One of the strong campaign themes of the Slovak early parliamentary elections on September 30, 2023, was to curb the rise in food prices. Although inflation has since fallen to around four percent, the issue is still on the agenda, reports Világgazdaság.
Slovak Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenický believes that the establishment of an effective price monitoring system alone would curb price hikes. “The head of the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency said that as soon as we monitor prices, they would decrease moderately. We are planning to go to Hungary, where an interesting solution is to compare the price evolution of the same products offered by different companies, in particular different cheeses, eggs, bread, butter, and other basic foodstuffs,” the Finance Minister noted. The system allows customers to compare the prices of different chains, he added.
I would prefer to buy the price monitoring system, Hungarians already have it, it would …