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Lower food prices will benefit supermarkets

Food price inflation is now falling back, which will help boost supermarket profits. That means the recent underperformance of the supermarket sector relative to all-retail will soon come to an end. Total returns are set to turn positive in 2023 and by 2024 we expect returns will match all-retail at around 7.5%.    

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