MOSCOW, May 5. The index of coffee with a sandwich» («Sandwich»), reflecting the picture of the consumption of popular breakfast products by Russians, increased by 2.6 in the second half of April points and amounted to 101 points.
The index was developed on the basis of data exclusively provided to the agency by specialists from the large analytical resource «Chek Index». The «basket» for its calculation included seven goods — 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 check). 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 April 16 to April 30, compared with the first half of the month, the average bill increased for cucumbers (by 18.9%, to 170 rubles), sugar (by 1.8%, to 58 rubles), butter (by 0.8 %, up to 132 rubles), coffee (by 0.6%, up to 166 rubles). It decreased for cheese (by 1.9%, to 152 rubles) and ham (by 1.8%, to 110 rubles). At the same level, the average bill was preserved for a loaf (29 rubles).
Thus, the index increased by 2.6 points compared to the previous two-week period and amounted to 101 points .
Spending on cucumbers in the second half of April increased markedly due to the onset of the picnic and dacha season, while spending on other products in the index is gradually decreasing, analysts of the Index Check note. They attribute this to the fact that the consumption of high-calorie foods becomes less during the warm season.