The basket of food staples used by TNS Emor for its monthly food price survey cost 68.07 euros per person in August, which is 1.11 euros or 1.6 percent less than the month before and 0.37 euros or 0.5 percent more than in August last year.
Price of TNS Emor basket of staples up 0.5 pct on year in August
6th September 2013, 17:51
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Compared to August 2012, of the products in the basket the price of fresh salmon rose the most or 41 percent, followed by unpacked potatoes with an increase of 29 percent and imported apples with 19.6 percent, the research company said.
Compared to last year, the prices of imported tomatoes, sugar and size M eggs have decreased the most, respectively 35 percent, 15 percent and 11.6 percent.
The TNS Emor basket of grocery staples includes more than 50 dairy, meat, cereal and fish products, fruit and vegetables, and eggs and sugar.
Retail prices of the products are collected from 26 stores in major Estonian towns nine times a year and from 45 stores across Estonia two times a year. Prices are monitored in the largest retail chains whose proportion in the sample broadly reflects their market share.