Socially important products fell in price by almost 3% in September%

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Compared to August, prices for socially important products in large stores decreased by 2.7% in September. A month earlier, the decrease was 1.84%. These are the monitoring results of the ACORT analytical center.

In September, a decrease in prices was noted for products in 16 of the 25 socially significant categories. Thus, the vegetables of the borscht set fell the most, that is, white cabbage (by 12.3%), carrots (by 10.6%), onions (by 9.7%), potatoes (by 4.2%). And the main borscht ingredient, beetroot, fell in price by 5.3%.

Wheat flour (by 7.2%), seasonal apples (by 7.1%), rice (by 5.7%), mutton (by 5.4%), butter (by 4.6%), beef (by 1.6%), black tea (by 1.5%), pork (1.3%) and millet (1.1%). Table salt has slightly decreased in price.

At the same time, the average mark-up of retail chains for socially significant goods of the "first price" did not change last month, remaining at the August level of 2.8%. The margin has more than halved year-on-year: in September 2024, the figure was 6.6%.

Thus, according to the latest data, nine out of 25 categories are being sold at prices below purchase prices. These are seasonal apples (-7.6%), granulated sugar (-5.7%), chicken eggs (-3.9%), cabbage (-3.1%), sunflower oil (-2.6%), rice (-1.9%), beef (-1.8%), broiler chicken carcass (-1.4%), carrots (-0.5%).

Stanislav Bogdanov, Chairman of the ACORT Presidium, explains the reduction in the cost of socially important products by the well-coordinated work of trade with suppliers and responsible pricing policy. The rate of decrease of the indicator (for the same borscht set) It can also be explained by seasonality, and the decrease in meat prices is due to the wide supply of meat.

«The average margin has more than halved compared to last year to 2.8%, reflecting the social contribution of retail chains in supporting low prices for the most sought-after goods. In an effort to support consumers during the peak harvest season, retail chains invested almost 4 rubles of their own funds in each kilogram of sugar sold at the "first price", Bogdanov added.