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.
  • hark@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    No, that was because of high volumes of money printing to pay debts.

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        8 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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        8 months ago

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