{"id":56297,"date":"2022-12-19T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/?p=56297"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:54:48","slug":"ap-news-christmas-tree-demand-remains-high-despite-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/in-the-news\/ap-news-christmas-tree-demand-remains-high-despite-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"<span>AP News<\/span> Christmas tree demand remains high despite inflation\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) \u2014<\/b> For all the worries about inflation and the economy, Americans aren\u2019t scrimping on a centerpiece of many celebrations this holiday season: the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retailers from Home Depot and Lowes to mom and pop operations raised their prices on trees \u2014 but people are still buying them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Christmas tree growers fretted over external factors \u2014 high fuel, fertilizer and labor costs \u2014 only to rediscover that holiday greenery is largely inflation-proof, even as Americans cut back on retail spending last month.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/inflation-business-306084a718844474d9ca01e10c8b865d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ FULL ARTICLE &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) \u2014 For all the worries about inflation and the economy, Americans aren\u2019t scrimping on a centerpiece of many celebrations this holiday season: the Christmas tree. Retailers from Home Depot and Lowes to mom and pop operations raised their prices on trees \u2014 but people are still buying them. Some Christmas tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61910,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56297\/revisions\/61910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}