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The deals. Market Basket's slogan is “more for your dollar,” and ing to a 2022 analysis by the consumer nonprofit, Boston Consumers' Checkbook, it meets that promise. Data show the grocer's prices were about 18% lower than its Boston-area competitors.

A market basket or commodity bundle is a fixed list of items, in given proportions. Its most common use is to track the progress of inflation in an economy or specific market. That is, to measure the changes in the value of money over time.

In 2019, Big Y supermarkets phased out plastic bags at checkout and implemented a 10-cent charge per paper bag. Some other supermarkets, including Market Basket and Shaw's, still do not charge customers for bags at checkout.

Market baskets work by using a representative selection of goods and services to model the spending patterns of larger market segments. For example, in the broader category of medical care, the market basket may include prices for things like prescription drugs, medical supplies, physicians' services and eyeglasses.

What is a Market Basket (MB)? The market basket is described as a fixed-weight index because it answers the question of how much more or less it would cost, at a later time, to purchase the same mix of goods and services that was purchased in a base period. As such, it measures "pure" price changes only.

A basket is a collection of multiple securities (e.g., stocks, currencies, etc.) which have a similar theme or share certain criteria. For instance, a sector exchange traded fund (ETF) may contain a basket of stocks that are all in the same industry.

a bundle (or basket) is simply of a combination of goods and services. bundle a is two haircuts and a can of Pepsi. bundle b is four cans of Pepsi and no haircuts.

For example, the major categories you might see included in a market basket are housing, education, recreation, food and beverage, apparel, transportation, health care, and other goods and services.