The year 2025 has just begun and some good news has brightened up the month of January a little. As reported by Le Parisien, revealing data from the consumer association UFC-Que Choisir, the average French shopping basket has seen a slight drop in price compared to last year. Since 2022, the cost of food products has jumped by 20%. From now on, even if this will not drastically change the purchasing power of the most modest citizens, a drop of 1.6% has been recorded at the start of 2025. The price of pasta, milk, yogurt, toilet paper in particular recorded a drop in price.
In comparison, a basket of 78.05 euros in 2024 will now cost 76.79 euros. A small financial change which will in any case slightly reduce the overall monthly bill for family food shopping. Grégory Caret, director of the UFC-Que Choisir consumer observatory, recalled, quite frankly, that “consumers do not see the difference as prices remain high”. And indeed, it will not be tomorrow that manufacturers and distributors will decide to return to 2022 prices (i.e. a cost which was 64.78 euros for the example of the food basket cited above), before the huge jump in inflation which has greatly affected the least well-off French people for two years. In recent months, food products have lost 1.3% at the supermarket checkout (…)
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