Does everything really cost more? Find out with our inflation quiz.

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Does everything really cost more? Find out with our inflation quiz.

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Does everything really cost more? Find out with our inflation quiz.
Measuring inflation is one of the hardest jobs in the economy, and the past year has been a whirlwind for the price of goods. See how close you can get to price

[Warpy]

1. It doesn't cover the worst sort of infation: product shrinkage

From the half gallon of ice cream that's now a quart and a half to the parially filled containers of this and that (and no, I'm not talking about how chips settle in the bag) to toilet paper that leaves almost an inch on either side of the spindle, inflation has been hitting us hard for the last few decades. Corporations just thought we were too stupid to notice

[progree]

2. The CPI data collectors look at the labels and actually weigh the contents

It doesn't cover the worst sort of inflation: product shrinkage
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Corporations just thought we were too stupid to notice

It doesn't fool the CPI survey takers. But some people think they just pick up, for example, a medium can of XYZ coffee, look at the price, and that's it.