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From American public media, This is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl.

It is Wednesday today, 12 March.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

We begin on this Wednesday with an old reliable, a data point familiar to most of us and untouched so far by the new dynamics of this economy.

We've got the latest consumer price index this morning.

Headline inflation in February eased a bit 2.8% year over year. That is down from 3.1% in January.

So good. Still sticky, but good. The specific category, most sticky and stubborn, is shelter.

Price increases there were enough all by their lonesomes to account for nearly half of that monthly CPI increase.

Meanwhile, another essential category, food at home to the statisticians among you, mostly that's what you buy at the grocery store, came in lower than the historical average.

And that, too, is good. But why does a trip to the supermarket still

feel so bad? Marketplaces Kristen Schwab starts us off.

Inflation for food at home was flat in February, literally zero percent. David Ortega is a food

economist at Michigan State University. So there was no change in grocery prices, but there's a lot of movements within categories.

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