It is not about Wal-Mart or Home Depot raising prices it is about your dollar being worth less.
Gold is not up, the value of your dollar is down so it takes more dollars to buy the same gold.
When you hear the terms Quantitative easing spouted by the FED just remember it is another term for PRINTING MONEY.
Those with savings are being robbed blind, those with massive debts, like the Federal Government are making out like bandits. Banks are doing pretty good too. Money lent to banks at zero percent is lent to the public for 5 to 23 percent. And the looming inflation will help the banks with their realestate, eventually.