Tomorrow Thursday announcements will be made for “Lenten basket“, as well as to expand the “household basket” with new products, on an ongoing basis, until the end of the event, as he said in an interview with ERTNEWS, o Secretary General for Trade and Consumer Protection Sotiris Anagnostopoulos.

“The introduction of the Lenten basket will begin next Wednesday, February 22, which is also the Wednesday before Clean Monday,” the Secretary General said.

It is recalled that Minister of Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis, Deputy Minister Nikos Papathanasis, Secretary General for Trade and Consumer Protection Sotiris Anagostopoulos, Commander of the Interservice Market Monitoring Group (DIMEA) Charalambos Melissinos and Warply CEO and responsible for the e-katanalotis platform Giannis Doxaras tomorrow they will hold a press conference during which they will announce the addition of new categories to “shopping cartand imposing fines on supermarket chains for speculation following DIMEA inspections.

On this occasion, Mr. Anagostopoulos mentioned that “there are already price caps for the 15th week inside the consumer basket and we are entering the 16th. Of the 882 products, we have an increase in 28, a decrease in 51 and 803 remained stable compared to the previous week.”

He noted: “On the whole, the consumer basket proved to be able to contain and, in some cases, reduce prices.” and emphasized that the number of branded products has increased significantly in recent weeks.

Accuracy is not something to consider in a “household basket,” the secretary-general added, but added that it is a tool and “consumers most sensitive to price increases can take refuge from low to zero inflation.”

The Secretary General announced that among the categories to be added to the consumer basket will be fresh beef and highly pasteurized milk, and legumes will be divided into 3 categories – chickpeas, lentils, beans – thus, supermarket lists include three products.

For “Lenten basket“To the lean products already in the household basket, halva, lean salads, as well as frozen seafood will be added, of which each supermarket must put at least two positions in the home basket,” he said. Anagostopoulos.

Source: ERT, APE-BE.