CPI & PPI do include food & fuel. Core CPI does not. CPI is just over 3%. Core CPI is at 2%.
The PPI doesn’t include fuel to the extent that fuel is really jacking prices up - in part, because of how fuel price increases are being billed to me.
Shipping companies now give me my bill with the “same” shipping cost as two years ago - some even three years ago.
What has been going up is the “fuel surcharge” on the bottom of the bill. I’d like to know for certain whether these pass-through fuel surcharges are actually being computed into the PPI, because what is being reported for PPI and what I see in my input costs don’t come even remotely close to congruence.