Why lower prices in supermarkets will wait

2023-04-27 10:50:18

This is the latest fashionable bet among economists: when will the prices in our supermarkets start to fall, in the wake of the drop in raw materials that we see almost everywhere? “Over a year, cream is at – 58%, sunflower at – 55%, soft wheat at – 30%, while barley, durum wheat, rapeseed oil, to name but a few, are also in decline”, lists Jean-François Soudais, the vice-president of the group Les Mousquetaires (Intermarché and Netto in particular).