IEThe Irish Times
Grocery inflation eases back to under 4% as online summer sales surge
Shoppers spent €36.1m on goods associated with warmer weather, including soft drinks, antipasti, ice cream and sun care
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- 24 Aug 2026, 12:40 UTC
- Last checked
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:56 UTC
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- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 12:24 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Conor Pope
- Section
- Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
Shoppers spent €36.1m on goods associated with warmer weather, including soft drinks, antipasti, ice cream and sun care
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Grocery inflation eases back to under 4% as online summer sales surge
Shoppers spent €36.1m on goods associated with warmer weather, including soft drinks, antipasti, ice cream and sun care
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- Capture ID
- #1994
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 12:40 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 871,719 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt