Sentences with phrase «increase food price inflation»

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.

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Each year the company raises its menu prices to cover increasing food costs, but it generally keeps those price hikes below the rate of inflation for «food away from home» to stay competitive.

Higher prices paid to farmers, combined with lower imports, may increase grocery and restaurant costs for baked goods and cereals as much as 4 percent next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in its first forecast of food - price inflation for 2018.

«It would lead to inflation, price increases and in some cases shortages of food.»

It's likely Ontario's restaurant food inflation will continue to rise, he said, as price - sensitive restaurateurs realize they did not increase prices enough initially or learn they did not account for the costs of other new legislation, including new rules around vacation and holiday pay.

Ontario restaurants hiking menu prices after the province raised its minimum wage this year were likely responsible for pushing January food inflation to its highest annualized increase in nearly two years.

Food prices may have been the biggest distorting factor in the February inflation data, gaining 6 percent year on year and most likely a sign of increases ahead of Lunar New Year festivities.

Arnold said this is the last phase of Chipotle's planned price increase and is a response to rising inflation in food and labor costs.

Higher food and oil prices led to a marked increase in consumer price inflation throughout the region in mid 2004, particularly in Thailand, Singapore, Korea and the Philippines.

Consumer price inflation in the euro area increased to 2.1 per cent over the year to October, primarily due to higher food and energy prices; the core measure of inflation is lower at 1.7 per cent (Graph 9).

An exception is China, where the inflation rate has climbed to 3.2 per cent — the fastest increase in prices since early 1997 — although this partly reflects one - off factors that saw food prices soar.

The USDA Economic Research Service found that although unemployment declined in 2012 and 2013, inflation and the price of food continued to increase.

Food price inflation is estimated to have slowed to 1.3 per cent in the June quarter, compared with 2.5 per cent in the fourth quarter 2014, increasing the pressure on supermarket margins.

However, ACCC analysis indicates that these increases in gross margins could have only made a small contribution to overall food price inflation.2 In other words, the vast majority of grocery price increases in Australia are attributable to other factors, such as supply and demand changes in international and domestic markets, increases in the costs of production and domestic weather conditions.

... there is little evidence of any weakening of price competition in grocery retailing and wholesaling has played a significant role in explaining recent increases in food price inflation.

Increases in the price of food and energy have been above inflation - it is these price rises which hit the poor hardest.

«As for March, there was an increase in yearly prices due to inflation — a 582.9 percent increase for food, while the level of scarcity of basic products remains at 41.37 percent.»

Interest on funds deposited over time failed to keep pace with inflation and the increase of price of food and goods required for everyday living reduced the buying power of retirement funds.

Yet core inflation in the U.S. — which strips out volatile food and energy prices — appears to be broadening, our analysis suggests, with an increasing share of Consumer Price Index components clocking gains.

By the end of 2016, food price increases are projected to outstrip the general inflation rate, which is alarming given how much of monthly spending is earmarked for food.

Food price increases are expected to outstrip the general inflation rate again in 2016.

Food price inflation is increasing sharply in the US.

And those focused solely on wealth preservation also struggle: i) they never take a risk, and end up permanently besieged by inflation & taxes, or ii) they duck for cover in defensive (food, health, etc.) & dividend stocks — not a bad strategy, but inevitably it becomes one - dimensional & ends in a price bubble (future growth can't hope to support defensive stock multiples), or an income bubble (dividends are never - ending & will always increase...).

Statistics Canada said higher shelter costs and food prices also increased the inflation rate, while costs for health and personal care declined.

Corn has appeal as an investable asset because it can serve as a hedge against inflation brought about by increases in food prices.

Food distributor Sysco (SYY), which reported 5.9 % food inflation in the latest quarter, has passed commodity price increases on to restauraFood distributor Sysco (SYY), which reported 5.9 % food inflation in the latest quarter, has passed commodity price increases on to restaurafood inflation in the latest quarter, has passed commodity price increases on to restaurants.

Consumers have also been harmed, as the price of corn derivatives (meat, dairy, soda, etc., etc.,) has increased so sharply that inflation of the cost of food doubled the historical rate in 2008.

Following the late 2007 increase in the RFS, food price inflation relative to all other goods and services accelerated sharply to twice its 2005 - 2007 rate.

Post-2007 higher rates of food price inflation are associated with sharp increases in corn, soybean and wheat prices.

One teething problem in the burgeoning biofuel industry is the issue of sustainability: Some biofuels actually increase greenhouse gas emissions while being claimed to prevent them; others add to food price inflation pressures; in some parts of the world, the labor conditions of biofuel crop farm workers have been called into question.

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