Nine products were added to the household basket as of Wednesday while the so-called “Lent Seafood basket” is also available from today with special delicacies like octopus, calamari, shrimps and other sea food Greeks eat in the 40 days before Easter, starting with the opulent tables on Clean Monday, February …

The Market Control Unit has imposed fines on supermarkets for the violation of the legislation regarding the profit margins on the prices of products included in the household basket, Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Thursday. He added that these are fines below the 50,000 euro threshold and, …

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis triggered an outrage when he described those criticizing the household basket with alleged lower product prices as “caviar leftists” and “champagne socialists.” During his visit to Achaia, Peloponnese on Tuesday, Mitsotakis defended in a speech the household basket saying that it “already lowers the prices …

Greeks are largely disappointed from the discounts on the “household basket”, they are mocking on social media, while opposition parties speak of “a government fiesta without substance” and “big persiflage.” On the first day of its launching, on Wednesday, Greeks rushed to supermarkets or their websites and the state e-katalanotis.gov.gr …

Τhe so-called “household basket” with controlled and reduced prices for based goods will be introduced in Greece on upcoming Wednesday, November 2, 2022. The 51 products that will make up the “household basket” will be found on supermarket shelves with this special mark. The list of 51 items for the …

Greece’s Development Ministry published a list of 50 proposed basic goods for the so-called “household shopping basket” for which supermarkets are expected to contain price hikes or scale back future increases. The list follows up on a meeting between Development & Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis and representatives of supermarket chains …

The special ‘Easter Basket’ that offers lower-price traditional Easter food items has been effecτive as of Wednesday, April 5, 2023, the Development Ministry announced. The “Easter Basket” contains traditional food items such as lamb and goat meat, sweet Easter bread (tsoureki) and Easter chocolate eggs. The “Easter Basket” is in …

“We should hold a small shopping basket at the supermarket and make a good plan for purchases,” deputy Interior Minister Stelios Petsas advised Greek consumers who apparently had no idea how to deal with their shrinking income eaten up by the high prices, the ongoing increases and an inflation constantly …

Five leading supermarkets chains have been fined a total of 382,497 euros for over-pricing their products, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis announced on Thursday thus making public the names of law violators. The biggest fine, which is also the second-largest on record in Greece, was imposed to the Dutch-owned AB Vassilopoulos …

Greece’s General Federation of Consumers INKA has called for a boycott of certain food products as a protest reaction to the high food prices, especially milk. In an announcement published on Wednesday, INKA said that the boycott follows consumers’ demand. The boycott is  for all diary products, domestic or imported, …

In the first public opinion poll for 2023, the difference between ruling conservative New Democracy and main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA has fallen below 7 percent, as the price hikes keep bothering the Greek public. According to ALCO conducte don behalf of Alpha TV, the difference between ND and SYRIZA …

Hospitalized patients refuse to be discharged when their health improves, because they have nowhere to go and cannot afford the cost of living. This shocking complaint was made by the president of Hospital Workers Union POEDIN on Thursday. President of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, made public stories of people who use …

Black Friday on November 25 with retailers to look for revenues increase and consumers eyeing good bargain purchases ahead of Christmas. The Black Friday in Greece has turned into a Black Week, as discounts have already started in the previous week and will continue until Monday, November 28, with the …

Anarchists of Ruvikonas threw leaflets and a few packages of spaghetti No 6 outside the house of the Minister of Development, Adonis Georgiadis in a north Athens suburb on Thursday evening. The symbolic protest move had a clear protest message against the cost of living and poverty as well as …

A big supermarket chain in the center of Athens has placed “anti-theft” devices on baby formula. The pictures circulating on social media and websites have shocked the Greek society and triggered an outcry. Baby formula is an expensive product and there have been probably incidents of theft that had the …

The annual inflation rate in Greece in October eased to 9.1% from 12% in September but was accompanied by double-digit price hikes across a wide range of products and services, the statistics agency ELSTAT announced on Thursday. According to ELSTAT, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in October 2022 in comparison …

Teargas, sound flares and molotov cocktail bombs dissolved the big protest rally organized by public and private sector unions against the rising prices and the cost of living. The protest rally marked the general strike on November 9 organized by unions of the public and private sector. Outside the Greek …

The cost of living and the scandal with -now ex New Democracy- MP Andreas Patsis cast a shadow at the ruling conservative party which sees its rates in  in public opinion polls in decline. Difference between ruling ND and main opposition left-wing SYRIZA dropped  to 6.1% in a poll conducted …

Supermarkets operating in Greece on Wednesday pledged to present by the end of the month a “basket” of 50 different products necessary for a household’s living for which they will seek to contain any price increases. An application will facilitate consumers to check and compare the prices these 50 food …

With food prices constantly on the rise, while salaries and pensions remain at the same levels, the conservative Greek government is considering to issue a so-called Food-Pass, more or less in the same standards as the Fuel-Pass. The Food-Pass, a voucher, is thought as a financial support for purchases at …