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Measuring Amsterdam food price inflation over 11 years with my own data

Sept 2024

While visiting Amsterdam in 2013, I kept receipts for foods that I bought, and I recorded the prices of a couple items that I didn't buy. I was mainly shopping at an Albert Heijn supermarket.

Today, that chain makes their prices available online, so a rough comparison is possible between 2013 prices and 2024 prices.

While many food items' prices have increased a lot, not all are quite as bad as you might expect. That said, it is known that 2022-2023 did see a large general inflation spike in the Netherlands, up to 18%.

Yet between 2013 and 2024, there were also many months when inflation fell to zero and a few months when it went negative.

Annual CPI increases in the Netherlands:

2013 2.5%
2014 1.0%
2015 0.6%
2016 0.3%
2017 1.4%
2018 1.7%
2019 2.6%
2020 1.3%
2021 2.7%
2022 10.0%
2023 3.8%
2024 forecast 2.9%
Cumulative: 1.35X or 35%.

That's CPI, so food is just one component.

My data, which consists of prices for a very limited selection of foods that excluded dairy, meat and bread, is an increase in food prices of 55% over 11 years.

Measuring USA food price inflation over 2 years with my own data

Aug 2024

I recently discovered that I have receipts from food delivery orders that I made back in 2022.

It was trivial to bring up the current prices for the same items, so what does one see when comparing 2022 prices to current August 2024 prices?

From my set of products that I bought between June 1st and August 1st 2022, the average food inflation between then and August 2024 is 14%.

My data

Most white-collar job ads decreased on Indeed over the past 2 years

Jan 2024

Source: Indeed

Biden regime pushes for disastrous privatization of public water supplies

Sept 2023

In general, privatized water leads to increased prices and decreased quality. Biden's expert on the matter is a Goldman Sachs director.

Source

Electricity prices per kilowatt hour in the US in 2021

Jul 2022

It was most expensive here:

It was the cheapest here: Source:

U.S. Energy Information Administration

State	Cents per kilowatt/hour
Hawaii	30.31
Alaska	20.02
California	19.65
Massachusetts	19.06
Rhode Island	18.44
Connecticut	18.32
Vermont	16.34
New York	16.11
State	Cents per kilowatt/hour
Idaho	8.17
Wyoming	8.25
Utah	8.34
Oklahoma	8.52
Nevada	8.58
North Dakota	8.65
Washington	8.75
Louisiana	8.82

Median Home Price of New Homes Sold in United States 1963-2017

Jul 2020

Here's a quick graph showing the median home prices for the entire USA for the last 55 years, based on this data source. It is adjusted for inflation using the CPI inflation calculator.