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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1358853, member: 22143&quot;]They in fact do this as a matter of policy.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a name for it, which I don&#039;t remember, but basically their policy is that if price goes up for a certain item, they will substitute a cheaper alternative.&nbsp;&nbsp; Their reasoning is that if prices go up, then people will switch from steak to hamburger so they change the index to reflect this.&nbsp;&nbsp; In otherwords, it&#039;s mostly useless except to make those in government look good and to limit payments to those who have an indexed payout to the CPI.</p><p><br /></p><p>------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>I do the shopping for the household, I pay attention to prices, and there has been a shocking increase in basic ingredients such as oatmeal, sugar, flower, cooking oil, beans, flour over the last couple of years.&nbsp;&nbsp; There has been an even bigger increase in processed food but they have been using a lot of packaging tricks to compensate for that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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