Meals prices prolong slide, elevating hopes for cheaper groceries

The stoop within the gauge from final 12 months’s file has taken time to feed by to customers, with transport, labor and vitality prices remaining excessive. Nonetheless, there are indicators that grocery costs in nations just like the UK are beginning to ease, which might deliver some reduction to stretched households.

After a dry begin to summer time, rains within the US Midwest have boosted prospects for this 12 months’s corn crop, and Brazil is beginning a bumper harvest of its personal. The outlook for indulgent treats might additionally start to ease, as sugar costs fell for the primary time in 5 months. But costs stay traditionally excessive and unfavorable climate is threatening West African cocoa provides