{"id":135357,"date":"2025-05-27T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135357\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:37:11","slug":"uk-food-prices-hit-one-year-high-for-fourth-consecutive-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135357\/","title":{"rendered":"UK food prices hit one-year high for fourth consecutive month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the overall shop price remain unchanged the price of food suffered a significant spike, up 2.8% from 2.6% in April, according to data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the market research firm NielsenIQ.<br \/>\n Good weather boosts April UK retail sales to highest level since July 2022<br \/>\n This was above the three-month average of 2.6% and fresh food in particular had a notable jump during the period, going from 1.8% in April to to 2.4% in May.<br \/>\n The three-month average rate for fresh food price increases is 1.8%. BRC&#8217;s CEO Helen Dickinson noted that among the rest of the goo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the overall shop price remain unchanged the price of food suffered a significant spike, up 2.8% from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,52161,393,21508,4884,52164,476,59358,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-135357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-british-retail-consortium","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-food-prices","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-helen-dickinson","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-mike-watkins","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114578656153475305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}