During the first week of March alone, dairy products from Arla rose by between 2 and 10 percent, according to Matpriskollen, an independent company that collects price information from the large food chains.

- We have not seen such large increases in decades, says Ulf Mazur.

He estimates that other dairy suppliers will most certainly follow suit.

Erodes purchasing power

The increasingly expensive food will really erode the Swede's purchasing power, and every percent that the food becomes more expensive has major effects, he explains.

Now everything also goes very fast.

- This is completely sick.

I've been doing food prices since the 80's, but I have not seen anything like it, and it's happening right now.

The price increases are due to the increased costs for energy, shipping, packaging materials and raw materials that arose in the autumn.

The large price increases for energy and raw materials in connection with the Ukraine war will come later.

Ulf Mazur says that price increases take place through negotiations between suppliers and chains.

Not all categories are negotiated at the same time.

- I think there is a huge panic both at food chains and suppliers now

"Do not make forecasts"

But food chains do not want to talk about panic.

On the other hand, it is quite true, as Ulf Mazur says, that prices in certain product categories are increasing both rapidly and a lot now, confirms Therese Knapp at Coop's press service.

Ica also does not want to say anything about the price development.

Axfood, which owns Hemköp and Willys, among others, also sees that the arrows are pointing upwards for prices, but Magnus Törnblom, press manager at Axfood, cannot say where it will land.

- We do not make forecasts, but we can state that there is upward pressure.

There are many factors that come into play.

We have an intensified dialogue with suppliers.

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