Yahoo Finance The shopping basket items that have changed most in price as inflation drops
Food price growth is slowing in the UK, with the price drop in bread, cake, meat, milk and eggs helping bring inflation down to a two-year low.
The price of bread and cakes fell between October and November as did meat, milk, cheese and eggs, and soft drinks, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Bread saw a particularly sharp slowdown in inflation, with the average price up 3.2% in the year to November compared with a jump of 8.5% in October.
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Sugar, pizza and quiche, air travel and frozen vegetables all saw inflation at least three percentage points lower in November compared with October.
Second-hand car prices fell by 2.1% between October and November, a bigger fall than last year.
Air fares fell by 13.9% between October and November, compared with 10.1% a year ago.
Items where inflation accelerated in the year to November include children’s footwear (up 12.2% compared with a rise of 8.1% in October) and frozen seafood (up 8.9% compared with 5.8%). Fruit was also pricier.
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Here's a breakdown of the year-over-year price increases in November for food purchased from UK grocery stores.
Sugar: Oct 49.6%, Nov 40.4%
Bread: Oct 8.5%, Nov 3.2%
Passenger air travel: Oct 7.9%, Nov 3.3%
Eggs: Oct 17.1%, Nov 12.9%
Cinemas, theatres, concerts: Oct 4.7%, Nov 0.9%
Soft drinks: Oct 7.7%, Nov 4.7%
Pizza & quiche: Oct 5.1%, Nov 2.1%
Cheese & curd: Oct 9.7%, Nov 7.1%
Jams, marmalades & honey: Oct 5.1%, Nov 2.6%
Cookers: Oct 6.9%, Nov 4.8%
Tea: Oct 15.1%, Nov 13.1%
Passenger train travel: Oct 6.9%, Nov 5.0%
Rice: Oct 9.0%, Nov 7.2%
Fresh or chilled fish: Oct 11.3%, Nov 9.9%
Men’s clothes: Oct 5.6%, Nov 4.2%
Low-fat milk: Oct -1.8%, Nov -3.0%
Ready-made meals: Oct 8.6%, Nov 7.5%
Sauces, condiments & herbs: Oct 20.6%, Nov 19.7%
Pasta & couscous: Oct 9.1%, Nov 8.2%
Meat: Oct 9.0%, Nov 8.2%
Chocolate: Oct 11.8%, Nov 11.2%
Men’s footwear: Oct 5.5%, Nov 5.1%
Women’s clothes: Oct 7.6%, Nov 7.2%
Children’s clothes: Oct 6.9%, Nov 6.7%
Here are examples where the rate of inflation has accelerated, ranked by the size of the month-on-month change, starting with the largest.
Yoghurt: Oct 10.9%, Nov 17.4%
Children’s footwear: Oct 8.1%, Nov 12.2%
Olive oil: Oct 50.2%, Nov 53.9%
Frozen seafood: Oct 5.8%, Nov 8.9%
Fruit & vegetable juices: Oct 10.9%, Nov 13.6%
Crisps: Oct 11.4%, Nov 12.8%
Fresh or chilled fruit: Oct 4.9%, Nov 6.0%
Coffee: Oct 9.5%, Nov 10.2%
Margarine & other vegetable fats: Oct 1.3%, Nov 1.6%
Women’s footwear: Oct 1.7%, Nov 2.0%
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