2024-09-30 13:55:10
While the overall inflation rate is falling, two popular vegetables are becoming more expensive again. But there is also good news.
Inflation in Germany has continued to decline. According to the Federal Statistical Office, consumer prices only increased by 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year. This means that the inflation rate is 0.3 percentage points below that of the previous month. But how does this low inflation rate affect prices at the supermarket checkout?
t-online looks at the shopping cart and looks at the development compared to the previous month. To do this, our editorial team regularly notes the prices for selected products in the Rewe online shop and in branches of the supermarket chain.
After potato prices fell slightly last month, vegetables have become more expensive again this month. In the current survey, the price was almost 14 percent higher than in the previous month. However, there was an even higher increase in iceberg lettuce. The price for a head of lettuce rose by more than 34 percent, from 0.66 euros to 0.89 euros.
Apples, on the other hand, became cheaper. After there was a drastic price increase here in the previous month, the price for a bowl of six Pink Lady apples this month is only 2.99 euros (-18.97 percent). This means apples are cheaper than they have been since June 2023. Toilet paper (-21.11 percent) and tomato cream soup (-10.05 percent) also became cheaper. However, the price of the remaining products in our shopping cart did not change.
In total, the products in the t-online shopping cart cost 76.63 euros in September. When we surveyed last month it was 77.80 euros. This means that the shopping cart has become 1.5 percent cheaper.
This discrepancy between the increase in the official inflation rate and a decrease in prices at the supermarket checkout is due to the fact that the Federal Statistical Office includes significantly more prices in its calculations. The government statisticians also examine changes in prices for energy and services such as visits to the hairdresser.
For the survey: Since the supermarket regularly changes its range, makes special offers or certain products are temporarily unavailable, not all items can be compared every time the t-online shopping cart is surveyed. This was taken into account in the total shopping cart with a corresponding adjustment. How much more expensive life actually becomes ultimately depends largely on your own consumption habits.