During the past two years a shopping trolley full of groceries in Belgium has become 29% more expensive. That’s according to the consumer’s association Test Aankoop that monitors the prices of 3,000 products at the country’s 7 leading supermarket chains. In December, the prices of the products surveyed by Test-Aankoop were 8.1% higher than they were a year earlier.
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Consumer’s association says: "Groceries in Belgium have become 29% more expensive in 2 years"
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Vegetables in particular have become more expensive, up by 20% in just one year. Onions now cost 46% more than they did in December 2022, carrots 28%, cauliflowers 22% and potatoes 21%. In addition to vegetables, the prices of animal feed (+16%) and frozen products (+10%) have also risen sharply, according to Test Aankoop.
The consumer’s association recorded the smallest price increases for meat (3%), alcoholic beverages (4%) and bread (5%). The price increases during the past year come on top of a 19.7% increase in the price of groceries between December 2021 and December 2022.Currently an basket of goods purchased at the supermarket costs 29% more than it did at the end of 2021.
The consumer’s association is critical of the fact that consumers in Belgium are still unable to benefit from falling commodity prices.One example of this is vegetable oils. While prices for have fallen by 51% on the international markets since March 2022, the price of cooking oil in Belgium’s supermarkets and shops country continues to rise. One example of this is oil used frying, the price of which has risen by 37% since March 2022.