{"id":11145,"date":"2017-01-24T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2017-01-24T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:00:02","slug":"higher-gas-prices-are-a-big-sales-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/higher-gas-prices-are-a-big-sales-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher gas prices are a big sales risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Feeling thankful that gas prices are pretty low at the moment. Well don`t get to comfortable because these gas prices are expected to rise. With rising gas prices on the rise this could spell bad news for restaurant sales especially same-store sales. As more and more people look to get their food from the grocery stores as gas prices rise.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Gas prices plunged late in 2014 and in 2015. Unsurprisingly, restaurant sales in early 2015 were spectacular.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Gas prices remain exceptionally low. Even if they increase 50 percent, they will still remain 25 percent below all-time highs.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Still, gas prices have increased for 14 days straight, and now average $2.21 per gallon, according to AAA. That\u2019s about 20 cents per gallon more than a year ago, or a 10-percent increase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Gas prices are creeping back up as the price of oil rises. It\u2019s more likely that gas prices will keep increasing than it is that they\u2019ll fall again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/consumer-trends\/higher-gas-prices-are-big-sales-risk\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/consumer-trends\/higher-gas-prices-are-big-sales-risk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling thankful that gas prices are pretty low at the moment. Well don`t get to comfortable because these gas prices are expected to rise. With rising gas prices on the rise this could spell bad news for restaurant sales especially same-store sales. As more and more people look to get their food from the grocery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}