The new 2025 trolley of goods
published Monday by national statistics bureau ISTAT to
calculate inflation includes new products such as speck, women's
shorts and ice cream cones.
The so-called consumer 'shopping trolley' of items also lists
ceiling lamps, mattress toppers, air chambers and windscreen
wipers.
Covid-19 tests are out of the trolley, which this year includes
1,923 products compared to 1,915 in 2024.
Overall, the 2025 trolley used as reference by ISTAT to monitor
consumer prices, considering growing levels of expenditure
divisions, found that the most elevated increase in absolute
terms concerned housing, water, electricity and fuel (+0.6335
percentage points), followed by transportation (+0.5505) and
restaurants and hotels (+0.2383).
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