A year of war in Ukraine is felt on the shopping cart . This is demonstrated, among others, by a study by Assoutenti on some consumer products sold in Italy.
Cagliari, for example, is the Italian province where pasta costs the most, while Sassari is in the top positions for sunflower oil .
The association examined the retail price lists of three products: fresh bread, durum wheat semolina pasta and sunflower oil, comparing current prices with those in force in January 2022, before the conflict broke out.
Syracuse is the Italian city where seed oil costs the most today, with a price of 3.80 euros per litre, followed by Genoa (3.54 euros), and Sassari (3.44 euros) . Among the top 5, Florence records the most substantial increase, with prices rising on average by +121.3% compared to January 2022, but for seed oil, the price lists have also more than doubled in Siena, Lucca and Genoa, with increases exceeding 100%. In Livorno the lowest prices in Italy for oil, with an average of 2.54 euros per litre.
In Cagliari the sad record of the most expensive pasta in the boot, with an average of 2.32 euros per kilo, followed by Ancona and Udine with 2.23 . Among the provinces that record the highest prices, Modena and Bologna are those that have suffered the highest price increases (+34.2% and +33.7% respectively compared to January 2022). The cheapest pasta is found in Palermo (1.46 euros per kg) followed by Syracuse and Cosenza (1.49 euros per kg).
Let's move on to fresh bread: the most expensive is sold in Bolzano (6.21 euros per kilo) ahead of Venice (5.91) and Ferrara (5.89). The lowest price in Naples, 2.18. Abysmal difference between Naples and Bolzano, of 185% .
«Without a doubt the war in Ukraine has profoundly changed the retail prices of many products sold in our country – explains the president of Assoutenti Furio Truzzi -. The stop on imports of wheat, corn, sunflower oil from Russia and Ukraine, countries that are the main world producers, has led to increases in the prices of the raw material, which have been transferred directly to the retail prices of shops and supermarkets Italians. Added to this are also evident speculative phenomena, considering that pasta is made with durum wheat , a raw material that Italy does not import from the two warring countries».
(Unioneonline/L)