Here's a cut-and-dry visual of inflation if there ever was one: the Everything 79-cents store on the Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township is now Everything 89-cents.
And while the increase is merely a dime on paper and seemingly not that big of a deal, that ten-cent increase represents an approximate 12-percent jump in prices.
Simply put, if you spent $7.90 for ten items there last week, you will now spend $8.90 for those same ten things this week. If you are trying to make every nickle and dime stretch as far as it can, your budget just got that much tighter.