Sentences with phrase «when food inflation»

Not exact matches

That puzzle continued earlier Wednesday when Labor Department data showed consumer inflation, excluding food and energy, was lower than expected at 1.7 percent in the 12 months through November.

When the company nudged up prices above food - away - from - home inflation in the first quarter of 2014 (a rare move for McDonald's), the average check grew, but the number of customers dropped.

Restaurants are often laggards when it comes to adopting new technology, but rising labor costs due to higher minimum wage and labor shortages coupled with food inflation has some looking to solutions that can provide some relief from the increased pressure on already tight margins.

Since 2013, when Nicolás Maduro took power after the death of Hugo Chávez, the socialist country has struggled with skyrocketing inflation, food and medicine shortages, a shrinking economy and rising violence and corruption.

When it is desired to present something dreaded, such as the current Inflation Rate, they can toss out certain expenses such as food, energy and to a certain extent — housing costs due to «hedonistic» or «seasonal» adjustments.

ACCC Chair Graeme Samuel «called for a reality check in the debate around food inflation and the dominance of two players in the grocery market, when he addressed the National Retail Forum in Melbourne today.»

On the downside - and rather more significantly - it will increase food price inflation just when stagnant wages and an over-reliance on private credit threaten to significantly hinder demand.

However, it said Canadian inflation, which the bank carefully analyzes when making rate decisions, was slightly below what it had anticipated, in large part because of lower food prices.

This may not occur until closer to the middle of the year, when the Bank of Japan decides to provide more financial support for the expansion in addition to extra insurance around its 2 % inflation goal (excluding fresh food and the retail sales tax).

Well, the anecdote dates from 17 years ago when cat food was much cheaper (I do not know what has fuelled the cat food inflation over the last decade but it's been nuts).

Oh yeah, I forgot... our wonderful government doesn't even factor in gas or food prices when looking at their CPI / Inflation calculations.

In the 1970s, when tight world food supplies were generating unacceptable food price inflation in the United States, the government restricted grain exports.

Even inflation, which posed a scare when gas and food prices increased this summer, is still tame.