The price increase in the shopping cart is increasing, far from mitigating. Consumer organization Facua updated its monthly price analysis this Friday since the government announced it would cut VAT on staple foods to 0% and 4% on oil and pasta from January. And the results leave no room for doubt: 42% of the food that goes into this package is sold more expensive in the supermarket in April than in December; this ratio has increased by 10 points since March and 20 points since February.
“The government has promised us that it will freeze for four months or up to six months, depending on how prices are. Core inflation in April: data says no,” he denounced general secretary of this body, Ruben Sanchez. “Prices have not hit the ceiling, consumers have had a harder time and no one in government is taking their responsibilities.” Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas.
In his opinion, this department should publicly explain what actions it has taken to control all units. food chain fulfill the task given to you.
In any case, the attack face equally directed against. National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) To whom he sent several complaints without reply to investigate whether these price increases had anything to do with it. rising costs (a scenario conceived by the standard) or legal fraud. “We have interesting situations, such as products that rise on one surface and not on the other, so they do not correspond to price increases applied by manufacturers or the primary sector,” the same spokesperson said.
Fruits, vegetables, oil and milk
According to this analysis, Facua fruits and vegetables, olive oils And milk and milk products. And it does this across all analyzed distribution chains.
Took It ranks second with 50.8% in products that need to be cheaper by raising prices. Carrefour (49%), followed by to the field (46%), followed by hyperchorus (46%), fifth place lidl (44%), followed by Day (40%) and to the queue, eros (32%) and Mercadona (29%). While the last two are slightly better off, Sánchez accused the Basque chain of launching a false promotion with the ‘Basket that made you fall in love’ because, according to his research, many of the products that should have been on sale are gone. cheaper than other chains; and Mercadona should do no more than it should, and no more, by lowering the price of 500 products if it finds that costs are falling.