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Consumer & Retail Ops · weekly ban:low tA

Grocery flyer deflation tracker — Kroger/Albertsons digital circulars

unit price of a fixed 30-item basket (milk, eggs, bread, ground beef, etc.) pulled from weekly digital circulars

Feed detail
Measures
unit price of a fixed 30-item basket (milk, eggs, bread, ground beef, etc.) pulled from weekly digital circulars
Source
kroger.com/albertsons.com weekly ad JSON (or Flipp aggregator API)
Access
json-api
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
a hand-built, narrow CPI-food-at-home nowcast from actual retailer circulars, ahead of BLS CPI release and useful for KR/ACI margin reads
Maps to
KR, ACI stock; food CPI subcomponent
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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