Government spokesperson Sophie Primas believes that food prices should not fall, because they must “pay farmers”.
The government spokesperson calls for looking beyond the shopping cart. Invited on the BFMTV set, Sophie Primas denounced the cost of non-food expenses. “Often we look at the price of the shopping cart and forget the rest,” she assures us.
“It’s everything else that’s increasing,” explains the minister, pointing to “the cost of housing, that of insurance.”
“Housing in particular is an extremely important component, we see young people returning to live with their parents,” regrets the minister.
“There are expenses which have become extremely important and which we have not seen increased, we have not paid attention to them, in particular housing”, confirms Grégory Caret, director of the UFC consumption observatory -What to Choose.
“In 20 years, for those who are lucky enough to borrow, the average loan duration has increased from 8 years to 13 years,” points out the specialist.
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“Energy has increased a lot, over the last three years, electricity is +50% for individuals,” he adds, also citing home and health insurance.
“Food has a price”
It is these prices, according to Sophie Primas, which must fall and not those of food. “15 years ago, food represented between 17 and 19% of our income, today it is 11%,” she emphasizes.
“Food has a price, it must also pay farmers,” she insists.
“We were used to disinflation on these products, there were more and more promotions, a very very significant price war, and in the end we arrived at economic aberrations, in the end we destroyed the value” , she stressed.