U.S.-OREGON-INFLATION-SURGE

Customers pay bills at the checkout counter at a supermarket in Oregon, the United States, July 13, 2022. U.S. consumer price index CPI, a broad measure of everyday goods and services, soared 9.1 percent in June from a year ago, marking the largest 12-month increase since the period ending November 1981, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. (Photo by Wang Ying/Xinhua via Getty Images)