High Inflation
It began during the pandemic when the containers had to sit on ships in the ocean then when they got stacked and left at the port for months awaiting people who would move them. Then there was a shortage of containers.
So the prices all went up as the packaging got smaller. There's a war in Ukraine, the breadbasket of the world. The Yangtze rive has dried up. The Rhine river is almost too dry for ocean liners. The Colorado river is nearly dry. The California crops haven't water.
There have been large earthquakes in the pacific rim lately. Typhoons have been hitting Southeast Asia and Japan. A third of Pakistan is under water.
We have passed three of the seven or nine tipping points for climate change. The Thwaites glacier ice shelf hasn't collasped yet, but it will soon. The permafrost is melting and methane is being released.
There is a pipeline that goes under the great lakes and has not been improved for 75yrs or something. The great lakes are the only fresh water the lower 48 are hoping to pipe water through for the droughts.
There are less items on the shelf at the grocery store. We buy stuff not many people buy, so most of our stuff is there all the time. But the plantain chips have doubled in price at home, but in Toronto, they were still a dollar. HOwever the figs were tripple the price they ar at home. We will stop at another Dollarama on the way home from the temple.