Originally Posted by
Ldnn1
I don't think that anecdote is anything to go by at all. Prices for such things fluctuate wildly on Amazon all the time, often related to 'sale' promos not just on Amazon but other retailers against which they auto-price.
It's right that inflation is likely to rise over the coming months, but I don't think the price of your kettle from September 21-26 is evidence of that.
The price of a single kettle wouldn't support my argument, but I thought the parallel change I'd observed in the other kettle's price -- from a different manufacturer and Amazon vendor -- would. Sadly for my career as a crack economic analyst, I've just rechecked the other kettle's price, only to find that I read it wrong. It's actually
dropped over ten percent.
