{"id":229773,"date":"2025-10-28T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229773\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:00:08","slug":"uk-food-prices-fall-by-most-in-almost-five-years-british-retail-consortium-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229773\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Food Prices Fall By Most in Almost Five Years, British Retail Consortium Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">UK food bills have dropped at their sharpest rate in almost five years, dragged down partly by the global easing in sugar prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The British Retail Consortium said Tuesday that food prices fell 0.4% month-on-month in October, the largest drop since late 2020. The cost of chocolate and confectionery pulled back, \u201ca treat for those preparing Halloween parties,\u201d said BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK food bills have dropped at their sharpest rate in almost five years, dragged down partly by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1136,84,4229,1294,1991,10938,35287,97590,1431,3265,2023,97591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-229773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-british-retail-consortium","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-generic-1st-sb-future","tag-halloween","tag-helen-dickinson-obe","tag-inflation","tag-minimum-wage","tag-retail","tag-tesco-plc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}