Solar panels on the roof of the garage, three hens in the garden, cherry tomatoes on the balcony… As the bills continue to climb, more and more French people are managing to buy less in stores and embark on homemade production .
Recycling, recovery, self-sufficiency, new mantras are emerging in response to inflation.
According to a study carried out by Ifop for the association La Tablée des chefs, the rise in food prices is forcing the most modest households to make difficult choices: 9 out of 10 people give up buying certain products or a meal of the day (breakfast, snack, dinner).
Buying tomatoes at the organic market is ten times more expensive than the bag of seeds planted in my planter
Josephine, Parisian from the 6th arrondissement
In supermarkets, as prices rise, sales plummet: - 5% in volume, in the first quarter over one year, according to the Circana institute, and even - 9.2% at the end of March, compared to the same period in 2022. It is the savory grocery, maintenance and hygiene departments that show the largest declines…
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