Campaign against inflationary grocery prices

Greek society, consumers and salaried employees are amazed as food inflation and the consumer price index skyrocketed in Greece affecting the prices of most products and services On the other hand, basic consumer needs are now covered with great difficulty by the average household, since the price changes are huge.

The workers and consumers are in despair, having reduced their food and living needs to a bare minimum, making access to quality and safe food and household necessities difficult.

The GSEE Consumer Workers Union has been flooded with messages from consumers complaining about rising inflationary prices and profiteering. The inability of the Greek State to limit the exorbitant price increases in basic goods and services, as well as the absence of any reliable control mechanism to deal with the phenomena of profiteering or cheating and misleading the consumer public, exacerbates the problem and consumer despair.

Necessary actions are:

Substantial market monitoring and controls
Reduction of excise duty imposed on energy prices
Reduction of VAT on food items and basic household items
Wage increase and strengthening the purchasing power of worker-consumers
Substantial support for vulnerable households

The Union of Working Consumers of Greece has taken the following actions in order to deal with inflationary prices, and prevention of social exclusion:

Cost monitoring and price control of food items and items of basic needs of the Greek households
Control for the implementation and effectiveness of the Household Basket, Law 4986/2022 and the permanent discount of 5% regarding the access of vulnerable households to food items and items of basic needs of the Greek household
Informing and raising awareness of Consumers through radio-television interviews, useful tips and online information campaigns to deal with rising food cost and healthy eating on EEKE’s information channels
Collection and distribution of foodstuffs to vulnerable social groups
Completed Research to tackle inflation and price speculation (January 2023)
Research on consumer behavior in the inflationary period of 2021-2022 (March 2023)
Submitted proposals dealing with curtailment of inflationary pressures and food price speculation to the Leaders of the Parliamentary Parties in Greece and to the relevant Ministries and Authorities
Extrajudicial invitation to state agency for price inspections (Interagency Market Control Unit (D.I.M.E.A.) and the Minister of Development to publish the branded products of the multinationals that are profiting in Greece

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