Overview
- Britain’s statistics agency adds houmous and non-alcoholic beer to the consumer prices index to reflect healthier choices.
- Supermarket scanner data will now capture over half of grocery sales, replacing thousands of manual price points with millions of checkout prices.
- New entries also include motor homes, dashboard cameras, pay-TV subscriptions, pet-grooming services and croissants.
- Sheets of wrapping paper are replaced by rolls, and hotel prices will be collected differently to reduce volatility.
- The CPI covers more than 750 goods and services and is updated annually, with the latest changes set against inflation near 3.0% and recent energy price increases.