I've started to feel a little unmoored every time I go to the supermarket.
Without really trying to and without really realising it, I've always had a background awareness of what the things I commonly buy tend to cost. Things might creep up over time, but generally, week-to-week the price on the shelf under each product felt familiar to me. I might not have been able to quote the price of a packet of pittas or a litre of UHT or a cucumber off the top of my head, but there was a kind of background awareness going on. If a single item was suddenly a lot more expensive, I'd notice because the price felt unfamiliar and strange — it's not that I knew every price to the penny, but prices would generally feel about right.
Now, when I go in the supermarket, I feel I have no real idea what to expect things to cost, there's no comfortable feeling that the prices on the shelves will be more or less what I think they'll be, none of the numbers feel familiar and I'm having a hard time deciding whether I think each item is worth what they're asking because my points of reference have all disappeared.
It's like… it's a bit like I've been a kid at the same school for years, and until recently I knew my cohort, their faces were all familiar, and occasionally there'd be a new kid but it was manageable. But now, every time I go, it's full of strangers.