High inflation makes it hard for firms and individuals to distinguish changes in the relative prices of particular items from general changes in the averageprice level, so price signals become blurred.
E-analyst Holden Forever told us to buy Dollar General because its price was above its nine-week average but had not yet broken through the upper end of its established range.
The broadly unchanged picture is an average across the UK. In general, surveys show that London and the South East of England have seen price rises, but there have been falls elsewhere, notably in Northern Ireland.
Small wonder foreign car makers such as Daewoo, General Motors and Ford, which had rolled out sleek cars with price tags 10 times more than what an average urban Indian household earns in a year, are shifting gears.