We are not seeing rising prices of food and consumer goods now because people were given these checks in lieu of working as that money simply replaced the money they would have earned for the most part. In economics inflation is defined as an increase in the supply of money, so this is actually not inflation because there is no new money in the system but rather only a change in the source of that money, namely the government. Prices are going up now because of interruptions in the supply chain, which are purposeful and designed to create chaos, and because the people that were laid off and are now receiving government checks are no longer producing goods and services and therefore there are less of each to go around.