Sentences with phrase «basket of items»

However, even in the US where the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) has been nominally independent for over a century, the choice of what to include in the Consumer Basket (the official basket of items chosen to reflect cost - of - living, and measured by the men with clipboards) is not always honest.

Create a gift basket of items new moms really need even if she doesn't know she needs them yet.

This brings us to the big question regarding measuring inflation: What do we include in the basket of items which we use to measure inflation and how do we weight them?

I will set baskets of these items right by the front door so whomever rings the doorbell gets a nice whiff when I open the door!

Not exact matches

That's what it would have been like if two Houston supermarket owners had popularized their vision of outfitting grocery stores with a track that customers would push their baskets along while plucking items from the shelves.

Further, over 60 per cent of the «core» Consumer Price Index that excludes more volatile items is posting gains of 1.5 per cent or more and one - third of the basket exceeds the Bank of Canada's 2 per cent inflation target.

It's a tactic familiar to anyone who has watched items in their Amazon basket change price over the course of a day (or an hour)-- but traditional retailers are starting to get in the game, too.

(Though there is a high correlation with this basket of goods and the study's cost - of - living rankings, the items and prices listed are not the same as those used in the index.)

The Times reporter finds that, for a basket of ten items — including milk, seltzer, and frozen pizza — a shopper would save $ 6.01, or 13 percent.

Analysts compared prices on a basket of 78 identical items at Walmart and Kroger stores in Nashville, Tennessee, to determine which retailer was cheaper.

But the types of consumer behavior that internet firms can access — how long you hover your mouse on a particular item, how many days an item sits in your shopping basket before you purchase it, or the fashion blogs you visit before looking for those same items through a search engine — is uncharted ground.

After figuring out which items go into the fixed basket and determining the price of each item, finding the CPI involves multiplying the current price of one item by the number of those items in the basket and repeating the same step for all of the other items in the basket.

All of the items in the CPI's market basket are assigned a weight based on the percentage of spending that they make up.

Currently, nearly 60 % of our baskets contain a $ 1 item or less.

Instead of fuming over the man who stands in the «five items only» queue in the supermarket with eight items in his basket, smile and wish him a pleasant day.

When O Organics, in conjunction with Healthy Aperture, asked if I would be willing to write a post about their grocery items, I got super excited at the prospect of being given a blind basket of sorts.

I even made a homemade biscuit «kit» in a basket for my daughter for one of her shower gifts, and included that recipe and the White Lily, along with measuring cups and spoons, a biscuit cutter and bench scraper, and a few other related items.

The baskets consisted of 33 items, including fresh foods such as chicken fillets and mince, fruit and vegetables and packaged groceries, and did not take into account Coles» and Woolworths» specials or promotions.

I can already tell what I will be giving at Christmas time, all sorts of goodies from this fabulous website, and this salt will be one of the main items in the basket... Thanks for such wonderful ideas!!

They put together a different assortment of special items each month and send them to you in a hand woven basket (made by their «weaving collective» in Oaxaca, Mexico — more talented makers employed thanks to GlobeIn).

The most expensive place to shop is at independent chain IGA, which charged 5 - 7 % more than Coles and Woolworths for an identical basket of leading brand items.

While there are minimal price promotions on supermarket brand items, it still pays to shop around for leading brand items — we saved $ 15.56 (9 %) at Coles and $ 10.94 (6 %) at Woolworths on our leading brand basket, taking the effect of specials into account.

A number of our grocery basket items this year are the same as those we priced in our 2015 and 2009 surveys, so we've compared the average prices of these items to see how much they've changed.

«Consumers will seek greater on - label visibility in the farms, ingredient sources, and supply chain of each item in their shopping basket,» the group stated in its list of trend predictions.

Although more than 90 % of the groceries sold at Aldi are under its own exclusive brands, it does stock a selection of leading brand items, including seven of the items in our leading brand basket — Cadbury chocolate, Streets Blue Ribbon ice cream, Arnott's Tim Tams, Coca - Cola, Moccona coffee, Cobram Estate olive oil and Kleenex tissues.

Our full grocery basket consisted of 33 items, 28 of which were packaged products, either leading brand or comparable supermarket brand / budget brand options (including beef mince, chicken breast fillets and eggs), with five fresh fruit and veg items (apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots and potatoes) completing the list.

You've seen all the menu items before — double cheeseburger, Italian beef, basket of fried smelt — but rarely have you seen them done so flawlessly.

Cross merchandising IRC and MIR offers will be available on the purchase of Dos Equis and Halloween related items (where legal) to encourage out - of - section displays and increase retailer's basket rings.

The required ingredients included a market basket of trendy items like apple - smoked pork belly, cauliflower, Arborio rice and fresh pineapple, and the resulting dishes were creative and sophisticated.

I have a table that I sew at and shelves for books, magazines, baskets of thread, jars of buttons and beads — as well as other craft items I don't really need but like to have around «just in case».

Put tall boughs in a vase, or smaller items in a long basket or tray down the center of your table.

I love dropping by the hospital when a new mom delivers and dropping off a cute little basket with a few nice items that were brought to me when I was in the hospital, most of which I had overlooked.

Finding the best umbrella stroller with a basket allows you to go with your baby and have room for all of their needed items.

Fill the bottom of a large basket, bowl or flower pot with plastic bags so the featured items can be displayed more prominently.

I had a distinct image of what he would be doing in the first months of his life, of how he would recline in a lined wicker basket such as the kind I never owned, woven and biblical — a Moses basket, it was called in several of the catalogues of baby items that had begun to crowd my house.

I love that each item in my snack basket is full of goodness!

-LSB-...] I spent a lot of time walking and jogging around my neighborhood with a stroller in tow, and often, my activity destination was a local grocery store (the Rookie Moms Challenge # 5), where I'd throw whatever few items we needed into the stroller basket alongside my diaper bag.

The sleeper includes a built - in shelf storage area beneath the basket portion of the bassinet for easy access to the items you need for your little one.

With seats fully reclined and restricted access from the rear of the stroller you can easily reach items in the basket from the sides or from the front.

With the Easter Bunny's arrival right around the corner, we rounded up some of our favourite items to help you fill your little one's basket.

The basket has space for the parents to keep some of their items too.

Fill a basket with a few inexpensive but necessary baby items and have everyone guess at the cost of the entire basket of goodies.

Keep your baby's necessary items in the large storage basket located at the bottom of the stroller.

These baskets are great for storing a wide variety of items from toys to dirty laundry.

You may also choose an infant gift basket that is made, featuring a variety of gift items which are unique, useful and interesting.

Baskets can be an inexpensive home decorating item, and they can be made of safe materials.

Lullaby Moon Moses basket, Mothercare, # 55 This attractive maize basket is part of a wider collection of nursery items in the «Lullaby Moon» design - ideal if you want to plan a coordinated room.

One thing I really like about it in «Cybex Balios M All - Terrain Stroller review» the «basket» it is very large even I have imagined putting the baby into it but back to practical it can carry a lot of baby stuffs as well as parents shopping items.

You can do your grocery shopping with this basket and fit a lot of items.

The zippered basket at the bottom of both the seats is sufficient to hold all essential items.