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19-04-2016, 09:44 AM
An interesting new index, the Adobe Digital Price Index. The detail below
http://www.adobe.com/news-room/pressrele...h2016.html
It is an useful info, for those interested on online market.
Some goods are cheaper on the Web, Adobe Digital Price Index shows
NEW YORK — Is the Internet making everything cheaper?
Well, not everything, but a lot of things, according to Adobe, which has come up with a new index to track the price of goods. The company gets its results by crunching data on the millions of online transactions it tracks through its online marketing service.
The price of televisions online fell a cumulative 20.3 per cent from February 2015 to February 2016, according to the latest numbers from Adobe’s recently released Digital Price Index. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI), by contrast, logged a 15 per cent drop in television prices over the same time period.
The same held true for the prices of household appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers. Online, appliance prices dropped 5.7 per cent in the year to February, compared with a 2.7 per cent decline in the government’s price index equivalent.
Furniture and bedding prices showed less of a dip online and in physical stores, but the spread between the two was still wide: A 2.5 per cent decline, according to Adobe, compared with an 0.5 per cent decline in the CPI.
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http://www.todayonline.com/tech/some-goo...ndex-shows
http://www.adobe.com/news-room/pressrele...h2016.html
It is an useful info, for those interested on online market.
Some goods are cheaper on the Web, Adobe Digital Price Index shows
NEW YORK — Is the Internet making everything cheaper?
Well, not everything, but a lot of things, according to Adobe, which has come up with a new index to track the price of goods. The company gets its results by crunching data on the millions of online transactions it tracks through its online marketing service.
The price of televisions online fell a cumulative 20.3 per cent from February 2015 to February 2016, according to the latest numbers from Adobe’s recently released Digital Price Index. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI), by contrast, logged a 15 per cent drop in television prices over the same time period.
The same held true for the prices of household appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers. Online, appliance prices dropped 5.7 per cent in the year to February, compared with a 2.7 per cent decline in the government’s price index equivalent.
Furniture and bedding prices showed less of a dip online and in physical stores, but the spread between the two was still wide: A 2.5 per cent decline, according to Adobe, compared with an 0.5 per cent decline in the CPI.
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http://www.todayonline.com/tech/some-goo...ndex-shows
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