Food Price Increase and its Effect on cost of Living

Panic on the Increase of cost of Living

Tins and jars lining the shelves at 'We Are Queensbury' food bankSaffron Carroll
More people are turning to food banks in the Cost of Living crisis
Local supermarkets donate produce to the food banks
Saffron Carroll Local supermarkets donate produce to the food banks

Causes of Inflation and its Impact

Furthermore, there are certain factors that has be seen to influence inflation. According to the Investopedia Team (2024) some factors ranging from production cost , Demand and Fiscal policy and more. Below are some listed causes of inflation.

UK Inflation falls
  • Cost Push Inflation: This type of inflation occurs when the price of production of a commodity increases like raw materials and wages.
  • Demand Pull Inflation: This type of Inflation occurs as a result of increase in demand of customers on a particular goods and services.
  • Built in inflation : This type of inflation occurs when more people have expectation of inflation in the future for longer time thereby triggering workers to ask for raise in wage.
  • Monetary Devaluation: This type of inflation occurs when too many dollars are chasing few goods that is the supply of money grows too large indicating too much money in circulation.

Inflation has been shown to affect the wellbeing of individuals and also lead to some untrusty issues and all of this can be mitigated if the causes are known then the right actions can be taking to put individual back to living their normal heathy live as desire and have the luxury to afford necessary food items.