Altroconsumo: inflation does not stop but some prices go down

The

and the

have had a heavy impact, generating negative effects, including the growth of inflation in various product sectors.

As confirmed by the latest Istat surveys, in fact,

.

This was  announced by

with its periodic analysis on food prices.

The survey was conducted on

in different points of sale.

Under the lens the

. 

The analysis

compared to the average prices recorded in September 2021, for all 10 product categories

there are

between

(August), however, there are

and even

in particular

but above

and

compared to August,

compared to May)

For courgettes and bananas, a comparison was maintained over the year, because the effect of the seasonality of these products makes the comparison between different months and seasons of little relevance.

Assuming that we were shopping with all the products 

detected a year ago, we would have spent

on average

€ 20.16

(September 2021)

today we would spend

a total of

(+ € 4.03).

Specifically, the cost of each item has undergone a considerable variation, starting with sunflower oil: + 61% in one year.

Just think that between March and April 2022 alone, the increase was 36% and prices continued to increase until June.

Only during the summer, there was a first hint of stability and between August and September 2022 the average price of sunflower oil fell by 5%;

compared to before the summer (May 2022) the reduction was 11%.

Product 

The price of

has grown a lot: + 37% compared to September 2021.

The cost has soared between

May 2021 and January 2022,

registering a + 18%.

Prices rose further between January and May 2022

(+ 13%).

Growth has progressed since May

but at a slower pace: + 6%. 

The price of

has increased by + 26% in one year, but in the last month

the price

turns out

slightly down: -1%.

Despite the increase of + 15% compared to last year, in the last month

is

slightly down (-2%).

The cost of

is growing: between September 2021 and September 2022 the average price increased by 24%.

The increases began in summer 2021 and intensified during summer 2022. The increase in September was also significant (+ 4%). 

Ground

recorded an increase of + 7% in one year: the growth reached its level in July 2022 (where the price reaches 7.05 euros per kilo).

In the last two months, however, there has been a marked decline.

As far as

is concerned , for several months there have been significant increases in the retail price announced by the increases in prices at origin (farm-gate milk prices) both in Italy and abroad, also caused by the increase in the costs of feed and those of energy.

In the last month, + 3% was recorded between August and September 2022, + 17% compared to before the summer (May 2022) and + 26% compared to a year ago. 

Tomato

is one of the products that later underwent price increases that had already affected other products, but now the increases are there: + 3% compared to August 2022;

+ 9% compared to before the summer (May 2022) and + 15% compared to last year. 

Although the price of

is strongly influenced by seasonality, the prices of September can be compared with the prices of the same month a year ago and there is an increase of 33%.

Until the beginning of the year, the cost of

had not increased significantly, despite the fact that it is a fruit that comes from afar and on which tensions on the transport front and fuel increases could have affected.

From the first months of 2021, however, the increases have begun and compared to 2021, there is still a growth of 11%.