From butter to beer, what's cheaper or pricier in your Czech grocery basket?

This month, shoppers in Czechia are seeing a price rollercoaster: flour, butter, and eggs have climbed higher, while potatoes, yogurt, and even beer have slid sharply down, according to the Czech Statistical Office.

Potatoes are the biggest relief at checkout. A kilo now sells for just CZK 15.54, a massive 30 percent less than in July and a striking 43 percent below last August.

Plain yogurt is also down sharply, dropping 15.7 percent compared with last month. It’s cheaper than both January and last summer, giving shoppers some breathing room. Pork roast, sugar, beer, and apples are also lighter on the wallet, the CZSO reports.

Bad news if you like eggs and fruit. A carton of 10 eggs now costs about CZK 61: up a seismic 43 percent since last month. Prices of fruit (up 21.5 percent), oilseeds (12 percent), and cereals (9 percent) also shot up. Butter is nudging upward, too. A 250-gram cube of butter now averages CZK 67.48, up 2 percent month-on-month. 

Shoppers and bakers won’t be happy. The price of plain wheat flour jumped nearly 9 percent from July, landing at an average of CZK 18.73 per kilogram. That’s 1.6 percent higher than in January, though still 3 percent cheaper than a year ago.

The CZSO stressed that while these prices are collected directly from stores, they do not feed into the official consumer price index.

Behind the mixed picture are bigger pressures in the food economy. Agricultural producer prices surged 11.2 percent year-on-year in July, the CZSO reported.

Crop production rose 5.6 percent, while livestock production soared 17.8 percent. Overall, food product prices were up 4 percent compared with July 2024.

The uneven shifts highlight how Czech shoppers are caught between falling seasonal produce prices and rising production costs for everyday staples. At the till, it means some relief, but not across the board.