Here is a look at where consumers are feeling the price pinch as the holidays approach—and what they can do about inflation.
indicates that the overall price hikes were driven by large increases over the past year in the energy index and used cars and trucks index . The gasoline index soared 49.6% over the past 12 months, and the energy services index ticked up 11.2%.
"We've already seen a lot of inflation at the gas pump," he said. And as the weather chills, he predicted,"We're definitely going to see it in the price of heating this winter."A customer checks out at a grocery store in San Francisco, Nov. 11, 2021. U.S. consumer prices rose last month at the fastest annual pace since 1990, cementing high inflation as a hallmark of the pandemic recovery and eroding spending power even as wages surge.
This is in line with DOL's data, which indicates the price of food at home rose 5.4% over the past 12 months -- with the index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs spiking 11.9%, the beef index soaring 20.1% and the pork index climbing 14.1%.Customers shop at Macys department store in New York on Black Friday, Nov. 27, 2020.
Online prices were up 1.9% year-over-year in October, according to Adobe's Digital Price Index released Thursday. For comparison, prices in October 2019 were down 6.6% year-over-year going into the holiday season. In early November, discount levels for electronics were at 8.7%, the Adobe data indicates, well below the 13.2% discount level at the same point last year.
Many Americans now are too young to remember the pain and uncertainty inflation wreaked on the economy in the 1970s, when it snowballed out of control, eating away at the value of savings before a painful correction that led to double-digit unemployment rates in the early 1980s.
Duke's Fullenkamp added that the new generation of Americans"just don't have a good feel for how relentless and kind of sneaky inflation is." This is why planning ahead of time and sticking to a budget can help protect Americans from financial pain down the line as inflation sets in.
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