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What are some goods and services that haven't been hit by inflaton?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (25015points) June 13th, 2022

Or have even gone down in price?

Not limited to just food.

Humor welcome:

For example Campfire bacon is $3.50 Canadian a pat for years and has stayed the same from Wholesale Club in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

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rebbel's avatar

Balloons.

smudges's avatar

I swear I don’t have any personal experience with this and I’m just guessing – prostitution?

JLeslie's avatar

I just bought several items online from Bealls. I had been in the store recently and bought some things, and then I received an email about a sale and just ordered more stuff. Almost everything was so cheap. Bathing suits were 40% off. I bought the exact same bathing suit cover up I bought a two weeks ago, because I like it so much, $16.80! I also bought some sandals. Those prices definitely are not up, but maybe as new merchandise comes in it will have higher price tags? We’ll see.

Some items at the grocery store are up and some aren’t. Gas is higher than I have seen so far though. Interestingly, there are barely any cars at the gas station near me, and the last two months there was a lot of cars every time I drove by. Maybe people will start curbing their travel now. I wish my discussion groups would all go back to 100% zoom again and lower demand for gas at the pumps. Some people go to three discussion groups a week. The exercise classes aren’t the same on zoom, but the lectures and discussions were fine on zoom. Also, maybe people who never pay attention to planning a lot of errands together so they use less gas, maybe they are doing better planning now. I usually try to not zig zag all over town.

Demosthenes's avatar

Graphics cards have come down in price recently, but that’s because they were so scarce the prices were at ridiculous levels. They’re one of the few things that have become more affordable since the inflation problems started.

seawulf575's avatar

Growing your own food.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Last time I checked the water bill the charge was still $2.54 per 1000 gallons.
(That is almost immorally inexpensive.)

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Our homeowner’s insurance dropped almost £300 in the last year. That is without making any changes to the policy. I have no idea why.

zenvelo's avatar

Lumber prices have fallen dramatically in the last nine months.

Memory’s cheap and getting cheaper. For the 1999 price of a 1 Gb memory card, you can get 256 Gig external drive.

SnipSnip's avatar

I just bought some maple syrup that hasn’t increased price in at least two years.

raum's avatar

@zenvelo I think lumber prices dropped because there was a crazy increase during the pandemic. But it’s still higher than it was prepandemic.

(We are assessing the cost of lumber to build a 4th of July parade float. Ouch.)

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