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[quote=Anonymous]Varying factors. I'm 69 years old and last night was reminiscing with a friend about buying cheese for 50 cents a pound when we were in college. Over my adult lifetime I've experienced normal inflation with upward creep and also the sudden leaps. Eventually you readjust your sense of what's the "normal" price for anything, but I have yet to reconcile myself to oranges and grapefruit being sold by the piece instead of by the pound (I think maybe 5 years ago or so?). Besides the package shrinkage (probably showing my age just because ice cream in half gallon cartons was what I was used to until the jump in fuel prices during the Gulf War).

I was passing the grocery store section that has cream cheese and just happened to notice (I don't buy it) that those tubs of whipped cream cheese, I think only 8 ounces, were marked around $8 a tub.

Some of the big leaps in recent years have been because of:
bird flu, which shot eggs up to crazy prices until fairly recently, which means processed items that contain them got higher. 
fuel costs
labor shortages

some months ago dairy farmers weree dumping milk because of low prices, but store prices were higher than ever

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