Consumer prices articles
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Albert Heijn supermarket prices don't add up: Consumer group
Consumer association Consumentenbond is taking the Albert Heijn supermarket group to court to find out more about cash register mistakes which have led to shoppers paying more than they should. The association’s research shows that AH, Jumbo and Plus receipts are often likely to be wrong when checked against the prices of goods in the stores. In 2023, the association said it wanted compensation for consumers who have for years put up with the mistakes, unbeknown to them. Albert Heijn has been
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Market-Mayhem After Consumer Prices Crush Dovish-Dreams
'All Bets Are Off' - Market-Mayhem After Consumer Prices Crush Dovish-Dreams Borrowing a phrase from one of our favorite movies "all bets are off" after this morning's hot-hot-hot CPI print The fourth hotter-than-expected core inflation report in a row got investors reevaluating expectations around the Fed's first rate cut Source: Bloomberg Goldman's Diana Asatryan noted that their Research group pushed its first rate cut forecast to July from June, expecting two cuts this...
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Biden's tax consumers and the price Americans pay for barbarism
The latest Fox News poll shows 64% of Americans think their taxes are too high. But don’t they know that “taxes are the price we pay for civilized society,” in the words of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes?