Blueberry prices: The global crisis pushes Italian large-scale retail prices to +12.9 percent

Also due to the global shortage of blueberries, with Chile and Peru now out of the markets and Spain and Morocco not yet fully operational, the week of March 13, 2023 sees a double-digit jump in the blueberry price index, which with an increase by 12.9%, they also dragged the price index of small fruits of the Italian GDO upwards (+5.8%) compared to last week. In the online retail brands surveyed, a 3% change was recorded in the number of small fruit references in the assortment, which rose to 37 compared to 36 in the previous survey of 06/03/2023. A third of the number of references on offer consists of blueberries (32.1%); blackberries follow at 26.7% and raspberries at 23.3%; redcurrant closes with 14.3% of the references on offer. Average prices The following table shows the detail of the sales prices for the 37 references found. The data is broken down by brand, segment (premium, organic, zero residue, standard) and weight format for the 11 brands analysed. Sign up for the ...