Coronavirus: price change for high demand items in the UK 2020

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The online price of cough and cold medications in the United Kingdom increased by around 10.7 percent, when comparing the week ending 21 March, 2020 to the week ending March 29, 2020. Other products that were in high-demand due to the Coronavirus epidemic, include pet food, which has seen a price increase of 3.1 percent, and paracetamol, which had prices 2.8 percent higher. Several high-demand products have seen a price decrease, with the price of antibacterial surface wipes declining by 2.8 percent.

Percentage change in online prices of high-demand products (HDPs) in the United Kingdom between March16-22, and March 23-29, 2020

Characteristic	Week-on-week price change
Cough and cold medication	10.7%
Pet food	3.1%
Paracetamol	2.8%
Rice	1.9%
Nappies	1.6%
Flour	1.4%
All High-demand product items	1.1%
Antibacterial hand wipes	0.9%
Tomato puree	0.5%
Spray cleaning products	0.4%
Tinned beans	0.4%
Vitamin C	0.4%
Pasta sauce	0.2%
Handwash	0.1%
Toilet rolls	0.1%
All household / hygiene items	0%
Ibuprofen	0%
Tissues	-0.3%
All food items	-0.4%
Long-life milk	-0.9%
Kitchen rolls	-0.9%
Tinned soup	-1%
Dried pasta	-1.3%
Baby food	-2.6%
Antibacterial surface wipes	-2.8%

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Release date

April 2020

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

March 16-29, 2020

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The source adds the following information: "Prices were scraped from a number of large online UK retailers over the period 16 March to 29 March 2020 for selected items chosen to form the HDP basket. A weekly Jevons index was then produced for each of these item and retailer combinations."

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