(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 16 - "In 2022, inflation will cost Italians the beauty of 56.7 billion euros, causing an unprecedented sting on families that will have devastating effects on purchasing power and, consequently, consumption of national economy ".
This was stated by Assoutenti, who drew up a study based on the latest data provided by Istat on retail prices and sales.
"The inflation acquired for 2022 is equal to + 7.1%, and to find a similar value it is necessary to go back 36 years to March 1986, when the rate of growth of prices reached + 7% in Italy - explains the association - In 2022, inflation at these levels translates into higher spending by Italians equal to a total of € 56.7 billion (on average + € 2,181 per year per "typical" family), an unprecedented sting that is profoundly changing the behavior of families. To cope with the disruptive growth in retail prices, Italians have begun to increasingly pull the belt, cutting spending even for primary goods such as foodstuffs whose sales, according to the official Istat data, have dropped on an annual basis by -3.5% - Assoutenti analyzes - Translated into a nutshell, this means that families in the course of 2022 will reduce their food consumption by over 5 billion euros ".
"At this rate, Italians, in addition to suffering the cold this winter due to expensive bills and limitations on heating, are also forced to go hungry, reducing their food purchases in order to make it to the end of the month - says the president Furio Truzzi - Una shameful situation for a civilized country, and for this reason we are organizing a national protest bringing tons of onions to the streets in Rome to be distributed to the population, as a symbol of the critical situation in which families find themselves, and to ask the new government to intervene urgently to address the plight of the dear- life through concrete and effective measures ".
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