Understood. But do you know any single person that will say 'my groceries only went up by a few cents'?

I do not, hence my problem with the reporting.

For what is worth, my personal anecdote is different: my rent went slightly down (renewed in August, in Boston) and my grocery bill has not moved in a noticeable way (middle class vegetarian with Mediterranean tastes).

Also keep in mind that groceries, or rather food in general, only comprise in the neighborhood of 10% of the average household budget. So if we're just talking about food, if you're paying 50% more, that is just a 5% increase in your overall expenses.

And as far as your rent going up by 30%, that's offset by some people whose rent actually went down by a lot during the early pandemic when people were fleeing the cities and bargains were to be had. And some people who don't pay rent at all, but pay fixed-rate mortgages which will go up by zero percent over the life of the loan. So you can see how that could significantly nerf the total inflation affecting that household.

I would say that, for one. Recurring orders and receipt scanning make these kinds of comparisons pretty easy for me.

I live in Switzerland and a few cents seems accurate. A lot of the current increase I see is based on the bad summer harvest tho and less external factors.

Either it's a Swiss thing, or because we buy the majority of food semi-directly of organic farmers and prices haven't changed that much in this sector.

My groceries haven't gone up.

If your issue with the reporting of a statistic is that your personal anecdote disagrees with it, then you should probably look for more evidence.

I live in lansing and I’ve not noticed groceries getting more expensive in the past few years