Sentences with phrase «of food deflation»

Canadian grocers, which were locked in a price war and are just coming out of a prolonged bout of food deflation, now have to get ready for Amazon, which in June agreed to buy Whole Foods Market Inc..

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China «s consumer price inflation slowed to its weakest pace in almost a year in August, pulled down by abating food costs, although an encouraging moderation in producer price deflation added to growing evidence of a steadying economy.

In the meantime, food price deflation slowed down and consumers started accounting for food stamp benefit decreases, erasing some of the headwinds the chains faced in months past.

It has also helped draw out one of the longest stretches of food - price deflation in history, as Walmart's rivals respond by also slashing prices.

One possible cause for the decline could be food deflation, which has lowered prices at the grocery store, persuading potential customers to eat in instead of dine out.

Grocers have been plagued by food price deflation these days, with all and sundry in the industry warning of hits to their top lines.

Food prices fell 0.7 per cent in the March quarter, compared with deflation of 0.9 per cent in the December quarter and 2.3 per cent in the September quarter.

Excluding the volatile fresh food component, consumer prices have been flat over the past year, compared with deflation rates of almost 1 per cent in recent years, although part of this improvement is attributable to increases in administered medical prices and tobacco taxes earlier in 2003.

Over the last five years, as Coles challenged suppliers and cut or absorbed cost price rises, the retailer has recorded annual food and liquor deflation of 1.5 per cent and claims to have saved the average family more than $ 600 a year off their grocery shop.

«As part of our commitment to lowering prices, Coles recorded cumulative food and liquor deflation of 7.5 per cent from 2009 to 2016.

Metcash attributed the fall in grocery earnings to price deflation of 1.3 per cent, which exacerbated operating deleverage, a 12.6 per cent increase in advertising and marketing investment, and intense competition in food markets, particularly the impact of excessive fuel discounts by the major chains.

You are confident in the amount of food your baby takes by the measurements in ounces instead of the deflation of your breasts.

The build - up feels long by today's standards, but the glimpse that Peckinpah offers of what paradise might be like in his utopian Sodoms of grinning peasantry bearing promises of food, booze, and sex sets the table for a post-orgiastic deflation that is the only alternative to the bloodbath that ends it.

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.

He said it's been a unique year for food prices, in which food inflation rates started above normal before entering into a period of deflation.

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).

I am not sure if it is possible to have a mixed scenario of inflation and deflation: food, oil going higher but real estate going down.