How do people experience inflation?

The BBC reports that food prices in UK supermarkets and shops have risen by 8.3% since January. Meat and fish - up 22.9% - registered the biggest price increases for any one category in the survey, with fresh fruit and vegetables up 14.7%. Retail analysts Verdict Research also found price rises of nearly 50% for some individual food items. The figures come amid growing concern about the high cost of food, which is exceeding the official inflation rate. On Wednesday, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that food price inflation over the past year amounted to 10% - more than twice the official Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate of 4.4%. Other research has shown that prices of many other items (e.g. energy) have risen by significantly more than the headline rate of inflation. Link to BBC report