Socially important products fell in price by 1.7% year on year

The minimum cost of socially important products in major retail chains fell by 1.7% compared with October 2025 last year, according to a report by the Association of Omnichannel Retail Companies (AKORT).

Over the year, prices fell in 11 of 25 socially important product categories:

— pork — 20%,
— rice — 18%,
— butter — 17%,
— millet — 10.5%,
— wheat flour — 10.3%,
— seasonal apples — 8.6%.

Rye and rye-wheat bread also became cheaper — 4.8%, sunflower oil — 4.7%, chicken eggs — 3.3%, wheat bread — 2.1% and mutton — 1.6%.

Compared with September, prices for the basic basket of “first price” products in retail chains fell by 0.7%. Seasonal apples became cheaper by 18%, sugar — 10%, sunflower oil — 10%. The average markup by retail chains on “first price” food products in October was minus 0.9% versus 4.1% a year earlier.

With a negative markup, below purchase prices, 15 of 25 “first price” products were sold in October: white cabbage (markup -14.8%), buckwheat groats (-11.1%), carrots (-10.9%), millet (-10.3%), chicken eggs (-9.5%), sunflower oil (-6.4%), beets (-5.6%), mutton (-4.1%), broiler chicken carcass (-2.9%), rice (-2.9%), milk (-2.7%), wheat flour (-2.6%), pork (-2.2%), bread and bakery products made from wheat flour (-2%) and vermicelli (-0.6%).

“Large retail additionally invests its own margin in holding down the cost of socially important products. October became the third month this year with a negative markup on basic socially important food products: it was previously recorded in September and in June,” said Stanislav Bogdanov, chairman of AKORT.