Pretty sure the govt will just redefine the basket of goods to calculate inflation to only include cellphones and day old pastries.
Was shopping for a fancy faucet at Pacific sales. Everything was pretty much 500 to 1000 with a few outliers including a really bitching faucet for 6k. the whole experience left me feeling very poor. On the other hand, the 6000 faucet made the 500 faucet seem like a steal.