Kantar Worldpanel – which tracks supermarket till prices, sales and market share – said its measure of grocery inflation slowed to 2.4% in the four weeks to 12 May from 3.2% the previous month.
The measure showed there is still upward pressure on the cost of items such as chilled fruit juices, drinks, sugar confectionery and chocolate confectionery – the latter a consequence of poor cocoa harvests.
