Family shopping 法案s leap £800 a year as cost of food basics 急に上がる

Last updated at 09:40 23 April 2008


Families are having to fork out almost £800 more on their 年次の grocery 法案s as the highest 率 of food インフレーション for a 世代 軍隊s up supermarket prices, it was 明らかにする/漏らすd.

A new 調査する shows that the price of a basket of 24 中心的要素 items has risen by 15 per cent in a year.

The 熟考する/考慮する, from price comparison website MySupermarket.co.uk, said an 普通の/平均(する) family who spent £100 a week on food shopping last year will now have to find an extra £780 a year to put the same items on the dinner (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する.

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Price 引き上げ(る): A familiy's 年次の grocery 法案 has risen by £800

The 調査する 一致するs with the larger Daily Mail Cost of Living 索引 last week, which 設立する the price of a basket of popular food and drink 製品s has risen by 15.5per cent in a year.

The 15 per cent 増加する is seven times the 率 of 増加する in the 消費者 Prices 索引, the 政府's preferred 手段 of インフレーション, which is running at 2.5 per cent.

The 消費者物価指数 has been criticised as a way of 手段ing インフレーション because it 除外するs mortgage costs and 会議 税金s, two of the biggest 重荷(を負わせる)s for many families.

It has been 報告(する)/憶測d that the cost of wheat has 二塁打d in price - with 在庫/株s at their lowest level since the Second World War.

Another 推論する/理由 food prices have ロケット/急騰するd across the world is because an 増加するing 量 of land is 存在 献身的な to growing 刈るs for biofuels.

The 総理大臣 警告するd yesterday that rising food costs 提起する/ポーズをとる as 広大な/多数の/重要な a 脅し to world 繁栄 as the 全世界の credit crunch.

Gordon Brown, who was hosting a 首脳会議 on how to 逆転する 急に上がるing prices, said the 現在の 危機 could 急落(する),激減(する) millions in the developing world into extreme poverty.

Mr Br own, who was 会合 in London with World Food Program (n)役員/(a)執行力のある director Josette Sheeran, 開発 charities and 農業者s, said 緊急の 活動/戦闘 to 刺激する food 生産/産物 is needed.

The 首相 示唆するd it may be necessary to review 計画(する)s to turn 広大な tracts of 農地 over to the 生産/産物 of biofuels.

Rising food prices, stoked by 増加するd 燃料 costs, have led to the world's first major food 危機 since World War II and 誘発するd 抗議するs across the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

Mr Brown said: "取り組むing hunger is a moral challenge to each of us and it is also a 脅し to the political and 経済的な 安定 of nations."

The price of milk and bread are 予定 to rise again 追加するing to 増加するd 圧力 on hard-圧力(をかける)d 消費者s.

Dairycrest, which 配達するs milk to 1.6million homes, is putting up the price of a pint by 4p from Monday.

The 決定/判定勝ち(する) could 運動 thousands of 顧客s to 取り消す their 配達/演説/出産s and switch to buying from cheaper supermarkets.

分かれて, the 製造者s of some of Britain's biggest bread brands - Kingsmill and Allinsons - have 警告するd that shoppers 直面する a new 一連の会議、交渉/完成する of price rises.

The 増加するs could 追加する another 3p to the price of a large 800g loaf.

The news will come as a 大打撃を与える blow to millions of families who are already struggling to 対処する with the higher cost of mortgages, gas, electricity, 石油, water and 会議 税金.

The supermarket price of milk has leapt by 17 per cent - 5p - in the past year to around 33p.

Milk and other 酪農場 prices have been driven up in the past year by the fact there has been a 抱擁する 増加する in 需要・要求する from 中国 and India.

The burgeoning middle classes in these 急速な/放蕩な growing economies are switching to a more western diet, 強めるing 需要・要求する and so bringing higher prices.

The price of a big brand loaf of bread has risen by 25per cent - 23p - to £1.29 in just a year.

Bosses at Associated British Foods(ABF) said yesterday that they are in talk s with supermarkets about putting up the price of a loaf.

The company said a 75per cent 増加する in the price of wheat on world markets is 運動ing up prices.

The 増加する 茎・取り除くs from poor 収穫s linked to 天候 extremes, 含むing 干ばつs in Australia. At the same time an 増加するing 量 of wheat is 存在 used to make biofuels.

ABF makes some of the biggest food brands in the nation's kitchen cupboards, 含むing Ryvita, Ovaltine, Twinings, Pataks and Mazola.

As a result, the company is 特に 攻撃を受けやすい to 最近の 増加するs in the cost of 重要な 成分s such as wheat, corn, rice and 酪農場 製品s.

長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある, George Weston, said the company has been able to pass on 増加するs it has seen in prices to its 顧客s.

He said another price rise on bread is 要求するd in the coming months and the company is 持つ/拘留するing 会談 with retailers.

"にもかかわらず the challenge of 速く rising 商品/必需品 and energy costs 直面するd by many of our 商売/仕事s, 歳入 and 利益(をあげる) from grocery, 成分s and 農業 all grew 堅固に," he said.

Dairycrest 配達するs milk to more homes than any other 会社/堅い in England - 1.6m 所有物/資産/財産s.

The 会社/堅い last put up the price of a pint in September, when the 人物/姿/数字 rose by 4p to a new price of 53p-55p. The 最新の 増加する, will 押し進める up the 人物/姿/数字 again to 57p-59p.

That is かなり more than a supermarket, where milk can be bought for around 33p a pint.

The company has sent a letter to 顧客s pleading with them to stay loyal to their milkmen, who 供給する a 価値のある community service, and not to 取り消す 配達/演説/出産s.

The letter, 調印するd by a 上級の (n)役員/(a)執行力のある, マイク Sheldon, 非難するs rising costs and the need to 支払う/賃金 農業者s more.

It 明言する/公表するs: "You will have noticed rising 燃料 prices at the forecourts and been told of higher costs by your gas and electricity 供給者s.

"These 増加するd costs, coupled with 増加するd 一括ing costs and 増加するd 雇用 costs, have 堅固に 衝撃d on our 商売/仕事.

"We have tried our best to 吸収する as many of these inflationary costs as possible, but unfortunately, にもかかわらず our best 成果/努力s, we cannot 吸収する them all.

"Having 延期するd as long as we could, we now have to pass some of these costs on to you. Accordingly, with 影響 from April 28th 2008 our milk price will 増加する by 4 pence per pint."

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