Inflation may dip as ONS adopts loyalty pricing data

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The ONS will replace 25,000 monthly price points with 300 million from supermarket till data, capturing loyalty card discounts and actual prices paid rather than shelf prices for the first time

Official inflation figures may marginally drop in March as the Office for National Statistics greatly expands its dataset and takes loyalty pricing and multibuy discounts into account for the first time.

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