Data from food consumption report Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food It confirms that Spaniards continue to reduce the volume of their shopping carts, which fell by up to 9% to 590 kilos/liter per year.
This is the result of the last update of this report with October data and therefore, Analyzes consumption patterns of Spanish households Compared to the previous twelve months from November 2021 to October 2022.
In the same period, the decrease in expenditures was much less, because the bill to buy food and drink for the house remained at 100 TL. 1,585,49 €, which means a decrease of only 2.8%; In any case, this is a trend change as the cost per person has increased due to the rise in prices in the previous months.
The Ministry’s report states that the increase in the purchase price in October was 6.9%, a record lower than that recorded by the CPI for food this month It was over 14%.
Food and beverage expenditures across the entire country 73,574 million euros in one year, this represents a 2.5% reduction.
By products, Spanish families reduced their purchases of all the products that make up this analysis. two minor categories, such as raw milk or PGI wines, that they are the only survivors of these special red numbers.
meat demand for example, it fell 12.4% in one year and frozen 19.2%.
fresh, chicken and pork Although decreases of 13.8% and 10.0% were recorded, respectively, they were the ones holding the decline best.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, “strong contraction” For the fisheries sector, which has decreased by 15% and is focused on fresh products (-16.3%).
Dairy sector fell by 6.5 percentbecause households reduced their consumption of both liquid milk (-5.8%) and dairy products (-7.4%).
other essential products such as eggs (-8.9%) and Candy (-16.7%), bread (-7.0%) and (-2.2%) at the end of the rolling year in October 2022.
As a paradigmatic situation, liquid oilIt boosted the growth of olive oil sales by 24.7%, with a demand drop of 8.5% and an average price increase of 36.4%.
fresh products It loses its presence in the Spanish household with the shrinkage in its volume. fresh vegetables and potatoes (-13.9%) and also fresh fruit (-12.2%).
when it comes beverages, none improve the figures from 12 months ago; wines and derivatives (-13.8%), soft drinks and soft drinks (-6.3%), as well as bottled drinking water (-2.8%) fell.