Food prices are rising above the average

In September consumer prices were 6.6 percent higher than a year earlier. The monthly pensioner consumer price index augmented 0.3 percent and the annual index upped 6.6 percent. Compared with August 2012, consumer prices were up 0.4 percent and food prices became 0.6 percent higher. Egg cost 2.3 percent more, fuel prices augmented by 2.8 percent but we had to pay 0.5 percent less for household energy. Compared with September 2011, food prices increased by 7.5 percent (above the average). Egg prices elevated by 33.8 percent, we had to pay 17.1 percent more for chocolate and cocoa, fuel prices augmented by 15.7 percent and clothes cost 2.5 percent more. However, we could get consumer durables 1 percent cheaper than in September 2011.