South Africa will add rosé wine, snuff and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and remove frozen potato chips and condensed milk to better reflect the nation’s fast-changing shopping habits.

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Stats SA has updated its inflation basket, bidding farewell to frozen potato chips, and adding rosé wine and vaping.

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 slid 0.12 percent to 8,399.10, with property developers, energy and tech stocks leading losses. The broader All Ordinaries index ended down 0.18 percent at 8,644.50.