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Sustained rise in retail prices for groceries and perishable foods, often driven by energy, transport, labor, or supply-chain costs.
Lidl GB spent £315m on price cuts and promotions against pre-tax profit of £245.5m as its market share climbed past Morrisons. Deluxe grew only a little faster than the business as a whole, so Lidl's clearer edge over a slowing Aldi is its loyalty scheme.
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Lawson's one-topping bento boxes, priced at 200 to 300 yen, launched Sept. 16 and some sold out soon after release. For anyone reading convenience-store margins, the open question is whether each box adds a customer or replaces a pricier bento.
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Axios reporter Nathan Bomey says the Iran war's diesel surge, felt first by truckers and farmers, will show up in grocery prices within weeks, if not days. Operators paying for freight or farm inputs face a cost increase that lands inside the current quarter's budget.
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Crude had a reserve to tap and refined product does not, which is why taking roughly 3% of global diesel supply out of the market has pushed the US pump average to an all-time high with the squeeze still building.
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The ECB's policy rate is already 2.5 percent, and one voting member now says the pressure is coming from gas and electricity, with futures putting roughly 60 percent odds on another quarter point on October 29.
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