food only gone up 0.6% is a laugh. Anyone who buy their own food know its gone up way more than that. I’m guestimate its about 10-20%
So does anyone else who actually buys food in the real world. Washingont “elites” excluded by definition...
That .6% rise in food prices takes around 10% more out of my wallet now, and that is with dropping all major brands in favor of store brands and cutting out luxury foods that I had not considered to be luxuries until this year. I am sure that the food basket used to calculate the food CPI is reshuffled each time to remove those items that are rising the most and to include items that are falling in price because no one buys them any more due to the increased expense of food generally. Or they just lie about it.