User blog comment:GreyStark/MERRY CHRISTMAS!/@comment-4023909-20161225002828/@comment-25936766-20161225140441

I'll give you guys an idea of how things are now, since I went to buy food yesterday. Previously, most vegetables, in the market I bought them (which is the cheapest I know), costed around 790bsf per Kg at the bare minimum, with some others costing some more. Some, like tomatoes and eggplants, were worth almost 2000bsf per Kg.

In nearly every other market I saw, everything was between 900bsf and 2000+bsf, and each had individual prices, unlike the previous one that kinda divided multiple ones under the same price.

Now, in the cheapest market, everything is 990bsf. Some, 1300bsf. Others, 1800bsf. The majority of things people eat, like potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, eggplants, and so on? 3000bsf xKg. Note there's no scarcity of those things at all, and they're 100% natural, not made with any artificial stuff.

In other places, other stuff has also increased in a worse extent. Eggs went from around 4400bsf per board, to around 8400bsf at best. What little sugar you manage to find is over 10.000bsf. A bottle of milk is around 2000+bsf. And while bread is still cheap (though it costs more now too), it's more rare because flour also got a price increase on top of being already rare. (Result, many are forced to buy bread that is not the cheap, simple kind, and is far more expensive).

Depending on what job you have, your salary may be around 20.000bsf, maybe more for jobs of great pay like engineering and medicine, usually paid every 15 days. A salary increase would not fix anything because it means everyone has to pay everyone more, so prices must increase to not lose anything.

If it wasn't for December being the time of the year everyone's practically gifted extra money, we would likely be dying of hunger. My family barely managed to make fries and a (very improvised, as we lacked ingredients) cake, plus a chicken that we had bought long in advance.