date:Sep 25, 2023
cheese and eggs plummeted to 15.3% in the year to August 2023, down from 18.7% in July.
Further, between July and August 2023, vegetable prices fell, as opposed to last years rise in the same months. This led to a decline in annual rate from 16.7% in July to 14.0% last month.
Alternatively, yearly fish rates came down to 6.8% in August from Julys 13.4%, which can be attributed to fresh, chilled, frozen and processed fish and seafood sales.
Grant Fitzner, chief economist at the ONS, states th