Tablet computers added to inflation basket of goods This mirrors the evolution of computer equipment through desktop personal computers, laptops and now tablets, and they are being introduced to capture price changes in this rapidly expanding market. Smartphones and the "apps" that run on them were added to the basket last year, replacing mobile phone downloads such as ringtones and wallpaper. Teenage fiction, such as the vampire romance Twilight, was also added to the basket this year to reflect the genre's growing presence, as it was previously divided between adult and children's fiction. Cans of stout, such as Guinness, have also been added to widen the coverage of beers in the basket, along with pineapples, hot oat cereals and takeaway chicken and chips. Boiled sweets were bumped out by a more broadly-defined "bag of sweets not chocolate" to reflect the increasing popularity of foam sweets such as Haribo in recent years. Other casualties included glass ovenware casserole dishes, step ladders and annual leisure centre membership. Television licences will now be included in both CPI and RPI rates of inflation, rather than just in the RPI calculation, the ONS said.