OnlyMe Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 More to come...... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/shoppers-pay-price-as-food-inflation-hits-15month-high-2098734.html Shoppers pay price as food inflation hits 15-month high By James Thompson Wednesday, 6 October 2010 Hard-pressed shoppers suffered a double whammy last month as food price inflation hit a 15-month high and the cost of clothing also climbed. Overall shop price inflation hit a five-month high in September, while the annual rate of food price increases jumped to 4 per cent from 3.8 per cent in August. The cost of food was driven higher as the rising prices of wheat and oil fed through to bread and meat supplies, according to the monthly survey by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Nielsen. This was the key reason for overall shop price inflation rising to 1.9 per cent last month – a jump of 0.2 per cent since August. Non-food inflation also rose, by 0.7 per cent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 All this deflation is really starting to bite. It's clear that we need to print tens of billions of pounds of new money ASAP and keep interest rates near zero or we could have an out of control deflationary 'death spiral'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Well they're scratching their heads alright. Why isn't the inflation not going into asset prices?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 (edited) This has been on the cards for months and months. Don't tell the BoE though. They haven't even factored this in to their inflation forecasts, which are purposefully inaccurate as ever. Champage times for us farmers though (actually, not quite the case as input costs are increasing too). Do the Bank of England ever speak to farmers and growers one wonders. Probably not. A bit like the ONS and its notorious shopping basket then. Edited October 6, 2010 by gruffydd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 If the FTSE was at 8000pts, and UK houseprices stand at £200,000 right now, they can pat themselves on the back. Job well done. And then maybe they'll start raising interest rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Well they're scratching their heads alright. Why isn't the inflation not going into asset prices?! Clearly this proves the worth of ZIRP and money printing - they just haven't done enough of it for the money to get squeezed into higher end assets. The solution is obviously more QE, what could possibly go wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPC001 Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Apparently this is to do with wheat and oil costs...not internal currency issues. Theres also the possibility that retailers are facing higher running costs (rent or the equivalent) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 food prices up tenner a week,hosue prices down a few hundred......left hand right hand etc. Things like house prices are obviously going to fall because in the past they have been inflated by ridiculous amounts of credit to would be buyers. The truly scary thing is that TPTB have decided that the 'solution' to this 'problem' is clearly to inflate everything else up to those stupid levels in the hope of supporting those prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RufflesTheGuineaPig Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 We aren't going to inflate away the debts. We are having cost inflation and asset DEFLATION. Most importantly, we are having wage deflation. The net result of cost inflation and wage deflation isn't the inflating away of debts, it's poverty and destitution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crudeFool Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Thats .... Deflationwang! crude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Lorne Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 ...in September Tesco's Finest Shallots up 50% ...from £1 per packet to £1.50....no wonder their grossing £6000 per minute....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game_Over Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Still waiting for the deflation the 'experts' on here keep telling me is inevitable Stagflation anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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