{"id":300880,"date":"2025-07-29T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300880\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:50:17","slug":"eddie-punch-i-went-to-the-supermarkets-in-france-recently-and-it-was-not-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300880\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Punch: I went to the supermarkets in France recently \u2013 and it was not cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">There\u2019s been an outcry about our food prices, but we\u2019re nowhere near the worst when it comes to meat, milk, cheese, eggs and fish\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cheese could be any price in France, from \u20ac25\/kg to \u20ac50\/kg. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5de75916-36dd-461a-84e1-d20dd912572c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cheese could be any price in France, from \u20ac25\/kg to \u20ac50\/kg. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Isn\u2019t it great all the same to see such concern among the political classes for increased transparency in supermarket pricing and understanding the economics of the food chain?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">No sooner had Jennifer Whitmore of the Social Democrats brought up the need for transparency than Alan Dillon, Minister of State with Responsibility for Retail, was reflecting on the possible need for more competition in the retail sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been an outcry about our food prices, but we\u2019re nowhere near the worst when it comes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-300880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935904908372201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300880","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=300880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}