So you're hip to the fuckery? That's why we been saying real inflation was in the double digits. Folks laughed at us, but the food prices don't lie. Rents up like crazy and homes also inflated, but hey 'muh 8 percent'.
Just an example. I remember 3 years ago getting coke zero for 3.89 for a 12 pack. Now it is 6.89. Plenty more examples of fuckery as you pointed out. But hey, FED says food prices are too unstable to count in the CPLie.
Folks tried to tell people in 2020 that all that 'free' money would do this. Shit rolls down hill. Most these folks didn't make money in the inflated market during the bull run.