The products whose prices increased and decreased the most in October in Istanbul have been announced.

İTO announced the products whose retail prices increased and decreased the most in Istanbul in October.

Accordingly, in October, compared to the previous month, the prices of 231 of the 336 main products in the index increased, while the prices of 29 decreased.

Last month, the product with the highest price increase was cucumber with 50.71 percent, followed by tomatoes with 36.98 percent, test books with 27.35 percent, green peppers with 27.15 percent, green peppers with 26 percent, women's skirts with 25.67 percent, literary books with 23.32 percent, men's sweaters with 23.26 percent and zucchini with 22.55 percent.

The price increase was 22.30 percent for women's shirts, 22.05 percent for women's coats, 21.31 percent for bell peppers, 19.04 percent for men's boots, 18.53 percent for women's trousers, 17.25 percent for men's jackets, and 17.19 percent for LPG (autogas).

Among the products whose prices decreased the most in October compared to the previous month, lemon ranked first with 26.21 percent.

Lemon was followed by hazelnuts with 9.92 percent, car rental fee (daily) with 8.95 percent, apple with 8.50 percent, grapes with 7.65 percent, onion with 4.97 percent, gold jewelery with 4.60 percent, intercity bus ticket fee with 3.60 percent and whitewashing and painting materials with 2.84 percent.

The price decrease was 2.55 percent in garlic, 2.09 percent in green beans, 2.01 percent in carrots, 1.31 percent in green onions, 0.93 percent in wet towels/handkerchiefs, 0.76 percent in roasted foods, and 0.34 percent in hazelnut pastes.

Source: TRT Haber Ekonomi RSS (Open Press / Translated Full Text)