My toothpaste at walmart is $1 for a 6.5oz tube. My old shampoo is currently 88c for 12oz. The one I switched to - nioxin, is $20 for 16oz.
Things at the grocery store are dirt cheap in the US compared to any country in Europe. And the salaries are more. Unless we're talking Ukraine and friends, where carrots and potatoes are pretty much free (while meat is of lower quality and higher price). But they're definitely much, much cheaper than where you are. Hand-trimmed chicken breast, without the rib meat, is $2/lb. Electronics - your price number in EUR is our number. But in USD.
source: I have been to every EU country for work, and lived in several long-term. And am originally from Europe.
Grocery and basic goods prices can vary significantly around the US. I live in a rural area where groceries are expensive as hell, in part because a european-owned supermarket chain has been buying up property that could be used for grocery stores, slapping deed restrictions on it that make it unusable for a grocery store, and then putting it back on the market.
Meanwhile I go on vacation to another rural area and groceries are cheap as hell...
It's a wide-spread tactic in the grocery industry.
Likely, prices are high because population is super low, and people can buy real cheap at farmer markets where they just sell direct. European grocery stores buying up property in some rural area? That's called a conspiracy theory - blame problems of low population and no easy highway access, because we refuse to vote for taxes that pay for infrastructure on those scheming socialists an ocean away.
https://www.google.com/search?q=supermarket+chain+buying+pro...
Next time when your personal incredulity finds something unbelievable, instead of assuming you must be right and the other person is wrong, just try a simple google search.
In my area property is constrained and in high demand so deed restrictions that only block one industry don't inhibit sales much.
Our population is not "super low"; our county has a third of the population of the largest city in our region of the US.
> people can buy real cheap at farmer markets where they just sell direct
Just because I said "rural" doesn't mean there's farmland.
So unless you can post a source of your claim - euro grocer pissing away millions by devaluing rural properties, the search link you posted so far quite literally proved you wrong.
https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/products/boundary-road-bread-b...
$20 for 8 special dietary hamburger buns. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Low-Carb-Hamburger-Buns-Great-Low...
88 cents for 8 hamburger buns. yes, eight store brand buns for under a dollar. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Hamburger-Buns-11-oz-...
"That blue race car has a low suspension making it hard to drive on the streets."
"Wrong, the car is a navy color, very misleading example."
Yes, the most expensive at the walmart physical store are $7-8 for 8 after tax. The point of the example is that 60 buns are a hundred bucks. The guy never said how many buns he bought. There are 8 per package, he could have bought 3 boxes. The example is that not given quantity the price could be anything, and the OP's post where he gives a total for an unknown quantity or brand of anything, is not useful to support a claim that prices went up.
Buying food from third parties online is not the same as in store.
If that 28 buck cost stems from all his ultrapremium/expensive brands, that's on him, not inflation.
- Shampoo: ~8oz
- Pack of burger buns: 6 pieces
- Ground coffee: bag of 2 pounds
- Chocolate bar: probably the same as everywherehttps://www.carrefour.fr/s?sort=productSimpleView.pricePerUn...
So that's definitely realistic.