Rising energy prices in the country affect the price of food, warns the manager of a supermarket chain.
With our correspondent in London, Marie Boeda
John Allan, director of Tesco, one of the largest supermarket chains in the UK, warns on the BBC that the price of food in its stores is likely to increase by 5% by spring.
“ The worse is yet to come, he says. What is disturbing, and I’m sure it disturbs many, is that some people are going to have to choose between heating their homes or feeding their families. This is truly a situation that none of us should accept. »
This situation also affects the middle classes. Sophie is one of them, mother of a 20-month-old baby boy, she comes out of a food store in the capital: “ I never needed to think about that before. I used to buy the same prepared dish from the supermarket, one with chicken and the other with lamb and both went up by 1.80 euros. »
“We will have to deprive ourselves of something”
Ostra, also a mother, accompanies her. She just bought some broccoli from Tesco. ” They went from 60 to 95 cents », she says. But the hardest thing right now is the electricity bill. She has just received a letter addressed to each inhabitant of her building. “ They wrote to us that the prices were going to increase by 50 to 60 pounds per month per household. It’s not just the food. A family has to find an extra £600 a year just for electricity, which is huge. »
She will start by cutting back, then stop going to restaurants or having coffees outside. ” You will have to deprive yourself of something “, she regrets.
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