05-12-2020, 12:36 PM
(05-12-2020, 09:51 AM)2006alum Wrote:(05-12-2020, 09:35 AM)Mick Wrote: I wonder how they track online purchases against in-store purchases. Most of the small businesses in our little town are shuttered. And I just spent a small fortune online.
I was wondering about this too. Are they tracking point of payment origin (i.e., if I order from LL Bean online in California, it's a California purchase even though the company operates in Maine?), or are they tracking point of receipt (so it'd count for Maine, not California)?
(05-12-2020, 09:35 AM)Mick Wrote: I wonder how they track online purchases against in-store purchases. Most of the small businesses in our little town are shuttered. And I just spent a small fortune online.
And right on time, here comes inflation:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/us-groce...-eggs.html
That's not quite what I took away from this article:
Quote:The grocery numbers stand in stark contrast to the broader trend in U.S. prices, which fell 0.8% in April and clinched their largest one-month decline since 2008 as a swoon in oil and gasoline dragged the headline CPI number lower. . . .
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, so-called core CPI dropped 0.4%, its largest slump ever through records kept since 1957.
Like I said, deflation right around the corner... ;)
Audaces fortuna iuvat