{"id":716077,"date":"2026-07-28T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:17:22","slug":"shop-price-inflation-slows-amid-warnings-of-pressures-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716077\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop price inflation slows amid warnings of pressures on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shop price inflation slowed in July in positive news for households, but growing pressures remain on the horizon, the industry has warned. <\/p>\n

Shop prices are now 0.9% higher than a year ago, down from June’s 1.2%, according to British Retail Consortium (BRC)-NIQ figures. <\/p>\n

Inflation on products other than food also fell to 0.2% from June’s 0.6%. <\/p>\n

While food price inflation also fell to 2.2% from 2.4% a month earlier, fresh food inflation rose to 3.1% from June’s 2.8%. <\/p>\n

However, shoppers benefited from deals on snacks and alcoholic drinks during the football World Cup, while clothing and footwear retailers offered significant discounts as they started clearing summer stock. <\/p>\n

Some categories, including electricals and health and beauty, experienced higher inflation as rising chip prices and manufacturing costs fed through. <\/p>\n

BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said: “Good news for households in July as shop price inflation slowed. <\/p>\n

“Retailers competed hard to limit prices rises, with a wave of summer promotions across food and other goods. <\/p>\n

“While today’s figures are encouraging, growing cost pressures remain on the horizon. <\/p>\n

\"Fans<\/a> Fans of the football World Cup benefited from deals on snacks and alcohol (PA) <\/p>\n

“Higher employment costs and packaging taxes, global instability and climate-related disruption all make it more expensive to get products onto shelves.” <\/p>\n

Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at NIQ, said: “Shop price inflation remains lower than a year ago, which will help shoppers as they manage other increases in household spend, such as energy and fuel. <\/p>\n

“So, we can expect promotions to continue to be an important part of driving demand for the rest of the summer.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shop price inflation slowed in July in positive news for households, but growing pressures remain on the horizon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1136,84,1294,42445,40828,237059,90905,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-british-retail-consortium","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-food-inflation","tag-food-price-inflation","tag-football-world-cup","tag-price-inflation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716077","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=716077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}