Food inflation in the United Kingdom (UK) increased to 15.7 percent in the year to April, up from 15.0 percent in March, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) reported on Tuesday.
Fresh food inflation rose to a record 17.8 percent in April, up from 17.0 percent in March.
Food costs in the country remained high due to continuous cost pressures throughout the supply chain, according to BRC Chief Executive Helen Dickinson.
“The knock-on effect from increased production and packaging costs meant that ready meals became more expensive and coffee prices were also up due to the high cost of coffee beans, as well as key producer nations exporting less,” she said.
Food price inflation, according to the BRC, has peaked. “We should start to see food prices come down in the coming months as wholesale price cuts and other cost pressures filter through,” she predicted.
For more than a year, Britain has been gripped by excessive inflation. Households in the country have been feeling the pinch as the country’s cost-of-living crisis worsens. Widespread strikes erupted in the summer of 2022 and are still ongoing amid pay conflicts.
