large vanilla extract was once around $10 (though this was before my spreadsheet, so I don't have dates/exact prices). It was up to $35 in '18, then down to $30 a year later, and just a few days ago, I noticed it for a little over $20. But 25# of flour used to be around $6-7, and I bought a bunch the other day for ~$12. So some things up, others down.
- atwebb 4y ago> I picked up 15 dozen eggs for $8.69, and the 5 dozen was $8.99 at that time. Is there a typo?
- mynameisash 4y agoNo, those numbers are correct.
- mym1990 4y agoSo in 2019 15 dozen eggs were 30c cheaper than 5 dozen eggs?
- bobthepanda 4y agoCostco is also a special kind of store, where you pay an annual membership to get wholesale-like pricing.
- thatguy0900 4y agoCostco is a bulk grocer. You pay a yearly fee to shop at Costco, and in return you can get extremely good deals on bulk food and items.
- mym1990 4y agoYeah I understand that, I do shop there often. It took me a few re-reads to understand how relatively similar pricing for 15 dozen and 5 dozen eggs in 2019 at the same store helps to compare inflation measurements.
- DavidPeiffer 4y agoSummer of 2017 in small-ish town Iowa I was buying eggs at Aldi for $0.37/dozen. When I moved to a "large" Iowa town the price was suddenly around $0.55. I recently went to buy eggs at a higher end store and the only eggs available were cage free, but would have been less expensive than generic eggs.