Food and beverage prices would have remained unchanged during the third week of June, when registering an inflation of 0%as revealed by a study by the consulting firm Econometrica.
The measurement carried out focused on the study of 8,000 online supermarket prices and recorded that the category values remained the same last week compared to the previous 7 days, something that It didn’t happen 30 years ago.
The report detailed that the food and beverage category had an increase of 0.1% in the last fifteen days, showing an increase of one tenth in the second week of the sixth month of the year and registering no variations (0.0%) in the third week.
Regarding the data for the first week, the report reflected that the cost of the category rose 1.2%. In this way, the consultant estimated that inflation for the month in food and beverages reaches 2.4%with one week left until it ends.
In this sense, during last month, the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages slowed down compared to April, by falling from 6% to 4.8%, while those of alcoholic beverages and tobacco rose 6.7%, according to INDEC. Both categories were above the general CPI, which was 4.2%.
So far this year, Food and beverages accumulate a rise of 65.6%while alcoholic beverages and tobacco became 80% more expensive in the first five months of the year, according to the official INDEC measurement.
In the interannual variation, meanwhile, food and beverages registered in May a price increase of 289.4% nationwide. In the case of alcoholic beverages and tobacco, inflation in the fifth month of the year compared to that of the same month in 2023 was 266.3%.
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