how bout dog food in your area?
prices have doubled/tripled down here (Chile) …
we have several big dogs and go through (guessing) 30-40kg x month …
ouch … that stings!!! and we had to really downgrade quality wise
Dog food I can’t answer, as we are a cat and snake household. 
Cat food, has gone up roughly 33% for the brand we buy, so I’ll shut up about it compared to the double/triple you’re getting.
May your pups give you love and never know how much you have to pay for the good stuff.
Add another for eggs, not milk nor cheese nor butter, just eggs. We use very few eggs so it really isn’t much of a problem, it’s just the one I noticed the most. We paid $1.69 for 18 in November, last week they were $5.45 a dozen.
I suspect this must be an avian flu issue in the USA. We have it here in the UK and it is affecting poultry farming and prices but not to the degree that many USA dopers are reporting.
May I ask where shrimps in the USA come from? I ask because in the last years the price of shrimps has come down significantly in Europe, but so has quality: most are farmed in former mangroves in Ecuador, Vietnam and other 3rd world countries with unappetizing growth supplements, hormones and antibiotics added to their feed. Wild catches are still very expensive (70 €/kilo for biggish ones from Argentina last time I bought them before Christmas, when they are more expensive anyway). Both frozen, of course, you can hardly get fresh fish in Berlin. Cheap shrimps are so cheap and common today that they have almost completely displaced the good and expensive stuff out of the market, you only find good stuff in speciality delicatessen stores! Same thing happened with salmon about twentiy years ago, btw, the “culprit” then was Norway, followed closely by Scotland and Ireland.
And yes, prices are up here too, I reckon by 30% accross the board compared with three years ago (before the pandemic). No concrete data, just my subjective feeling.
The term shrinkflation has been coined for that in Europe, don’t know whether the other, perhaps the more prevalent meaning of shrink in the USA (New York? Woody Allen? Maybe a myth…) prevents the use there, I am surprised nobody has written it yet in this thread.
We bought a shrimp salad recently, minuscule shrimps from the North Sea (peeled in Morroco, it’s cheaper there) mixed with majo and stuff. Both me and my wife had the distinct impression that the proportion of the ingredients had shifted towards a lot more majo, a lot less shrimp. We agreed on calling it shrimpflation. Next time I will make the salad myself again to get the proportions right.
i do most of the shopping via instacart and even with the markup from doing so I’ve noticed the same thing you have …before the pandemic every other week coca cola or Pepsi eas 3-4 12 packs for 12$ sometimes even less like 4 for 9.99 and 2 liters would go between 89 and 1.25
Now the only soda you’re getting at those prices is store brands or 2nd tier brands like Shasta,RC or faygo
Believe it or not, I used to be able to get brand-name bread at dollar tree for ,99 … they haven’t had bread in weeks here or a lot of brand-named stuff like they used to because places aren’t having the "distressed sales"like they used to
When I was talked into getting an EBT card for food I was getting 90 a month and we just added it to the budget Now I get 200 and I can spend that in one trip to aldis
A dozen eggs was part of what I picked up today. Premium store-brand free-run large brown eggs, the kind I particularly like, were CAD $6.59 a dozen (USD $4.90). There were some other eggs with high-falutin’ credentials like “organic omega-3 free-run” that were $7.50 or more a dozen.
I don’t actually consume enough eggs for the cost to matter. They’re good to have around and last a long time in the fridge.
I went to our local, small (4 registers), always pricey market, Its in a fairly wealthy beach town. There are some major chain markets not too far away but all I needed was eggs for breakfast. $8.10 
for a dozen extra large “cheap” brand. Beat that! Needless to say, no omelets that day.
On the other hand, Scotch seems to have remained about the same. $30 +/- for a handle of Famous Grouse. So if you can get by on scotch and pork chops, you’re in good shape.
On the topic of dog food, I can’t get the cheap store brand any more, it’s disappeared. A guy at the store explained to me that all the dog food comes from the same place, so they just stopped putting some of it into the cans with the store brand label, and thus can sell it for more.
this is the first I’ve heard of it but I am not keeping up with any news of late.
are the issues the same as when I first heard of bird flu? I read this book for free online but now I don’t see that option. it’s been awhile, but I remember being horrified.
As for the OP: really bad is how grocery prices are. it used to be, at least you could get unhealthy food cheap. now even junk food is expensive.
I have read / seen the term before even in the US, but was avoiding it because I didn’t want to type out an explanation like you had too. 
Laziness FTW. But it’s freaking everywhere, on almost any pre-packaged food, and in many cases, without any labelling. But it started even before the pandemic and inflation, both of which turned up the trend to 11.
Reminds me of some “advice” I got from a hiker. For extended trips into the backcountry he carried (he said) hardboiled eggs and gin. Eggs because they’re pretty complete nutritionally. Gin so you don’t mind you’re eating nothing but eggs too much.
Shrimp is big business in my home state of Louisiana, right on the Gulf of Mexico.
Even with the advantage of being a local product, packaged shrimp from overseas is often cheaper than local packaged shrimp in our local groceries. Not a night-and-day price difference, but enough to make some shoppers chose the imported shrimp. The packaging doesn’t always make the distinction clear at a glance, either.
Just to add another data point to cauliflower pricing, I noticed heads at the local Kroger going for $3.49. I’d have to be in a real cauliflower state of mind to pay that much.
I took a look around at the grocery this evening (a different one from the Trader Joe’s mentioned below) and noticed red bell peppers were $2.99/lb while orange and yellow ones were $3.99! A quick glance at apples, pears, tomatoes and oranges showed about $1.49-1.99/lb, kinda high. On the other hand, large avocados were 2/1 and asparagus & cauliflower were .99/lb.
The ones I got for New Year’s were bulk from a seafood case and didn’t mention the country of origin.
However, I just returned from a grocery store (Trader Joe’s, somewhat of a specialty store) and made a point to check the frozen shrimp(s). Plain cooked and shelled were from Indonesia and in three difference sizes, $10/lb. I didn’t notice if it said wild or farmed. The smallest ones were called medium, 71-100/lb which seems pretty small to me. They also had these from red shrimp from Argentina, more expensive and raw but seasoned and, I guess, a more premium variety.
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/argentinian-red-shrimp-with-ginger-garlic-butter-070359
Shredded cheese-3.19
Eggs-3.79
Strawberries-4.19
Powerade-.99
Underwood chicken spread-2.49
Charcoal has doubled in price over the last year or so.
Yes. Prices are going up and package sizes are shrinking.
Bazinga!
I gave no idea why that posted (and quoted) so weird.