Premiering Wednesday, What It Will Include – Changes to the “Household Basket”

They come into effect from next Wednesday (30.08.23) the “Students’ Basket”as well as the improving changes to the “Household Basket”, according to a decision signed by the Minister of Development, Kostas Skrekas.

From August 30, businesses participating in the “Household Basket” are required to include at least one branded product in 13 categories, while the “Students’ Basket” is intended to include at least one product from the following product categories:

-School bags

– Cassettes

-Notebooks (and notebook labels and covers)

-Wooden or mechanical pencils

– Colored markers

-Pen

– Erasers

– Scrapers

-Diabetes

– Rulers

-and photocopy paper.

Who participates in the “Students’ Basket”

In the “Students’ Basket” initiative, which will be valid until October 3rdparticipate 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.

All businesses are required to ship on a weekly basisevery Wednesday until 9:00 a.m., list of 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 position of the storein 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

-Flour for all purposes

-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

-Flour for all purposes

– Lentils

-Beans

-Chickpeas

-Fresh whole milk

-Fresh milk with low fat

– Evaporated milk

– Yoghurt from cow’s milk without flavors

– 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 to the consumer public are exempt from this obligation in the corresponding category.

It should be noted that for all product categories included in the “Household Basket” and the “Students’ Basket” the provisions of Law 5045/2023 already apply, based on which a ceiling is imposed on the gross profit margin per unit at the levels prior to December 31, 2021.

The Minister of Development, Kostas Skrekas stated: “With the “Students Basket” that we have been activating since August 30 and the ceiling on the profit margin at the levels of 2021 that we have already instituted, we are putting into practice our commitment that every family can obtain the necessary school supplies at affordable prices. I met with the heads of both supermarket and school, stationery and toy businesses and asked for just that: to keep prices at least at last year’s levels and exhaust every opportunity to lower them.

At the same time, we are making improvements to the “Household Basket”, on the one hand by including more branded products and on the other hand 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 time, we stand by our fellow citizens, giving every family the opportunity for economic and quality choices in the markets of basic consumer products”.