MOSCOW, April 1The index of coffee with a sandwich» («Sandwich»), reflecting the picture of the consumption of popular breakfast products by Russians, in the second half of March fell by another 2.3 points and amounted to 102 points.
The index was developed on the basis of data exclusively provided to the agency by specialists large analytical resource «Check Index» The «basket» for its calculation included seven products — frequent guests on the morning tables of Russians: 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 this consumer «basket» analysts of «Index Receipt» regularly calculate aggregated impersonal sales indicators (average bill). The base 100 points are taken as the value of the «Coffee and Sandwich Index» in the period from 1 to 15 October 2022. Its change corresponds to the arithmetic mean of the dynamics of the average check for each of the seven products.
In the period from March 16 to March 31, the average bill increased by 3% compared to the first half of the month for ham only, to 127 rubles. For other goods of the set, it decreased: for coffee (by 6%, to 171 rubles), cucumbers (by 4%, to 161 rubles), long loaf (by 3%, to 29 rubles), butter (by 2%, to 130 rubles). rubles), sugar (by 2%, up to 56 rubles) and cheese (by 2%, up to 157 rubles).
Thus, the index decreased by 2.3 points compared to the previous two-week period and amounted to 102 points.