I don't live on the ground there but I do buy a few parcels to help me through the lean times I go through both by design and circumstance and things are getting more expensive and smaller. Chocolate is one of the most obvious ones and also tins of stuff. It's happening out here too. For instance, a packet of minced beef that used to be 220g is now 150g. I buy Tesco's tinned new potatoes here and though the size is still measly, the price has gone up considerably. It seems to be many things and likely here and there.

When people/experts say that there is no inflation, I question what they mean. Surely you cannot judge it on stuff you buy every 5 years like a phone as compared to the real stuff you need to eat daily or the place you need to live in. Of course there is inflation and it isn't that 0.5% nonsense. I am not an airy fairy person and do not buy a mobile phone every 6 months or a new gadget every payday. I live in the practical normal world where people have to watch their money and in that world there is real and obvious inflation. Maybe in the cooked GDP world of drugs and hookers, people don't notice, but on main street in Joe Blogs land, I think it is real.