Inflation in Poland has been trending back up for several weeks now. Prices for 14 of the most popular items increased by as much as 3.1 percent in just the last week to PLN 99.89, according to an analysis by PanParagon app experts for Business Insider Polska.
The analysts point out that the total price for these items is slowly approaching the psychological limit of PLN 100 (€23), a level not seen for a long time, as prices had been going down all year, something shoppers hoped would remain the case.
Over the course of a week, many items in the app basket went up in price. Raspberry tomatoes saw the highest spike, up 18.6 percent, with 1 kilogram costing PLN 15.40. Last week, the price of these tomatoes had gone up by almost 17 percent.
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The PanParagon app did also report lower prices, with potatoes costing 7 percent less and wheat flour 6.1 percent less.
PanParagon is a popular application that allows you to search for promotions. Every month, the system receives approximately 1.5 million purchase receipts, analyzing the prices of 14 basic products that are on the shopping lists of most Poles. Such extensive, anonymous data from receipts allows them to create reliable analyses regarding, among others, real product prices, real inflation, and current shopping trends.
The application is used by residents of both large cities and smaller towns, as well as those who shop at discount stores and those who prefer local greengrocers, providing a full range of prices.
