The Potato Shortage Debate: Importing Cypriot Potatoes or Israeli Potatoes?

The Potato Shortage Debate: Importing Cypriot Potatoes or Israeli Potatoes?

Published: 20 January 2024 at 17:46 Updated: 20 January 2024 at 17:46 This is a debate post. It expresses the debater’s own attitude. Kato Nykvist has a comment in the newspaper on 17 January about a shortage of certain agricultural products in Norway. About the potato shortage, he says: “We just have to import more … Read more

Shopping in Germany: A Comparison of Prices and Quality with Czech Republic

Shopping in Germany: A Comparison of Prices and Quality with Czech Republic

17.01.2024 19:55 | Reportage A two-kilogram package of apples, when a kilo comes to about 24 crowns. No Poland, only Germany. Spanish tomatoes on sale for just over twenty crowns per kilo. Rapeseed oil a liter for about 35 crowns. No Ukraine, only Germany. We stopped at the ALDI market again, this time in Regensburg. … Read more

How Grocery Chains are Using Bať Prices as a New Marketing Trick: Economist Explains

How Grocery Chains are Using Bať Prices as a New Marketing Trick: Economist Explains

Some grocery chains end up with so-called Bať prices. The prices of food, whether it is a standard offer or discounts, began to be displayed with precision to units of pennies. According to economist Petr Bartoná, it’s a new marketing trick. A kilo of flour for 15 crowns and 48 halers or a kilo of … Read more

The Increasing Cost of Food and Meals: A Look at Rising Prices in the Czech Republic

The Increasing Cost of Food and Meals: A Look at Rising Prices in the Czech Republic

Rolls are a few pennies cheaper in the store, but a slice of bread in the dining room costs a few crowns, at the stalls you can buy it for at least five crowns. From soup to “karboš” In an attempt to eat cheaply and as well as possible, we came across an underground restaurant … Read more

Customers and Economists Skeptical About Lowered VAT Impact on Food Prices

Customers and Economists Skeptical About Lowered VAT Impact on Food Prices

Basic foods are supposed to be cheaper from the new year thanks to a lower VAT rate. While sellers say prices have already gone down, customers and economists don’t think so. In addition, the control New Year’s purchase of Nova TV showed that some foods are more expensive. There are no pennies in your wallet … Read more

Grocery Price Cuts: Extra Slashes Prices on Over 150 Items

Grocery Price Cuts: Extra Slashes Prices on Over 150 Items

(The online newspaper): – If we look at the inflation trend in our neighboring countries, imported inflation is on the way down, while the Norwegian krone has strengthened. And here are parts of the explanation for the price cut Extra is now implementing, writes Håvard Jensen, chain manager for Extra, in a message to Nettavisen. … Read more

Food Prices in the Czech Republic Slowly Calm Down, But Experts Warn of Ongoing Challenges

Food Prices in the Czech Republic Slowly Calm Down, But Experts Warn of Ongoing Challenges

The situation in the Czech Republic is slowly starting to calm down and food is gradually becoming cheaper. And further development in the following year also looks favorable, according to experts. However, they drew attention to a major problem facing the republic. A number of people often still feel dizzy when looking at their shopping … Read more

Carrefour Announces Return to Czech Republic and Partnership with JIP Stores

Carrefour Announces Return to Czech Republic and Partnership with JIP Stores

The Carrefour food chain has announced that it is returning to the Czech Republic. People will be able to buy his goods in JIP stores. In 2024, customers in the Czech Republic could meet the Carrefour brand again. The chain established cooperation with the Czech company JIP východčeská, which operates JIP, Cash&Carry grocery stores and … Read more

– Be careful, now it is extra easy to make a mistake on the shelf

– Be careful, now it is extra easy to make a mistake on the shelf

(The online newspaper): Right next to each other on the shop shelf are two different varieties of pickles. They don’t look very different, but in terms of price the difference is huge. Nora’s glass costs 31.90 The glass of Xtra pickles costs 3.90 The Nora glass thus costs more than eight times as much as … Read more

CZK 94.90. Tesco and Albert beat Switzerland, the Czechs are not happy

CZK 94.90.  Tesco and Albert beat Switzerland, the Czechs are not happy

05.12.2023 9:31 | Monitoring Anyone who decided to buy sweets for the Santa Claus gift at the last minute this year may be in for a terrible surprise when they look at the prices of some sweets in supermarkets. Customers are noticing unusually high prices for Orion’s Student Seal chocolate, which is currently being sold … Read more