Yes, but also a lot of non-food items. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket

Yes, but also a lot of non-food items. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket There are a lot of ways to measure inflation. It's tricky because some categories of goods or services didn't exist decades ago, but do now.