{"id":879,"date":"2025-02-04T23:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:41:30","slug":"tracking-chewy-prices-and-pet-food-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/tracking-chewy-prices-and-pet-food-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewy Price Tracker and pet food inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The inflation you usually read about is for grocery food products like eggs and milk, but I was curious what it looked like for pet food as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out the same kind of inflation is present in pet food as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used <a href=\"https:\/\/pricelasso.com\/supported-stores\/chewy-price-tracker\">PriceLasso to track Chewy prices<\/a>, which is one of the most popular online pet food stores. I just had to add individual products and it price tracked for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I found was actually very similar to this <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/CUUR0000SS61031\">chart by FRED<\/a> for pet food prices (though mine included more luxury food brands, and was specifically for dog food).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1024x445.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1536x667.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png 1753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2020, prices to 2025 increased by 20%+. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidenote: inflation affects most product categories, but some more than others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inflation you usually read about is for grocery food products like eggs and milk, but I was curious what it looked like for pet food as well. Turns out the same kind of inflation is present in pet food as well. I used PriceLasso to track Chewy prices, which is one of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}