Another record high for food prices
Food prices have gone up over 10% in the last year. But the cumulative impact is even worse. Since Oct 2017, seasonally adjusted food inflation has been:
- Vegetables up 36%
- Fruit up 25%
- Milk, cheese, eggs up 24%
- Meat, poultry up 22%
- Bread up 19%
- Grocery food up 17%
And what was food inflation for the five years before that (under National):
- Vegetables up 6%
- Fruit up 13%
- Milk, cheese, eggs up 7%
- Meat, poultry up 1%
- Bread down 7%
- Grocery food up 2%