It comes into force from today “Students’ Basket” and the changes in “Household Basket”as it provides decision signed by the Minister of Development, Kostas Skrekas. “With it “Students’ Basket” which we activate from the August 30 and the cap on profit margin at 2021 levels which we have already instituted, Mrwe put into practice our commitment that every family can get the necessary school supplies at affordable prices. I met with the heads of both supermarket and school, stationery and toy businesses and asked for exactly this: to keep prices at least at last year’s levels and exhaust every opportunity to lower them.” emphasized Mr. Skrekas.
“At the same time, we are making improvements to the “Household Cart”on the one hand by including more branded products and on the other by establishing a separate display point within the stores where its basic products will be shown together. In this way, we increase the choices of consumers and make it easier for them to find the products of the “Basket” quickly and easily. In this difficult moment, we stand by our fellow citizens, giving every family the opportunity for economic and quality choices in the markets of basic consumer products”, he added.
At least one product from the following product categories is planned to be included in the “Students’ Basket”:
School bags
Caskets
Notebooks (and notebook labels and covers)
Wooden or mechanical pencils
Colored markers
Pen
Erasers
Scrapers
Diabetes
Rulers
and photocopy paper.
In the initiative for the “Students’ Basket”which will be valid until October 3rd, both the businesses that participate in the “Household Basket”, as long as they have products in the aforementioned categories, as well as specialized businesses selling school supplies, stationery and toys, participate.
All businesses are required to send on a weekly basis, every Wednesday by 9:00 am, a list of the products and prices included in the “Student Basket”. Businesses participating in the “Household Basket” will send the catalogs through the e-katanalotis platform and the rest by email to the General Secretariat of Trade and Consumer Protection.
Separate point of sale for “Cart”
Based on the ministerial decision, both for the “Student Basket” during the period August 30-October 3 and the “Household Basket” from August 30 onwards, it is planned to create at least one separate point of sale in a prominent place in the store , in which the products are placed and made available to the consumer public.
At the separate point of sale, all the products of the “Students’ Basket” and products of the following categories from the “Household Basket” will be available:
Rice
Bread for toast
Spaghetti No. 6
All purpose flour
Legumes (lentils or beans or chickpeas)
Evaporated milk
Preserved tomato juice
Eggs (cage and barn)
Olive oil
Sunflower oil
White sugar
Greek coffee
Instant coffee
Washing machine detergents
Detergents for mopping and cleaning surfaces – bleaches
Food for dogs
Cat food.
Brand-label product in “Household Cart”
At the same time, as of August 30, businesses participating in the “Household Basket” are required to include at least one branded product in the following product categories:
Rice
Spaghetti No. 6
All purpose flour
Lentils
Beans
Chickpeas
Fresh whole milk
Fresh milk with low fat
Evaporated milk
Unflavored cow’s milk yogurt
Unflavored low-fat cow’s milk yogurt
Preserved tomato juice
Frozen vegetables (at least two of peas, okra and green beans)
Businesses that do not offer branded products in the respective category to the consumer public are exempt from this obligation.
It should be noted that for all product categories included in the “Household Basket” and the “Student Basket” the provision of Law 5045/2023 is already in force, based on which a ceiling is imposed on the gross profit margin per unit at the levels before December 31 2021.
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