Food prices: according to a Bercy report, everyone is playing the game to absorb inflation

Remember, at the start of the summer holidays, Michel-Édouard Leclerc, boss of the stores of the same name, multiplies the interventions in the media to denounce “suspicious increases” in the prices of food products. Clearly, some manufacturers take advantage of galloping inflation to increase their prices while their production costs have not moved in the same proportions. Accusations which then come to relay the feeling of many consumers who note, in this scorching summer, that prices are soaring as quickly as temperatures.