Food prices register a historic rise after shooting up 15.2%, according to the OCU

Dia and Mercadona, the ones that have raised their prices the most in this period

MADRID, 27 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The prices of food products have registered a historic rise after shooting up 15.2% since the last supermarket study, according to the report carried out by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) on the cost of the shopping basket, which has detected the biggest rise in food prices in 34 years.

The director of communication and institutional relations of OCU, Ileana Izverniceanu, has highlighted that this year there has been a "historic rise" in food prices. "Furthermore, this year the average annual saving does not exceed 1,000 euros, it shows that a little less is saved than last year, 7.3% less", she explained at a press conference.

In this way, a Spanish family can save an average of 994 euros per year in the shopping basket, depending on the establishment you choose when making your food purchases.

The Alcampo de Coia hypermarket in Vigo is the cheapest establishment in Spain of the supermarkets visited by the OCU, while the chains include Tifer, which is located in towns in Castilla y León; Dani, the local chain established in Jaén and Granada; and Family Cash. Alcampo and Supeco are the cheapest national chains to make the purchase.

While the establishment of Sánchez Romero on Calle Arturo Soria in Madrid takes over from La Moraleja (Madrid) and this year is the most expensive in Spain to fill the shopping basket, followed by Amazon, Novavenda and Ulabox.

This year's report confirms that for the first time all supermarket chains without exception have raised their prices, with Dia and Mercadona, among the large chains, being the ones that have raised their prices the most in this period.

According to the OCU, the cities where it is cheaper to make the purchase are Vigo, Ciudad Real, Jerez de la Frontera, Almería, Granada, Huelva, Puertollano and Palencia, while Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, ​​Girona, Madrid and Alcobendas-San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) are the most expensive.

By autonomous communities, La Rioja, Extremadura, Galicia and Murcia are the cheapest regions, while the Balearic Islands and Catalonia are where it is more expensive to make the purchase.

The report has analyzed this year a total of 173,392 product prices after visiting 1,180 establishments of 80 supermarket chains spread over 65 Spanish cities in addition to the Internet.