Because the shopping cart still shows worrying inflation

Unfortunately, those who predicted that inflation would go up in the lift and instead prefer to use the stairs downhill are right. The data released last Friday by Istat on consumer prices told us that for supermarket goods, what we are accustomed to calling “shopping carts”, the increase remains stable: even at 12.7 per cent, five points above the level of general inflation. But according to a Nielsen survey reported by Only 24 Hours“shelf prices in the last 12 months have seen an increase of 16 percent and for the moment there are no signs of a slowdown”.