Today at 12.00 Minister of Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis will announce the festive “shopping basket”and also for the toy basket (called “Santa’s Basket”).

As for the holiday basket, the measure will be implemented from December 14 up to and including 4 JanuaryThis was announced by the Secretary General for Trade and Consumer Protection Sotiris Anagnostopoulos.

According to ERT, it will include turkey as well as Taurusbut will not include lambs and goats. Debate prevails as to whether it will include kourabiedes and melomacaroni.

With 4 additional categories of holiday basket

As Mr. Anagostopoulos told the First Program newspaper, the household’s holiday basket will increased by four categories. One of the 4 items that will be added to the cart is turkey, with an additional meat code, possibly beef.

“He is not in the home basket. Let me remind you that there are two more categories of meat in the home basket, chicken and pork,” said Mr. Anagnostopoulos and added that there will be sweets for the first time. “During the holidays, we all understand that this is important, because everyone buys sweets, and especially they are very important for small children,” he said characteristically, adding: “The sweetness that we think of is obviously the king cake , which is very simple and accessible to everyone. will receive.”

alcoholclarified the secretary general for trade and consumer protection, it cannot be a product that is in the household basket. “We all understand this, because, unfortunately, there are our brothers who are faced with the problem of alcoholism. It would be unacceptable for the government and anyone planning such measures to distribute cheap alcohol to people who have problems,” he explained.

What will be included in the “Santa Claus Basket”

For toy basketas Mr. Anagnostopoulos said, the goal is to include some gaming categories where participating stores will be able to offer at least one or more of the products in that category.

“Just because there aren’t as many toy specialty stores that only sell games as supermarket chains, the problem is that we have to help other businesses that sell games in the market to offer some of the games they might be selling themselves. , so even if they don’t have all the categories of toys, they can participate in the children’s toy basket,” he said.

“There will be certain categories,” Mr. Anagnostopoulos remarked, “they can be 9 or 10 categorieswhich are general categories and which, of course, will be filled by companies with whatever products they deem fit, what they can maintain at affordable prices, but also with a profitability level that is not higher than last year at the same time that very important, especially in the high ratings mode.”

Specially marked toy basket

The President of the Association of Manufacturers and Sellers of Children’s Toys also spoke to ERT about “Santa Claus’s basket.” Giannis Papadopoulos.

As mentioned, there will be one special badge in the form of Santa Claus and a supermarket basket among the products that will be on the list. The corresponding catalog will also be posted at the entrance to the store.

game categories which will be included: board games, dolls, soft toys, outdoor toys, outdoor toys, vehicles, remote control and electronic toys.

“Games that will participate in Santa’s Basket will have lower prices. Control will be carried out by the ministry on a weekly basis,” Papadopoulos said.

Every Wednesday, store owners will have to submit to the Ministry of Development a list of games that will be included in the basket, and the prices they will set. The basket of games will start December 14 and will last until January 11write down.