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The Consumer Protection Service announces the Consumer Product Price Watch for the month of June 2023. The Observatory presents the weighted average price for 250 basic consumer products (food and other products), based on the quantities and prices per day at which these products were sold in 400 retail outlets nationwide throughout the month.
The purpose of the Observatory is to provide consumers with an objective comparative reflection of purchase prices from all retail outlets, supermarkets, bakeries, bakeries, bakeries, kiosks, etc.
In conclusion, the valuation for the month of June shows that prices show decreases compared to the previous month, both in food, where according to the Statistical Service a decrease of one percentage point is recorded, and in other basic products, mainly due to the measure of the zero VAT rate applied from 3/5/2023. As shown in the Table of price indices for the month of June, out of a total of 45 categories of basic products, 29 categories recorded a decrease, the main one being LPG cylinder by 9%, oil by 6%, frozen molluscs (5%), burger (2%), fresh fish (2.6%), fresh milk (1%) and evaporated/sweetened milk (1.3%), cheese (2%), pulses (3.6%), rice (3%), sugar (2.4%), flour (1.7%) and pasta (1.4%). Toilet paper (3.4%), fabric softeners (1.5%), baby milk (1.8%) and baby diapers (1%) and sanitary napkins (1%) also recorded decreases.
Tomato juice (5.8%), fresh (3.2%) and frozen meat (2%), greens/vegetables (6.6%), eggs (1.4%), water (1.2%) and baby food (0.9%) recorded increases.
It is reiterated that the Consumer Protection Service continues intensive checks on the implementation of the zero VAT rate measure, recording the prices of 65 products in nine different hypermarkets and, in particular, in 58 points of sale nationwide. After the last recording on 6 July 2023, it was found that the measure is applied with significant benefit for consumers since more than 80% of the products were subject to price reductions equal to or greater than the rate.
The Consumer Protection Service clarifies that the Price Observatories are prepared exclusively for consumer information purposes and in no way constitute advice. The Price Observatory is not intended to and cannot replace the market research to be carried out by each consumer on the basis of his or her own preferences, data and needs, nor is it intended to indicate to consumers the points of sale to choose or specific products.
In particular, it should be noted that some of the products included in the Price Observatory have qualitative differences which cannot be determined. To this end, the Service encourages consumers to carry out meaningful market research before making purchases, taking into account the results of this Observatory.
Detailed information on the Observatory is available at website of the Consumer Protection Service.
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