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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 2994906" data-attributes="member: 18363">About $3 per gallon, about threefold what it was five years ago. I have. Not all have doubled, but all have increased noticeably. The minimum increase I've seen in all foods and drinks is an increase of at least 20-25% over the last four years. This is for basic things - bread, milk, etc. More "luxury" foods such as chips  and chocolates have about doubled, give or take perhaps 10%.  Five years ago I got a one bedroom apartment for $485 in a decent neighborhood. Now, as of this coming October, it will be $585. That works out to about a $1 increase every 18 days. There are better neighborhoods (often fenced in with their own pools, tennis courts, etc) that cost about 650-700 for a 1 bedroom apartment. But that would not be a fair comparison, as I imagine they have also increased by about a hundred dollars in the last five years - perhaps even $150, considering the extras. I bought my car from a relative when it was about ten years old, so I can't really say I know how much they have increaed (or not) in the last five years. I already mentioned that chocolates have nearly doubled in price in the last five years, and many others have kept up - probably more to increase profit margins, as I don't imagine sugar is becoming as "scarse" as chocolate (due to increased consumer demand, rather than decrease in supply). Coffee is under the same types of pressures as chocolate, actually, and its cost has similarly risen. About +50% from what it was 4-5 years ago.You forgot to mention the costs of clothing, shoes (I go through a pair every nine months or so.), and shipping for ordered merchandise (I work in that field - all costs went up shortly after last summer, and many locations decreased the number of shipments they receive per week (increasing the load of the other shipments received) - which in turn results in longer waiting times for the items to come in. A nice double punch: increased shipping costs and increased shipping time . . . .Gas prices are the main thing, though. Most foods really didn't increase all that much (maybe 10% over the prior 3-4 years) before last summer. Then I noticed some items jumping from $1.05 to $1.25 in only a single year's time. Not much, but compared to the fact that it took 3-4 years for it to move from $0.95 to $1.05 that's quite a bit of inflation. Luckily having a membership card allows one to get less "luxurious" items at close to reasonable price - especially if one plans carefully and avoids chips, chocolates, and a few other items that have IMO risen to unreasonable levels in the last couple years.</blockquote>

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