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.
    • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Are you just making up “facts” as the contradictions flow? Or did someone else make up these “facts” and you just parrot them?

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      9 months ago

      Debts to other countries. Apparently, you don’t know the first thing about how that happened.