Rosé Wine, Vaping In as South Africa Revamps Inflation Basket

South Africa will add rosé wine, snuff and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and remove frozen potato chips and condensed milk to better reflect the nation’s fast-changing shopping habits.

South Africa’s statistics agency, in a periodic review, lowered the weight of housing in the basket of goods used to calculate the consumer price index to 24.1% from 24.5%. Even so, it remained the largest category, followed by food and non-alcoholic beverages, whose weight was increased to 18.2% from 17.1%.