The inflation observed in March in the stores is only a taste of what is waiting for French consumers.
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Pasta, oil, flour, coffee, sugar, butter, eggs or poultry … All these products have cost more French consumer in March. The price of pasta studied more than 13%, oil and flour over 7%, and the rest of the shopping list, between 3% and 4.5%. “In March, there is a frank inflation. For all consumer products, it increased from 0.58% in February to 1.49% in March. On the only food products, it is, on average, 1.73%, “says Emily Mayer, from the IRI Institute, who scrutinizes consumers at the exit of the super and hypermarkets. The result of trade negotiations between industrialists and distributors to set the annual rates of national brand products, completed the March, begins to be felt. However, the effects should be even more perceptible in the coming weeks. “We expect 3% increase in April,” says M me Mayer.
This is just a beginning. Barely the ink of the signed contracts was dry that the manufacturers already demanded the resumption of discussions. The war in Ukraine has amplified an already pregnant phenomenon of generalized growth of oil, gas, cereals, oils, transport, packaging … Added to this, for France, an avian influenza epizootic of An unparalleled scale, which reduces poultry flocks. In this context, the government has announced a resilience plan, which includes the reopening of trade negotiations.
“The 3% on average obtained are not enough. Faced with” Putin inflation “, it is 8% to 10% of the immediate increase in order to safeguard our agriculture,” said Christiane Lambert, president From the FNSEA, at the Agricultural Union Congress, Tuesday, March 29th. Everyone makes his accounts. The April group, which markets Lesier sunflower oil, although it is sourcing from French farmers, is confronted with the auction of this oilseed, including Ukraine markets half of the world volumes.
“outbreak of transport cost”
“We obtained an increase of 9% to 10%, to take into account the progress of agricultural raw material prices. But that did not take into account inflation of the cost of energy, transport. We ask at least as much now, “explains Jean-Philippe Puig, Director General of April. The hexagonal poultry sector undergoes the rise in the cost of cereals and the avian influenza epidemic. The chicken had already been revalued by 9% in 2 021. “We had 5% higher in March. There is still 20% to pass,” says Gilles Huttepain, Vice President of the Anvol, Interprofession of Poultry. Flesh.
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