With households having faced relentless price rises with their food shop, there's one store that has been the cheapest for basics since January.
30.05.2023 - 08:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Soaring food prices may have peaked, a survey has suggested. Food inflation fell to 15.4 per cent in the year to May, according to a survey by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Nielsen.
It was down from 15.7% in April. But that is still an incredibly high figure, meaning that a person who spent around £20 in a food shop a year ago would now be paying a little over £23 for the same items.
This is an average so the exact number would depend on what they bought. Although May’s figure is a little lower than the food inflation seen in April, it is still the second fastest annual increase the BRC has ever measured, it said.
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It added that the price of fresh food increased by 17.2% in the year to May, down from 17.8% in April. However, ambient food inflation – that is to say shelf-stable items that can be stored at room temperature – rose from 12.9% in April to 13.1% in May.
Overall inflation in shops rose from 8.8% to 9% between April and May, the BRC said, an all-time high.
"While overall shop price inflation rose slightly in May, households will welcome food inflation beginning to fall," said BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson. "The slow in inflation was largely driven by lower energy and commodity costs starting to filter through to lower prices of some staples including butter, milk, fruit and fish.
"Conversely, the price of chocolate and coffee rose off the back of the ongoing high global costs for these commodities. While non-food inflation rose, consumers are benefiting from heavy discounts in footwear as well as books and home entertainment.
"Fierce competition between supermarkets has helped keep British food among the cheapest of the large
With households having faced relentless price rises with their food shop, there's one store that has been the cheapest for basics since January.
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