Since the Corona crisis, customers have mostly had to pay more for cheap groceries and drugstore products, and prices for branded products have also risen.
“Almost a million people are on short-time work or without a job – they have to get by on much less income. Higher prices hit them even harder because they are already tight with their money,” complains AK consumer advocate Gabriele Zgubic.
Already in November it became clear: Since Corona, cheap drugstore goods have usually cost – noticeably – more, as often only more expensive products were available on the shelves. “Today” reported. Thanks to Corona, consumers also have to dig deeper into their wallets for branded drugstore goods.
The price increases are sometimes enormous, as the current price monitor of five online shops by the Chamber of Labor shows:
Based on preliminary surveys of the cheapest drugstore goods (beginning of February 2020), the cheapest food and cleaning products (December 2019) and branded products in the grocery and drugstore trade (October 2019), the AK has between December 2020 and February 2021 in the online shops of Billa, Interspar, Bipa , DM and Müller collected the prices of 32 to 33 cheapest weekly drugstore goods, 40 cheapest food and cleaning products, 38 branded foods and 56 to 108 branded drugstore goods.
