The University of Otago’s Department of Human Nutrition has conducted a food cost survey (2010) that confirms people spent more on their cheapest shopping trip than the previous year.
Dunedin was found to be the third-least expensive place to buy a week's worth of ‘basic’ groceries for a household of two adults and two children, with Christchurch the cheapest place to shop.
Associate Professor Winsome Parnell says the price increase might be linked in part to the rising cost of fuel and its effect on transporting food to regional centres. Winsome added that "inevitably, the rising cost of food will mean a greater proportion of people will not afford to eat well, and that has a significant personal and social cost."
Food More Expensive
