Bread. File photoATHENA, Apr 4Bread prices have risen sharply in Greece, for some types of bakery products they have increased by almost 40% due to the rise in price of flour and electricity, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. At the beginning of last week, a 400-gram «rustic» loaf in a bakery-bakery cost 70 euro cents , at the end of the week it began to cost 1 euro, and a 400-gram loaf instead of 80 euro cents is now valued at 1.10 euros. Prices for pies rose slightly — by 10 — 20 euro cents, or 5-10%. «Our bakery does not have the biggest increase in prices, we are still trying to keep prices down. A 400-gram roll instead of 70-80 cents costs 1 euro — 1, 10 euros. But we have it. In some bakeries, bread costs 1.30 — 1.40 euros, «the owner of a bread shop named Nikos, who bakes products himself every day, told RIA Novosti. Prior to that, in September 2021, a loaf of bread went up by an average of 10 euro cents. «They started raising prices somewhere in September. But now there is a big increase in prices for everything. The last time it was about 10% about half a month ago. It began with an increase in gasoline prices and natural gas, for transportation, and gradually everything grew,» he said. «Now flour has risen in price from 80 cents per kilogram to 1.50 — 1.70 euros. This is twice as much, depending on the supplier company,» Nikos said.
Zakharova: The West does not understand that their sanctions will also affect other continentsVegetable oil has risen in price by 20%. «But not only oil. Gas has risen in price, electricity has risen in price. I paid 1,400 euros a month for electricity, this is in the summer, in August. Now I pay 2,100 euros, and this is only for electricity. Natural gas cost 400 euros per month, now 950 euro,» the owner of the bakery said. «It's a huge increase,» he said, recalling the history of rising gasoline prices in the 1980s, when Greece's currency was still the drachma, which, he said, dragged up the price of flour. «But at that time the government controlled flour prices,» the bakery owner added. I think oil and other companies want to make up for the huge amount of money they lost during the pandemic, and therefore they are raising prices.The high cost can be combated by increasing production, but they only want to get by with rising prices, they want to recover the losses at any cost.And three «This situation will continue for four years,» Nikos believes. chain stores of goods such as sunflower oil and flour, this is primarily the result of panic due to a rise in prices, he believes. «I think this is an artificial shortage, stores do not put goods on the shelves. This is the first. And second, people are afraid that the goods will disappear, and therefore they are gaining. It's like with antiseptic wipes at the beginning of a pandemic. Panic and fear are the most dangerous disease for a person» , — he said. In Greece, there is a general rise in the price of goods, electricity bills have almost doubled. The price increase began in August 2021. Now the price hike continues. Greek unions intend to hold a 24-hour general strike against high prices on April 6
