[Organic Panic]

First, trust nothing from this administration.

Second, the CPI is a farce so laughable it is not to be taken seriously.

A box of granola bars use to have 6 bars, now 5.
Items that came in one pound bags now have 14 ounces.
Ice cream was 1/2 gallon.
Everything on the sorecshelves come in bigger boxes with less product while the CPI still counts it per box.

Real inflation since zero is at least 25% higher now than 2008.

[xzins]

Excellent point.

[1rudeboy]

The CPI is not calculated my package size. A dozen eggs is a dozen eggs. Shrinking the package size to 11 has no effect on the way the government calculates the number. It has an effect on you which is why it makes people confused.

[AJFavish]

I suspect that the unit pricing history is available for all of those products and more in the computers of the retailers. Somebody should do a study of a typical grocery cart of items and show the unit price increase over the last 6 years.