The study reflects that up to 84% of the items tracked have raised their prices, with food being the most affected
That the shopping cart is more expensive is not a sensation of the Spanish. The price of agricultural food grew by 31% in 2021 and, according to the Allianz ‘European food inflation’ report, it will increase by another 23% in 2022. A rise that translates into 243 euros more on average compared to last year and that will affect to all of Europe. Although, from the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) they point out that not only are supermarket food products more expensive, but so are hygiene and cleaning products.
But is this rise in prices the same in all supermarkets? The OCU has analyzed the prices of 156 products in the online stores of Alcampo, Caprabo, Carrefour, Condis, Dia, El Corte Inglés, Eroski, Hipercor and Mercadona. In this study, the prices of 107 manufacturer brand items, 28 private label items and 21 fresh products (fruits and vegetables, meat and fish) were collected quarterly from December 20, 2020 to March 8, 2022. .
The analysis reflects that the rise has been close to 10% in all the chains, with some differences between them. The supermarket that has raised its prices the most for its products is Mercadona, with 11.9%. Eroski and Alcampo also exceed the 10% barrier. The OCU believes that Mercadona’s rebound is possibly related to the great weight of the private label in its assortment of products. Día does so with 8.5% and Hipercor with 9.9%.
In addition, the OCU places the Alcampo supermarket as the cheapest. Of the entire period studied, they highlight that the increases were more moderate until December 2021, but that they accelerated in the first quarter of 2022. The reasons? The OCU points out that it is due to the effects of the war in Ukraine, the rise in fuel prices and the transport strike.
As for the products affected by this increase, they indicate that up to 84% of the items tracked have raised their prices, with food being the most affected. Among them, oils (34%), fish (16%), packaged foods (11%) and dairy products (11%) stand out. Thus, from the OCU they warn that “these are worrying data and that, if maintained, they will mean an increase of more than 500 euros a year in the shopping basket for an average family.”
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