{"id":100207,"date":"2026-10-06T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murray.adv.br\/?p=100207"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:25:49","slug":"food-prices-leave-brazilians-feeling-poorer-despite-economic-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murray.adv.br\/en\/food-prices-leave-brazilians-feeling-poorer-despite-economic-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Food prices leave Brazilians feeling poorer despite economic gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content--header\">\n<div class=\"row content-head non-featured \">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h6 class=\"content-head__title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Groceries have risen 60.8% since the pandemic, far outpacing overall inflation and helping explain voter unease<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__signa-share\">\n<div class=\"content__signature\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data__text\">\n<div class=\"content-publication-data__from\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-publication-data__updated\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-06T09:01:03.620-03:00\">10\/06\/2026 <\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"mc-article-body\" class=\"mc-article-body ready cropped\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"no-paywall\">\n<div class=\"row medium-uncollapsed content-media content-photo\" data-block-type=\"backstage-photo\" data-block-id=\"0\">\n<div class=\"mc-column content-media__container\" data-image-display=\"normal\">\n<div class=\"content-media-container\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<figure class=\"content-media__figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-media__image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-valorinternational.glbimg.com\/b1qHwTnziCRKX0DOVd7k7EEMz_4=\/984x0\/smart\/filters:strip_icc()\/i.s3.glbimg.com\/v1\/AUTH_63b422c2caee4269b8b34177e8876b93\/internal_photos\/bs\/2026\/B\/h\/eUCpDDSxuBkCEIL8vpDg\/foto06bra-101-rjinfla-a4.jpg\" alt=\"F\u00e1bio Rom\u00e3o: \u201cFood has become more expensive, and short-term relief measures have done little to help\u201d \u2014 Foto: Silvia Costanti\/Valor\" width=\"494\" height=\"466\" \/><figcaption class=\"content-media__description\"><em>F\u00e1bio Rom\u00e3o: \u201cFood has become more expensive, and short-term relief measures have done little to help\u201d \u2014 Photo: Silvia Costanti\/Valor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column mc-side-item__container\" data-block-type=\"ads\" data-block-id=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"54\" data-block-id=\"2\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Brazilian grocery bills have risen far faster than overall inflation since the pandemic, helping explain why many consumers remain dissatisfied with the economy despite record employment and income levels. Food-at-home prices climbed 60.8% between April 2020 and August 2026, compared with a 42.7% increase in Brazil\u2019s benchmark consumer price index over the same period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"60\" data-block-id=\"4\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Most of the increase occurred through mid-2022, amid disruptions and shifts in global supply chains. Between April 2020 and the end of 2022, food-at-home prices rose 42.4%, compared with a 21% increase in overall consumer prices. From January 2023 through August 2026, food-at-home prices rose 12.9%, while overall inflation was 17.9%. <strong>Fabio Rom\u00e3o<\/strong>, an economist at 4intelligence, made the calculations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"18\" data-block-id=\"5\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Workers\u2019 average earnings rose 9.5% in real terms, after adjusting for inflation, between April 2020 and July 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"44\" data-block-id=\"6\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Experts say that this important component of household budgets has become more expensive than overall inflation, one of several factors that help explain Brazilians\u2019 discomfort with the economy, even as macroeconomic indicators paint a more positive picture, with employment and income at record levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"44\" data-block-id=\"7\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">The negative perception reflects a combination of factors. One is economic growth from a depressed base following the 2015 and 2016 recession; income gains that remain insufficient to provide what many consider a decent standard of living; and job creation concentrated in lower-paying positions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"26\" data-block-id=\"8\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Other factors include a shrinking wage premium for workers who have completed high school or college and rising consumer aspirations in the age of social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"54\" data-block-id=\"9\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">The cost of living, purchasing power and the resulting economic unease\u2014reflected in opinion polls and studied in academic research\u2014have become prominent issues in this year\u2019s presidential election. <strong>President Lula and Senator Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro<\/strong>, who will face each other in the runoff, have traded accusations and sought to appeal to voters\u2019 concerns over the economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"58\" data-block-id=\"10\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Ahead of the first round, Lula acknowledged the problem. \u201cI know things still aren\u2019t good enough. But I will make sure inflation remains under control. You will no longer pay the tax on low-cost overseas purchases, the minimum wage will continue to rise above inflation, and we will invest to create quality jobs with better wages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles\" data-block-type=\"raw\" data-block-weight=\"48\" data-block-id=\"11\">\n<p class=\"content-text__container\">\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote theme-border-color-primary-before\"><p>\u201cGrocery shopping today is much more expensive than it was before the pandemic. There has been a shift to a higher price level: eating has become more expensive, and short-term relief has done little to help. Food costs are part of the explanation for people\u2019s dissatisfaction,\u201d Rom\u00e3o said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"47\" data-block-id=\"12\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">The economist\u2019s calculations show that price increases were concentrated in the period immediately following the pandemic, both for overall inflation and food consumed at home. More recently, the war between Iran and the United States and the effects of El Ni\u00f1o have begun to weigh more heavily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"43\" data-block-id=\"14\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">The higher cost of living is a global trend that has also fueled dissatisfaction in other countries, according to <strong>Laura Carvalho<\/strong>, an economics professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and researcher at the Getulio Vargas Foundation\u2019s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV Ibre).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"49\" data-block-id=\"15\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">The backdrop includes successive inflation shocks stemming from the pandemic, the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022 and, this year, the war in Iran. Surveys around the world point to the cost of living as the main reason for people\u2019s negative perceptions of the economy, Carvalho said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"33\" data-block-id=\"16\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">In the United States, the term \u201cvibecession\u201d was coined in 2022 to describe a similar disconnect between economic indicators and persistently negative public perceptions of the economy. The term combines \u201cvibe\u201d and \u201crecession.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles\" data-block-type=\"raw\" data-block-weight=\"47\" data-block-id=\"17\">\n<p class=\"content-text__container\">\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote theme-border-color-primary-before\"><p>\u201cThere is an additional issue: price increases are perceived as the government\u2019s fault, regardless of where the shock comes from, while income gains are seen as the result of personal merit. That creates an asymmetry that lies at the heart of the economic malaise,\u201d Laura Carvalho said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"60\" data-block-id=\"18\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">An August Quaest presidential voting-intention poll\u2014the most recent edition to include a section devoted exclusively to the economy\u2014found that 33% of respondents believed their income had risen at about the same pace as the cost of living. Another 32% said they had not seen their income increase, while 23% believed the cost of living had risen more than their income.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"65\" data-block-id=\"19\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Another factor in understanding dissatisfaction with the economy, researchers say, is a sense that incomes remain insufficient when measured against what people consider a decent standard of living and the ability to meet basic needs. Gross domestic product has grown in recent years as the economy recovered from the pandemic, but that followed six years of either contraction or weak growth from 2014 through 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles\" data-block-type=\"raw\" data-block-weight=\"45\" data-block-id=\"20\">\n<p class=\"content-text__container\">\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote theme-border-color-primary-before\"><p>\u201cThere is this idea that income is insufficient. The question is to what extent income growth is actually translating into better living conditions and higher consumption levels, or whether it is still not enough,\u201d said <strong>Vitor Hugo Neia<\/strong>, executive director of the Volkswagen Group Foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"66\" data-block-id=\"22\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">A recent survey the foundation conducted with the Sustainable Cities Institute and Ipsos-Ipec in 10 Brazilian state capitals found that only 18% of respondents said their personal income had increased over the previous 12 months. Another 45% said it had remained stable, while 31% said it had declined. In addition, 61% took on extra work to supplement their income, and 41% cut back on meat consumption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"52\" data-block-id=\"23\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">\u201cMore than income itself, what ultimately matters is purchasing power. When people say their salary doesn\u2019t last until the end of the month, it isn\u2019t only about prices. The income gains we\u2019ve seen still haven\u2019t brought a large share of Brazilians to what they consider a decent standard of living,\u201d Carvalho said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"50\" data-block-id=\"24\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Among employed workers in Brazil, 32.2% earn no more than one minimum wage a month, according to second-quarter data from Brazil\u2019s statistics agency IBGE. The share earning up to two minimum wages is nearly 70%, at 69.1%. That means only 30.9% of employed Brazilians earn more than R$3,242 a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"27\" data-block-id=\"25\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Another factor cited by experts to explain the disconnect between public sentiment and Brazil\u2019s economic indicators is a shift in expectations, influenced in part by social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles\" data-block-type=\"raw\" data-block-weight=\"49\" data-block-id=\"26\">\n<p class=\"content-text__container\">\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote theme-border-color-primary-before\"><p>\u201cThere has been an important change over the past 20 years in how people measure quality of life. In the past, people wanted a stable job and a family structured in a certain way, but that has changed,\u201d said <strong>Igor Pantoja<\/strong>, institutional relations coordinator at the Sustainable Cities Institute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"44\" data-block-id=\"27\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">\u201cToday, a good quality of life is closely associated with consumption. There really is a mismatch between what the political system and institutions seek to provide and what people demand, often based on what they see on the internet and social media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"26\" data-block-id=\"28\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Carvalho also sees social media as amplifying consumer aspirations, although she considers its influence secondary to other explanations for the gap between perceptions and economic indicators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"57\" data-block-id=\"30\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">\u201cPeople\u2019s aspirations aren\u2019t the same as they were in the 2000s. It\u2019s no longer about buying a refrigerator or flying on a plane for the first time. It is also natural that as a society develops, people begin to demand new things. And those demands are amplified by social media, where everyone shares their lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"31\" data-block-id=\"31\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">The survey by the Volkswagen Group Foundation, Sustainable Cities Institute and Ipsos-Ipec also provides a longer-term view of how people perceive changes in living standards, with a focus on social mobility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"36\" data-block-id=\"32\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Overall, 73% of respondents in the 10 state capitals said they had more education than their parents. Only 43%, however, said their income was higher than their parents&#8217;, while 51% believed they had better housing conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-column content-text active-extra-styles \" data-block-type=\"unstyled\" data-block-weight=\"44\" data-block-id=\"33\">\n<p class=\" content-text__container \" data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">\u201cPeople recognize that they are more educated than their parents. But that educational mobility isn\u2019t reflected to the same degree in income and housing mobility. It\u2019s not that education isn\u2019t important, but there is a sense that qualifications alone are not enough,\u201d Neia said.<\/p>\n<p data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">*By\u00a0Lucianne Carneiro \u2014 Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n<p data-track-category=\"Link no Texto\" data-track-links=\"\">Source: Valor International<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/valorinternational.globo.com\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groceries have risen 60.8% since the pandemic, far outpacing overall inflation and helping explain voter unease &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 10\/06\/2026 F\u00e1bio Rom\u00e3o: \u201cFood has become more expensive, and short-term relief measures have done little to help\u201d \u2014 Photo: Silvia Costanti\/Valor Brazilian grocery bills have risen far faster than overall inflation since the pandemic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8106],"tags":[27190,27189],"class_list":["post-100207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murray-news","tag-despite-economic-gains","tag-food-prices-leave-brazilians-feeling-poorer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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