Global turmoil has trickled into Australia’s supermarket aisles, hiking the prices of many staple foods. But the upward pressure isn’t evenly distributed.
Bread – or, in fact, any wheat product, as well as eggs, meat and coffee beans are just a few casualties of spiralling inflation fuelled by punishing petrol prices, higher feed and fertiliser costs, conflict between major food exporters Russia and Ukraine, and tight global supply.