Go to Kroger and check out my thesis
Are you really sure those retail prices are increasing? Discount stores are practically giving away some high quality goods...clothes, food, house and people "stuff", etc...
It seems that a lot of foreign goods are keeping those prices down, and low-price options on the big things...cars, appliances, technology, keep people in the spending game.
I read those charts and see a high correlation between inflation and interest rates...maybe those interest rates will go up for us savers soon?