Baltic Grocery Index — current week (mid-December snapshot)

🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪 Baltic Grocery Index — current week (mid-December snapshot)

Latvia — stable

Prices remain largely unchanged across the basket. Earlier meat price easing has already been absorbed, while eggs sit at the lower end of the normal range. Vegetables and staples show no new movement. Latvia continues to act as a stability anchor in the region.

Lithuania — low but uneven

Lithuania keeps one of the lowest overall baskets, supported by competitive protein prices. At the same time, availability issues persist in some basic SKUs, forcing occasional shifts to higher-priced packaged alternatives. The basket remains cheap, but composition matters.

Estonia — volatile, but easing

After last week’s increase driven by pork and eggs, prices are now showing signs of normalization. Eggs and poultry are cheaper again, while vegetables, milk and rice stay at the lowest regional levels. Local pork remains expensive, though imported alternatives appear regularly and are being monitored separately.

Baltic trend:

This week shows consolidation rather than direction. Latvia stays balanced, Lithuania remains structurally cheap with assortment effects, and Estonia continues to display the strongest price volatility in protein categories. Rice and milk still mark the widest structural gap between Estonia and its neighbors.