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Re:The Smash and Grab of Kroger-Albertsons by Firmwarrior on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:07PM (#33267945)
Adding onto this a little: I was shocked at how volatile some food prices are, and how much some have gone up recently

https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

Depending on how you set your endpoints, you can basically come up with any number for inflation you want, from 1.7% to 20+%

I guess this is all well-understood and taken care of under the hood by processed food companies, though, since the Big Mac Index has pretty steadily held to an inflation level near the CPI

Re:The Smash and Grab of Kroger-Albertsons by jacobr1 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:56PM (#33268375)
The big mac index tracks labor costs as much if not more-so than wholesale food prices.
Re:The Smash and Grab of Kroger-Albertsons by lupire on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:04AM (#33273381)
Price of anything can be reduced to labor, energy, and scarcity as, you move up the supply chain.