I have been shopping for quite sometime and never realize the price of individual items as used to notice the total bill and have never been in habit of checking my bills in detail. Today evening I realized how prices have changed.  Yes, after a long time I went to buy a few things from a normal old general store and paid in the old traditional manner..yes did not swipe the card .. paid in cash. So now milk is Rs. 24 / liter and mutton is Rs. 450/kg. My mind goes back sometime years when I used to grocery and general shopping for my family. The prices have gone more than 3-4 times, in just a span of 6-7 years.  Today's shopping gave me some really startling questions on many things. First, I am really really bad shopper, I do not check the prices and whether I have been billed properly. I do not realize how much money I spent on things which I could have easily avoided. And the most important one, how many people can afford these things ?