Key Points

  • As shoppers await price cuts, retailers like Home Depot say their prices have stabilized and some national consumer brands have paused price increases or announced more modest ones.
  • Yet some industry watchers predict deflation for food at home later this year.
  • Falling prices could bring new challenges for retailers, such as pressure to drive more volume or look for ways to cover fixed costs, such as higher employee wages.
  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Right… Well, enlighten us all! Maybe you’ll get a prize or something for disproving economists!

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      9 months ago

      Waving your hands around and saying “Wiemar Germany inflation” is the economic equivalent of “Rome fell because feminisim/immigration/too many homosexuals/not enough homosexuals/Christianity/didn’t use Heron’s steam engine/lack of Starbucks”. It’s brought out by people with an agenda and a willingness to twist any historical fact to make things fit that agenda.