Complaining about food prices (photo)

photo collage of 2 price stickers with differences of 10 months
Budennovsk, Russian Federation
January 15, 2016 7:14am CST
Economic sanctions, low oil prices, war actions in Syria, more than 50 cases of truck motorcade with humanitarian aid to Donetsk region (Eastern Ukraine) lead to high prices for everything here. Rate of inflation is officially 12.9 % Officially there was no adjustment for inflation in 2015 to any categories of workers. How did that influence me? Simple photo-proving report: I buy lemons every month on my way to the work. I add slices of lemons to my tea. In March 2015 I decided to put price stickers of a lemon on my old fridge. When i bought a lemon a couple of days ago and put a price sticker on the fridge again, i saw that i could track price changes of lemons in the shop (equals to price changes throughout the country). You can see on the photo that a lemon cost 111 roubles per kilo in March, and they cost 178 roubles this January! Price changing is more than 60% up only for 10 months! The same shop. The same lemons. AND IT DOESN'T MAKE ME HAPPY. Do you track food price changes in Your country? Any increasing prices for products in Your country?
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
15 Jan 16
Yes, I do, because they want us to believe that we have zero inflation, but it's not true. The price of the meat has almost doubled in two years. We pay lemon more than the price you pay in your country.
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AtypicalRussian
@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
15 Jan 16
right. you may pay 4 times more, but salaries levels are also different
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Marlina
@marlina (154131)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
Here in Canada, the beef prices are unbelievable!
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
15 Jan 16
@TypicalRussian I completely agree, especially in Switzerland the salaries are pretty high.
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Marlina
@marlina (154131)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
Yes, the price of foods here in Canada is really going up and up and our dollar is going down and down. Nobody is pleased about that.
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Lynn Proctor
@ThankyouLord (698)
• St. Petersburg, Florida
16 Jan 16
They said that there is little inflation right now. I think they lie. Prices in the store are ridiculous, and year after year I watch the price of everything (especially food) go up. I cannot afford fresh fish any more, so must buy a little frozen. Beef is horribly priced. So I cut it up in small pieces, or used hamburger and mix it with other things to make it go further. Even chicken is costly. I think we are all going to have to become vegetarians. But even then, a green pepper can run as high as $1.00 USD each.
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