Average retail prices - spreadsheet added

I've added a spreadsheet at the bottom of the blog with average retail prices for food items tracked by the Bureau of Labor. In July, the BLS reported the average retail price for red delicious apples was $1.45 per pound, up from just $1.18 for the same month a year ago. Bananas were also up strongly, at an average of 63 cents per pound, compared with just 51 cents the same time a year ago. Iceberg lettuce was virtually unchanged and tomatoes were up about 20 cents over a year ago to average $1.71 per pound in July.

Here is consumer press coverage on the overall Consumer Price Index:

U.S. inflation highest in almost two decades From Political Affairs:
In related news analysts Realtytrac said that more than 272,000 people in the US received a foreclosure notice in July, a rise of 55 percent on a year earlier.

Florida and California had the highest rate of foreclosures, figures showed.

In a further indication of the severe problems affecting the US housing market, more than 77,000 homes were repossessed in July. As a result of this increase, 17 percent of all homes for sale in the US are repossessed properties.



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