Poles are amazed at Czech prices. We are not surprised that the poor people shop with us – News

“For weeks now, almost as many Czechs as Poles have been meeting in shops on the border,” begins the text on the website Fakt.pl dedicated to comparing prices in Czech and Polish stores of the multinational chain Lidl. “Although we complain about the prices, it is nothing compared to what our neighbors have to spend to buy basic products. No wonder they are attacking our shops,” the journalists state.

“I knew it would be expensive in the Czech Republic, but what I saw on the store shelves exceeded my expectations. Czechs pay almost twice as much for some products,” a Pole named Krzysztof from Vratislavi, whom journalists encountered in Náchod, described for the server. That’s where they went first, after which they went to Toruń in Poland and compared how much it costs to buy basic food.

Among the goods with which the editors worked as a “basic purchase” were half a kilogram of bread, four buns, a kilogram of bananas, apples, carrots, tomatoes, chicken breast, potatoes, 150 grams of gouda cheese, cottage cheese, butter, semi-skimmed milk, rapeseed oil , ten eggs, rice, sugar, pint of beer, apple juice and vodka.

The biggest differences are in meat prices. A kilogram of chicken cutlets costs 95 crowns in Poland, in the Czech Republic it costs twice as much. The same goes for boneless pork.

Only three products were cheaper in the Czech branch of Lidl – carrots, sugar and beer. A kilogram package of sugar cost less than 28 crowns in the Czech store, while in Poland it was 32 crowns. Half a liter of beer costs less than 13 crowns in our country, a crown more in Poland.

However, the entire purchase was an incredible 70 percent more expensive in the Czech Republic than in Poland. At the same time, inflation is falling in the Czech Republic much faster than in Poland. However, some products are still rather expensive. “For example, the price of vegetables increased by 20 percent year-on-year,” reminds Fakt.pl.

A Pole with an average wage (approximately CZK 37,000 as of September) can purchase 60 baskets of basic food, while a Czech with an average wage (as of the second quarter of this year: CZK 43,193) can buy only 27 such purchases, the reporters calculated.

Half a kilogram of bread costs less than 23 crowns in the Czech Republic, a little over half of this price in Poland, 13 crowns in conversion. A kilogram of tomatoes costs 80 crowns here, almost twenty crowns less in Poland, it comes out to 61 crowns. There is also a big difference in the price of apples, in the Czech Republic we pay 40 crowns per kilogram, in Poland a quarter, ten crowns.

Regarding alcohol, Fakt.pl compared the price of half a liter of vodka, for which we pay 160 crowns in the country, less than a hundred in Poland, specifically 97 crowns.

Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) recently drew attention to himself with a video in which he compared shopping in the Czech Republic and in Germany, specifically focusing on the differences in the prices of Czech and German Nutella spreads. It garnered a lot of criticism, both from the public and from political scientists. He did not clearly state how he intends to fight against the high prices of food in domestic stores.

The former Minister of Agriculture Zdeněk Nekula (KDU-ČSL) also dealt with the higher prices of food in domestic chains. His handling of food price issues was one of the things that broke his neck politically. Even his successor, Marek Výborný (KDU-ČSL), nevertheless stated that it is difficult to punish someone for price fixing.

Large farmers blame the government for causing higher prices by capping energy prices late.