Photo: Barbora Novotná, PrahaIN.cz/Meat, illustration photo
Our editors have already gone to Poland several times to map prices. We wrote about more advantageous purchases of food, medicine, fuel or cigarettes. Due to Polish prices and the constant rise in prices in almost all categories, more and more “locals” are visiting their neighbors. One of the items that is flying up is also meat. This also very often becomes a desired goal for the Czechs. It often works out much cheaper.
“We no longer buy meat from us, we only go to Poland. And we are definitely not the only ones, almost everyone who lives here does it,” Mrs. Ivana M., who lives with her family in Orlické Hory near the border with Poland, told us earlier.
At the beginning of the week, we were alerted to a post on Facebook by a certain Petra R. She shared two photos from the Kaufland supermarket.
Cheap pork neck from Náchod
A boneless pork neck cost 229.40 crowns during the discount in Kutná Hora, and even 254.90 before the discount. And in Náchod, a few kilometers from the Polish border, the same type of meat cost 84.90 on sale, 94.90 before the discount.
On the left, pork neck from Kutná Hora, on the right from Náchod. Author: Petra Rajdlová Houdková, with permission
“It’s clear that no one would buy it at the border for that price,” Petra R. wrote on the post.
The difference between the two photos was four days. So it didn’t have to be an item from the same flyer.
We contacted the writer.
“The photo in Náchoda was taken on January 26. That alone surprised me. I know how much they offer it here. Also, the fact that I was prompt and took a picture of it, probably no one would have believed me. The second photo was taken on January 30 at our place in Kutná Hora,” she added for PrahaIN.cz.
Just different action blocks
But according to Kaufland, the location of the supermarket near the border is definitely not related to that.
We wrote
“The stated differences in the selling prices of the item ‘pork neck on the counter’ are in no way related to the location of the given store and its proximity to the Polish border. Like other chains, we also work with different mutations of actions called action blocks. In order to provide our customers with a sufficient amount of promotional goods as part of the event, which is a priority for us,” Kaufland spokeswoman Renata Maierl told PrahaIN.cz.
Although Kaufland denies this connection, people are clear in the discussion below the post.
“He’s trying. There is often cheap meat in Náchoda in Kaufland. And no one buys it anyway,” the post reads, among other things.
Another discussant confirms our words from the beginning of the text.
“To be honest, the last time I bought meat in the Czech Republic was two years ago, as soon as you learn to buy food in Poland, Kaufland’s ‘deals’ can be stolen from you.”
In Poland, you can buy a kilo of pork neck or legs for roughly 60 crowns. Chicken breast for 80 crowns. Of course, we are talking about the prices in action.
Compared to these prices, even a cheap neckerchief from Náchod is expensive.
Kaufland, Kamienna Góra. We were there on Thursday, February 16. Photo: PrahaIN.cz
