Has inflation caused you to change your shopping habits?

Not at all. My husband and I had to shop cheap brands while raising our children. I would do the multiple stores to get the best price. We did it for decades. Now that we live in a city with many international options and an amazing farmers market, we buy what we want. We buy the good local milk, cheese and eggs, even if it costs more.

We shop around. Groceries end up coming from like three places. Did not need to do that a few years ago

No, I’m fortunate. I just have myself to feed so I don’t have to worry about prices being up or down.

Yes. I now only eat 1 month out of 3.

Not much, I still refuse to shop at Walmart for various reasons, but we do buy off brands and sale items when possible.
We tend to stick to meat, veggies and fruit plus we garden to help others.

Of course we don’t eat out very much anymore, and tend to really pay attention to sales.

Yeah. I notice prices, and respond accordingly. Some things have gotten annoyingly more expensive at some stores, but not at others, and I’ve stopped buying them at the annoying prices, and buying them instead at stores I didn’t usually buy them at before. There are a few things I’ve stopped buying, and some other affordable things I’ve started buying (usually at other stores than the ones where I’ve stopped buying the overpriced things).

Not really. The most major change for me is that I eat out less. I never bought much in the way of impulse purchases.

@elbanditoroso Me too.

No, I usually shop for bargains ( like $21 worth of steak for under $13, today).

We order takeout just as often as before, but we try to order enough for exactly 2 dinners.

The only fast food I get is pizza delivered – but hell, for a large it can run you 30–40 bucks with tip! I rationalize that it lasts me for 3–4 meals.

All of my groceries are delivered from Walmart due to mobility issues.

Mostly no.

For about 6 years I have bought most of my packaged food at Walmart to save money, and a lot of my fresh produce I buy at Publix (supermarket). There is some crossover. If I’m in Publix I’ll shop around the store for sales or something I need right away so I don’t stop in two places in a day. In Walmart I buy some fruits and veggies, but sometimes the quality isn’t good and I don’t for those items. I use Walmart curbside pick-up about once a week, and go inside sometimes too.

The only change I made as prices started to rise in the last few years was for a very short time I stopped buying a few things that were extremely overpriced, like when a dozen eggs had gone up $3 temporarily, and some cuts of beef were insanely high, I refused to buy them.

Lately, a lot of prices at the grocery stores have come back down if they had gone up.

Eating in restaurants for the most part prices have stayed higher, but not everything is very high. A meal for me can be $6 to $40 at a restaurant, such a wide range.

I haven’t changed whether I go to a restaurant, but I usually only eat out one to two times a week.

Our local supermarket is so close we rarely shop anywhere else despite the price rises. We mostly buy fresh ingredients and eat cheaply but well. Since Covid we have almost stopped eating out, not because of the expense, but because we can often eat better at home and getting from the kitchen to the TV is less hassle than finding our way home through the dark wet streets.

I order groceries online from DoorDash, Instacart, and SkipTheDishes. I spend hours online adding and subtracting food items before the stores open.

The irony is that I join loyalty memberships and wait for online membership discounts from all stores.

When the weather is comfortable, I go in person to stores.