Utilizing the Wayback Machine, we investigated whether or not pet meals costs have elevated by evaluating costs on the identical retailer web sites in January 2025 with these in February 2026. We have been a bit of stunned at what we discovered.
Merchandise have been chosen based mostly solely on discovering information on matching web sites, historic document and current day.
Surprisingly, half of the cat meals researched confirmed a drop in worth, solely one among 6 merchandise noticed a worth enhance.
Solely the moist cat meals we researched confirmed a worth drop.
With canine meals, we discovered one thing completely different. Not one product had a worth lower, 50% of the canine meals researched confirmed a worth enhance.
With canine meals, worth will increase included each moist and dry meals. Hill’s pet meals worth remained the identical for the dry meals however elevated for the moist meals.
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