{"id":362557,"date":"2026-03-24T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:53:09","slug":"shoppers-buy-36pc-less-steak-as-beef-prices-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362557\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers buy 36pc less steak as beef prices rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Consumers in key markets report \u2018growth in expensiveness\u2019 as the biggest barrier when considering beef purchase\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Burke, Bord Bia senior manager, meat and livestock said shoppers have been cutting back on the amount of beef they are purchasing in response to the higher prices.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/632b5116-af1b-4c4d-a560-9dd22a71221d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joe Burke, Bord Bia senior manager, meat and livestock said shoppers have been cutting back on the amount of beef they are purchasing in response to the higher prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Shoppers bought 36pc less steak in recent months as rising prices prompted them to buy less beef. The volume of mince purchased dropped by over 10pc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It comes as recent figures from Numerator show that in the 12 weeks leading up to February 22, the volume of beef purchased by shoppers at Irish retail declined by a dramatic 24pc compared with the same period a year earlier. This coincided with an average price increase of 26pc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumers in key markets report \u2018growth in expensiveness\u2019 as the biggest barrier when considering beef purchase Joe Burke,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,52079,61,60],"class_list":["post-362557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-catherina-cunnane","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}