Prices in stores are slightly up. There is a new king of raises

PanParagon conducted an analysis for Business Insider Polska of 14 basic food products that are on the shopping lists of most Poles. The analysis shows that in the last week of August we paid on average PLN 94.17 for them. A week earlier it was PLN 93 and 89 groszy, which means that on a weekly basis there was an increase of 0.3%. Although the prices of basic products have gone up slightly, they are still cheaper than at the end of last year’s holidays, when we paid PLN 95 and PLN 80 for the same products.

Prices in stores. What has become more expensive, what has become cheaper?

What has increased in price the most on a week-to-week basis? This time, the leader in price increases is wheat flour for cakes, whose prices have gone up by as much as 7.3%. Therefore, we currently pay PLN 3.24 per kilogram of this product.

Compared to the previous week, the prices also increased, among others: raspberry tomatoes, chicken breast, butter, milk or apples.

However, many products have become cheaper. The leader in this respect is sugar, whose prices decreased by almost 3% compared to the previous week. (a kilogram currently costs PLN 2.44). Potatoes saw a similar decline (by 2.8%). By 1.2 percent Broccoli and rapeseed oil have become cheaper. It is also worth noting that the prices of red peppers, the leader in increases from last week, decreased slightly (by 0.7%). Once again, the price of a kaiser roll has not changed.

Today, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) presented a preliminary reading of consumer inflation for August. It amounted to 3.4 percent. year to year, compared to 3 percent a month earlier. On a month-to-month basis, there was an increase of 0.4%.

The increase in prices – similarly to July – was caused by high fuel prices. In the category of fuels and lubricants for private means of transport, prices increased by as much as 24.2%. relative to August 2025. On a month-to-month basis, there was an increase of 5.2%. It is true that the government partially reactivated the Lower Fuel Prices (CPN) package, but this happened only in the second half of August. Prices also increased in the electricity, gas and other fuels category (by 4.1% year on year). A decline was recorded in the food and non-alcoholic beverages category (by 0.9%).