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Unions warn workers won't be fooled by falling inflation as cost-of-living crisis continues and food prices go up at alarming rate
a shopper walking through the aisle of a supermarket.
WORKERS will not be fooled by claims that the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades is easing, unions warned today after official figures showed food costs are still much higher than a year ago.
The CPI inflation rate fell to 6.8 per cent in the year to July, down from 7.9 per cent in June, the Office for National Statistics announced.
Lower electricity and gas prices drove the drop, but while the cost of staples like milk, butter, bread, eggs, cereal and fish also eased, overall food costs are almost 15 per cent more expensive than last summer, it confirmed.
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