{"id":244107,"date":"2021-05-07T01:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T22:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/consumers-to-get-socked-with-higher-prices-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-05-07T01:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T22:35:21","slug":"consumers-to-get-socked-with-higher-prices-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/consumers-to-get-socked-with-higher-prices-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Consumers to get socked with higher prices in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Consumers to get socked with higher prices in 2021<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Americans looking to spend a little money as they emerge from the pandemic are about to get pinched by rising prices everywhere they turn.<\/p>\n

Consumers can expect to start forking over more \u2014 if they aren\u2019t already \u2014 at grocery stores, coffee shops, drugstores, gas stations \u2014 and even on big ticket items like washing machines, consumer electronics and cars, economists say. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing dramatic price increases now and we\u2019ll see it spike between now and mid-summer,\u201d warned Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody\u2019s Analytics. \u201cPrices will be jumping and it\u2019s wide-ranging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Procter & Gamble warned last month that it plans to raise prices on baby products, adult diapers and feminine-care brands by September. Gasoline prices, meanwhile, soared to $2.98 a gallon in April, up from $1.87 a year ago, just as people start planning their first summer vacations since 2019.<\/p>\n

Cars are in such short supply that desperate vacationers in Hawaii were recently forced rented U-Hauls, according to reports.<\/p>\n

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Food shortages that roiled consumers last year are largely over, but price increases are just getting started.<\/figcaption>
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In many ways, it\u2019s a simple supply\/demand problem. Consumers are emerging from the pandemic with fatter wallets thanks to a combination of stimulus checks and savings built up as they hunkered down at home. But their eagerness to spend that money is exceeding Corporate America\u2019s ability to churn out goods amid a series<\/a> of supply chain issues caused by the pandemic. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe question,\u201d said Andrew Hunter, senior US economist of Capital Economics, \u201cis how long it will last.\u201d The Federal Reserve \u201cis trying to reassure everyone that it is a temporary trend linked to the reopening of the economy,\u201d Hunter said. But there are signs that rising prices could linger for months or even years. <\/p>\n

Boston retailer Yale App<\/a>liances, for example, recently warned customers that appliance prices by major brands from GE to Whirlpool could rise by 2.5 percent to 10 percent in the coming months. And prices aren\u2019t expected to go down again until \u201clate next year or early 2023,\u201d according to Yale Appliance\u2019s chief executive Steve Sheinkopf.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe appliance supply chain is not designed to recover fast,\u201d Sheinkopf explained in his April 16 post <\/a>on the company\u2019s website. <\/p>\n

Even as the coronavirus loosens its grip on the US, it continues to wreak havoc on companies\u2019 ability to access raw materials like metal, copper and wood pulp, as well as electronic parts like computer chips.<\/p>\n

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A patron looks over the selection at Cinderella Bakery in San Francisco on April 12, 2021.
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The chip shortage is roiling a wide range of industries from appliances to cars \u2014 and could soon drive up prices on consumer electronics like smart phones, game<\/a> consoles and computers, experts say.<\/p>\n

Apple in April said the chip shortage is hampering its production of iPads and Mac computers, a problem that could cost the company $3 billion to $4 billion in sales this quarter. <\/p>\n

According to The Verge,<\/a> the global semiconductor shortage \u2014 which has already led to consumer complaints that the newest PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles have been hard to find \u2014 could go on for months, if not for the rest of 2021.<\/p>\n

Millions of cars, meanwhile, are sitting idle in factory lots waiting for computer chips, according to reports. And car prices soaring as a result. <\/p>\n

The average price of a new vehicle was up 6 percent to a record $40,578 as of December, according to data from Edmunds.com. The cost of a used car jumped far more, by 70 percent compared to a year ago, according to Zandi of Moody\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Car rental companies are normally big suppliers to the used car industry, but they dramatically shrunk their fleets last year due to falling demand. As travel<\/a> picks up again, rental companies stand to make big money for the cars left on their lots \u2014 charging $200 a day in some cases. <\/p>\n

Wood pulp is also in short supply amid a surge of pandemic-related home renovation projects coupled with fallout from Trump administration trade wars. It\u2019s the cause of planned price hikes on a range of everyday items like diapers, toilet paper and tampons, experts say. <\/p>\n

The wood pulp shortage has also resulted in an extra $24,000 cost for a new home, according to the National Association of Home Builders.<\/p>\n

Grocery prices are up 3.5 percent over last year, well above the normal annual increase of 1 percent to 1.5 percent, amid surging transportation costs and consumer demand, according Hunter of Capital Economics. <\/p>\n

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People walk by luxury retail stores in Manhattan on April 6, 2021, as more people look to spend the money they saved during the pandemic.<\/figcaption>
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Bloomberg News<\/a> on Thursday reported <\/a>that 50 of the 52 grocery categories tracked by NielsenIQ cost more than a year ago \u2014 with seafood prices up 18.7 percent in the 13-week period ended April 24. <\/p>\n

According to the chief executive officer of\u00a0Albertsons Cos., one reason for the jump is that grocers no longer have any reason to slash prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there\u2019s a shortage in supply, it makes no sense to promote aggressively,\u201d Vivek Sankaran told Bloomberg. \u201cThat\u2019s why you see inflation in some categories. It just makes no sense to play with price at this point.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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