Does it track how prices compare to prices last week or last month? I believe that would relate more to the topic at hand. When I shopped this week, I bought the same coffee at the same store as I have done for the past few years. The price was 20% higher than last week. The price of bananas stayed the same. We can draw no conclusions from our individual shopping at this point.
I have no idea what you're trying to say about checking other stores, but don't bother elaborating. My past orders aren't stored by price at my store. And I have no reason to check other stores just because a single item increased by a couple dollars. My point that was some prices went up, some didn't and no conclusions can be drawn at this time.
Walmart doesn't sell lumber. Or potash - THAT one is going to hurt when the increased cost to farmers is passed on. Canada produces almost all of the potash used in the US. You don't live in NY, Minnesota, Michigan or Vermont, so increased power prices won't touch you. Yet. When current stocks of Canadian oil are exhausted, the new stuff is going to sky-rocket. Aluminium? The US doesn't HAVE bauxite, there are no ore deposits in the nation at all so you have to import it. Google the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. My God, doesn't ANYBODY study modern history?
Smokescreen. In 2023 a grand total of 23kg of Fentanyl was seized on the Canadian border. Its coming in from Mexico and by boat, most of the Fentanyl produced worldwide is made in China.
I just want to point that Minnesota farmers and manufacturers will be affected by higher energy costs and will most likely have to pass those costs on to consumers who may be outside of Minnesota. This includes computers, electronics, medical devices,
Particularly the guys who repair and maintain the radars. Anything with moving parts requires regular maintance, and an ATC without radar is working blind. Case in point - when a Swiss ATC had his main radar down and a Russian charter plane hit a cargo plane at 35000 feet over southern Germany. The backup radar never alerted him to the likelihood of collision, he was working alone and also trying to guide a late arrival into Friedrichshafen. 71 people died, most of them children.