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We've seen evidence of that within the economy, that, you know, as americans we want to have our experiences, especially after being under lockdown and feeling like we were sequestered so long that we wanted a normal holiday season. basically what you're saying, the shoppers are blowing through that. however they're paying for it is another story, but they're managing. >> jacqui, they're shopping smarter today. look, our fresh turkeys and i recommend everybody go fresh, don't get a frozen turkey for thanksgiving. get a fresh turkey. they were 2.69 last year and free range, no antibiotics and t...

Go to the bbc news website,, bbc.co.uk/news, in our cost of living tackling together series, there is a lot of extra information. there may be some announcements that the government will scrap the cap, limiting annual council tax rises to 2.99% plus 1% for social care. we will know more on thursday, but lots of useful information on our website, so do go there. it is helpful. a bbc investigation has discovered evidence that workers on world cup related infrastructure projects in qatar have recently died or suffered abuse, despite assurances safety standards had improved. new figures from a hum...

We do this every two years but next one is the big one, the presidential election in which you have now election deniers, they have a game plan of the way they want to take the next election regardless of the vote. and you had these polling averages that had things like trafalgar and all these other republican pollsters in them, and you talked about how there was a big disconnect between what they said was going to happen, look at that, r-2.99. r, 0.8 forfivethirtyeight but it turned out democrats plus 4. >> the truth is in the last few weeks, not only was the early vote kind of incredible for...

Enforcing the rule. >> this is a tight race, this is a tight race of one or two points. [cheers and applause] it looks like he could flip it from democrat to republican. finally your name? >> andrew. >> you are a caterer so your prices are affecting you as well? >> you look at two or three years ago, you would buy 10 pounds of potatoes, $2.99. but now potatoes $8, $9. little butter patches to be $0.02 a piece that once you get at a restaurant but i paid $0.10 each. >> everybody -- who else is impacted by inflation? [cheers and applause] who was going to vote right now after breakfast? [cheers ...

Black friday-- holiday shoppers are already hunting for the best deals. >> this is marked down from $3.99 to $2.99. >> reporter: half of this year's gift-givers say they plan to start shopping by the end of october. that's why target rolled out its "deal days" event this week, slashing prizes up to 50%, timed just days ahead of amazon's highly-anticipated prime early access sale. it almost seems like an arms race? >> retailers definitely have an arms race to reach shoppers while the shopper still has her or his money to spend on holiday items. >> reporter: surveys show 40% of holiday shoppers ...