Two points:
One, the government lies all the time.
Two, so what if grocery prices really did fall a little? That’s like saying there was 20 gallons of water now flooding into your basement each hour. But now it’s only 18.
Hurray!
More like 20 gallons an hour is now “ONLY” 19.96 gallons an hour. 0.2 of 1% isn’t even measurable in terms of groceries across the country. There is such a thing as significant figures and this one isn’t.
It is an iron law of Economics that the ordinary course of events for prices generally, is to go down. Not up.
Nobody knows this, unless they have studied Economics, real Economics, not the phony baloney “expert economist” professional con artists shilling for the crooks.
Even the “2% targeted inflation rate” you’ll hear about is absolute robbery over time in context. Hidden theft. In 20 years they’ve stolen half of your purchasing power.