But 2013 to 2019 was a stable period with few lifestyle changes and the trend was around 6% per year for my "basket of household items" with the occasional bumps of "milk just went up by a dollar at the local Food4Less lower tier grocery store." The largest inflationary food items I've seen have been meat and poultry.
The largest non-food inflationary items I've seen are gasoline and health insurance. Car insurance I cannot track due to a minor "at fault" accident adjusting insurance rates in 2018. Storage locker increases by around 4% per year. Household insurance increases by around 5% per year.
My life is only a single, but extensively tracked, data point. But "something seems screwy in the state of Denmark" to paraphrase Shakespeare.
P.S. I'm not in Denmark.
Do you also happen to have data from before the pandemic? What was the trend then?
I'm surprised by seeing everyone in the whole thread and the article talking about the last two years. The way I see it, both shrinkflation and "skimpflation" were already blindingly obvious way before pandemic, and looking at the stats from the last two years makes reasoning difficult because of, well, a global pandemic.