food basket
- For a household with one member, the food basket reached $25,033
- For two members: $44,309
- Three members of 1 older adult, 1 adult and a tall youth: $61,582
- Four members: $44,309
- Five members: $81,359
“The basic food basket amounts to $77,353. Based on a mobile minimum wage of $67,743, it lags behind by $9,610. That is, it is 14% below the income necessary for a typical family to access it. Raise it of basic food continues to be a big problem because behind this data is homelessness, that is, families that do not have the minimum income to access basic food, generating greater dependence on plans and social assistance,” he asserted.
“The months of November and December found in Fair Prices a containment dam in large commercial areas for basic foods in their price variation. However, in the month of January there was less presence of the program with stock breaks in the points of sales while in the rest of the channel in supermarkets and self-services the price variations were of 2 digits per month in basic categories”, he added.
The foods that increased the most in January
- Alcoholic beverages: 10.7%
- Noodles: 9.6%
- Butter: 9.6%
- Coffee: 7%
- Sugar: 6.5%
What less rose
- Fruits: -4.6%
- Cold cuts: 0.8%
- Eggs: 0.9%
Source: Ambito
