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How 'drinkflation' affects the price of your pint

  • Written by: Colin Angus, Senior Research Fellow in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, University of Sheffield
How 'drinkflation' affects the price of your pintIs 'drinkflation' a thing?Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock

The cost of living crisis has seen the prices of many goods and services rise sharply in the past 18 months, but food and drink prices have been particularly hard hit.

Some food producers have responded by reducing the size of their products, while keeping prices the same – a phenomenon...

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