Key Points

  • As shoppers await price cuts, retailers like Home Depot say their prices have stabilized and some national consumer brands have paused price increases or announced more modest ones.
  • Yet some industry watchers predict deflation for food at home later this year.
  • Falling prices could bring new challenges for retailers, such as pressure to drive more volume or look for ways to cover fixed costs, such as higher employee wages.
  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    But it will and there’s plenty of precedent, like Weimar Republic.

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        8 months ago

        Right… Well, enlighten us all! Maybe you’ll get a prize or something for disproving economists!

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          8 months ago

          Waving your hands around and saying “Wiemar Germany inflation” is the economic equivalent of “Rome fell because feminisim/immigration/too many homosexuals/not enough homosexuals/Christianity/didn’t use Heron’s steam engine/lack of Starbucks”. It’s brought out by people with an agenda and a willingness to twist any historical fact to make things fit that agenda.

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      8 months ago

      No, that was because of high volumes of money printing to pay debts.

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          8 months ago

          Are you just making up “facts” as the contradictions flow? Or did someone else make up these “facts” and you just parrot them?

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          8 months ago

          Debts to other countries. Apparently, you don’t know the first thing about how that happened.