Have you noticed how your cash is buying fewer items than it did a ~year ago? My daily item costs are WAY up, which is really just saying the value of the cash is WAY down.
I don't know if it's because I buy different things from you, or if I live in a different place from you, or what. But my andecdote is that no, I'm not paying more for stuff than a year ago.
Do you actually track spending or just don’t notice?
It sounds as if your basket of goods is different from mine. Most of the examples on that Wikipedia page are sugary foods, which I just don't buy a lot of.
Do you? The BLS does, and their inflation numbers for food is 3.5% YOY.
A 24pk of Rx Renal cat food went from 5.8oz to 5.1oz[1]. I buy two packs at a time and what used to cost $113.76 is now $114.72 Effectively they're charging me an extra buck to keep 33.6oz (5.7 old-cans / 6.5 new-cans) of cat food from me.
[1] https://www.chewy.com/royal-canin-veterinary-diet-renal/dp/2...
If you are trying to lose weight, shifting away from sugary & processed foods & meat to high-quality fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc. can definitely increase your grocery bill while reducing your weight in a very healthy way. Food bill may go down by going directly to farmers, but travel & fetching costs increase.
Or, it could be an unhealthy shift towards more processed foods, costing more in factory work & transport, and you are seeing real inflation.
So, insufficient data to indicate inflation or not.
I had a fixed grocery budget, and over months, I lost weight due to a caloric deficit. Literally I bought less food with the same money and the result was just over a pound a month lost .
That is the data we need to confirm that you're seeing inflation. Curious where you are located that you are seeing these numbers?
I live in a city an hour away from Toronto, Canada.