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Costs filtering through as food inflation jumps in May

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The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has responded to the latest CPI inflation figures, which show headline inflation remaining at 3.4% and food inflation rising to 4.4%. Kris Hamer, the British Retail Consortium’s director of insight, said: “Headline inflation held at 3.4% as higher bills and…

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