Food prices decreased in Switzerland from 2008 to 2021, is it your perception of your own food basket?

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1. > I started shopping at Aldi or Lidl more and more

   Imported foods are generally not produced to the same agricultural standards as here in Switzerland.

   Buying from Aldi or Lidl is an efficient way to support factory farming while at the same time making conditions worse for Swiss farmers.

   Aldi and Lidl also have their own products that don’t even meet lesser national standards than Switzerland has ==> https://www.haltungsform.de/

   It is important to buy food that is locally produced or else you will eventually lose your contact with the land.

2. We have also started to go to Aldi more, they have some good products, organic and even stuff I only find there (seitan, tempeh)
   Food prices definitely went up

3. I doubt this veeeery much.

4. I am worried about the inflation, but I have just the other day commented that I have not seen it on my grocery bills.
   I have seen the grocery bill go up since moving to Zürich though. Other than that not really.

   I refuse to shop in Aldi/Lidl as they agressively push their brands and I can imagine they put manufacturers in a less than ideal position. Plus I don’t appreciate their price-first culture. Maybe in Germany where they are actually cheep, but in CH it’s not worth it imo.

5. My “rule of thumb” for food pricing is: One Migros-Bag of groceries is 50CHF at Aldi or Lidl, 100CHF at Coop or Migros, 125CHF at Spar and 200CHF at Jelmoli or Globus. It’s quite accurate for the stuff I buy.

   Anecdotes aside, we had pretty much 0 inflation between 2008 and 2020. Imported foods probably became cheaper due to the francs appreciation. So I guess this is technically correct, though I doubt anyone who doesn’t do exact accounting notices a 1% difference over such a long period of time.

6. It seems totally stable

7. I doubt it. Most products had their package size reduced as well. My Anna’s Best pizza dough is smaller than before.

8. My wife is definately a Migros-kind, so that means that I am as well. What we joined is Saison Box. We get vegetables, fruits and eggs delivered direct from the farmer every Friday. For our family of 4 it costs 30 francs a week. The farm that delivers to us is now organic but not officially yet (takes seven years until they are allowed officially, I believe). I help support a small family and do something good for mine.

9. This month we received note of our annual salary increase, so I checked that against the measured inflation.
   In 2020 it was 0.4%, in 2021 it was 0.6%.

   So the inflation is nowhere near as bad as you see in other parts of the world like in the US.

   Anecdotally, I can confirm that I have seen a few specific items increase in price over the past year. For me personally, it was the mixed frozen berries at Lidl that went from 3.89 to over 5 CHF.
   I assume it’s similar for other select products so depending on what you buy you may feel the impact more. But as quoted, statistically the inflation is rather low.

   [source: BFS](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/catalogues-databases/press-releases.assetdetail.20584178.html#:~:text=Press%20release-,Swiss%20Consumer%20Price%20Index%20in%20December%20and%20annual%20inflation%202021,inflation%20of%20%2B0.6%25%20in%202021&text=04.01.,(December%202020%20%3D%20100)

10. I am poor, so I’m buying at Aldi. And yes I noticed some price reduction over the years, always in agreement with the Aldi’s idea of discount (0.05 CHF)

11. cheeseburger was 2.50 CHF, now it’s 3.10 CHF… that’s the only reference I can think of.

12. What? Prices increased according to other sources.

13. 2022 will be bitch please. Welcome back high prices:

    Well in the last ywars it’s been a downward spiral with the prices on the costs of the producers/distributors but corona gave them the perfect excuse to raise the prices and believe me they’ll take the opportunity to rise the prices.

14. No. the bill just increased. But thats just cause i ate more 😳

15. No it isn’t my perception.

    I can think of quite a few things were prices went up but not a lot of things where prices came down.

    My perception is:

    – Bread & Co -> more expensive

    – Honey -> more expensive

    – Cheese/milk -> don’t know

    – Fruits -> more expensive

    – Meat -> stayed the same

    – Sandwiches and stuff like this -> tendentially more expensive

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    Wondering what stuff they put in the “basket” to come to this conclusion.