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Washing-up liquid, margarine and oil have increased by almost 50% already this year across Spain
Inflation climbed to 9.8% in Spain last month, its sharpest increase in almost 40 years, and consumers are well and truly feeling the pinch, with the average household set to pay 500 euros more on their shopping this year.
Rising costs have affected everything from fresh fruit and veggies to personal hygiene products, and the latest information from the Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU) shows that 84% of common supermarket purchases have gone up in price.
What’s more, inflation has impacted both name-brand and own-brand products, and the OCU predicts that things will only get worse “in the coming months.”
The products that have increased the most in 2022 are olive oil (53.6%) and sunflower oil (49.3%) as a result of increased demand due to the war in Ukraine, followed by washing-up liquid (49.1%) and margarine (41.5%). Next, with increases of between 30% and 40%, are pasta, bananas from the Canary Islands and salmon.
While some products such as pork and onions have gone down in price, no decrease has exceeded 10%, a worrying fact given that the OCU surveyed 156 of the most basic household products across nine national supermarket chains.
Overall, the cost of shopping has increased by 9.4% already this year, added to the extra money families have to pay on fuel, gas and electricity, which the OCU has valued at 800 euros. And while the Spanish government has discounted petrol and diesel until the end of June, the organisation believes that the Executive must do more to mitigate rising costs, such as “suspending taxes on energy” in order to “contain the prices of manufactured products.”
“Faced with such a negative historical situation, we should also have historical measures to curb this increase,” the OCU spokesperson concluded.
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