Dollar Tree – which advertises a primary price point to $1.25 for most of its products, as well as some $3 and $5 items – said that it currently can not afford to sell eggs at these prices. Dollar Tree stops selling eggs due to persistent high prices:
, impacting how much retailers pay when buying products from manufacturers, slowed significantly last month.
From January to February, the government’s producer price index fell 0.1% – in contrast to a 0.3% rise from December to January. Compared with a year ago, wholesale prices rose 4.6%, a big drop from the 5.7% annual increase in January. A leading driver of February's wholesale inflation slowdown was a huge drop in the wholesale prices of eggs, which fell 36.1% in February.Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day.Meanwhile, consumer prices increased 6% from a year earlier, down from 6.4% in January and a 40-year high of 9.1% in June, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index. Grocery prices overall are still climbing higher but more slowly – rising by 0.3% from January and 10.
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