Peak today, Good Friday, and tomorrow, Good Saturday, traffic in Buy for the last gifts and for the preparation of the festive table.

Traders say there has been an increase in commercial traffic, especially in local markets, as most of the city’s residents have already moved from the big cities to the countryside, without emptying out the big urban centers, where tourism is already showing its momentum. for this summer.

As a reminder, the business hours of today on Good Friday are from 13:00 to 21:00 and on Good Saturday from 09:00 to 20:00, while public markets will also operate as usual on Good Friday and Good Friday. Saturday.

Shops will be closed on Easter Sunday and Monday.

Supermarket Hours

For supermarkets, the estimated opening hours are from 13:00 to 19:00. However, each network made its own announcements. Analytically:

• Mon Friday 14/04: 13.00-20.00 (AG DIMITRIOS metro station from 13:00 to 21:00 and Kalamata, Messini and Kyparissia stations from 08:00 to 16:00)
• Mon Saturday 15/04: 08:00–18:00 (From PIRAEUS: 08.00-19:00 and from metro AG. DIMITRIOS 08.00-20.00)

• Mon Friday 14/04: 13:00 – 20:00
• M. Saturday 15/04: 08:00 – 19:00

• Mon Friday 14/04: 13:00 – 21:00
• M. Saturday 15/04: 08:00 – 19:00

• Mon Friday 13:00-20:00
• Mon Saturday 08:00-19:00

• Mon Friday 14/04: 08:00-20:00
• M. Saturday 15/05: 08:00-20:00

Hopes for traffic at the Easter market

As far as the smooth operation of competition is concerned, checks by mixed echelons of competent departments are intensive and daily across the entire spectrum of the market.

Vassilis Korkidis, president of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said merchants expect the holiday market to absorb most of the Easter gift, surpassing last year’s Easter turnover of 1.5 billion euros.

He added that consumers have clearly changed their habits, studies show, and are buying fewer products, while being pushed to choose cheaper solutions. They are turning to a safe haven for private label products, which have set a new record for the past 12 months at 17.7%, the same as during the deep financial crisis in 2012. .

However, the addition of “godfather” baskets and “Easter”, combined with the payment of emergency benefits to pensioners and an increase in the minimum wage, helps to increase the purchasing power of households, as well as their psychology. that this is what the market needs.

Easter table price

For its part, the political leadership of the Ministry of Development and Investment, in their daily visits to the market in recent days, has emphasized that with the tools created and developed by the ministry, such as home and cross baskets and the e-katanalotis.gov.gr electronic platform, the effect of competition is intensifying with benefit for consumers.

During the 24th week of implementation of the household basket, new price cuts of -1% on average appear, while the godparents basket seems to have received a good response in the world, “with price reductions and absolutely no growth compared to with a week. for a week,” the message, backed by Minister for Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis, reads.

As for the prices of lambs and goats, they remained at the same level as last year, although there were heated disputes between the Ministry of Development and Investment and livestock breeders and butchers about the prices of lambs.

Producers and butchers have turned to the Competition Commission complaining about market manipulation practices, while the ministry believes that by deciding to include lambs in the Easter basket, prices have finally remained at last year’s levels.