Money Box Live: Cost of Food
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Grocery prices have increased by 17.1% in the four weeks to 19th February, meaning it’s at the highest level they’ve ever been recorded. This could mean households see over £800 extra on their annual food shop (Kantar).
With grocery inflation being the second most important financial issue for the public, behind energy costs, we speak to shopper’s about how their household budgets are being affected.
The experts on the panel are, Kris Hamer, Director of Insights at the British Retail Consortium, Sabine Goodwin, Coordinator at the Independent Food Aid Network and Lisa Webb, consumer expert at Which.
Presenter: Dan Whitworth Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Clare Worden
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| 0:43.2 | Hello and welcome to Moneybox Live, the podcast all about your money. |
| 0:47.9 | Now, something every single one of us spends some of that money on is food. |
| 0:51.9 | And whether it's at the local corner shop or the big or small supermarkets and everything in |
| 0:56.6 | between, the price we pay for that food is rising. |
| 0:59.8 | At the fastest rate, many of us have ever seen. |
| 1:02.5 | According to the latest figures, you're paying 17% more for the same basket or trolley |
| 1:07.5 | of shopping than you were this time last year. |
| 1:10.1 | So if your monthly shop last year |
| 1:11.9 | was £100, you're now paying £117. So how is that impacting your finances and what can |
| 1:19.2 | you do to try to bring your shopping bills down? To get us started, I've been speaking to Fahat |
| 1:24.2 | outside her local supermarket in Halifax in West Yorkshire. |
| 1:28.3 | I used to come to the supermarket for my weekly shop. |
| 1:31.3 | 40, 45 pound, good amount of food and some extras, toiletries and stuff. |
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