«The strength of the economy in both Quebec and Ontario, combined with
low food inflation, currently favour the full - service supermarket, and we are pleased with the performance of the Metro banner in both provinces,» CEO Eric La Fleche said Tuesday during a conference call about its second - quarter results.
Key risks include higher or
lower food inflation or increased competition from the large supermarkets.
Not exact matches
Groups like the New Brunswick
Food Security Action Network have raised concerns about the impact of food inflation on low - income and fixed - income househo
Food Security Action Network have raised concerns about the impact of
food inflation on low - income and fixed - income househo
food inflation on
low - income and fixed - income households.
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.
McDonald's also competes with grocery stores, where the rate of
food inflation is typically
lower, limiting how much gold the Golden Arches can charge.
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.
Food price inflation caused by a falling loonie has negatively affected the ability of low - income families to buy healthy f
Food price
inflation caused by a falling loonie has negatively affected the ability of
low - income families to buy healthy
foodfood.
Total CPI
inflation has picked up in recent months but is slightly below expectations, largely because of
lower food prices.
Again, core
inflation is actually above 2 %,
inflation held in check by energy, and
food and
low interest rates up to now.
Inflation is projected to be near 2 per cent through 2017 and 2018 as the temporary effects of higher consumer energy prices and
lower food prices dissipate and economic slack is absorbed.
After stripping out prices for
food and energy, which tend to be more volatile, prices rose by just 0.7 % in the 12 months to December — the
lowest rate of «core»
inflation since records began in January 2001.
Eurostat also confirmed that the «core» rate of
inflation — which strips out volatile items such as
food and energy — fell to 0.7 %, its
lowest level since records began in 2001.
Core
inflation, which excludes volatile
food and fuel prices, remained stubbornly
low at 1.0 percent.
Not including energy and other volatile items like
food, alcohol and tobacco, overall consumer price
inflation was 0.8 percent, a rate the ECB consider too
low for a healthy economy.
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).
I think things are starting to alleviate, partly because of factors such as
food inflation now being very
low.
RIG (Real Internal Growth) accelerated to 2.6 percent and continued to be at the high end of the
food and beverage industry, while pricing was 0.2 percent, largely reflecting
lower levels of
inflation in emerging markets.
With wages in decline compared to
inflation, zero - hours contracts,
food banks, the benefits cap and the bedroom tax, the unemployed and
lowest paid have undoubtedly suffered more than any group under the coalition government.
Core
inflation, which excludes oil and
food, has fallen by 1.2 per cent to the
lowest level since August 2006.
A supermarket
food price war and
lower petrol price
inflation are expected to have brought the headline consumer price index measure of
inflation down for the sixth month running in March.
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.
Core
inflation — which excludes the volatile
food and energy categories — has also moved
lower.»
Fed officials have argued that despite recent jumps in the prices of commodities and
food,
inflation is in check because underlying measures have climbed only modestly from historic
lows.
The
low levels of these two indicators are mostly caused by technology, oil and
food price deflation (at least in the US, UK, and Europe) outweighing other
inflation.
The current quarter
inflation experienced by Sysco is
lower than the 8 % it experienced last quarter, and it is unlikely that high
food inflation will stay high for a very long time.
U.S.
food prices are rising at twice the rate of
inflation, hitting the pocketbooks of
lower - income Americans and people living on fixed incomes. . .
Low - income families trapped by
food price
inflation will be unable to afford enough
food to eat every day.
The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up
food prices, leaving
low - income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe
food price
inflation in history.
CPI - based
inflation for April stood at 4.86 per cent, the
lowest in four months, on the back of another month of declining
food prices, data released by the Central Statistics Office revealed.
The core
inflation rate, which excludes volatile energy and
food prices, has risen by only 2 percent in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2005, and is expected to stay
low through the first part of 2006.
Inflation expectations, as well as median one - year ahead expected growth in the costs of several commodities (
food, housing, medical, college education) are all at or near their
lowest levels since the start of the survey in June 2013.
Moreover,
food and capital goods
inflation is quite
low and we still import many cheap goods from abroad which, in the case of many goods, is a form of imported deflation (think of the cost of your laptop six years ago).
Although
inflation rates are
low in sectors like energy and
food, they have increased dramatically in healthcare and rent outlay.