インフレーション 'brought to heel' as shop prices rise by just 0.8% this month

Shop prices rose by just 0.8 per cent this month in a 調印する that インフレーション has been ‘brought to heel’, 産業 人物/姿/数字s show.

The year-on-year 増加する, 負かす/撃墜する from 1.3?per cent in March, was the lowest since December 2021 and 非,不,無-food prices 現実に fell, the British 小売 国際借款団/連合 (BRC) said.

It is the 最新の 調印する that the cost-of-living 危機 is 沈下するing, 追加するing to hopes that the Bank of England may soon be able to 削減(する) 利益/興味 率s.

The 人物/姿/数字s come just over a year after shop price rises 攻撃する,衝突する a 頂点(に達する) of 8.9?per cent in March 2023.

‘Shop price インフレーション levels are showing 調印するs of normalising, 供給するing 救済 to 世帯s,’ said BRC 長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある Helen Dickinson.

Inflation fight: Shop prices rose by just 0.8% this month, the lowest since December 2021 and down from 1.3% in March

インフレーション fight: Shop prices rose by just 0.8% this month, the lowest since December 2021 and 負かす/撃墜する from 1.3% in March

Cost of living 圧力s 強めるd in 2022 after Russia’s 侵略 of ウクライナ共和国 押し進めるd up food and energy prices.

The BRC’s 計器 showed food price インフレーション reaching a painful 15.7?per cent a year ago. It has now fallen to 3.4 per cent.

非,不,無-food インフレーション 攻撃する,衝突する 5.9?per cent in March last year but has now fallen to minus 0.6?per cent ? meaning prices are lower than a year ago. It was last 消極的な in December 2021.

Dickinson said 宣伝の 申し込む/申し出s for 着せる/賦与するs and footwear were behind the 非,不,無-food price 落ちる.?

Lower prices for fresh 製品s such as butter, fish and fruit helped food インフレーション 下落する, she 追加するd.

However, 騒動 in the Middle East could mean more volatility.

‘While 消費者s will welcome the lower shop price インフレーション, geopolitical 緊張s and the knock-on 衝撃 on 物価s, like oil, 提起する/ポーズをとる a 脅し to 未来 price 安定,’ Dickinson said.

A separate 報告(する)/憶測 yesterday 示唆するd prices of some 中心的要素s could come under 圧力 as a result over the 異常に damp 天候 in the UK over the autumn and winter.

That could result in 収穫s 落ちるing by a fifth compared to the 普通の/平均(する) over 最近の years, 運動ing up the cost of bread, beer and 薄焼きパン/素焼陶器s, によれば the Energy and 気候 知能 部隊 (ECIU).

どこかよそで, supermarket Asda’s income tracker showed that with 給料 growing more quickly than price rises, family spending 力/強力にする has continued to 増加する.

It rose to an 普通の/平均(する) to £233 a week in March, £21.50 higher than a year earlier and the 12th month in a 列/漕ぐ/騒動 of growth.

The 公式の/役人 インフレーション 率 ? which 急に上がるd to 11.1?per cent a year-and-a-half ago ? has fallen はっきりと over the past year and dropped to 3.2?per cent in March.?

The 手段, which 会社にする/組み込むs a broader 範囲 of goods and services than the shop price 索引, is 推定する/予想するd to have dipped to around 2 per cent, the Bank of England’s 的, this spring.