How to Use consumer goods in a Sentence

consumer goods

plural noun
  • There can be consumer goods, maybe low-tech items.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Like all consumer goods, fair food prices have shot up this year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • In the short term, tariffs will add to the cost of consumer goods.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Prices for consumer goods stayed low, and drivers’ wages fell.
    — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And doing so may lead to changes in the way consumer goods are packaged.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
  • Prices are up sharply for a broad spectrum of consumer goods and services.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But the prices of food and other consumer good could rise, Davis said.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 8 May 2020
  • Trucks rely on diesel, and nearly all consumer goods move by truck.
    — Bo Evans, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the stuff being sold on these platforms are consumer goods, and some are ideas.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • So just how much of an impact has inflation had on consumer goods?
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The rate of inflation on a range of consumer goods has slowed markedly.
    — Peter S. Goodman Bridget Bennett, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Rising prices are mainly due to the rising prices of consumer goods.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The consumer goods giant plans to counter that in part by raising prices on its products.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
  • The index measures the change in prices for consumer goods and services.
    — Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The components go into a wide range of consumer goods.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But consumer goods companies might be starting to turn that around.
    — Emily Chasan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Among the most telling categories are basic consumer goods and cars.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 17 July 2025
  • This should be the approach for all consumer goods industries.
    — Andrew Martin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • As a result, freight costs are rising, which in turn leads to higher prices for consumer goods.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 30 June 2021
  • Worker’s wages, meanwhile, have not risen to keep up with the higher prices of consumer goods.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • That includes things like smartphones, toys, footwear and many other consumer goods.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The new plastic could be used to create everything from car parts to consumer goods.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
  • That number tracks the cost of consumer goods from food and housing to vehicles.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 15 July 2022
  • The increases come as prices for all consumer goods have gone up faster than expected.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The consumer goods giant has been eyeing a spinoff of its grocery business.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The tariffs have triggered a trade war that threatens to raise the cost of a number of consumer goods.
    — Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • However, turnarounds in the staid consumer goods space often take years, if not decades.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Teams of two tear through the aisles, filling up their carts, and answer trivia questions about consumer goods.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • One challenge to my positive setup this week might be the strength in the consumer goods cohort.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026

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