We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the … inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in 10 countries between … discounts grew at a much lower average rate than regular prices, helping to mitigate the inflation burden. By contrast …

We use Canadian home scanner data to study household food inflation rates during periods of low and high inflation. We … find that during the post-pandemic surge in inflation, the actual inflation rates experienced by different households … varied more widely. Low-income households faced higher inflation than high-income households. We find that during the …