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i've been buying the same items (specific diet craze) from the same whole foods from 2009 to today.

my monthly cost on that alone jumped from $300ish to well into the $500.

it's mostly organic produce, a few meats, lots of seafood (which i grant that it has a very volatile market price but still)

So i'd say for quality quasi-essential products, it is even higher than that. probably because premium shops were keeping their profits a little lower because of the 2008-2010 crisis.