E-cigarettes and chilled pizza: does Britain’s shopping basket mean we’re a nation of douchebags?
by Tim Jonze from on (#56H5)
Satnavs are out; Spotify is in. White emulsion paint is out; non-white is in. 2015's retail price index contains a revealing set of changes
Say what you like about 2014, but at least you knew what we stood for as a nation. We were a proud land of frozen-pizza-eating, satnav-using yoghurt drinkers, with a fondness for white emulsion paint. History recorded it as such in last year's consumer price index, which collates popular shopping items as a tool to measure UK inflation.
It's hard not to look back now on the 2014 era as a more innocent time.
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