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August 15, 2024 at 3:50 AM. The annual inflation rate has cooled, new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed on Wednesday. The July consumer-price index shows an annual inflation ...
Then the Federal Reserve’s inflation-fighting campaign of higher interest rates helped drive mortgage rates up — from under 3% in 2020 to a peak of 7.2% this year. There’s good news and bad ...
Between January 2021 and December 2022, grocery prices shot up more than 20%. As of July, consumers pay about $0.80 more for a gallon of milk (about $4 total), though dairy prices were already ...
In 2016, bottled water outsold carbonated soft drinks (by volume) to become the number one packaged beverage in the U.S. In 2018, bottled water consumption increased to 14 billion gallons, up 5.8 percent from 2017, with the average American drinking 41.9 gallons of bottled water annually. [56]
The average sale price of houses has increased 29.3% as well, up from $396,900 in Q4 2020 to $513,100 in Q1 2024, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Shelter prices have increased 21.6% ...
In 2008, U.S. bottled water sales topped 8.6 billion US gallons (33,000,000 m 3) for 28.9% of the U.S. liquid refreshment beverage market, exceeding sales of all other beverages except carbonated soft drinks, followed by fruit juices and sports drinks. [3] By 2011, this number had risen to 9.1 billion gallons. [4]
The company began in 1939 in Scottsville, Kentucky, as a family-owned business called J.L. Turner and Son, owned by James Luther Turner and Cal Turner. In 1955, the name changed to Dollar General Corporation, and in 1968 the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange. The Fortune 500 recognized Dollar General in 1999, and in 2020 it ...
Food prices have surged by more than 20% under the Biden-Harris administration, leaving many voters eager to stretch their dollars further at the grocery store.