Study shows online retail prices often match store prices — and suggests why they sometimes do not.
When you buy products online, do you imagine you could get better prices in a store?
Fear not.
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Inflation is an average. Prices in some areas are growing quickly, while others fall. That’s the way it has to be in a broadly diversified economy. The broadest measure of inflation – the personal consumption deflator – measures everything that consumers buy, and weights it by how much, then spend on those items.
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