{"id":392497,"date":"2020-04-24T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=392497"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:17:22","slug":"changes-in-food-prices-during-south-africas-lockdown-heres-what-you-are-paying-more-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/392497\/changes-in-food-prices-during-south-africas-lockdown-heres-what-you-are-paying-more-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in food prices during South Africa’s lockdown – here’s what you are paying more for"},"content":{"rendered":"

StatsSA has published new data highlighting the price changes for those essential goods that appear in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket.<\/p>\n

The organisation said it is temporarily publishing inflation data on a weekly basis, albeit for a smaller range of goods.<\/p>\n

Its data shows that the prices of essential products increased on average by 0.3% between the week ending 2 April (first week of lockdown) and the week ending 16 April (the third week of lockdown).<\/p>\n

The second week of the lockdown saw the prices of essential items increase by 0.5% week-on-week, followed by a decrease of 0.2% week-on-week in the third week.<\/p>\n

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Food and non-alcoholic beverages (NAB) prices – which comprise almost 90% of the index – increased by 0.4% over the two weeks.<\/p>\n

This is equivalent to the average monthly change in the CPI Food and NAB index over the past six months to March 2020, Stats SA said.<\/p>\n

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Some of the notable increases and decreases between 2- 16 April include:<\/p>\n