You are a basket case

What have an iPad, takeaway chicken and a can of Guinness got in common? No, we haven't found out what you have in your flat at the moment, they're the latest additions to the fictional shopping basket that is used to calculate inflation. Out goes the cost of processing colour film and the price of a glass casserole dish. Already in are smartphones, the price of an app and dating agency fees: which does seem to imply that the Office of National statistics is following the Backbytes readership around.