The cost of a full English breakfast has risen to the highest level on record even as broader measures of inflation ease, a sign of just how hard it is for British consumers to shake off rising food prices.
The total cost of a basket of goods needed to make the fry-up rose by 57 pence to ?36.15 ($44.81) in August. Bloomberg¡¯s monthly Breakfast Index uses product sizes provided by the Office for National Statistics to crunch prices of sausages, bacon, eggs, bread, butter, tomatoes, mushrooms, milk, tea and coffee.
¡°Shoppers are still seeing supermarket prices go up at an alarming rate, with increases on some foods far outstripping others,¡± said Sue Davies, head of food policy at consumer magazine Which.
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