Supermarket inflation stands at 2.4% in March 2026; price increases up to 12.7%

The biggest terms reductions successful March 2026 compared to March 2025 were observed successful the pursuing categories:

Detergents and cleaning products: -4.47%
Pet nutrient and supplies: -4.07%
Grocery foods: -1.96%
Frozen foods: -1.67%
Paper products, cosmetics, and idiosyncratic attraction items: -1.66%

IELKA noted that these decreases bespeak some marketplace normalization and little shaper prices for definite products. The largest drops occurred successful detergents, cleaning products, and market foods, peculiarly successful adust nutrient categories.

Conversely, the categories with the astir important terms increases successful March 2026 versus March 2025 were:

Appetizers, salted products, and different ready-to-serve items: +12.7%
Fresh fruits and vegetables: +10.45%
Fresh meats: +9.89%
Processed meats (cold cuts): +5.73%
Baby and babe foods: +5.71%

The emergence successful prices for salted products, olives, pickles, and different ready-to-serve items is chiefly owed to seasonal timing differences.

Increases successful caller fruits and vegetables were chiefly driven by adverse weather conditions successful January and February 2025, including higher rainfall and flooding.

Fresh nutrient terms hikes bespeak two main factors:

Rising planetary prices for imported meats, peculiarly beef, owed to reductions successful livestock supply (most beef and pork consumed successful Greece is imported).
Animal diseases affecting section livestock, particularly lamb and goat populations successful respective regions of Greece.

Chocolate terms increases showed a important deceleration, rising astatine a little complaint compared to erstwhile months.