I think every country has been effected since Covid. In South Africa food prices have also shot up. We have a large % of the population that are on low incomes and they are struggling to buy even the most basic foods.

I'm much into price per kilogram (beeing german). There has been an increase. My only suggestion is: buy as local as you can afford to buy! If we loose our local shops: we'll pay twitce as as much in only a few years. (Plus the quality will surely lower quality!)

Some prices really increased massively, e.g. oil. My usual pizza went from 6€ to 11€. On the other hand my monthly expenses for food for years back stayed more or less constant. I always tried to buy cheap and I didn't change my habits much. I even started baking cakes nearly each week (I didn't buy some before).

Just bought a box of cookies from a well known german brand las week. The plastic was so obviously designed to fit fewer cookes than they could have packed into the box ... shrinkflation is real.

Also here in Italy prices have risen, even though it doesn't seem that steep. Also true that the average salary of a German is way higher than that of an Italian.

Just moved home to NZ after living in Germany for 8 years. NZ Food prices didn’t shock me as much this time as Germany prices had risen so much. Basics like cheese, milk and bread are cheaper in Germany but you can not compare as our dairy taste 10 times better in NZ and same goes with our beef. Fresh produce was hard to get around buying seasonally in NZ again vs being able to get strawberries all year round in Germany but I think our Apples, Capsicums and berries really have so much more taste in New Zealand. Recently been back to Germany for a visit and could not get over the price of coffee, it isn’t even good coffee or barista made & was being charged €5 for a small cup. Love Germany and do miss the food prices however inflation really has changed the cost of living around the world.

Wird schon fleißig die Einbürgerung vorbereitet? Gesetzlich ist fast alles durch, viele in meinem Umfeld haben jetzt ihre Bewerbungsverfahren eingeleitet.

Lol what the heck here in Canada, food is literally double to all of your listed price.

if wages here in Germany wouldn't have increased, it would be hard. I guess the majority had increasing wages, more than retirement pensions :-( ... however: food prices increased more (as shown). Ukraine war and Russia oil and natural gas embargo (and Covid), but as well the win of food companies increased

Minimum wage in Germany in 2017: 9.19 € Minimum wage in Germany in 2024: 12.41 € It increased by 31%.

And the year has barely started...

It would also be very interesting to understand your utilities, and how they have changed because they have pretty much doubled in the United States from 2020 until now

I think that what would be even more interesting is to note that the increases really happened in 2022 and 2023, and now continued in 2024 and probably the prices from 2017 until 2022 were relatively stable

i just gave some numbers for inflation in germany and new zealand, but maybe because i gave a link to my source, the comment was not published. thus now without a source: inflation in both countries was almost exactly the same 21.4% for those 6 years. (assuming 3.8% for new zealand in 2023 which had no data for that year yet)

Prices have gone sky high in Australia too. We have a duopoly of Coles & Woolworths that are making massive prophets. Aldi is quite a small player.

In Serbia prices are same or way more with salaries averaging around 700e per month. So.. u are good there, dont worry 😀

Canada has really expensive grocery prices

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This is a great video. I’m upset about the inflation. The government spent money it didn’t have during the pandemic, the measures, closing businesses to help protect elderly and the vulnerable has come at a price. If i was old or vulnerable i would never have expected or wanted young people to sacrifice education and close businesses for years to help protect me. But sometimes I also think it might be good if the west experiences more hardships so it learns the lessons it needs to learn about economics. And we already see that people are so fed up with the poor decisions being made that they are more interested in parties like the AFD. What a mess. I know an elderly couple who just ‘nach zahlung’ heating costs in over 3000 euros.

Doubt anything got cheaper in NZ either

5:54 That's per kilogram, of course.

According to some filthy rich people water is *not* a human right anymore. In case anyone thought it is. Because it isn't. If needed a human right will be declared a privilege.

Yep, United States too! It is ridiculous. The food here is poor quality and getting quite expensive. We also see "shrinkflation" smaller package and bigger price.

When we moved to Berlin in 2015, my husband and I needed 250e for groceries for 2 of us. Now we have one small kid and we need 650e + we eat at work and in the childcare 🫠