This Year, The Price Of Clothing, Household Appliances And Toys Has Always Been The Cheapest In The United States.
Many popular Christmas gifts in the United States this year, the lowest price, it is always the most.
(CNN) reports, according to the Consumer Price Index, today's
Toys
It's 55% cheaper than in 1980.
This is the actual value, adjusted without inflation.
If the toy in 1980 was 100 dollars a dollar, it would only cost 45 dollars now.
Coffee machines and toasters and other small household appliances are also cheaper than the 1998 price of nearly 30%.
Electronic products cut more.
TV prices are 93% cheaper than in 1980.
Radio and loudspeakers are half cheaper than President Reagan (Reagan).
The reason for the plunge in prices is related to technology, manufacturing and retailing, and even global economic progress.
Technological progress is especially important for electronic products.
The latest and best things are always the most expensive, partly because the company is trying to recover the cost of R & D, partly because the more new products are, the higher the buying power.
But it also means 1 or 2 years of introduction.
commodity
It must be greatly reduced.
And when the experience of making DVD player or digital camera chips and other parts manufacturers is becoming more and more proficient, production speed will accelerate and prices will go down.
Not only the manufacture of electronic products, but also toys and
clothes
The same is true for other commodities.
The price of clothing rose from 1980 to the middle of 1990 and then plummeted.
Although not falling to an all-time low, prices are still 15 to 20% cheaper than they were 15 years ago.
On the decline in clothing prices, manufacturing progress has played 1 roles, but the emergence of globalization vocabulary 15 years ago is not a coincidence.
Globalization has brought about the explosion of World Trade and the influx of cheap labor in the developing world.
However, this does not mean that the cheaper the better.
Things are cheaper, which does not mean that the total number of branches will be relatively small.
We just bought more cheap things.
Besides, the price of real high-tech products will not drop, and it is also the thing most people want to buy.
Norris said, "have you seen the price of Uggs (Australian clothing brand)? Steve Jobs will not let iPad discount.
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