How to Use consumer goods in a Sentence
consumer goods
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It’s not just the price of consumer goods that are soaring right now.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
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The price for consumer goods and services jumped 7.9% last month and hit a new 40-year-high.
—Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
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Like all consumer goods, fair food prices have shot up this year.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022
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And doing so may lead to changes in the way consumer goods are packaged.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
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Some of the stuff being sold on these platforms are consumer goods, and some are ideas.
—Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
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The index measures the change in prices for consumer goods and services.
—Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2021
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Prices for consumer goods stayed low, and drivers’ wages fell.
—Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are threatening flows of grain, oil and consumer goods.
—Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
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The rate of inflation on a range of consumer goods has slowed markedly.
—Peter S. Goodman Bridget Bennett, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
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Prices are up sharply for a broad spectrum of consumer goods and services.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
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The tariffs have triggered a trade war that threatens to raise the cost of a number of consumer goods.
—Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
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Worker’s wages, meanwhile, have not risen to keep up with the higher prices of consumer goods.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
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The rising cost of consumer goods is a chief reason for the increase, Foster said.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 July 2024
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Rising prices are mainly due to the rising prices of consumer goods.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
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That number tracks the cost of consumer goods from food and housing to vehicles.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 15 July 2022
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Both chemicals were used to make consumer goods but were phased out of production in the 2000s.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
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This should be the approach for all consumer goods industries.
—Andrew Martin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
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As a result, freight costs are rising, which in turn leads to higher prices for consumer goods.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 30 June 2021
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There is some evidence that much of the price hikes for food and other consumer goods could have been avoided.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
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It’s the latest consumer goods company to warn of the impact of rising prices.
—Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg.com, 16 Feb. 2022
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The fast-moving consumer goods segment has been FPIs’ favorite, too.
—Quartz, 23 Nov. 2022
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The new plastic could be used to create everything from car parts to consumer goods.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
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The design in its sleek, mid-mod curves and colors has been carried over to the Houseplant consumer goods sector.
—Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
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This is expected to increase the prices of many consumer goods, from clothing to coffee.
—Anna Gordon, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
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Teams of two tear through the aisles, filling up their carts, and answer trivia questions about consumer goods.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
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But while some prices are soaring, the cost of many consumer goods and services has stayed much the same with the change of administrations.
—Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
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So just how much of an impact has inflation had on consumer goods?
—Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2022
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But the average price of consumer goods rose by 0.8%, wiping out these earnings gains.
—Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 11 Dec. 2021
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This means jewelry, regardless of its cost or brand, is the most luxurious of all consumer goods.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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For that reason, some analysts predict tariffs will do more than simply make some consumer goods more expensive.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
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