After supermarket groceries and oil: Which everyday products are even more expensive

Created: 2022-06-07 09:36

By: Fee Halberstadt

Services are currently becoming more expensive because of the Ukraine war.

For example, the dishes in restaurants and cafes.

(Iconic image) © Jens Kalaene/dpa

The Ukraine war continues and more and more everyday things are becoming more expensive.

It's no longer just energy and food that's affected.

Kassel – Many citizens in Germany are feeling the effects of the price increases.

Be it for the weekly shop, in the restaurant, when filling up the car or in the billing of ancillary costs.

The Ukraine conflict is the driving force behind rising inflation and thus higher spending.

The inflation rate was 7.4 percent in April 2022 and is estimated at 7.9 percent for May.

Oil, gas and energy prices in particular have skyrocketed since the end of February.

In April, the cost of liquefied gas was 123.1 percent higher than in the same month last year, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office.

The costs for heating oil, LPG, fuel and natural gas have risen between 31.3 and 77.4 percent.

The federal and state governments have decided on a relief package to relieve citizens in view of the rising prices.

Price increases due to inflation: It's not just oil and food that's affected

The reason why groceries are also becoming more expensive in the supermarket is that they are directly related to the consumption of energy, gas and oil.

After all, these resources are also needed for production, storage and transport.

On average, food prices in May 2022 are 11.1 percent higher than last year.

More specifically, cooking oil, for example, has become almost 37 percent more expensive, and butter has increased by a little more than 31 percent.

But in addition to buying groceries and the direct additional costs for oil, gas and energy, the costs have increased in other areas of life.

For example, bus trips have become 34.5 percent more expensive.

The higher costs for diesel and petrol also have an effect here.

The development of air travel is similar.

They are between five and eight percent more expensive, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office.

Hairdresser and restaurant visits: In addition to oil and food, even more is becoming significantly more expensive

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Leisure activities and services, such as a visit to the hairdresser or a restaurant, have also been recorded as smaller price increases.

On average, a visit to the hairdresser in April 2022 cost between 4.2 and 4.8 percent more than in April 2021. The cost increase for sports and leisure activities is nine percent.

In restaurants and cafés, spending for customers increases to around 6.6 percent.

(Fee Halberstadt)