In April’s first half, Sandwich stocks dropped by 3.6 points.

Moscow, April 22 – The coffee and sandwich index “(“Sandwich”), which reflects the picture of Russian consumption of popular breakfast foods, decreased in the first half of April by another 3.6 points and reached 98.4 points.

The index was developed by the News Agency on the basis of data provided exclusively to the agency by specialists from Index Verification of the main analytical resources. The “basket” on her account included seven goods – frequent guests of the morning tables of Russians: a loaf (400 grams), ham (200 grams), butter (180 grams), cheese (200 grams), cucumbers (500 grams), instant coffee ( 95 grams), sugar (1 kilogram).

For products from the consumer’s “basket”, Index Receipt analysts calculate regularly aggregated impersonal sales indicators (average invoice). 100 basis points are calculated as the value of the “Coffee and Sandwich Index” from October 1 to October 15, 2022. Its change corresponds to the arithmetic mean of the average check dynamics for each of the seven products.

In the period from April 1 to April 15, the average bill increased compared to the second half of March for sugar (by 1.8% to 57 rubles) and butter (by 0.8% to 131 rubles). Pork decreased (by 11.8%, to 112 rubles), cucumbers (by 11.2%, to 143 rubles), coffee (by 3.5%, to 165 rubles) and cheese (by 1.3%, to 155 rubles). At the same level, the average bill for a loaf was kept (29 rubles).

Thus, the index decreased by 3.6 points compared to the period of the previous two weeks, reaching 98.4 points.

In the first half of April, the spending of Russians on goods from this group decreased, approaching summer levels, when consumption of high-calorie foods fell, as noted by the index’s experts.