Food prices: coffee, pasta, poultry, cold meat… Which products will soon be cheaper in supermarkets?
Commercial negotiations between manufacturers and distributors that ended this Wednesday did not result in a general drop in prices in supermarkets. Only a few products should be cheaper at checkout…
This year “prices charged to large retailers will increase by an average of 2 to 3%”, announced RTL Richard Panqualt, president of Ilec, the organization of very large agri-food producers.
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On the day after the deadline for trade talks between major retailers and agro-industrial suppliers, the representative suggested that only “15 to 20% of prices” could fall: “Anything that’s based on grains, wheat“Like pasta, too”Poultry, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, palm oil…” as well as “Some varieties of coffee and mineral waterAccording to our colleagues,charcuterie and hygiene products is also affected.
Only 40% of negotiations resulted in an agreement
However, it should be noted that possible average estimates of price increases (or decreases) do not allow us to assume the level of inflation on supermarket shelves. In fact, it is the distributors who decide the price charged to the customers, more or less cutting their margins. According to a spokesperson for very large industrialists, 40% of the negotiations that were to end on January 31, ie those that concern very large industrialists, ended with an agreement.
“One of the points of agreement” for the fact that numerous negotiations were not completed on the date imposed is that “a certain number of negotiations are conducted abroad with frameworks that do not recognize the constraint of these dates” and that “French law. Through some of these international constitutions Not respectable.”