How to Use consumer goods in a Sentence

consumer goods

plural noun
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  • It’s not just the price of consumer goods that are soaring right now.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Toys, books, bicycles, new clothes and more are just a few consumer goods that have been subject to shortages, backorders and delays.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • After nearly three years of rapid successive price hikes, consumer goods behemoths have been trying to pull shoppers in once again.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Demand for consumer goods rose, especially via e-commerce, straining supply chains.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Business lobby groups for the US retail and consumer goods industries have also sounded the alarm.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The looming increase, on top of rising prices for many consumer goods and commodities, is likely to cause stress for Americans at many income levels.
    — J.j. McCorvey, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Wednesday’s inflation report showed prices for consumer goods were up 9.1% from a year earlier, while services prices were up 3.2%.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Then there is the loss of Texas sales of consumer goods, cattle, gas, petroleum and electricity to Mexico.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The manufacturing sector is 30% of the total and includes the world's largest output of automobiles and loads of consumer goods.
    — Simon Constable, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Semiconductor factories, therefore, shifted to manufacture chips for consumer goods, leading to a major shortage of car chips.
    — Ran Poliakine, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Amazon’s search option alone belies any claim that Google dominates online advertising by dominating searches for consumer goods.
    — Alan Reynolds, National Review, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The price for consumer goods and services jumped 7.9% last month and hit a new 40-year-high.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Like all consumer goods, fair food prices have shot up this year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • The index measures the change in prices for consumer goods and services.
    — Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Prices for consumer goods stayed low, and drivers’ wages fell.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are threatening flows of grain, oil and consumer goods.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The rate of inflation on a range of consumer goods has slowed markedly.
    — Peter S. Goodman Bridget Bennett, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Prices are up sharply for a broad spectrum of consumer goods and services.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Worker’s wages, meanwhile, have not risen to keep up with the higher prices of consumer goods.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The rising cost of consumer goods is a chief reason for the increase, Foster said.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 July 2024
  • Rising prices are mainly due to the rising prices of consumer goods.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
  • That number tracks the cost of consumer goods from food and housing to vehicles.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 15 July 2022
  • Both chemicals were used to make consumer goods but were phased out of production in the 2000s.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This should be the approach for all consumer goods industries.
    — Andrew Martin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • There is some evidence that much of the price hikes for food and other consumer goods could have been avoided.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • It’s the latest consumer goods company to warn of the impact of rising prices.
    — Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The fast-moving consumer goods segment has been FPIs’ favorite, too.
    — Quartz, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The new plastic could be used to create everything from car parts to consumer goods.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
  • Truist upgrades Newell Brands to buy from hold Truist said the consumer goods company is a turnaround stock.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The same rule might apply to pricey consumer goods such as washers and dryers, refrigerators and air conditioners, many of them made in Mexico.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024

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