Food prices falling faster than official figures show
by Patrick Collinson from on (#1EPWS)
Official CPI figures for the price of food and drink are vastly different from those unearthed by an ONS project which 'scrapes' supermarket website price data
The price of food and drink may have fallen faster than official estimates, according to the government body charged with collecting the data.
The Office for National Statistics said the official consumer prices index (CPI) figure for food shows that prices have fallen by 3.3% since June 2014, while alcoholic drinks have dropped by 3%.
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